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- Apple-winning teacher is homegrown - Herald News
PLAINFIELD -- Holly Bontkowski was using fruit to teach poetry to her eighth-grade students when her husband and two children walked in with a basket overflowing with apples. "It was kind of ironic because we were using fruit and they walked in with ...
- She threw some punches – now she can kick back - TheNewsTribune.com
She threw some punches – now she can kick backTheNewsTribune.com, WA - 2 hours agoThe 26th also was a laboratory for several political phenomena – the emergence of the Christian conservative movement, the war over property rights and the ...
- Poetry in motion: bridge walks (The Oregonian)
Poetry & Bridge Walks are back, with author Sharon Wood Wortman and Oregon poets leading easy walks of about a mile. See eight bridges and tour the Morrison and Burnside Bridge towers. The best part: no need to register.
- Austin literary events for April 2008 - Austin American-Statesman
For the past 16 years, the Austin International Poetry Festival has been held every April. During an extended weekend, poets from across the country and around the world — but mostly from around Texas — get up and share their work with the public ...
- Does Obama Want Edwards Gone? - Slate
Will the Pro-Obama Bias Turn Anti-Edwards? At this point, does Barack Obama want John Edwards to even show up in Denver, much less give a prime time speech? Even if the Love-Child saga progresses no further than it already has , an Edwards Denver ...
- Jon Vickers - Guardian Unlimited
Amid such legendary trade union leaders of the 1970s as Jack Jones, Hugh Scanlon and Joe Gormley, the Cambridge-educated Jon Vickers, of the Civil Service Union, who has died aged 92, cast a smaller shadow. But his wartime bravery and politically ...
- Key dates in Karadzic's life (Las Cruces Sun-News)
June 19, 1945: Born in Savnik, Yugoslavia, in what is now the Republic of Montenegro. July 12, 1990: Is a founding member of the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- Bay Area music legends Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill play - Pacifica Tribune
Bay Area music legends Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill playPacifica Tribune, CA - 19 minutes agoI've always been in love with words and as a young girl would sit alone in my room and read poetry aloud. Oh, I was such a dweeb!" Where has her music taken ...
- Piano Symposium Celebrates 1920s Paris June 5-7 - UNCG University News
Piano Symposium Celebrates 1920s Paris June 5-7UNCG University News, NC - 4 hours agoWhile at UNCG his hosted “The Ericourt Forum of Music and Arts”; a popular television show. “Ericourt lived in Paris during the 1920s, so he was UNCG’s link ...
- Late-Breaking: Dead Prez Tonight in Hollywood - Miami New Times
Late-Breaking: Dead Prez Tonight in HollywoodMiami New Times, FL - 1 hour agoIt's a soul-poetry-funk-conscious sort of thang, and followers of that scene will recognize tonight's host, Asia, a hometown boy who's also been featured on ...
- Landmark Case Returns to NY Seeking Millions From Corporations ... - Democracy Now
Landmark Case Returns to NY Seeking Millions From Corporations ...Democracy Now, NY - 9 minutes agoBrutus was banned from teaching, writing, and publishing in South Africa. His first collection of poetry, “Sirens, Knuckles and Boots” was published in ...
- Shailja Patel utsedd till NAI Guest Writer 2009 - Newsdesk (pressmeddelande)
Shailja Patel utsedd till NAI Guest Writer 2009Newsdesk (pressmeddelande), Sweden - Jul 1, 2008Hon var en av åtta poeter som utvaldes till att framträda vid Poetry Africas arrangemang vid World Social Forum i Nairobi i början av 2007. ...
- Duke it out -- haiku-style - Idaho Statesman
This all-ages poetry slam features a haiku battle, a slam and a multi-voice poem all rolled into one. Poets and audience members are invited to join in the creativity. Sign-ups start at 6:30 p.m. Monday with a show at 7 p.m. for a door price of $5 ...
- Local student to explore Europe as ambassador - Bastrop Daily Enterprise
Bastrop Daily EnterpriseLocal student to explore Europe as ambassadorBastrop Daily Enterprise, LA - 3 hours agoShe is also a member of the International Library of Poetry. She is a member of the First Baptist Church of Bastrop and the daughter of Emma VanCoevering ...
- Don't knock it until you try it - Daily Gazette
I read with great interest the other day a letter to the editor that said, in essence, the way to make children and teens less violent is to make incarceration less attractive. Dress them in frilly clothes, he said; video tape them doing stupid ...
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