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- Books on the South squeeze Appalachia (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Whenever I pick up a book on Southern culture, I check to see how much of the mountain South is represented.
- REVIEW: 'Rings: Season of Love' - Montgomery Advertiser
The Faulkner University Dinner Theatre has just begun its twenty-first season with a showcase review called “Rings: Seasons of Love”. Written and arranged by Faulkner’s faculty and students, and directed by Jason Clark South, “Rings” has a ...
- Reconsiderations: The Fiction of George Orwell (The New York Sun)
The reputation of George Orwell the novelist — as opposed to George Orwell the journalist, essayist, and author of such classic works of long-form nonfiction as "Down and Out in Paris and London" and "Homage to Catalonia" — rests almost entirely on two books, "Animal Farm" (1945) and "1984" (1949). One can argue with the fairness of this judgment, and for the continued relevance of the novels ...
- Volunteers on a mission (The News Journal)
Simple and intentional living. The phrase resonates with Sandy Rudrud, who first explored what simple living could mean for her 12 years ago.
- Next Weeks Almanac Digest - Political Gateway
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Martha Washington, the first U.S. first lady, in 1731 ...
- Poetry festival returns to Hill-Stead (The New Britain Herald)
FARMINGTON — There was an atypical silence last summer at the Hill-Stead Museum.
- Artfully al fresco - Tacoma News Tribune
It’s the downtown funky art festival extraordinaire, with bands like Flowmotion, Don’t Tell Sophie and James Whiton and the Downtown Apostles, local DJs, live graffiti and chalk art, dance from Joel Myers to Tribal Fusion Belly Dancing and a host ...
- Miles Kington: Why no one writes poems about spiders, and other ... - The Independent
Today, another helping of Albanian proverbs. If you haven't met them before, Albanian proverbs are very different from ours. Ours are dry and common-sense. Look before you leap. Don't count your eggs. But Albanian proverbs are both allusive and ...
- 'World's worst poems' at auction - BBC UK News
The ditties by "The Tayside Tragedian" have been valued in the same league as Harry Potter first editions signed by JK Rowling. McGonagall, who died in 1902, was often mocked and had food thrown at him during readings in Dundee. He was born in ...
- Spotlight: Diversions listings - Portsmouth Herald News
Spotlight: Diversions listingsPortsmouth Herald News, NH - Jun 26, 2008YORK POETRY SOCIETY, first Wednesday of month, July/August, noon to 1:30 pm, York Public Library, York, Maine, everyone welcome, open mic forum, ...
- Jacksonian Education - Post-Journal
FREWSBURG — Even though it was called the ‘‘Little Read,’’ the last few days at Frewsburg Junior-Senior High School were full of activity. As part of a countywide project, schools in the area received, or will have received by the first ...
- Music, poetry, paddling at Blue Bridge Festival (yorkregion.com)
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- 'Papers' doesn't quite capture new U.Va. collection - Inrich.com
Technically, the University of Virginia took formal possession last week of the collected papers of poet and Lynchburg icon Anne Spencer. But "papers" is too simple a phrase for what was hidden within the nearly 70 boxes carted away from Spencer's ...
- Serenity Prayer's authorship in dispute (Pioneer Press)
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."
- Cold Snack Devoured by Poetry Award Judges (Scoop.co.nz)
Janet Charman has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards poetry category in a tough contest, one that marked a bumper year for New Zealand poetry. Charman took the prize for her poetry collection Cold Snack.
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