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- Festive banquet highlights Haitian culture (Miami Herald)
A night of music, poetry and dance greeted some 200 well-dressed diners as they feasted on a sit-down meal inside a brightly decorated banquet room at the Miramar Civic Center.
- A twisting career path (The News Journal)
Kay Ryan's appointment as the nation's new poet laureate, announced Thursday by Librarian of Congress James Billington, will cap one of the most unusual careers in American letters.
- Life's precious gifts - Daily Reflector
For 32 years, Lynn Morgan has held onto a poem handwritten for her in the corner booth of a Knoxville, Tenn., restaurant. She shared it with everyone she knew before stashing it away inside a drawer. Every few years, she'd pull it out and read it ...
- From the Wire - AlterNet
From the WireAlterNet, CA - 29 minutes agoBut the preceding adjective - which suggests poetry far more than presidential politics - has rarely been used and seems like an attempt to paint Obama as ...
- Start your beach reading at York Public Library (The York Weekly)
A character in Philip Roth's novel "Goodbye, Columbus" describes his cousin, the ultimate summer reader: "Doris? She's the one who's always reading 'War and Peace.' That's how I know it's summer, when Doris is reading 'War and Peace.'"
- The Tracey Fragments Review - Contactmusic.com
The Tracey Fragments ReviewContactmusic.com, UK - 21 hours agoFor what it's worth, however, these shards of art-school poetry fit into the palette: If any attempt at natural dialogue had been made, this would have been ...
- Superior partners: High school students pair up with first-graders for poetry project (Missoulian)
Jo Stevens' yearbook students at Superior High School and Diana Campbell's first-graders at the elementary school teamed up for a poetry project. To begin the poetry unit, the first-graders listened to the language of poetry and discovered that poems have rhyme, rhythm and repetition.
- Young poet wins top prize - Oxfordshire News
A POEM inscribed on a tiny scrap of paper has won the regional round of a prestigious human rights poetry competition. Oxford schoolgirl Aditi Gaddam, a pupil at St Clare's, Banbury Road, was named the Midlands winner for Amnesty International's You ...
- "I Can Read" Program brings budding readers into bloom. - SIU - Daily Egyptian
"I Can Read" Program brings budding readers into bloom.SIU - Daily Egyptian, IL - 1 hour agoOther themes in the program were Readers' Theatre, We're Going Places, Watch Us Grow, Poetry, and Fairy Tales. "I Can Read" started as a free after-school ...
- O'Really? (Salon.com)
The latest comments from Bill O'Reilly that make us want to vomit on ourselves.
- THE LAST OF MR. NORRIS—Christopher Isherwood—Morrow ($2.50). - Time
Up-to-date readers of up-to-date English poetry know the names, though they may not have the numbers, of Poets Wyant Hugh Auden and Stephen Spender (TIME, Oct. 1). The first books of both Auden and Spender were dedicated to one Christopher Isherwood ...
- Review: "Madagascar" meditates on language of love - North County Times
Review: "Madagascar" meditates on language of loveNorth County Times, CA - 1 hour ago... a poetry lover's delight. The superb language, delivered by three actors ---- Frank Corrado, Rosina Reynolds and Christy Yael ---- composes a tone poem, ...
- Rhyme is reason for her smile: Young poet wins contest - Lincoln Journal
Rhyme is reason for her smile: Young poet wins contestLincoln Journal, MA - 29 minutes ago“I was really excited,” Pingeon said of winning the contest. Her mother, Elizabeth Graver, said she discovered the Michigan poetry contest and thought it ...
- Students' works remembering Holocaust honored - Antelope Valley Press
LANCASTER - Red and black dominated much of the artwork created by area high school students. So did depictions of severed limbs and shattered lives, reflecting the teens' views of the Holocaust. Paintings of skulls and skeletons hung in the lobby at ...
- TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86 (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died.
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