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- Cowboy poet gathering set (Billings Gazette)
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS - "Motherin' Up, A Gathering of Cowboy Poets and Pickers" is scheduled for this weekend. All performances are at the White Sulphur Springs High School.
- Rhymes of passion: Betjeman's women - Independent
Rhymes of passion: Betjeman's womenIndependent, UK - 45 minutes agoThe note of furtive, self-abasing English lust is entirely characteristic of his early poetry – though not necessarily of Betjeman himself. ...
- Rides and dances in the Shawnee (The Carmi Times)
Finally, I left with Radar snuggled in on the back seat of the truck. She is my trusty dog - my camping partner.
- Who are the real lesbians? - Independent
Who are the real lesbians?Independent, UK - 13 minutes agoShe took to writing poetry – lyric poetry, created to be sung to lyre music – and revolutionised the tradition by writing about her own thoughts and ...
- James River Writers' session draws big names (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Appearances by best-selling authors David Baldacci, Adriana Trigiani and Diane Mott Davidson will highlight the sixth annual James River Writers' Conference in October. The two-day event, focusing on the art and business of writing, will attract authors, screenwriters, agents and editors. It will be held Oct. 10-11 at the Library of Virginia.
- Angelou celebrating 80th birthday in Atlanta - Dispatch
It didn't take long to figure out Maya Angelou was in the building. The author and poet was met with a chorus of cheers and camera flashes from onlookers as she moved across the red carpet into her 80th birthday celebration at Atlanta's Woodruff Arts ...
- All is not well among villagers in 'Prairie Fever' (Akron Beacon Journal)
With time in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she earned her Ph.D. in English, Mary Biddinger would know what a prairie is. In Prairie Fever, her collection of poems, she uses bucolic imagery like ''red-wing blackbirds,'' ''Riverside, selling spring peas/and bulbs. Last year's honey/wax candles.''
- 2 Henry High honor students are now 2 rape suspects (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
One of the teens accused of at least four sexual assaults at Henry High was to have been honored on the day he was charged.
- Senegal: Festival Celebrates Global Hip Hop - AllAfrica.com
Senegal: Festival Celebrates Global Hip HopAllAfrica.com, Washington - 25 minutes agoThe festival - the third - features all the major elements of global hip hop culture - rap, slam poetry, deejaying, break dancing and graffiti art. ...
- No to appeasement - Boston Globe
No to appeasementBoston Globe, United States - 6 minutes agoFlesch suspects that the London periodical "just had it wrong, but that the editors of the later collected poetry followed the principle of difficilior ...
- Poetry contest offering $1,000 (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a poetry contest sponsored by Golden Poets Guild.
- Jean C. Soule, 89, children's author, educator - Philadelphia Daily News
Jean Conder Soule, 89, formerly of Springfield, Delaware County, a children's book author, poet, and educator, died of heart failure Sunday at Riddle Village, a retirement community in Media. While raising a family in Springfield, Mrs. Soule wrote ...
- Spanish archive sheds light on Franco's dark days - Guardian Unlimited
A wig used to disguise a communist leader, censored poems written by the current culture minister and a list of prisoners facing the firing squad are just a few of the treasures within 157,000 boxes of archives highlighting both the dark and ...
- DA to try girl, 14, as adult in killing - San Diego Union-Tribune
A 14-year-old Scripps Ranch girl suspected of killing her mother will be tried as an adult, the District Attorney's Office said yesterday. Heather D'Aoust is expected to be arraigned in San Diego Superior Court today, said Paul Levikow, spokesman for ...
- Jonathan Franzen - New York Observer
Robert McCrum, literary editor of the UK Sunday paper The Observer , stepped down this month after a decade on the job. Yesterday he deployed a parting shot both wistful and sober-minded. "When I joined The Observer in 1996, the world of books was in ...
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