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- REGIONAL HAPPENINGS (Baxter Bulletin)
Here's a look at local and regional happenings.
- Hannon Assembles Super Squad (Sporting Life via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)
Richard Hannon will launch his usual all-out assault on the Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury.
- 2008 Kansas Notable Book List (The McPherson Sentinel)
State Librarian Christie Brandau and Roy Bird, director of the Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library of Kansas, recently announced the 2008 Kansas Notable Book List. Fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books all populate the list, which is considered to contain the best of the books published by Kansas authors or about Kansas in the preceding year.
- Mary Oliver to Speak! - KBCI CBS 2
Mary Oliver to Speak!KBCI CBS 2, ID - 43 minutes agoMary Oliver’s poetry has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. Her evocative and precise imagery brings the natural world into ...
- MYSTIC DISC, INSIDE AND OUT - TheDay
MYSTIC DISC, INSIDE AND OUTTheDay, CT - 25 minutes agoIs that really a banner on the wall sporting the logo of Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth? Yes. Cool, isn't it?
- Update: Jerry Wilson - TheDay
Update: Jerry WilsonTheDay, CT - 2 hours agoWhen he was the Valley Courier Person of the Week several years ago, Wilson was involved in writing his own poetry and in organizing poetry readings. ...
- The longest day - The Saginaw News - MLive.com
The longest dayThe Saginaw News - MLive.com, MI - 16 hours agoSeveral residents will bring poetry to read during the event. Others are encouraged to read poetry of their own, said Museum Director Marilyn Wheaton. ...
- Olympic Dreamers - Chowk
Olympic DreamersChowk, CA - 13 hours agoWhile other creative personalities play by becoming poets or painters, playwrights or philosophers, Olympic players focus on sports and stretch their bodies ...
- Taslima in invites list at Delhi Book Fair to be held from Aug 30 (New Kerala)
New Delhi, Aug 27 : Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen figures in the list of invitees at the 14th Delhi Book Fair to be held here from August 30.
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, July 31st - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Dwight D. Eisenhower who said, "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political ...
- PBS documentary features Shands Art in Medicine program - Independent Florida Alligator
While poetry, dance and performance serve as recreation for some, the activities can also serve as creative steps toward recovery for patients involved in the Shands Arts in Medicine program. Centered around the philosophy that participation in the ...
- Burning is too good for them - Times Online
For many years, in my youth, I refused to read Anthony Powell, simply on account of the way he pronounced his name. “That’s as in Pole, dear boy,” I imagined the Old Etonian saying chidingly. You cannot be a good proto-commie and enjoy Anthony ...
- Teacher has one job: advance knowledge - Reporter
When he became president of the University of Chicago, Robert Hutchins is supposed to have remarked that a college administrator's job was to provide sex for the students, football for the alumni and parking for the faculty (he promptly eliminated ...
- Young, clever and African - Sowetan
Young, clever and AfricanSowetan, South Africa - 4 hours agoPoetry evenings were introduced and though most revellers filled their tummies with just rhyming words and tap water, it got to a point where it caused ...
- Namibia: From a Rag And Bone Boy to Top Playwright (AllAfrica.com)
When Petrus Haakskeen was not trudging through one of Namibia's poorest villages selling bones and empty bottles well before his 10th birthday to supplement his grandmother's meagre income, he read whatever printed material he could lay his hands on.
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