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- Theatre Review: One Red Flower (Santa Monica Mirror)
One Red Flower , produced and created by Emmy-award winning director Paris Barclay, was presented as a staged reading at the Brentwood Theatre last weekend only as a special benefit supporting New Directions and Rubicon Theatre’s Innovation Fund.
- Poet Edward Hirsch to read at the Arts Cafe (Westerly Sun)
Hirsch’s six previous books of poems won many prestigious prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Delmore Schwarz Award, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award.
- Award entries overflow with a rural theme (Central Western Daily)
THERE’S something about the country which has been inspiring the Central West’s wordsmiths over the past few months.
- Writing his own story (The Salem News)
"Please, no doom and gloom," Christopher Reardon asks. "This isn't another kid in a wheelchair crying about his life." This is a kid in a wheelchair who says he's trying to tell the truth about his life. A kid, a man, really, who just turned 22 and wants his writings to challenge the way people think about cancer survivors, wheelchair drivers and maybe even the world.
- Fifth-grader wins bicycle essay contest (Daily Herald)
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White awarded Grant Miller, a fifth-grader from Windsor School in Arlington Heights, the third place award in the Bicycle Essay Contest held in honor of National Bicycle Safety Monty in May.
- May 2006 - Weekly Standard
(The Euston group formally launched on May 26 in London. Several members have also written op-eds -- see here -- as part of the roll out. Norman Geras, a government professor at the University of Manchester, has been particularly insightful ...
- A celebration of freedom (Lancaster Online)
It was on June 19, 1865, that slaves in Galveston, Texas, received word of their freedom — two years after the Emancipation
- New at the movies: Recently released flicks - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Adapted from the second of C.S. Lewis' seven books in the series, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian returns the four Pevensie children to the magical realm more than a millennium, in Narnian terms, after they helped vanquish the White Witch to ...
- Lyrical terrorist Samina Malik has her conviction overturned - Times Online
The woman who called herself the “lyrical terrorist” won her appeal today against her conviction for collecting information likely to aid a person preparing a terrorist act. Samina Malik, 24, a former Heathrow shop assistant who was given a ...
- Mother and daughter team produce book of absurdly silly poems - Marin Independent-Journal
Mother and daughter team produce book of absurdly silly poemsMarin Independent-Journal, CA - 1 hour agoPublishers Weekly says they reflect her "recognizably European dark wit." "I thought I was going to be a serious poet," Gerda Rovetch recalls. ...
- How to read Cicero's gobbets - Times Online
How to read Cicero's gobbetsTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoThis is well known to be the case with, for example, the later speeches in the series “Against Verres”; for Verres had seen the writing on the wall and ...
- The City of Gustave by William Rubel is available @Stores - TransWorldNews (press release)
The City of Gustave by William Rubel is available @StoresTransWorldNews (press release), GA - 1 hour agoThe lesson to be gleaned from this long but not lengthy, truly fascinating discourse on the meaning of love, life and death, is that none may be understood ...
- James J. 'Jim' Anderl - Chippewa Herald
James J. 'Jim' AnderlChippewa Herald, WI - 28 minutes agoJim loved to play the guitar, write songs, stories and poetry. Jim and Cindy frequently took road trips up north and on a good day, came home a winner. ...
- Readers' corner (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Sir-- Your article ' Some subtlety please ' (8-14 May) in response to the farcical competition of the chief editors of the national newspapers to celebrate the 80th birthday of the president, was a professional and just in time, dutiful advice from within.
- Movie star says thank you - Central Maine Morning Sentinel
Movie star says thank youCentral Maine Morning Sentinel, ME - 4 hours agoThere was organic gardening, music and poetry. There also was a mother's love, and the little girl never forgot her. Victoria Rowell, film star, dancer, ...
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