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- Students place well in WordMasters Challenge (The Journal News)
Daniel Gorman and Kathy Wang, students at Pearl River High School, won highest honors in the year-end cumulative standings of the WordMasters Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of prose and poetry.
- Inaugural Manukau Poetry Competition (Scoop.co.nz)
Manukau City Council Libraries, in conjunction with the Gadd Family, invite Manukau poets to submit entries in the inaugural Bernard Gadd Memorial Poetry Prize. The annual competition commemorates the late Manukau poet and continues his support of poetry in the city.
- Featured Book Review: A Painted Field by Robin Robertson - Monsters and Critics.com
Featured Book Review: A Painted Field by Robin RobertsonMonsters and Critics.com - 1 hour agoWhile the poem functions beautifully as a meditation on life and death in terms of the inevitable cycles circumscribing existence on this planet, ...
- Superior partners: High school students pair up with first-graders for poetry project (Missoulian)
Jo Stevens' yearbook students at Superior High School and Diana Campbell's first-graders at the elementary school teamed up for a poetry project. To begin the poetry unit, the first-graders listened to the language of poetry and discovered that poems have rhyme, rhythm and repetition.
- Round-Up: Fourth of July - Concierge
Round-Up: Fourth of JulyConcierge, NY - 58 minutes agoFor eats: Colorado Kitchen is a quirky joint whose garlic cheese grits are worth poetry. The homemade donuts, too, warrant sonnets. ...
- Dottie Rambo Remembered - Country Hound
Country HoundDottie Rambo RememberedCountry Hound, TN - May 20, 2008Gloria Gaither told The Tennesean this week that Rambo, "…had the rare gift of a poet and an even rarer gift of being capable of creating both great poetry ...
- Every day is special - 06.06.2008 - Today's Zaman
Every day is special - 06.06.2008Today's Zaman, Turkey - 55 minutes agoPushkin’s birthday is celebrated each year at the Pushkin Reserve in Michailovskoye with poetry readings, recitals, discussion groups and lectures. ...
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Broadway.com
Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner star in the revival of Edmond Rostand's classic tale of romance and tragedy. The soulful poet/philosopher and brilliant swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac, a cadet in the French Army, falls for the beautiful, strong-willed ...
- The terror and tenderness of old age - Guardian Blogs
The NHS is 60 years old on Saturday. There's a bundle of stuff in the media - from documentaries to discussions - celebrating its birth and analysing its current state. Switching on the radio the other night, I caught one such news feature. The ...
- When poetry was king (The Prague Post)
May Day may have been relatively quiet in Prague this year, but during the Cold War it was a political flash point. In 1947, the U.S. Congress decreed May 1 Loyalty Day, hoping to stave off its growing international communist overtones.
- When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions - Los Angeles Times
When We Left Earth: The NASA MissionsLos Angeles Times, CA - 15 minutes agoThe NASA cameramen, including the astronauts themselves, didn't just point and shoot; they worked with style and sensitivity, and there is a poetry in the ...
- Students To Have Their Words Made Into Smash Song (Scoop.co.nz)
Talented young poets, songwriters and lyricists have just three weeks to enter their best work into the New Zealand Post National Schools Poetry Awards.
- Family of woman who died after being Tasered sues police - Miami Herald
The family of a schizophrenic woman who died after being shocked by a Taser 10 times during a mental-health crisis is suing the city of Green Springs and two of its police officers in federal court. An autopsy categorizes 56-year-old Emily Delafield ...
- What happens when actors wax lyrical - Guardian Blogs
Mark Rylance is a great actor whose distinctive presence and delicate, introspective, musical speaking voice have made him unique. Despite many outstanding film roles, he has made his name on the stage more than the screen, which is a pity as far as ...
- Ffion Hague on the sex life of Lloyd George - News Wales
Ffion Hague on the sex life of Lloyd GeorgeNews Wales, UK - 31 minutes agoFfion Hague, native Welsh- speaker, studied English Literature at Oxford and then took an MPhil in Eighteenth Century Welsh poetry at the University of ...
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