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- Local Happenings - Alameda Sun
Local HappeningsAlameda Sun, CA - 30 minutes agoAlameda Free Library, 1550 Oak St. (Info: 747-7713) * 7 to 9 pm Poetry at the Library: First Wednesday series featuring local poets reading celebration ...
- Edith Derby Williams, 1917-2008: President's granddaughter championed GOP (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Edith Derby Williams, the granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt who became a well-known local champion of Republican and environmental causes, died Sunday, nearly a week before her 91st birthday.
- Set Your Targets On READY FIRE AIM - A New Music Collaboration ... - Top40-Charts.com
Set Your Targets On READY FIRE AIM - A New Music Collaboration ...Top40-Charts.com, NY - 10 minutes agoAlong the way, he became a poet (he was reviewed by The Guardian as the "Michael Moore Of Poetry'), writer and actor, grabbed a choice role in the film ...
- Book about NC wines doing well - Winston-Salem Journal
Book about NC wines doing wellWinston-Salem Journal, NC - 2 hours agoMills, a writing and literature teacher at the NC School of the Arts, has also written a book of wine poetry, Angels, Thieves and Winemakers, which debuted ...
- Students Dig Poetry Cafe - Tampa Tribune
Students Dig Poetry CafeTampa Tribune, FL - 1 hour agoThe poetry lessons coincide with National Poetry Month. The parent-teacher organization is sponsoring a poetry writing contest contest. ...
- Cellular Seduction - TIME
Cellular SeductionTIME - 21 minutes agoMost of us go through life without thinking much about our mitochondria — the small power producers within our cells. We remember them, if at all, ...
- Arts Festival finale - Bridlington Today
Arts Festival finaleBridlington Today, UK - 2 hours agoPerformance by people from the Beverley poetry, story and music event and hear the winning poems from the Fish Pie open poetry competition. ...
- Letters: Cuts hit all learners (Independent)
Congratulations to Neil Merrick for high-lighting the extremely disturbing shallowness of the Government's approach to lifelong learning ("Adult education fights for its life", EDUCATION & CAREERS, 1 May). There are, however, broader contexts than just cost-cutting which need stressing.
- Why Implausibility Sells - Slate
Joseph Cornell was like the simple son in the fairy tale who picks up odds and ends--a dead bird, a broken jug, perhaps a rusty nail--as he mooches toward the palace with his strong and handsome brothers, who mean to vie for the princess's hand. He ...
- In Praise of Political Insults - Wall Street Journal
The great American political insult is older than the nation itself. Ben Franklin, writing in 1771 before the States were even United, lamented "Libeling and Personal Abuse, which is of late Years become so disgraceful to our Country." Not even ...
- Brad Colerick to perform at Neville - North Platte Telegraph
Brad Colerick to perform at NevilleNorth Platte Telegraph, NE - 21 hours agoColerick's music blends Americana, folk and country to create smooth, catchy melodies, and his finely wrought, plainspoken lyrics find the poetry in ...
- Christian Culture Isn't "Outdated," Says Pope - Zenit
VATICAN CITY, MAY 21, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- The beauty of the Christian cultural inheritance is not something that is "outdated," but rather something that will remain alive and current in the measure of a lively faith, says Benedict XVI. The Pope ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate (The Charlotte Observer)
Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections "The Niagara River," "Say Uncle" and "Elephant Rocks" hold the top three spaces on Amazon.com's list of best-selling poetry books, and are out of stock. Meanwhile ...
- A native's guide to San Jose - CNN
A native's guide to San JoseCNN - 6 hours agoThe shop stocks local-interest books written by San Jose natives and holds regular poetry readings. Owner Cathy Adkins feels the pinch from online ...
- David Biespiel's poetry column addresses variations in Philip Whalen's 'Zenshinji' (The Oregonian)
L ast month I was visiting a cousin who showed off his framed broadside of the poem "Zenshinji" by his late friend, poet Philip Whalen. Whalen was born in 1923 in Oregon and grew up in The Dalles (he and my cousin attended Reed College during the Gary Snyder and Lew Welch era of the late 1940s).
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