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- Discovery Channel's 'When We Left Earth' lifts off (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By Cary Darling In the past two decades, NASA has suffered setbacks both tragic (the Challenger and Columbia disasters) and salacious (the diapers 'n' desperation love triangle). But don't turn to the six-hour, three-night When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions on the Discovery Channel (beginning at 8 tonight) for a litany of the space agency's woes. Or for an examination of the social ...
- 2008 Maine Literary Festival to Focus on the Environment - FOXBusiness
2008 Maine Literary Festival to Focus on the EnvironmentFOXBusiness - 33 minutes agoThe Festival explores the roles of writing, poetry, nature, and science in shaping the way we treat the planet and live our lives. ...
- A perfect day at Jacob's Pillow - Troy Record
A perfect day at Jacob's PillowTroy Record, NY - 1 hour agoThe answer would be irrelevant as she is dance, performance art, poetry and sculpture all in one person. After the performance, we joined the Pillow Talk ...
- DATES & DEADLINES - Franklin Park Herald Journal
DATES & DEADLINESFranklin Park Herald Journal, IL - 19 minutes agoSacramento Rainbow Poets is offering a $1000 grand prize in a new poetry contest. There are 50 prizes totaling $5000. To enter, send one poem, ...
- Miller takes poetry prize - The Bookseller (subscription)
Miller takes poetry prizeThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 2 hours agoThe inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition was awarded to Kate Miller for her poem "After the Ban" at the Edinburgh International Book ...
- Wow, what a weekend, CBS catches it all - Britt News-Tribune
Wow, what a weekend, CBS catches it allBritt News-Tribune, IA - 2 hours agoEach night, from Thursday through Saturday, hobo singers, musicians, poetry readers and vaudville actors entertained their audience. ...
- Ideas in Motion: Art on Track - Chicagoist
Ideas in Motion: Art on TrackChicagoist, IL - 3 hours agoWhen local arts advocates Salvo and Lethal Poetry, Inc. found a way to convert an 8-car CTA train into a bonafide arts space, Art on Track was born. ...Art On Track Chicago Public Radioall 2 news articles
- Tightrope Books Launches Three - blogTO
Tightrope Books Launches ThreeblogTO, Canada - 2 hours ago—Stacey May Fowles' debut novel, Be Good, and Ian Burgham's collection of poetry, The Stone Skippers. You can purchase both books now at ...
- Americans, French gather to recognize historic contribution of Belleau Wood Marines (DCMilitary.com)
BELLEAU, France — More than 200 Marines and Sailors from numerous commands joined together with thousands of French locals at the World War I Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial near the tiny village of Belleau, France to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Belleau Wood during a Memorial Day ceremony May 25.
- Announcing the teams competing at the National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison (Isthmus)
Hundreds of spoken work performers from around the United States, along with a handful from Canada and Europe, are in the midst of preparations for this year's National Poetry Slam, which be held in Madison over the first week of August. Competing in teams of four or five members apiece, each will take the stage and give their best through a series of bouts at the competition. Altogether they ...
- Irish Festival Tradition Runs Deep - 89.7 WUWM - Milwaukee Public Radio
Irish Festival Tradition Runs Deep89.7 WUWM - Milwaukee Public Radio, USA - 4 hours agoYou see people engaged in poetry readings and recitations. There were competitions designed to try and encourage people to use the language,” McMahon says. ...
- Sean Connery's memoirs no 'kiss and tell' - Reuters India
EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) - If you are looking for kiss-and-tell stories about the Bond girls or movie town gossip, Sean Connery's memoirs are not for you. More of a coffee table book, the renowned Scottish actor's autobiography, "Being A Scot", is a ...
- The challenge of having Western readers see past culture and gender - Daily Star - Lebanon
The challenge of having Western readers see past culture and genderDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 33 minutes agoLebanon's Joumana Haddad, already widely translated in the rest of Europe, is publishing a collection of her poetry in English this autumn. ...
- WOOD BOOK REVIEW: New book takes hard look at Martin Luther King ... - Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
WOOD BOOK REVIEW: New book takes hard look at Martin Luther King ...Coon Rapids ECM Publishers, MN - 1 hour agoHarvard prof Henry Louis Gates calls Rieder’s book “brilliant,” explaining that King’s command of both standard English and African American idioms made him ...
- Houston teens to compete at Washington poetry slam (w/video) (Houston Chronicle)
Their inspirations come from all over — observations made while busing tables at an Outback Steakhouse, a family nightmare in Indonesia, a poster from the Vans Warped Tour.
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