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- Datebook (Lake County News-Sun)
Didier Farms: 16678 W. Aptakisic Road, Prairie View. (847) 634-3291 or www.didierfarms.com . Pumpkinfest is held daily through Oct. 31. Families can take a tractor-drawn hayride to the pumpkin patch to pick their own pumpkins from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends and from noon to 4 p.m. weekdays. There are pony rides, a petting zoo, moonwalk, straw maze, slides and a five-acre corn maze. Also ...
- Autumn Equinox Poetry Festival - San Francisco Chronicle
Autumn Equinox Poetry FestivalSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour ago6 pm Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, the Embarcadero at Market St., SF (415) 835-1020. Read from their works. 4:30 pm The Poetry Center, Humanities Bldg. ...
- The evolution of our, like, vocabulary - Queen's Journal
Queen's JournalThe evolution of our, like, vocabularyQueen's Journal, Canada - 21 hours agoThere’sa widespread stigma surrounding the word, condemning it as useless, meaningless and introduced into common speech by vapid American Valley Girls, ...
- Photo Flash: 'All the King's Men' at the Intiman Theatre - Broadway World
Broadway WorldPhoto Flash: 'All the King's Men' at the Intiman TheatreBroadway World, NY - 5 minutes agoWarren was subsequently honored with two more Pulitzers for volumes of his poetry. John Procaccino stars as Willie Stark and Leo Marks makes his Intiman ...
- Literary Calendar (San Jose Mercury News)
Upcoming literary events
- Touting the joys of poetry (Miami Herald)
THE POETRY LIFE: Ten Stories. Baron Wormser. CavanKerry. 196 pages. $18. ''Poetry,'' Auden famously observed in his elegy for Yeats, ''makes nothing happen.'' What isn't often remembered are the words immediately following that trenchant comment: ''it survives. . . . '' It survives even in a digitized age, offering what Frost called a ``momentary stay against confusion.''
- Literary legend Hass awarded UI Honorary Degree (first in four-part series) (The Daily Iowan)
Robert Hass has spent most of his life and career in the Golden State, but he still cherishes Iowa City as a "legendary place." And rightfully so, because the UI Honorary Degree Committee also sees the internationally acclaimed poet as a literary legend and awarded Hass an honorary UI degree last week.
- Those wild and crazy 'Saturday Night Live' gals! (Miami Herald)
It's good to be Tina Fey. The bespectacled comedian is not only driving Saturday Night Live ratings with her dead-on Sarah Palin impersonations but she just won two Emmys (Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress) for 30 Rock and clinched a $5 million-plus book deal.
- Investor Backs Business To Benefit Artists - Memphis Daily News
Memphis Daily NewsInvestor Backs Business To Benefit ArtistsMemphis Daily News, USA - 5 minutes ago... daughter of a family friend last year who wowed him with an impromptu recitation of some of her poetry, it gave the Memphis venture capitalist an idea. ...
- Private photos for my favourites - Media Guardian
Private photos for my favouritesMedia Guardian, UK - Jul 16, 2008If you want me to email you back, you need to send me a message. Preferably something funny, intelligent and revealing about yourself..
- In memory of Will - Times-West Virginian
In memory of WillTimes-West Virginian, WV - 15 minutes agoHe also loved to write poetry. Copies of his book “Misery Loves Company,” a compilation of his poetry, will be for sale at the show. ...
- Spotlight: Diversions listings - Portsmouth Herald News
Spotlight: Diversions listingsPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 2 hours agoSTONE PIGEON POETRY READINGS, 7-9 pm, second Monday every month, two featured readers followed by open mic., Breaking New Grounds, Portsmouth, ...
- Poet inspired by 'nature and the soul' - The Salem News
Poet inspired by 'nature and the soul'The Salem News, MA - 1 hour ago"I started writing poetry probably in 10th grade, just as sort of an outlet for things I wasn't able to do in essays or stories. ...
- Education Newsmakers: 08/19/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Education Newsmakers: 08/19/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 52 minutes ago... Merit Award ($100), Cinematic Arts; Andrew Michael Marquardt, Merit Award ($100), Spoken Only; Ines Pujos, Merit Award ($100), Poetry; Shawn Carl Smith, ...
- Hip-hop finds a home - HamptonRoads.com
Almost as soon as the shots rang out inside Granby Theater during a hip-hop party in March 2007, some people were certain that a backlash against hip-hop music and culture was on the way. Reactions to the shooting, which left one patron severely ...
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