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- Poetry column: Being first is all it's cracked up to be - The Evening Sun
Poetry column: Being first is all it's cracked up to beThe Evening Sun, PA - 4 hours agoAnother first came as a slight surprise, when Susan Kirby, Village Life Coordinator, said in her introduction that she "googled our guest," then proceeded ...
- Non-profit seeks baseball haikus (North Adams Transcript)
NORTH ADAMS -- Baseball isn't just for jocks and jugheads but for everyone, even the literary-minded. "America's pastime" has long inspired writers -- not only day-to-day journalists but novelists such as John R. Tunis, Jackson Scholz and the legendary Ring Lardner.
- Help us beat stigma of depression - Evening News Norwich
A charity which helps people deal with depression is making a special film to raise awareness of the condition, which will be shown at a concert in the city. Soft Shoe Shuffle is written and directed by University of East Anglia graduate Henrietta ...
- In Nairobi’s slums, E.C. Glass teacher finds hope (The News & Advance)
E.C. Glass teacher Patty Worsham was in an urban slum in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi to deliver supplies donated by Glass students, and to work with children at a school there.
- Laura Bush to attend private event at Sandburg site - Asheville Citizen-Times
Laura Bush to attend private event at Sandburg siteAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 2 hours ago... through Junior Ranger activities like puzzle-making, magnetic poetry and dramatic poetry interpretation, according to the National Parks Foundation. ...
- V.S. Naipaul's 'A Writer's People' - International Herald Tribune
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. An Essay in Five Parts. By V.S. Naipaul. 189 pages. $24.95, Alfred A. Knopf; £16.99, Picador. All my life," V.S. Naipaul writes in the introduction to "A Writer's People," his dense, dry, frustrating ...
- The paper route - Boston Globe
BROCKTON - Origami artist Nishimura Yuko is young - she was born in 1978 - but already she has creased so many folds of paper with her fingers that she has worn away her fingerprints, according to staff at the Fuller Craft Museum. "Folded Light ...
- Georgia Nicols horoscopes for June 14 (Chicago Sun-Times)
ALL SIGNS MOON ALERT: We have the all-clear today to shop (whether you spend $10 or $10 million) and make important decisions. The moon is in Scorpio.
- More Schools Trying Single-Sex Education - Daily Herald
WASHINGTON -- Mrs. Demshur's class of second-grade girls sat in a tidy circle and took turns reading poems they had composed. "If I were a toucan, I'd tweet, I'd fly," began one girl. When she finished, the others clapped politely. Down the hall, Mr ...
- Our rulers find the ultimate scapegoats - you and me - Daily Telegraph
Who broke the Broken Society? As politicians clamour to lay the blame for the gaping rends in our social fabric, one thing is becoming obvious. Behind their carapace of caring, their pious regrets and their hopes for a hopeless future, these ...
- A Public-Goods Plague - New York Times Blogs
The public-goods and free-rider problems that plague many organizations are also common at universities. At the University of Texas, the co-op bookstore offers each major college $50,000 if its professors meet the co-op’s deadline for book orders ...
- The stadium's top moments - Albany Times Union
Albany Times UnionThe stadium's top momentsAlbany Times Union, NY - 1 hour agoThere's poetry to the fact that on the day The House that Ruth Built opens, The Bambino himself hits the first home run. 4. Don Larsen's perfect game, ...
- Slam poets deliver powerful performances in spoken word documentary - Insight News
Slam poets deliver powerful performances in spoken word documentaryInsight News, MN - 2 hours agoI found his contribution to be particularly of value since the AIDS epidemic is hitting the African-American community the hardest, yet the voices of the ...
- Sing a song o’ peace, paint barbaric acts in their true colours - Sunday World
Sing a song o’ peace, paint barbaric acts in their true coloursSunday World, South Africa - 48 minutes agoThrough our poetry, paintings, films, theatre plays, dramas and soaps, our countrymen can be reminded of the historical pain of colonialism and oppression ...
- Take a Trip Back to Simplicity With Pop Goes the Poetry -- New Book Pays Tribute to Simplicity and Peaceful ... (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
ALEXANDER, Ark., May 13, 2008 -- Life truly was simple ages ago. Back then, simplicity was very common in everyone's minds and expressions. In his new book Pop Goes The Poetry, author Ralph Watley takes his readers back to the past with a series of poems that will entertain and refresh everyone's minds.
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