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- Island Home wins anthem contest (BBC News)
Jersey's Bailiff announces Island Home as the winning song in a contest to choose a new island anthem.
- Gallery: Scenes from Magnetic North Theatre Festival - Vancouver Sun
Gallery: Scenes from Magnetic North Theatre FestivalVancouver Sun, Canada - 3 hours agoA poem he'd written and then lost to a computer crash resurfaced, becoming the bridge to carry his story to the banks of a river. ...
- Controversial 'Stitching' Extends Off-Broadway; Ventimiglia Joins Cast (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Popular demand has prompted a two-week extension of the U.S. premiere of Anthony Neilson's Stitching, the new dark play about a couple who play disturbing games. The Off-Broadway run at The Wild Project will now play to Aug. 2.
- Book Review: Brian Hall's 'Fall of Frost' (International Herald Tribune)
Brian Hall is a novelist, and "Fall of Frost" arrives as the first fictional rendering of the poet Robert Frost's life.
- Local wagon train to participate in annual event - El Dorado Times
Area residents will have the opportunity to step back into the Old West Saturday as part of the Symphony in the Flint Hills, held one mile south of Council Grove. Flint Hills Overland Wagon Trips, based out of El Dorado, will be providing rides from ...
- Sacajawea Bluegrass Festival returns next weekend to Pasco's state ... - Tri-City Herald
It's one thing to hear great bluegrass music on the radio or on a CD through a great set of speakers, but it's still not as good as hearing it live. And when the Sacajawea Bluegrass Festival gets under way next weekend, you'll get your fill of lively ...
- New lit mag from Hamish Hamilton - The Bookseller (subscription)
The Bookseller (subscription)New lit mag from Hamish HamiltonThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoThe free monthly magazine, which launched on 21st June, will publish work from a variety of authors from all backgrounds, including new work by previously ...
- Mirrors Never Lie - Southeast Missourian
the mother of all moms I am a jack (or jill) of all trades... mother of 2 (one with autism, one with dyslexia and ADD), wife, student, advocate, writer, artist and probably a half a dozen other titles that can be added to my list. I like to say that ...
- Blog: Blog on the Tracks - Stuff
To Matthew and Natalie Cutler-Welsh, 'eco' isn't just a prefix meaning 'going without' - it's about being cool, credible and life-enhancing. It's about doing their best, not just their bit, for the environment. This blog aims to fuel discussion on ...
- Middle East Peace Camp, Battling Depression with Poetry, and Book ... - KUOW NPR
KUOW NPRMiddle East Peace Camp, Battling Depression with Poetry, and Book ...KUOW NPR, WA - 44 minutes agoWe also learn how poetry can battle depression, and we get book reviews from Nancy Pearl. Reading and writing poetry were "normal human activities" in ...
- Alicia Keys expands her repertoire beyond music (The Providence Journal)
When we first heard Alicia Keys’ velvet voice and masterful piano strokes in 2001, she was a beautiful tomboy singing about falling in and out of love. Hers was a pure, unapologetic sound — authentic, magical, enriched by yesterday — that returned vintage soul to its place in the pantheon of music.
- Poetry Collection Relates Author's Victory Over Crushing Odds - Emediawire (press release)
Poetry Collection Relates Author's Victory Over Crushing OddsEmediawire (press release), WA - May 23, 2008More than just inspirational words, the poetry in this book offer readers a great devotional and study guide with references to story after story of ...
- Kay Ryan is named U.S. poet laureate (Seattle Times)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress...
- Bazm-e-Urdu elects new office-bearers (The Peninsula)
Doha • Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), the oldest Urdu literary organization in Qatar, elected new office-bearers on Friday. Well-known poet Shaukat Ali Naaz was elected as Vice President along with Farid Nadvi. Syed Zauwar Hussain Zair, a young poet, was elected as General Secretary.
- Harold Verduin, 92 - Holland Sentinel
Harold Verduin died May 7, 2008, at Hospice House in Holland, Mich. He was 92 when he succumbed to cancer. Â Born in South Holland, Ill. in 1916, he was the fourth of six children of Teunis and Rena Rietveld Verduin. He grew up on a farm outside ...
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