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- Astonishing e-mail messages you’ll never open - MSNBC
Spamming is an underappreciated art form. In fact, "hated" may be a more accurate adjective. Like mimes in a public square, spammers seek to capture the attention of people who actively try to avoid them. Thus they must strike fast and hard ...
- Club News - Lowell Sun
Send information for this listing 10 days in advance of publication to: Club News, Lifestyle Department, The Sun, Box 1477, Lowell, MA 01853. Listings will run as often as space permits. ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL/MERRIMACK VALLEY: Service organization ...
- Pam Ayres: why opportunity still knocks - Daily Telegraph
Such vignettes of social discomfiture are the very stuff of her poetry – poetry, which, she protests, isn't really poetry at all but comic verse. Her manager, husband Dudley, is here ... It's funny, when the Queen gave me my MBE a few years later ...
- Lucy Mangan: They don't make 'em like this any more - The Guardian
The GuardianLucy Mangan: They don't make 'em like this any moreThe GuardianThe first world war was a little less complex – trench warfare, poetry, the Roses Of Picardy and that football game in no man's land – and by the time you ...
- Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' wins fiction prize in NYC - Vail Daily News
Poetry honors went to Rae Armantrout's "Versed." The criticism award was given to Eula Biss' "Notes from No Man's Land."
- Juvenilia: A Bibliography - Daily Beast
Your email has been sent. I draw a picture of a naked woman with enormous breasts and hang it on the fridge. All my pictures have enormous breasts; my mother has begun to worry. The breasts are usually enough to satisfy me, but this time I’m ...
- Young father murdered while working double shift - 10Connects.com
Tampa, Florida - Christine Bean never thought she would have to bury another child. It was hard enough losing her daughter, saying goodbye to that mirror image of herself. Grieving her daughter's death seemed impossible. Now, she's facing the pain ...
- Following in Great Footsteps - Canada Views
Following in Great FootstepsCanada ViewsThrough feeling it in her bones and remembering special family moments, Ms. Grant wrote a poem based on the names, faces and events of her past. ...
- BOOK REVIEW CAPSULES - Daily Journal
By Randy Susan Meyers: Lulu's mother told her not to let her father in the apartment, but it's hard for a 10-year-old to say "no" to a parent. So Lulu opened the door and then ran for help as her father stabbed her mother and sister. Death comes ...
- Why sport matters - Vancouver Sun
Why sport mattersVancouver SunAlong with poetry, song, dance and storytelling, sport is probably one of the mother arts, incorporating elements of them all, as does its sister medium, ...and more »
- Catch a play when on the other side of the pond - El Paso Times
Portraying the poet as a sloppy hulk of a man, seasoned with sarcasm, empathy and erudition, he brought Bennett's version of Auden to life: a critical but caring old codger facing traditional insecurities. Frances De La Tour, as Kay, the stage ...
- Good Night My Friends, Good Night - LJWORLD
... Mother's house, only a few hundred yards alongside the path of The Beast was untouched, while much of the rest of the block was simply gone. I shuttled down Leaavenworth Road, admitted past the police lines to check on the Mother of a friend and ...
- EDITORIAL: Lost in the library - TMCnet
Books are the core attraction -- full of facts, stories, pictures and poems, nursery rhymes and recipes, fix-it tips and more and more and more. You name it, and your librarian can help you find it. But more than books are available at libraries.
- The Poetry of Time - Eye of Dubai (press release)
Eye of Dubai (press release)The Poetry of TimeEye of Dubai (press release)The Poetry of Time is the title of both a coffee-table book published by Van Cleef & Arpels and the programme of this exclusive exhibition created for Art ...
- Editorial Note: (Please Read Closely Before Submitting) - CounterPunch
Editorial Note: (Please Read Closely Before Submitting)CounterPunchPoems accepted for online publication will be considered for possible inclusion of an upcoming print anthology. Please submit your poetry by Tuesday in ...
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