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- Bucyrus man pens book, records CD - Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
BUCYRUS -- Thirty-two-year-old Russell Hunter began writing when he was 19. "I used writing as a way to cope with my father's death and realized I loved to write," said Hunter, who lives in Bucyrus with his family. Hunter decided over a year ago to ...
- 'Speaking Freely'™ show list, transcripts, videos - First Amendment Center
101: Robert Redford discusses how he has included the causes closest to his heart in his choices of acting and directing projects. VIDEO 102: Music/jazz critic and First Amendment activist Nat Hentoff discusses his 50 years in journalism. VIDEO 103 ...
- In the spotlight - State Journal-Register
Artistic endeavor(s): Art educator for 33 years (31 years at St. Aloysius School, 18 years at Springfield College-Benedictine University, six years with Quincy University’s graduate credit workshops) and calligrapher for the Illinois Supreme Court ...
- Determined young woman killed in possible gang crossfire (Chicago Sun-Times)
As a child, Ishma Stewart liked to park her kid-sized rocking chair in the middle of a family gathering, where she'd spin a tale about a girl named Wendy who lived within the colored bands of a rainbow.
- 2 poets' admissions praised by commission - Myrtle Beach Sun News
2 poets' admissions praised by commissionMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 5 hours agoHe won the 2007 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize for his book, "The Boatloads;" the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition for "Charon's ...
- LIT PICKS - San Francisco Gate
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 234 pages; $26) by August Kleinzahler: Longtime San Francisco poet August Kleinzahler has been quietly amassing a body of work that demands one's attention, as this ambitious new collection amply demonstrates. Although he ...
- Family and Kids (Palo Alto Weekly)
Young Poets Open Mic Night Celebrate National Poetry Month with an open-mic night featuring young poets from Palo Alto schools. Poets grades 1-5 are invited to read their own poems or a favorite poem.
- First he took Toronto (Toronto Sun)
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- Derek Walcott attacks Sir VS Naipaul in verse - Daily News and Analysis
LONDON: For years Nobel prize-winning poet Derek Walcott has traded insults with Sir VS Naipaul. Now, he has upped the ante by slamming his old sparring partner in a poem that mocked the Indian-origin author as a "mongoose". The St Lucian writer ...
- Al Gore's Modest Proposal - Political Affairs Magazine
Al Gore's Modest ProposalPolitical Affairs Magazine, NY - 3 hours ago"We should tax what we burn, not what we earn," Gore said, words that might be trite as poetry but sound brilliant as policy. ...
- Pupil's poem wins national acclaim - Evening News Norwich
A Norfolk pupil has been announced as one of the winners in a prestigious Amnesty International poetry competition. Rosie Thurlow, 12, from Aylsham High School, has been named as the Key Stage 3 regional winner for East Anglia, for her poem I Wonder ...
- Young thespians: Students score an opera - Detroit News
DETROIT -- They don't have vocal music, drama or art programs at their school, but that didn't stop the third- and fourth-graders from Hanstein Elementary from writing and staging their own opera. Since October, Hanstein students have been working on ...
- What would Boris's artist mum say about his train booze ban? - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukWhat would Boris's artist mum say about his train booze ban?guardian.co.uk, UK - 13 hours agoHis mother is an artist; his father has written novels and won the Newdigate prize for poetry. Boris himself studied classics like his father and has ...
- One Girl’s Journey: New Novel an Unflinching Look at What Faces ... - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
One Girl’s Journey: New Novel an Unflinching Look at What Faces ...PR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - 1 hour agoIn “A Girl Mistreated,” Outskirts Press author Stephanie M. Feggins takes readers on a young African American woman’s journey into adulthood as she grapples ...
- Upcoming Events - Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Upcoming EventsSmoky Mountain Sentinel, NC - 2 hours agoThe NCWNW (Netwest) Prose Workshop and Critique Session will meet at Tri-County Community College in Murphy, North Carolina, Thursday, July 10, ...
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