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- Annual event to feature poetry - Sun and Press
More than 400 students from twelve school districts will meet Wednesday for the 31st annual Poetry and the Children Day, which begins at 10 a.m. in the Osterhout Concert Theater of the Anderson Center at Binghamton University. The day will feature ...
- Boinking: A (Very) Natural History (Nashville Scene)
Robert Olen Butler knows his way around a sex scene. His 1994 novel, They Whisper , is basically nothing but detailed, rhapsodic descriptions of lovemaking. So fans of literary erotica could be forgiven for, um, salivating a little in anticipation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's new ...
- Sixth-grader's water-themed poems take top honors (Daily Herald)
Bailey Bystry, a Glen Ellyn resident and sixth-grade student at Hadley Junior High School, earned a spot as a finalist in the River of Words Environmental Poetry & Art Contest -- the largest youth poetry competition in the world.
- MARIN CO.: COUNTY'S FIRST POET LAUREATE NAMED - CBS 5
MARIN CO.: COUNTY'S FIRST POET LAUREATE NAMEDCBS 5, CA - 22 hours agoAs an ambassador for poetry, the laureate is expected to create citizens' awareness of poetry as well as heighten their appreciation of the art form and ...
- Quick Takes: Adele, The Ting Tings, Blind Pilot, The Gabe Dixon Band - Paste Magazine
Members of the breathless British music press have hyped Adele as the next Amy Winehouse. She’s not. Where Winehouse traffics in updated Phil Spector and Motown, Adele takes her cues from Nina Simone and Dinah Washington. She’s an old-fashioned ...
- Religion Calendar: 06/07/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Religion Calendar: 06/07/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 1 hour agoMothers of Preschoolers group (MOPS), 9:15-11:15 am second and fourth Friday of each month, child care and registration are free; Zion Lutheran Church, ...
- Book briefs: May 4, 2008 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Book briefs: May 4, 2008Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA - 1 hour agoSuch a good poet, in fact, that she won the 2008 Gell Poetry Prize, the annual acknowledgement of an "outstanding unpublished book-length collection of ...
- Community Calendar - New Pittsburgh Courier
Community CalendarNew Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh - 3 hours agoJUNE 27—The African American Council of the Arts will host “The 2008 AACTA Onyx Awards” at 6:30 pm at the Radisson Hotel, 101 Mall Blvd., Monroeville. ...
- Lesson of the magnolia tree - Gulf News
My father sat upstairs in his study, working in the one room of our sprawling house that we children could not storm into unless it was a matter of utmost urgency. I now know that the big brown desk was where he wrote his books and often drafted ...
- Water World (Boston Globe)
DISTANCE FROM BOSTON: 61 miles POPULATION: 86,000 WEBSITE: warwickri.gov ODD FACT: In the mid-19th century, textile mill owner Robert Knight saw images of fruit painted on bolts of his cloth sold in a friend's shop, bought the idea, and in 1871, one year after Congress passed the country's first trademark laws, Knight received patent 418 for his new brand: Fruit ...
- Sometimes, it's all in who you know (Gloucester County Times)
It's funny how one's life can be built around connections that often help give it some meaning, some broader sense of accomplishment. And you get to say, wow, I knew somebody important.
- Elsie von Maur, driving force of Quad-City symphony, dies at 106 (Quad-City Times)
The Quad-City Symphony Orchestra used to practice on Sunday afternoons in Davenport’s Masonic Temple, sometimes only to a one-person audience of Elsie von Maur.
- Dick Martin, half of comic duo that brought 'Laugh-in' to TV, dies in ... - Grand Forks Herald
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86 ...
- WATS UP BABIE SPECTACULAR U ARE MY DREAM MAN I LUV U SO MUCH LUV ... - Austin Chronicle
It's almost Valentine's Day, and you know what that means: If you don't have someone with whom to slow-dance to Journey's "Open Arms," time to start sharpening that straight razor. TCB has compiled a special playlist just for you for tomorrow. But ...
- Court school students tell their stories through theater arts project (San Francisco Bay View)
Live performance, ‘Mama Calizo's Voice Factory,' on Friday, July 18, 7-9 p.m.
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