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- Writing his own story - 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 ...
- Highway Crews Look for Savings in Joint Efforts (East Aurora Advertiser)
Highway crews from Erie County, the Town of Colden and the Town of Wales lent a hand to the Aurora Highway Department last week to make improvements on Longmeadow Drive and Pomander Square in the northeast portion of Aurora. The effort wasn't charity, but part of a work- and equipment-swapping system between municipalities. The point of the system is to help each municipality control costs while ...
- Writer's garden of Eden - Guelph Mercury
Guelph MercuryWriter's garden of EdenGuelph Mercury, Canada - 8 minutes agoWith an eye on the future, it is hosting a hip-hop set with deejay Madadam and rapper Noah 23, and a poetry slam led by David Silverberg. ...
- Anne & Gilbert plans Ontario tour (CBC)
The stage musical Anne & Gilbert is to tour Ontario this fall on the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original Anne of Green Gables.
- D Numbers want you to dance (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
D Numbers sound like the Mario Bros crashing a tandem bicycle … on acid. Not really - the three-piece experimental psychedelic band from Santa Fe, N.M. eludes description, though writers at times make a game of mashing together labels like magnetic poetry.
- Bruce Anderson: Ray Lewis and Lord Phillips are both grappling with society's alienated groups (Independent)
There are no easy answers to the question of the other within. Even without his wig and robes, even in a Muslim centre on Whitechapel Road, Nicholas Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice, might seem to have little in common with Ray Lewis, who has been obliged to resign as Deputy Mayor of London. Yet both men are wrestling with related difficulties. Both are addressing the vital issue of alienated ...
- Breaking News: Maria Shriver endorses Barack Obama - Los Angeles Times Blogs
In a dramatic moment at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, California First Lady Maria Shriver just strode out onto a stage that had already seen its share of celebrities -- Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder among them -- and announced that she was joining the ...
- Eldercollege fall sessions begin with a sampler - Port Clinton News Herald
Eldercollege fall sessions begin with a samplerPort Clinton News Herald, OH - 1 hour agoPoetry Writing — Instructor Acy Jackson, 1 to 3 pm, Fridays from Sept. 26 through Oct. 31. The cost is $20 members and $25 for non-members. • The American ...
- Stigler veteran’s poem, artwork win national contest (Muskogee Phoenix)
Disabled veteran Connie Joe “CJ” Lockwood has finally earned recognition for his talent. After years of creating hundreds of poems, songs and paintings, he has won an award for the first time.
- Lincoln comes to life for young readers - Medford Mail Tribune
"LINCOLN SHOT," screams the headline! "Condition Considered Hopeless. Will Not Live Through the Night." So begins a gripping read for middle-graders ahead of the February bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a big event in publishing for grown ...
- A chat with two poets in love (The Standard-Times)
I got the chance to talk summer reading with a poetic couple this week — French poet/actress Hélène Cardona and her husband, Irish lawyer/poet John M. FitzGerald.
- Roofies in the Mochaccino - Twin Cities Planet
Roofies in the MochaccinoTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 18 hours agoIs it the poetry stigma? Is that all it is? Because that’s pretty lame. Phillip Andrew Bennett Low (maximumverbosityonline@gmail.com) is a playwright and ...
- Helter Skelter Advertising - Rake
Helter Skelter AdvertisingRake, MN - 25 minutes agoI don't think it's too much of a reach to say that this same approach could work for fiction, and maybe even poetry, so long as marketers don't just tap ...
- Biden can mingle equally with world leaders, America's working class (The Tennessean)
WASHINGTON — Few people in this town know the world like Joe Biden.
- The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose ... - Science Daily (press release)
The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose ...Science Daily (press release) - 10 hours ago... State University had participants read works of poetry and prose with alliterative sentences to show the importance of repetitive consonants on memory. ...
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