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- Kansas authors offer guidance to other writers - Dodge City Daily Globe
Ninety newspaper writers, book authors, and poets from around the state came together over the weekend for the Kansas Authors Club 2008 state convention in Dodge City.    “Come West and Go Wild with Words” was the theme of the convention, co ...
- Paint names shade toward poetry (Centre Daily Times)
I bought a gallon of paint recently. If this current trend in naming paints continues, hardware stores will need to bring in upholstered chairs and designer coffee bars. You can't be sure if you're reading paint chips or free verse.
- Tragedy, Comedy, Romance: 'Il Trittico' Has It All - RedOrbit
Tragedy, Comedy, Romance: 'Il Trittico' Has It AllRedOrbit, TX - 2 hours agoDesigned entirely in shades of black and white by set and costume designer Santo Loquasto, the opera stars British bass baritone Thomas Allen as Schicchi. ...
- An Ear for the Lyrical Voice of Everyman - Washington Post
Washington PostAn Ear for the Lyrical Voice of EverymanWashington Post, United States - 16 minutes agoThe result -- a series of oral histories -- was the poetry of ordinary people, shot through with desperation, hatred, love, dreams realized and lost. ...
- Pigs’ brains in a skottel: interviews with the Chinese (Ray) - Thought Leader
Pigs’ brains in a skottel: interviews with the Chinese (Ray)Thought Leader, South Africa - 3 hours agoRod has had one book of poetry published, Gathering Light (Snailpress), and has had numerous poems published in various magazines and reviewed poetry ...
- John Updike - The Widows of Eastwick - The List
The ListJohn Updike - The Widows of EastwickThe List, UK - 27 minutes ago... as can be forgiven amidst a career which embraces almost two dozen novels and in the region of 30 books of poetry, short prose and essays, but certainly ...
- Mr. Longfellow is waiting in the parlor - Chicago Tribune
S ubtract two centuries and I could've been arrested for trespassing. There I was on a recent Saturday afternoon, wandering around somebody else's house. I hadn't been invited. I just barged right in. But my intentions were good: I am a great fan of ...
- Meet Your Neighbor - Nantucket Independent
Meet Your NeighborNantucket Independent, USA - 2 hours agoWhen she is not practicing recreational daydreaming, DeHeart enjoys Sunday crossword puzzles, doing collage, reading poetry and just about anything else of ...
- Striding Forward: Fall Fiction - New York Sun
In fiction, the fall will be a season not of bright debuts or treacherous sophomore efforts, but of crucial mid-career landmarks. Of course, John Updike will have a new novel, and Philip Roth will publish what might be his best novel in years ...
- Gaia Online Poll Finds Obama Has Captured Youth Support (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 7 million teens and young adults, today announced the launch of its monthly According to Teens Report, a monthly survey of Gaia members that will provide a regular update on the Generation Y perspective.
- Barack, Bill, and Me - Slate
That Barack Obama and William Ayers knew each other during the 1990s may tell us something about the two men. But it says much more about a particular time and place: Hyde Park, Chicago, more than a decade ago. Obama first moved to Chicago in 1985 ...
- Volunteers (The Star Press)
A Better Way: Adult volunteers are needed to provide emotional support for abused women and their children. Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age and no longer in high school. Training will be provided. Information: 747-9107.
- Jackson, Wyoming - Thursday, October 16, 2008 - Jackson Hole Star-Tribune
Jackson, Wyoming - Thursday, October 16, 2008Jackson Hole Star-Tribune, WY - 2 hours agoAt 6 pm, Poetry Slam for teens in grades 7-12 in the Cottonwood Room. Bring your original poetry and win some cash! Register as a team or individual; ...
- Two pieces on the program - “Maxfield for painter Maxfield Parrish" and “The Music of Life" - are recent works by jazz ... (All About Jazz)
“He has garnered many awards, including the Guggenheim, and seems to put out a ground-breaking album every year, “ he said.
- Cameroon: Homage and Courtship (Romantic Stirrings of a Young Man) (AllAfrica.com)
Shadrach Ambanasom's creative pen has once more graced our literary shores with a scintillating collection of fifty poems crafted "essentially in a Neo-Romantic mood" and being in the main, "transmutations and commemorations of things, events, and people" (iv) the poet holds dear in his life.
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