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- Young People's Creative Writing Contest winners announced - Tulsa World
For several weeks, patrons of the Circle Cinema have been treated to a double feature of sorts. The short documentary films of Jenks High School students have preceded Friday night's feature films. A reception and showing of several of the works will ...
- Alaskan fiddler tirelessly touring with latest CD, book (Alaska Public Radio Network)
Alaska fiddle musician, poet and author Ken Waldman is back in the state after an east coast tour promoting the simultaneous release of his 7th CD and his 7th book. Although the prolific writer has mainly published collections of poetry in the past, his new book — Are You Famous? Touring America with Alaska’s [...] ShareThis
- Disch, Gay Novelist, a Suicide (Gay City News)
Thomas Disch, acclaimed author of "The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances," among other major works of science fiction, poetry, and criticism, shot himself to death in his New York apartment on July 4. He was 68.
- The arts in brief - Modesto Bee
The arts in briefModesto Bee, CA - 40 minutes agoAdmission to the exhibition is free; gallery hours are noon to 5 pm Wednesday through Saturday. Comma Sutra, a poetry duo featuring Chad Sokolovsky and Cody ...
- A shower of poetry - Times of India
A shower of poetryTimes of India, India - 11 hours agoThe ragas of poetry continued as few of the most respected poets of India visited the city this weekend. The topic Badal Ko Ghirte Dekho had the audience ...
- Emmylou Harris - as mesmerising as ever - Jordan Times
AMMAN - Emmylou Harris has always had an ethereal, angel-like voice that mesmerises you as surely as the sirens in Greek mythology mesmerised Ulysses. The artist is exceptional in many ways and her new album “All I Intended To Be” is but one more ...
- Where's Weldon? - Los Angeles Times
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge ...
- In other words - Boston Globe
The greatest theatrical, literary, and musical works are magnetic - they continually attract reinterpretation and modernization. Mozart's 220-year-old "Don Giovanni" has been updated with bra-and-panty-clad choristers, Shakespeare's 400-year-old "A ...
- Highest-ranking Shriner visits area (Pensacola News Journal)
Hadji Shrine welcomed Imperial Sir Douglas E. Maxwell to Pensacola last weekend. During the 2008 Imperial Council Session June 29 through July 3 in St. Louis, Maxwell, of Chesterfield, Mo., was elected the Imperial Potentate of the Shrine International, making him the highest-ranking Shriner in the world.
- Father-focused group broadens role in community - Stockton Record
Father-focused group broadens role in communityStockton Record, CA - 4 hours agoThe organization has recently hosted a summer FatherFest event and co-sponsored a poetry slam for teens. In coming months, Nunez hopes to plan a celebration ...
- Liberty Belle chimes in - The Canberra Times
Liberty Belle chimes inThe Canberra Times, Australia - 1 hour agoAs well as the race meet, pigeon poetry involves an online form guide and sweep, allowing people to pick a pigeon and a poem to win. ...
- A Summer Getaway In The Big Apple Offers Family Fun - The Bulletin
Families looking for a kid-friendly getaway this summer may be surprised to find that New York City, often considered an adult destination, offers a wealth of family fun as well. From museums and monuments to Broadway shows and Fifth Avenue shopping ...
- Man on Wire (2008) (New York Times)
Philippe Petit in "Man on Wire." On the morning of Aug. 7, 1974, after months of preparation and years of dreaming, a French daredevil named Philippe Petit stepped into the sky above Lower Manhattan.
- Kay Ryan, Donald Trump, Ronnie Wood (International Herald Tribune)
A round-up of the day's celebrity news.
- Coldplay leaves fans out in cold - Toronto Star
Coldplay leaves fans out in coldToronto Star, Canada - 2 hours agoReaney won three Governor-General's Awards for poetry and drama, the first in 1949 for the book of poetry, The Red Heart." McClelland and Stewart plans to ...
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