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- SIUC college of liberal arts hires 24 new faculty members - Southern Illinoisan
CARBONDALE -- With the fall semester beginning today, Southern Illinois University Carbondale's biggest college has more than 20 new faculty members who have been hired. The college of liberal arts has24 new faculty members this academic year into ...
- Romesh Gunesekera's top 10 island books - guardian.co.uk
Romesh Gunesekera's top 10 island booksguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoHis books of poetry and prose are extraordinarily free and witty: full of invention, autobiography and the real world of Montserrat, England and France. ...
- Speech and Drama Festival moves to Prince Edward school - Zimbabwe Guardian
Speech and Drama Festival moves to Prince Edward schoolZimbabwe Guardian, UK - 5 hours agoDuring March, interested students were invited to enter to perform in the over 50 classes which include poetry, prose, mime, choral speaking, plays, ...
- C ommu nity ca len da r C ommu nity ca len da r - Arizona Daily Star
C ommu nity ca len da r C ommu nity ca len da rArizona Daily Star, AZ - 10 hours agoYouth poetry and art contest. 9 am-3 pm Mondays-Fridays through Aug. 29. Free. 615-7855. Scrabble — Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive. ...
- Bird cam’ to beam live during world-first pigeon event - West Online
The birds and the bards are the words this weekend in a unique event linking poets and some feathered friends near Wollongong. A “bird cam” will beam live pictures of the event billed as the world’s first pigeon-powered poetry competition. The ...
- Port opponents to meet June 24 (The Wilmington Star-News)
SOUTHPORTPort opponentsto meet June 24A grassroots group forming in opposition to a planned state port in Southport will hold its first public meeting at the end of this month.
- Review: Ledger's Joker steals show in 'Dark Knight' - Delaware County Daily Times
"Batman" isn't a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about. That's because of the performances, because of ...
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power - Times Daily
A poster of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, which is hang up over his effigy, is burned by lawyers during rally in Multan, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Musharraf said he was handing in his resignation to avoid an impeachment battle that ...
- Alex Boyd, Anne Simpson win $1,000 national poetry prizes - News1130.com
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced over the weekend at a festival and conference held ...
- Born to perform - Canon City Daily Record
Born to performCanon City Daily Record, United States - 26 minutes agoSo she adapted her poetry for songs. If she can find someone to write the music, she will release a CD with original songs in about a year.
- Vandals chose road that led to verse (The Tuscaloosa News)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment.
- Football is Chiefs tackle Tyler’s job, but music is his passion - Kansas City Star
Football is Chiefs tackle Tyler’s job, but music is his passionKansas City Star, MO - 2 hours agoLocking himself away from reality was what compelled Tyler to begin writing poetry 12 years ago. His mother worked three jobs in Fayetteville, NC, ...
- Christina Patterson: A joyous display to help heal broken lives - The Independent
"It's hard to read this," said the man on the stage, "because it brings back all the memories." His voice had faded almost to a whisper. "This was 15 years ago, and it still affects me." The man on stage was a photocopying engineer and he was reading ...
- Interview: Richard Schnell on the International Haiku Festival - Vermont Public Radio
Interview: Richard Schnell on the International Haiku FestivalVermont Public Radio, VT - 5 hours agoProfessor Richard Schnell of SUNY Plattsburgh says Haiku can vary--in English, it's generally regarded as any poem of fewer than 17 syllables, Un- rhymed, ...
- The Art of Science - Washington Post
Washington PostThe Art of ScienceWashington Post, United States - 24 minutes agoThe book has much poetry in it. A man named Robert Symmer notices that, when rubbed together, his like-colored socks repel each other while opposite-colored ...
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