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- More than 200 young poets enter contest - The Birmingham News - al.com
More than 200 young poets enter contestThe Birmingham News - al.com, AL - 1 hour agoThe Homewood poet, who is known as Father Goose and has written more than 30 books of poetry for children and adults, selected Sarah's poem, "Hope in You," ...
- Hundreds mourn murdered Ashland native - MetroWest Daily News
Dawn Armstrong was a woman who "spent her dash wisely," the Rev. Ernest Batten told mourners who crowded into the Matarese Funeral Home Chapel yesterday. When dates of birth and death are recorded on a headstone, the dash between the years counts ...
- PM extends financial help to late folk singer’s family - Associated Press of Pakistan
PM extends financial help to late folk singer’s familyAssociated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - 9 hours agoThe folk singer, who earned fame by singing Saraiki poetry of mystic poet-saint Hazrat Ghulam Farid died in March 2000. The recipients of the Prime ...
- Bad bard McGonagall beats J.K. Rowling in Edinburgh auction (The Arizona Republic)
William Topaz McGonagall's lack of talent was matched only by his delusion and ego.
- Karen McLeod: In Search Of The Missing Eyelash (RainbowNetwork.com)
When Karen McLeod isn't working as an air hostess or a burlesque dancer in gay clubs, she is an author. Her debut novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash , has received rave reviews for its both sensitive and humorous look at the pain of longing, the minutae of obsession, gender bending, identity and loneliness.
- Festival set for a flying start - Forres Gazette
Festival set for a flying startForres Gazette, UK - 13 minutes agoContemporary Highland artists including Eugenia Vronskaya, Gwen Black, Nicola MacDonell, Allan Macdonald, Elizabeth Cameron, Mike Cairncross and Clare Blois ...
- EDUCATION: Upson students win essay contest (Lockport Union-Sun & Journal)
Sometimes kids will say “when I grow up...” followed by what they want to be or what they want to do when they’re an adult.Charles Upson Elementary students in Lockport had to put those thoughts into writing for the annual essay contest of the Orleans/Niagara Teacher Resource and Computer Training Center.
- Social Calendar (The Lafayette Daily Advertiser)
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- The eccentric genius of J.M.W. Turner - Newark Star-Ledger
Joseph Mallord William Turner's 1805 oil painting "The Shipwreck" is one of 140 oils, watercolors and prints on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tuesday through Sept. 21. J.M.W. Turner . Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at ...
- Celebrating independence and heritage (Sterling Journal-Advocate)
STERLING — Singing cowboys, a blacksmith, an auctioneer, demonstrations of butter churning and crafts, donkey rides, snow cones, fundraising, costume contests and lots of food — these were just some of the offerings at the 2008 Logan County Heritage Festival Friday, July 4, at the Overland Trail Museum and Heidi Park.
- Marie Chouinard has spring in her dance steps - Calgary Herald
Calgary HeraldMarie Chouinard has spring in her dance stepsCalgary Herald, Canada - 1 hour agoYou don't ask yourself any more questions -- you don't ask, 'Oh, what's happening -- I'm doing poetry?' No, I'm not even asking myself the question. ...
- Memorial Day takes on new meaning for Reston mother - San Francisco Examiner
Martha Kirkpatrick is planning to visit her son’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery today, giving new meaning to the heartfelt holiday she always observed, but not like this. “I’ve never had a Memorial Day before,” she said. Her son, Sgt ...
- Author's book masterpiece-just ask him - Charlotte.com
Retired newspaper columnist Doug Robarchek says he's happy with his new 30-inch HDTV set, even if it seems to take longer to warm up than his old analog set. Although he refused to learn anything about HDTV, he's discovered the picture looks best ...
- Citizen Cope - NewHampshire.com
NewHampshire.comCitizen CopeNewHampshire.com, NH - 2 hours ago“I was writing poetry, and working on some bits of songs here and there, and I just knew I wanted to try to make somebody feel the way I was feeling when I ...
- What's happening (The Olympian)
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