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- Slammin' Two Twin Cities teams have a shot at glory at the National Poetry Slam (Pioneer Press)
For spoken-word poets, the National Poetry Slam is the big enchilada — their moment in the spotlight, their shot at glory, an event that's equal parts backstage drama and family reunion.
- Pentucket: 'Classic teacher' retires after 30 years (The Daily News of Newburyport)
WEST NEWBURY and mdash; After 30 years of educating the children of the Pentucket Regional School District, eighth-grade English instructor Judy Hays has closed the book on her professional teaching career.
- Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern ... - The GC Advocate
Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern ...The GC Advocate, NY - 1 hour agoFrom the early 1900s to the 1930s, there was a significant overlap between Modernist experiment and Communist experiment in poetry. ...
- Rollcall of those who have served - New Zealand Herald
Sir Murray Halberg's appointment to the Order of New Zealand today heads a rollcall of 78 women and 100 men on the Queen's Birthday Honours list and a further 11 Defence Force awards. No appointments are made to the rank of Principal Companion of the ...
- Fireman’s Roundup - Youngstown Vindicator
Fireman’s RoundupYoungstown Vindicator, OH - 6 hours agoBoth serious and light poetry will be interpreted, including a reading from Charles Dicken’s “Tale of Two Cities,” popular song lyrics spoken to piano ...
- Ben Jelloun joins the Goncourt (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun, a well-known figure in both Moroccan and French cultural circles, took a step closer to the heart of the French literary establishment early last month when he was elected a member of the jury of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize and one of Europe's oldest.
- America Back on Track... for Monday, July 14th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Monday, July 14thOpEdNews, PA - 17 minutes agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Talk of the Times with Susan Jaffer - Scranton Times
Professional background: Member of Mulberry Poets & Writers since 1989. Her poetry has been published in Yankee magazine, among other publications, and her fiction has appeared in Woman’s World magazine. Q: What is Mulberry Poets & Writers ...
- Frankfurt Overview - RainbowNetwork.com
Most visitors to Germany’s financial hub are business travellers who come here to do deal with the many financial institutions in the city. But, whether visiting on business or pleasure, the first glimpse that anyone will get of Frankfurt is the ...
- Yacht club to mark 50th with regatta, gala (Foster's Daily Democrat)
John Huff/Staff photographer The Great Bay Yacht Club, located at Dover Point, is preparing for a Regatta celebrating its 50th anniversary. DOVER — It was more than 50 years ago that a group of friends decided over dinner and drinks to start up a sailing club.
- A private glimpse of reality (Guardian Unlimited)
This is the story of a writer's weekend. It's not a lost weekend - alcoholic obliteration and the romance of failure - but a weekend of self-recovery and breakthroughs, a spectacular 48 hours that changed the course of a career.
- University Press staffer takes top Mississippi post (Lexington Herald-Leader)
After 17 years of hard and productive work, Leila Salisbury's dream has come true -- and at a relatively young age. Salisbury, 37, the marketing director at the University Press of Kentucky, has been hired as director of the University Press of Mississippi, in Jackson, Miss. She will start July 14. "I had always wanted to work in publishing," Salisbury said. "I knew eventually I wanted to ...
- 4 new artists ready to explore Hub City - Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription)
4 new artists ready to explore Hub CitySpartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - 3 hours agoPatrick Whitfill, a 28-year-old from Silverton, Texas, writes poetry. He plans to revise his dissertation, which is a book of poems, to write a verse drama ...
- Summer & Substance - Tampa Bay Online
Summer reading doesn't have to be fluff - it just has to be good. And it probably should be something you won't mind being seen with poolside at the hotel, on the beach or aboard the plane. The Tribune's book reviewers give you a hand by recommending ...
- Ethan Canin’s many-layered novel. - New Yorker
New YorkerEthan Canin’s many-layered novel.New Yorker, United States - 10 minutes agoAnd a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history it is, shuttling between the twenty-first-century present and the ...
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