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- Artist’s illuminations inspired by text (Cleveland Jewish News)
Illuminate has many meanings: give light to, brighten, decorate a manuscript, enlighten in mind and spirit. So it is fitting that painter Jackie Olenick calls her works “illuminations.”
- Kingsolver to speak at festival - Salina Journal
Kingsolver to speak at festivalSalina Journal, KS - 4 hours agoKingsolver, a National Humanities Medal recipient in 2000, has written several novels and collections of poetry and prose. Her latest book, "Animal, ...
- Gail Bottoms speaks at Gilmore Center (The Thomaston Times)
Author, speaker and advocate, Ms. Gail Bottoms of Griffin, holds her book of poetry, From the Inside Out, after a special reading of her poetry at the Gilmore Center last Thursday.
- 'America's poets' take their place in the Hall - Nashville Tennessean
It wasn't hard for Tom T. Hall to answer the question he kept getting about why he wasn't in the Hall of Fame. And it isn't hard for him to answer the question he's gotten lately: "Why are you in the Hall of Fame?" Same answer, according to Hall: "I ...
- The Manhattan encourages creativity - Charleston Daily Mail
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.'' The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme ...
- Poetry column: Honor fallen law enforcement officers (The Evening Sun)
If it weren't for mothers, the world would not lose its harsh edge. Moms have a way to soften the blow of human gales and the globe's disasters. They are the first defense we have, our protectors, our nurturers under the laws of nature. A blesséd day to all women who mother!
- Herman L. Parsons - Pittsburg Morning Sun
Herman L. ParsonsPittsburg Morning Sun, KS - 3 hours agoHerman had many talents including writing children’s stories for his grandson, and poetry. His poetry always included just the right words to honor an ...
- McCain's Summer of "Love" Ad: Pass the Ammunition. But hold the Hope. - BusinessWeek
BusinessWeekMcCain's Summer of "Love" Ad: Pass the Ammunition. But hold the Hope.BusinessWeek - 7 hours agoVote for one. Yikes. Don’t hope? Mario Cuomo, I believe it was, said you campaign in poetry and govern in prose. McCain could use a new writer.
- Teen Pride Review premieres Friday - Twin Cities Planet
Teen Pride Review premieres FridayTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 7 hours agoPerformance artist “Wonder Dave”, of the Minnesota Poetry Slam Team will also part of the Friday night line-up. “Sixteen-year-olds are pretty grown up and ...
- Court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos - Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the ...
- Day one scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison (Isthmus)
Nearly two-thirds of the 76 teams in the National Poetry Slam competed in their first bouts on Tuesday night at multiple venues throughout downtown Madison. The bout winners on Tuesday were Boston Cantab, SlamCharlotte, Austin Poetry Slam, NoCoast Writers Collective from Lincoln, Hayti Heritage Center from Durham, The City Slam from San Francisco, Chicago Mental Graffiti, New York Urbana Poetry ...
- Lang Lang shows serious artistry in performance with CSO - Chicago Sun-Times
The international piano phenom Lang Lang was all of 17 when he caught the world's attention as a last-minute stand-in for Andre Watts at Ravinia's centennial concert in 1999. Though he is just 26 now, he has had several lifetimes of experience in the ...
- Finding election judges proving almost impossible - Alpine Avalanche
Finding election judges proving almost impossibleAlpine Avalanche, TX - 5 hours agoApproved the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering organizers’ request for endorsement of the Go Texan Rural Community Hometown STARS program. ...
- Author heads out alone on the hiking trail - Durango Herald
Author heads out alone on the hiking trailDurango Herald, CO - 9 hours agoHer book Refuge of Whirling Light won the 2006 Wrangler Award for Poetry. Here, she's tackled a longer format with `E9lan and confidently interspersed it ...
- Vote for the Winner of the Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder Contest - U.S. EPA.gov (press release)
Vote for the Winner of the Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder ContestU.S. EPA.gov (press release), DC - 1 hour agoA panel of judges has selected the finalists in four categories: photography, essay, poetry, or mixed media (photography and a poem or essay). ...
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