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- Shepherd Bliss: Oil, Food and Agrotherapy (UN Observer)
2008-05-22 | Petroleum supplies slowly dwindle as demand rapidly soars. So the prices of gasoline and oil that supply modern societies with their industrial production of food will go up, up, and away. A radically different future than the oil-energized twentieth century is dawning.
- Richard Tsong-Taatarii - Minneapolis Star Tribune
In an age of budget shortages, a small school in the north country is afraid it might lose its rich sports tradition. St. Stephen’s Human Services and outreach director Monica Nilsson goal is to end homelessness by providing shelter, housing ...
- O'Neil: When war was just a card game - Wakefield Observer
O'Neil: When war was just a card gameWakefield Observer, MA - 8 hours agoHer poem won first prize, and deservedly so, in the recent Alec J. Nelson Young Adult Poetry Contest sponsored by the Beverly Library. ...
- Bridging History and Culture with Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO----Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the San Francisco Public Library, and Litquake announced today the San Francisco International Poetry Festival—Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry.
- Cider supper tests poet's mettle - Ledbury Reporter
Cider supper tests poet's mettleLedbury Reporter, UK - 3 hours agoBy Gary Bills-Geddes THE age-old question as to whether poets can hold their drink should be solved at this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival, where the local ...
- Paul McCartney's brother Mike presents photographs at Rock Hall - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Paul McCartney's brother Mike presents photographs at Rock HallThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 8 hours agoWhat we used to do was satirical humor, poetry, stuff like that. It had nothing to do with music at all. Music was last on the agenda. ...
- Kay Ryan named poet laureate (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to that of Emily Dickinson, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate, starting in the fall. The ...
- Poetry Night internship looking for more applicants - California Aggie
Although Poetry Night at Bistro 33 has been a successful bi-monthly event since its inception in 2006, the work involved with publicizing and promoting the event has become burdensome for UC Davis English lecturer and Poetry Night co-creator and co ...
- Divas for a Difference: Fundraising events celebrate words and theater - IdahoStatesman.com
Divas for a Difference: Fundraising events celebrate words and theaterIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 5 hours agoA "layer cake share" is $50, which includes the items above plus a CD of the team's poems and a ticket to a local poetry slam. ...
- No country for old men: Stuart Jeffries on why women enjoy old age more than men (Guardian Unlimited)
Stuart Jeffries investigates why women enjoy old age more than men
- Class of 2008 Says Good-Bye to Berkeley High - Berkeley Daily Planet
Class of 2008 Says Good-Bye to Berkeley HighBerkeley Daily Planet, CA - 2 hours agoAll eyes were turned on the stage when Robert McKnight, chair of the African American Studies Department at Berkeley High, appeared to make a speech. ...
- Book of the day: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño - Daily Telegraph
Translated into English for the first time, the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño’s prize-winning book portrays a lost generation. It opens in Mexico City in 1975 with the diary of Juan GarcĂa Madero, a 17-year-old devotee of the “visceral ...
- Legends and lore: Secrets of North Texas (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By ALYSON WARD We’re no dummies. We know you would rather be anywhere but here this week. It’s the middle of July, and there you are on the hot highways of the Metroplex, trying to work up some energy to go forward. You daydream about the beach, about the streets of Paris, about a road trip to the Grand Canyon. But that is so not happening this summer. A road trip to the grocery store is ...
- Reflecting History - Discover Mid-America
Reflecting HistoryDiscover Mid-America, MO - 7 hours agoHis poetry and short stories have been published in the pages of The Kansas City Star, Review, Friction Magazine, Mid-America Poetry Review, The Same, ...
- Obama, Bayh Fuel Veep Speculation - The Bulletin
Sen. Barack Obama continued to fuel speculation as to who his running mate would be by making a joint campaign appearance with Sen. Evan Bayh in Mr. Bayh's home state of Indiana. Mr. Bayh, who supported Hillary Clinton in the primary, is considered ...
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