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- Avant Folk Icon Kath Bloom To Play Rare Philly Gig - Plug In music
Avant Folk Icon Kath Bloom To Play Rare Philly GigPlug In music, PA - 2 hours ago... she wrote copious amounts of songs and poetry that went unrecorded at the time. After a period of child-rearing and family life, Bloom began to return ...
- Getting published takes chutzpah - Arizona Daily Sun
Walt Whitman had his first book of poems printed by a publisher best known for touting the science of head bumps. "Leaves of Grass" went on to sell millions of copies, despite its humble origins on a phrenologist's press. As for writing humor, Kelly ...
- Metal artists celebrate opening of gallery, guest house - Rapid City Journal
In the five years since Brett and Tammy Prang erected a 38-foot hand-welded metal cross over the family cemetery near Kadoka, the colossal piece has drawn hundreds of visitors and lots of attention. Now all that attention has inspired the Prangs to ...
- Poets speak from the heart - Hendricks County Flyer
PLAINFIELD — Rhythm, rhyme, and beat are the pieces that make a poem speak. Store officials from the Barnes & Noble in Plainfield invited students from local Hendricks County schools to participate in a poetry contest Sunday afternoon. Store ...
- Magic transcends borders as Lincoln couple bring smiles to refugees in ... - Addison Independent
LINCOLN — Even in the middle of a refugee camp in Iran near the border with Iraq, Tom Verner of Lincoln almost felt at home. “We just felt so warmly welcomed by the Iranian people,” Verner said. Verner and his wife, Janet Fredericks, last month ...
- Poet of Pepsis and burgers - Philadelphia Inquirer
The poet Frank O'Hara died on July 25, 1966, a day after being struck by a Jeep on Fire Island. He was 40. O'Hara was extraordinarily prolific. As Mark Ford wryly notes in his introduction to this volume, O'Hara's 1971 Collected Poems weighs in at ...
- You're on! Anybody can be a star at Cleveland's many open-mike nights - Cleveland Plain Dealer
There's an old Swedish proverb often quoted by inspirational gurus: "Don't die with your music still in you." Open-mike nights mean no one has to. Whether your soul's "music" is stand-up comedy, poetry or song, you can share it at one of many amateur ...
- BRIEF: Creative Writing awards announced - Stanford Daily
BRIEF: Creative Writing awards announcedStanford Daily, CA - 3 hours agoBy The Daily News Staff The Stanford Department of Creative Writing has announced the winners of its major annual prizes in poetry and fiction writing. ...
- The Legend of Colton H. Bryant (Rocky Mountain News)
Wyoming roughneck Colton Bryant charmed most everyone, including author Alexandra Fuller, who offer an intimate ode to the man and the world in which he lived.
- Jerry Zeller, priest, professor whose optimism inspired others (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Dr. Jerry Zeller's heart was revealed in passport stamps, a telltale reminder of the beauty he found in other worlds and other people. A professor, poet and priest, Dr. Zeller studied in Egypt as a Fulbright scholar and led students on field trips across Europe. The insights he gleaned from his travels abroad surfaced in classroom lectures, in spiritual conversations and in random bits of verse. ...
- Dropout Dilemma: Parkway Spends Big to Keep Kids Coming to School - KSDK
(KSDK) -- Parkway's Fern Ridge High School is a public school with a proven track record of reaching out to students "at risk" of quitting school. Shatara Parker is a graduating senior at Fern Ridge High School. She says a during-school poetry slam ...
- Body of drowned kayaker, poet found in Salmon River - Northwest Cable News
Northwest Cable NewsBody of drowned kayaker, poet found in Salmon RiverNorthwest Cable News, OR - 22 hours agoHe's the author of about a dozen books of poetry and non-fiction, including "Short of a Good Promise," a 1999 reminiscence of growing up in the remote Idaho ...
- Potpourri of topics explored at poetry fellowship (The Jamaica Observer)
Poets blasted Cash Plus and Kern Spencer whilst discussing gay politics and sex-worker taxation, Tuesday at the Poetry Society's monthly fellowship at the Edna Manley College - part of the Kingston on the Edge Festival.
- Epic Fail: Spin-off TV Shows - G4 TV
G4 TVEpic Fail: Spin-off TV ShowsG4 TV, CA - 51 minutes agoHe has a PhD in Psychology, so he's earned the title "doctor," but so have PhD's in Medieval Poetry, and no one asks them to solve personal problems. ...
- Middle School featured in scholastic teaching tool - New Richmond News
Middle School featured in scholastic teaching toolNew Richmond News, WI - 1 hour agoAfter visiting St. Croix Central Middle School to judge a poetry slam event, two professors from UW-River Falls were so impressed with the school, ...
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