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- Fifth-grader wins bicycle essay contest (Daily Herald)
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White awarded Grant Miller, a fifth-grader from Windsor School in Arlington Heights, the third place award in the Bicycle Essay Contest held in honor of National Bicycle Safety Monty in May.
- Sunday, May 18 - South Coast Today
Shooting prompts security review for summertime festivals (10:20 p.m.) Members of Fairhaven post free to march in parade (9:45 p.m.) Fishing boat sinks at dock Kennedy's last official act before seizure was in New Bedford BIG government Two cars ...
- Families paying tribute to their sons' memory - Asbury Park Press
"Freehold Township stopped — it literally stopped — when that accident happened," said Sue McGough, the township's Parks and Recreation superintendent and a lifelong township resident. Kevin Clawson, 13, and Graeme Preston, who would have turned ...
- Jazz Saxophonist Kidd Stays In the Picture - New York Sun
Even people who aren't sure they've heard of Kidd Jordan have probably heard him. Now 73, the tenor saxophonist has been playing since the early 1950s. And since Mr. Jordan's spirited adolescence coincided with the dawn of rock 'n' roll and the ...
- Car-Free Day festivities down on Denman - Georgia Straight
Car-Free Day festivities down on DenmanGeorgia Straight, Canada - 15 minutes agoThere was plenty going on: two stages at either end of Denman with bands playing, salsa dancing, double-dutch skip rope, spoken word poetry, ...
- Cold Poem for a Cold Monday - Rake
Cold Poem for a Cold MondayRake, MN - 11 hours agoAnd because everyone is reading, there is a high demand for poetry. And because there is a high demand for poetry, once a week, possibly on Mondays, ...
- Lynn English holds annual poetry contest (The Daily Item)
LYNN - Lynn English High School sponsored its annual poetry contest Wednesday under the guidance of poetry chairs Shannon Gardner and Carol Conway.
- Renowned author to reside at APSU - Leaf Chronicle
Erdrich's residency will be Aug. 25 - Dec. 3, during which time an undergraduate and graduate course at APSU will focus on her work. "In addition to novels, Erdrich has written volumes of poetry, children’s books and a memoir of early motherhood ...
- Gulzar serves up the moon on a platter - Khaleej Times
Khaleej TimesGulzar serves up the moon on a platterKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 3 hours ago... ‘triveni’ which is a different form of poetry; nobody has done this before in a ghazal. That is the novelty in this album. Triveni is a three line poem. ...
- Cy Twombly: Cycles & Seasons - This is London
Cy Twombly: Cycles & SeasonsThis is London, UK - 41 minutes agoIt's the same with the paintings: the former cryptographer draws one into trying to decode his pictures, with their lines of classical poetry, ...
- Asia's love of 'living art' koi fish growing - AFP
AFPAsia's love of 'living art' koi fish growingAFP - 9 minutes agoFor Asians, koi is like living art... it's like poetry in motion," said Richard Tan, chairman of the committee that organised the First Asia Cup Koi Show in ...
- Wesleyan Students, CJTS Inmates Share Shakespeare, Cupcakes - CollegeOTR
CollegeOTRWesleyan Students, CJTS Inmates Share Shakespeare, CupcakesCollegeOTR, NY - 1 hour ago... about what Shakespeare’s plays were about (eg “wearing tights” and “reading love poetry”) and to connect with the larger themes in the scene. ...
- Three Famed Novelists Weave Exhilarating Tales - NPR News
All Things Considered , May 5, 2008 · Three renowned women writers have books of fiction out this spring and each one asks the reader to take a leap of imagination. Joyce Carol Oates reimagines the last days of five authors; Jeanette Winterson takes ...
- Nigeria: Writespace - Starry Moments for Eugenia , Maiwada, Gimba (AllAfrica.com)
Fifteen minutes of fame is the proverbial moment one's shiny star of elation and celebration burns and keeps burning before it fizzling out.
- Thousand Oaks Acorn - The World's Greatest Moms (The Thousand Oaks Acorn)
Why my mom is great: My mom, Shiphrah Maller, spends her life caring for others. A 1942 UCLA graduate transplanted to New York City after marriage. A school teacher in a low income area, she was referred to as the "Trip Teacher"- she was the only teacher to take children on field trips.
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