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- 'The poet's words shine' for students in national contest (USA Today)
Allison Strong had long ago memorized poet Sylvia Plath's visceral Fever 103 and was reciting it to enthusiastic reception at a state competition in New Jersey. In fact, the poem helped Strong win. Tuesday night, she'll be on stage among 12 finalists for the championship round of Poetry Out Loud, a contest that just might put poetry in the mainstream again.
- A Mom-umental Failure The spectacular flameout of the mother of all D ... - Washington Post
ON A WARM SPRING DAY IN 1929, dozens of Washington dignitaries gathered in a forest near Chevy Chase to think about their mothers. It was, after all, Mother's Day, just the 15th since the holiday had been made official, and thus an appropriate time ...
- Legislators make good alloy of their metal theft bills - Modesto Bee
Legislators make good alloy of their metal theft billsModesto Bee, CA - 20 hours ago... writes poetry -- and quite well. He will be named Modesto's poet laureate by the City Council on Tuesday night, reading a poem to mark the occasion. ...
- Music can be path to language and math (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion for making school fun.
- Media Excuse Obama’s False Advertising - Family Security Matters
Family Security MattersMedia Excuse Obama’s False AdvertisingFamily Security Matters, NJ - 24 minutes agoHis "poetry" is viciously anti-American and pro-Soviet. And yet Obama listened to it growing up. All of this has been well-documented in numerous articles ...
- Johann Hari: As life flies on, don't let poetry pass you by (Independent)
I used to think poetry was a rotting art form, waiting only for its own Eleanor Rigby funeral. In an age that gets faster and faster and faster every day – where great gallons of information are spewed all over us constantly – what place was there for these compressed, opaque little patches of words that required us to slow down and incessantly re-read?
- Poetry reading to mark book launch - phillyBurbs.com
Poetry reading to mark book launchphillyBurbs.com, PA - 5 hours agoThe event is free and open to the public. Wine and cheese will be served. For more information, contact the library at 215-968-7659, ...
- Ohio author's tools: Persistence and a typewriter - Zanesville Times Recorder
Ohio author's tools: Persistence and a typewriterZanesville Times Recorder, OH - 22 hours agoBut with work and family, Zink's blocks of writing are less regular. "We have two kids, so now I write one to two hours at a time," he said. ...
- When Robert Frost met Khrushchev - KUAR
When Robert Frost met KhrushchevKUAR, AR - 32 minutes agoThere was his public – and there was poetry. In fact Hall wonders if Frost did not come to "replace the love of his children, whom death could touch, ...
- Serving up hot coffee with a sense of humor on the side - Los Angeles Times
Serving up hot coffee with a sense of humor on the sideLos Angeles Times, CA - Jun 22, 2008Scattergood grew up in Iowa, has degrees in theology, poetry and cooking, and, when she isn't writing about food, is trying to get her two young daughters ...
- Latitude heading for sell-out success - The Lowestoft Journal
Latitude heading for sell-out successThe Lowestoft Journal, UK - 4 hours agoHowever, while acts are continuing to be added to the music, comedy, poetry and theatrical line-up, it has been announced that Never Mind the Buzzcocks host ...
- Nothing to do? That's just wrong - Modesto Bee
Police shoot, kill man who savagely beat toddler to death near Turlock Quest for answers in toddler's violent death Father killed boy; child kicked 'like a soccer ball' Books Ceres football coach tied to cocaine ring Police shoot, kill man who ...
- Un Certain Regard: 'Johnny Mad Dog' and 'Delta' - International Herald Tribune
CANNES : The brutal French-Belgian-Liberian movie "Johnny Mad Dog," an assaultive fiction about Liberian child soldiers made with boys and girls who actually fought in that country's recent war, left me wrung out - furious, confused, deep in thought ...
- Library holds teen club, poetry night (Stamford Advocate)
STAMFORD - "Teen Summer Reading Club - Extreme Makeover: Mind Edition" will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. tomorrow at the main library, Broad and Bedford streets.
- Willie Nelson, Hammersmith Apollo, London (Independent)
It's when you see the crowd standing at the side of the Apollo looking towards a huge bus parked up by the stage door that you realise the level of affection that fans have for Willie Nelson.
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