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- Poetry and photography contest deadline is Thursday (Reporter-Times)
The Martinsville Arts Council and Morgan County Public Library are co-sponsors of the 2008 Morgan County Fall Foliage Festival poetry and photography contest. The contest is at the Morgan County Public Library, 120 S. Jeffereson St. The theme for this year’s event is “The miracle of fall”.
- Obama's Berlin 'Smoke And Mirrors' Speech - The Bulletin
Among all the lavish praise, showered by the mainstream media, and all the excruciating detail about Sen. Barack Obama's Berlin speech, one salient fact was omitted. The American and European mainstream media reported Mr. Obama's Berlin speech in ...
- A traveler finds a home at SU - Winchester Star
Winchester — Tracy Fitzsimmons lives by three basic tenets and one tradition. Always help people move. Always pick someone up or drop him off. Always buy something from children selling something. But only if they ask nicely. The tradition: At each ...
- The world's oldest jokes revealed - Newindpress
The world's oldest jokes revealedNewindpress, India - Aug 1, 2008They found the wry observation in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral. It reads: “What hangs at a man’s ...
- Interview with Nathan Rosen, Editor of MicroHorror (Blogcritics.org)
"I believe that a great horror story is made of the same three elements that make a great joke: the setup, the escalation and the payoff." MicroHorror is a new ezine featuring horror stories in various subgenres -- traditional, modern, gothic, dark fantasy. The requirement? They have to be well written and be 666 words or shorter--talk about a clever gimmick for a horror magazine! Here to talk ...
- For richer, for poorer ... here comes the bride - Medford Mail Tribune
It wasn't your typical rehearsal dinner, but it was everything Liz Jones and Josh Dilworth hoped it would be — authentic, casual and relatively cheap. Guests by the dozens gathered in a barn on the Jones family farm for a simple picnic-style meal ...
- The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes - Independent
The Age of Wonder, by Richard HolmesIndependent, UK - 4 hours agoDavy went from success to success and became a social lion; in contrast, Coleridge's life was fraught in the extreme. Davy invited him to lecture on poetry ...
- Royal Oak man's videos help deaf people connect to pop culture - Detroit Free Press
The girls would smile, and ask for more, and that's when Sean Forbes realized he was on to something good. The 26-year-old Royal Oak resident, partially deaf since infancy, had a can't-miss party trick: interpreting hit songs for his friends, using ...
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux - New York Observer
Elizabeth Sifton, a veteran editor at the boutique publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, has found herself at the center of a controversy surrounding the authorial origins of a prayer--“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot ...
- National Junior Beta Club – living up to a legacy at Millsap - Mineral Wells Index
National Junior Beta Club – living up to a legacy at MillsapMineral Wells Index, TX - 7 hours agoIt was very inspirational – [typically about] doing your best, making life choices and being a leader,” she said. McCartney, who won first in state with her ...
- Baring their souls - Guardian Unlimited
Fifteen years ago the music world was turned upside down with the release of Liz Phair's album, Exile in Guyville. Written in response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street (both were double albums, 18 tracks long), it matched that record in ...
- An extraordinary evening"of poetry reading - Tahoe World
An extraordinary evening"of poetry readingTahoe World, CA - 5 hours agoThe 39th Annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers convenes this summer with workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Non Fiction and Screenwriting. ...
- Subterfuge of simplicity - BusinessWorld Online
Subterfuge of simplicityBusinessWorld Online, Philippines - 3 hours agoBut this is a happy occasion for poetry so I will not delve into that dismal state of our arts and culture. Professor Sugbo’s collection is devoid of ...
- Armantrout's Poetry "Reflects the World" - Harvard Crimson
Armantrout's Poetry "Reflects the World"Harvard Crimson, MA - 2 hours agoArmantrout said that her work draws from many facets of daily life—the poems she read referenced Anna Nicole Smith, Playboy, CNN and the Iraq War—but that ...
- Time-warp tunes - Citizen Online
This year's Skaneateles Festival will take music lovers to the start of the 20th century to the depths of jazz throughout the month of August. “Music that will transport you” is the motto of the 2008 Skaneateles Festival in various locations ...
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