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- Add Verse Reactions: The Poetry Month Music Puzzler - NPR (blog)
Add Verse Reactions: The Poetry Month Music PuzzlerNPR (blog)by Tom Huizenga.
- Poetry Contest Open to Walnut Residents - Patch.com
Poetry Contest Open to Walnut ResidentsPatch.comThe group is having a poetry contest this month that is open to residents in the area, including those from Walnut and City of Industry. The winner would receive $50. Members of the public can submit one previously unpublished poem of any style to ...
- BRIEFLY: May 12
Read about what's happening in and around Plymouth.
- Poet Katherine Larson Reads Her Work
Katherine Larson 's poetry melds her love for language with her passion for scientific inquiry. "Poetry for me is a place of encounter," she says. "It's a space in which disparate elements can come into relation with each other." Larson won the 2010 Yale Younger Poets Prize and the 2012 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her book "Radial Symmetry." She is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry ...
- Speculations on the Future of the Book at MIT Conference - Publishers Weekly
Speculations on the Future of the Book at MIT ConferencePublishers WeeklyBök, associate professor of English at the University of Calgary, whose works include books built out of Rubik's cubes and Lego bricks, said that he was drawn to creating a poem in DNA, because “I'm trying to be a 21st-century poet.
- UH group CLASP offers memoir writing classes - Ultimate Pearland
UH group CLASP offers memoir writing classesUltimate Pearlandby Timothy Petropoulos | May 6, 2012 1:10 pm The Clear Lake Association of Senior Programs is offering a three-part memoir-writing workshop on three dates in May. The classes, which are continuous, will be offered from 10-11:30 am on May 7, ...and more »
- Top 10 Mother's Day Gifts for 2012 - Houston Chronicle
Top 10 Mother's Day Gifts for 2012Houston ChronicleEach year, millions of loving family members give consideration to what might be just the right gift for mom on Mother's Day. "Our job at Mother's Day Central is to take some of the stress out of the process, and point people in directions that are ...and more »
- The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Invader Zurp
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We at Joystiq believe no one deserves to starve, and many indie developers are entitled to a fridge full of tasty, fulfilling media coverage, right here. This week, Spencer Nielsen describes the ...
- Rockford Ides of March Poetry and Prose Contest winners announced - Rockford Register Star
Rockford Ides of March Poetry and Prose Contest winners announcedRockford Register StarRockford resident Jocelyn Kuntz won for her piece "The Pain of a Burn," and received a $10 prize for being selected in the youth poetry category. This year's contest required all contestants to keep to a theme of expressing a stabbing pain in their ...and more »
- Library Lines: Haikus and snapshots at the Waltham Library
On, Wednesday, April 11, the Waltham Public Library will join libraries across the Commonwealth and the nation to provide a “snapshot†of what happens in a day in the life of libraries. How many books are checked out? How many people receive help finding a job? Doing their taxes? Doing their homework? During Snapshot Day, libraries will collect data and photos that help demonstrate the value of ...
- Phillis Wheatley: An Early-American Poet
This was unprecedented territory, and unheard of. As she got older, Phillis was inspired by classic authors like Homer, and began . Having become “famous†around New England in 1768 for her poem about a beloved Evangelist who died ...
- 100 years on and Titanic poem is poignant as ever - Bucks Herald
100 years on and Titanic poem is poignant as everBucks HeraldAmong his effects was a thin, stained, blue coloured notebook bearing the handwritten title, 'Gems of Poetry' and containing, among others, the Titanic poem. Mrs Bell said Charles was a great lover of poetry. “My father remembers him reciting poetry ...and more »
- At 80, Harold Scheub keeps the storytelling tradition alive - University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-MadisonAt 80, Harold Scheub keeps the storytelling tradition aliveUniversity of Wisconsin-Madisonby Susannah Brooks A force of nature since arriving on campus in the 1960s, Scheub, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature, celebrated his 80 th birthday last August. Harold Scheub, professor of ...
- Knox events to showcase students - Galesburg Register-Mail
Knox events to showcase studentsGalesburg Register-MailBy Anonymous Knox College will showcase the wide range of research and creative work undertaken by its students in a series of free public events, “Horizons: A Celebration of Student Inquiry, Imagination and Creativity,†from Thursday through May 11 on ...and more »
- 'Britain's Got Talent' - Live Blog
Join Digital Spy for the launch of Britain's Got Talent series six.
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