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- PACT with excuses for sad test scores (The Rock Hill Herald)
Your South Carolina education department, fresh from showing off that kids in Maine and D.C. and Hawaii scored worse than we did on the SAT, is holding a contest. Not to change the name of state Superintendent Jim Rex to T. Rex or Tyrannosaurus Rex, but to change the name of the state's new testing system.
- A haiku contest (Contra Costa Times)
An ancient poetic form gets a political twist in a new haiku contest. Can you haiku?
- On Stage: Oceano's Great American Melodrama presents two summer plays (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Local theater impresario Suzy King was on her way to Disneyland last month when she got a call from the folks at the Great America Melodrama. The star of the Melodrama’s current show, “Showdown at Slick Rock Ranch,” was bound for an off-Broadway show. That left King and artistic director Eric Hoit without a lead actress. “Eric e-mailed me the script at my hotel,” recalled King, longtime stage ...
- Poet's works discovered in war diary - News.com.au
The discovery of the 1899 cash book, in which the final pages reveal Paterson's original and unseen poetry, has thrilled Australian literature buffs. Major G.L. Lee, who commanded a squadron of NSW Lancers in South Africa in the Boer War in 1899 ...
- Ha Jin wants to visit China (The Charlotte Observer)
On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books. The 52-year-old National Book Award winner told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday at the Hong Kong Book Fair that if if he has the chance, he would like to see his homeland again. "I'd like to. I want to ...
- Roses are Red Ribbon Week Poetry - Corsavoo.com
Roses are Red Ribbon Week PoetryCorsavoo.com, France - 3 hours agoIt is rumored that the 5/7/5 rule was rug cleaner for school children to understand and learn this type of poetry. Although this usually is used in ...
- Thrill, fun, adventure: DSS doles out all in plenty - Khaleej Times
DUBAI - The curtains came down on Dubai Summer Surprises 2008 on Friday, with a greater number of people taking part in the various acitivities, ranging from thrill and fun to adventure. Nasir Hakim, Public Relations Manager of DSS Office, said the ...
- A nation ales as the common coldie epidemic strikes - The Australian
A nation ales as the common coldie epidemic strikesThe Australian, Australia - Jul 20, 2008The Belgians invented beer that inspires poetry yet goes off like a liquid depth charge. And the Czechs, who gave us the unparalleled gift of pilsner, ...
- After-work drinks could lead to no more work - Walletpop.com
When I was in academia, my department's Christmas parties were an annual festival of drinking, dancing and fun. There was the feminist theorist whose flailing elbows and knees made her a force to be reckoned with on the dance floor, the conservative ...
- Babe of the Day: Carly Pope - IGN
Babe of the Day: Carly PopeIGN, CA - 7 hours agoSo we do what any self-respecting harborer of unrequited love does - We stare longingly at her (or her pics, as it is the case), pining away in silence ...
- Raymond Carver - guardian.co.uk
Raymond Carverguardian.co.uk, UK - 47 minutes agoHis poetry is in the realist tradition of Robert Frost and WS Merwin. Carver is undeniably a writers' writer. He's been cited as an influence by authors as ...
- Woody Allen's Barcelona Summer of Love - Time
Weinstein Company / Everett Alive, the Woodman has not been residing in the auteur empyrean for the past couple of decades. There was a four-film stretch of genuine stinkers — Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending and ...
- Britain's "lyrical terrorist" wins court appeal (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A British woman who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" and wrote a poem about beheading a hostage, won an appeal against a criminal conviction in London on Tuesday.
- 93 Year Old Publishes First Novel - Mass Media Distribution LLC (press release)
93 Year Old Publishes First NovelMass Media Distribution LLC (press release), FL - 1 hour agoLorna Page says: ``I started writing as soon as I could hold a pencil; fairy stories, poetry, short stories, and my novel, a who-done-it, which my American ...
- Al-Azhar University, Cairo University, and the Sorbonne - guardian.co.uk
Al-Azhar University, Cairo University, and the Sorbonneguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago... of On Pre-Islamic Poetry, which called into question the historical accuracy of the Qur'an. He was acquitted, but the book was temporarily banned. ...
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