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- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - Las Vegas Sun
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a work ...
- Poetry Slam to slam its last - Ann Arbor News Blog
The Ann Arbor Poetry Slam is going out of business. After 19 years of operations, organizer Larry Francis said in a press release that "we can see our beloved show has run its course." Its regular spot on the first Tuesday of the month at the ...
- Herbert Gold’s memoir, Still Alive! is a lyrical joy - Kansas City Star
Herbert Gold’s memoir, Still Alive! is a lyrical joyKansas City Star, MO - 38 minutes agoAs undergraduates, Ginsberg and Gold shared a school prize for poetry. A Fulbright Exchange Scholarship and the GI Bill sent Gold to Paris, where he wrote ...
- I Am My Own Dragon by Linda Thompson - WTNH
I Am My Own Dragon by Linda ThompsonWTNH, CT - 4 hours agoThrough Thompson's compelling prose, Lucy asks readers to think of "Dragon" as not purely her story, but to become a part of it: "We are creating this ...
- Casper Calendar for August 1, 2008 - Casper Star-Tribune Online
Casper Calendar for August 1, 2008Casper Star-Tribune Online, WY - 1 hour ago4, 7:30 pm, Artcore Music & Poetry with the Fisch Stew at The Jazz Spot. * Aug. 6, 12:15 pm, Bach's Lunch Organ Recital at First United Methodist Church. ...
- Amis just one chapter in a stellar event for book-lovers - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentAmis just one chapter in a stellar event for book-loversIrish Independent, Ireland - 9 hours agoThese will cover fiction, poetry and memoir and will include Anita Notaro, Julia Kelly, Sarah Webb, Sinead Moriarty and Martina Devlin. ...
- Gaspereau Press titles on display in award exhibit - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Gaspereau Press titles on display in award exhibitTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 3 hours ago... Tim Bowling’s The Bone Sharps (tied for second place, prose fiction) and Gaspereau Gloriatur Vol. 1 — Poetry, an anthology (third place, poetry). ...
- Cubans Greet Fidel Castro on His Birthday - Invasor
Cubans Greet Fidel Castro on His BirthdayInvasor, Cuba - Aug 14, 2008From China, the Cuban sports delegation to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games sent a congratulation message to Fidel Castro on his 82 birthday, expressing their ...
- It’s not your father’s library - Jacksonville Daily Record
The concept “build it and they will come” worked for Kevin Costner in the film “Field of Dreams” and it’s working for the Teen Services department of the Jacksonville Public Library (JPL). Every branch library in the system has an area ...
- Historicist: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Vice-Principal's Vacation (But Were Afraid to Ask) (Torontoist)
Every Saturday morning, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today.
- ARTSY EFFORTS COME . . . AND GO - Toronto Star
Here for a moment, then gone. That's the nature of urban artistic interventions; they are quirky – did I really see that? – and ephemeral as a cloud. Toronto has experienced a number of these random acts, which have appeared without explanation ...
- Tales of fathers sail on in `The Boat' (The Charlotte Observer)
Father's Day is a Sunday. Nam Le has time to go out and buy his dad a card or a gift, but he really needn't bother. "The Boat," his debut book, serves as both. Several of the seven masterful short stories here deal with that old generational bugaboo, the tension between fathers and their sons - and yes, daughters. Le, 29, knows this does not make him unique. Literature abounds with such stories, ...
- Fringe Stars Encouraged To Join Celebrations In 09 (Scoop.co.nz)
There was a photo call this morning with Scotland's First Minister to launch the Edinburgh Summer Festival programme as part of Homecoming Scotland 2009 during which Lochiel Marching Band from NZ attended.
- Local Newsmakers - August 24, 2008 (The Rock Hill Herald)
Essay contest winners named by DAR chapter
- Classy back-to-school books for kids - ScrippsNews
-- In "Off to First Grade" (McElderry/Simon & Schuster, $16.99), author Louise Borden uses poetry to capture the joy and nerves of heading into a new school year. Borden's free-verse poems are wonderfully readable, offering just the right touch of ...
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