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- News and views from other islands (The Block Island Times)
Island poet gets national recognition DEER ISLE, ME — Marydel Rosenfield was stunned to hear on the Prairie Home Companion radio program that she had just won the Garrison Keillor’s annual sonnet contest, the Island Ad-Vantages reports. Hers was among 31 sonnets of more than 4,000 read on the show. Her reward: three dozen roses, but Rosenfeld talked them into making up a floral arrangement with ...
- Things To Do - South Shore News and Tribune
Things To DoSouth Shore News and Tribune, FL - 3 hours agoBess will weave a tale of the Gasparilla Coast with magic, music and poetry while dressed in majestic pirate plumes and finery. There is seating for 200. ...
- The Brother Unconnected: A Tribute to Sun City Girls (Phoenix New Times)
For many, punk rock was/is an end in itself, an opportunity to rock fast 'n' loud and/or dress up funny. For others, punk was a door to limitless cultural possibilities, a way of denying obstacles to artistic expression. The UK's Pop Group and the Raincoats embraced, to varying degrees, the avant-ga ...
- Culture – Stavanger-style - Aberdeen Press and Journal
Culture – Stavanger-styleAberdeen Press and Journal, UK - 2 hours agoSurprises that saw a stanza of poetry written in hundreds of hay bales in a field on the outskirts of town. And surprises in the shape of a bizarre ...
- Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate (New York Times)
A reserved writer who has been compared to Emily Dickinson, Ms. Ryan has been chosen to succeed Charles Simic as the nation?s 16th poet laureate
- Appreciation: Oakley Hall, writers' champion - San Francisco Chronicle
Appreciation: Oakley Hall, writers' championSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour ago"I substituted one year for (teaching) poetry - it was an exhilarating week. Everyone has to write a poem every day, that includes the instructors. ...
- Know it All - San Mateo Daily Journal
Know it AllSan Mateo Daily Journal, CA - 6 hours agoTraditional Japanese haiku poetry has three lines of lyric verse that do not rhyme. The first and third lines have five syllables each, the second line has ...
- Spreading Scarlett Fever - New York Sun
Spreading Scarlett FeverNew York Sun, United States - 4 hours agoIt is unknown if Mr. Shatner intended for his 1968 recording of poetry and pop covers, "The Transformed Man," to be the galaxy's funniest album, ...
- Checking in with the Georgians and Russians with the help of ... - Registan.net
Checking in with the Georgians and Russians with the help of ...Registan.net, WA - 2 hours agoI don’t know how many erstwhile English majors and poetry gurus read these posts, but the recent editorials and articles covering the Georgia/Russia border ...
- From Russia with Jazz - All About Jazz
From Russia with JazzAll About Jazz, PA - 8 hours agoThe band also consisted of African-American musicians, but, according to historical sources, sounded less hot than the Jazz Kings. ...
- Three Authors To Read At Studio Eleven In Conjunction With Exhibition - Rockbridge Weekly
Three Authors To Read At Studio Eleven In Conjunction With ExhibitionRockbridge Weekly, VA - 5 hours agoHer most recent book, The Lost Tribe of Us, won the 2007 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She lives in Front Royal, Virginia. ...
- Overshadowed poet gets overdue attention - News & Observer
News & ObserverOvershadowed poet gets overdue attentionNews & Observer, NC - 1 hour agoIn reaching this point, King effectively describes the development of Pitter's poetry from its beginnings to its maturity, where her poems touch on "the ...
- Secrets and lives (Salon.com)
Sebastian Barry may be the most exhilarating prose stylist in Irish fiction. His new book weaves together strands from Ireland's past -- and his own.
- New York City Ballet: The Triple Threat (Playbill Arts)
After a 23-year career at NYCB, Principal Dancer Damian Woetzel is taking his final bows on June 18.
- Turkmen president orders removal of his autocratic predecessor's ... - International Herald Tribune
Turkmen president orders removal of his autocratic predecessor's ...International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoAnd he wrote several poetry books was well as the Rukhnama — a code of moral guidelines that became required reading for schoolchildren and government ...
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