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- Being the Nation's Poet Laureate is a Total Pain [Poetry] (Gawker)
Being the poet laureate is the highest honor a poet can receive in this country. You get $35,000 and a beautiful office in the Library of Congress. (Kay Ryan just became the newest laureate, tasked...
- A drive as strong as Steel - Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK -- It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the "Today" show and soon ...
- 12 great madcap British weekends - Times Online
Times Online12 great madcap British weekendsTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoFrom kite festivals and coracle races to peashooting and performance poetry, the British summer may not be the sunniest, but we cram an awful lot into it. ...
- Show how much you appreciate them (Magnetic Times)
Nominations are now open for the 2008 Townsville City Council Senior Awards. Lifestyle and Community Development Committee Chair, Cr Jenny Lane, said each day throughout Townsville and Magnetic Island countless senior residents volunteer their free time for the betterment of the community.
- Teen talent (Anchorage Daily News)
EARLIER THIS YEAR, the Daily News asked readers to tell us about Alaskan teens with a high degree of artistic talent.?•?The nominations that flowed in covered a wide range of disciplines, and the field contained an impressive array of young artists and performers.?•?The judges faced a difficult task, but finally felt that these four stood out. Each received an iPod.
- Soldier expresses feelings on war through writing (Rexburg Standard Journal)
REXBURG-U.S. Army Spc. Flint Christensen of Rexburg wrote the following words in a poem to his son Levi, who was born just before Christensen left for Iraq seven months ago:
- Wedding bells and marriage hell - Guardian Unlimited
· We went to a country wedding last weekend. The sun was bright and hot but there was a crisp breeze to cut through it. The village - all thatch and stone cottages and pretty terraces - curled round the hillside, so there was a different view round ...
- Cowboys? Ware Fulfills a Challenge for Fatherhood (New York Times)
DeMarcus Ware and his wife, Taniqua, believe they appreciate their daughter, Marley, more because they adopted her after three failed pregnancies.
- The Southard Grange, Route 9, Howell, will host the following ... - News Transcript
The Southard Grange, Route 9, Howell, will host the following ...News Transcript, NJ - 9 hours agoJuly 26, 7 pm - Open Mic - Be a star and sing, play your instrument, perform in your band, read poetry or regale your community with a monologue. ...
- Luke out loud Gospel of Luke being brought to the stage - Tulsa World
Luke out loud Gospel of Luke being brought to the stageTulsa World, OK - 8 hours agoAnd I liked the language, the poetry of Luke, which seemed to lend itself more to a dramatic presentation." But to keep that dramatic presentation within ...
- Plan Bee - The Observer
Plan BeeThe Observer, UK - 8 minutes ago'A little poetry would be missing,' she writes. 'From the earliest times, bee colonies supplied humans not just with some of life's luxuries, but also with ...
- Boxing: A Cultural History - Sydney Morning Herald
Boxing: A Cultural HistorySydney Morning Herald, Australia - 19 hours agoShe appears to have tracked down every last reference to boxing in prose, poetry, painting, sculpture, film and video and, betraying no enthusiasm for the ...
- Volunteer marks 75 years of service - East Valley Tribune
Bob Nolte was just 16 when he was commissioned a minister in Volunteers of America in Rockford, Ill. Seventy-five years later, at the age of 91, Nolte can still be found ministering at a Volunteers of America facility in Tempe. Each Wednesday, he ...
- Mystery Mail - The Daily Star
The Daily StarMystery MailThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 1 hour agoAlthough she had always got top marks in all her English classes, she knew that poetry wasn't her forte. And she also knew that her brain worked well in her ...
- Parkers Chapel High School senior claims first place in poetry contest - El Dorado News-Times
Parkers Chapel High School senior claims first place in poetry contestEl Dorado News-Times, AR - 23 minutes ago... senior at Parkers Chapel High School, was selected as the first place winner of the senior division of the Sybil Nash Abrams Memorial Student Contests. ...
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