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- Get set for Polk County Fair this weekend - Statesman Journal
Get set for Polk County Fair this weekendStatesman Journal, OR - 2 hours ago7-10 event, which will feature a return of classic favorites — livestock shows, contests ranging from cuisine to poetry, myriad exhibits, food and rides. ...
- How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory - Medical News Today
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful ...
- Directors urged to take care in early stages - Paris News
Valley of the Caddo Museum and Cultural Center board of directors Tuesday named Millard Brent of Fannin County to fill a board vacancy. Brent, a native of Fannin County, is a geologist and recently retired college teacher. He will fill the unexpired ...
- Professor's book paints colorful portrait of Martin L. Davey - Canton Repository
The flamboyant former Ohio Gov. Martin Luther Davey had been dead for a quarter century before Walsh University Professor Emeritus Frank P. Vazzano "met" him. He chose the colorful, albeit somewhat obscure, state political figure for the subject of a ...
- Pubs battle for prestigious title - WalesOnline
Pubs battle for prestigious titleWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 3 hours ago“When we took the pub over it wasn’t doing any business at all but we’ve turned it around from a pub on its knees to a family- orientated pub,†said Mrs ...
- In Appreciation - Albany Democrat Herald
In AppreciationAlbany Democrat Herald, OR - 6 hours agoMarys Peak Poets sponsored the da Vinci Days Poetry Slam. I would like to thank the committee members: Linda Gelbrich,Be Davison Herrera, Sabrina Messenger, ...
- STAGE REVIEW: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' a feast for the senses - Reading Eagle
STAGE REVIEW: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' a feast for the sensesReading Eagle, PA - 3 hours agoSince words are of the utmost importance in this play, the poetry needs to soar, and Burgess' does indeed. As Cyrano, the wizard swordsman and poet with the ...
- Appetite for description - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeAppetite for descriptionBoston Globe, United States - 32 minutes ago"My books are quest sagas," Davis says, comparing his rock-star subjects to the heroes of epic poetry. "It's five guys from nowhere who go in search of fame ...
- 'Zombie Blondes,' 'Ghostgirl,' 'Dead Connection' (San Francisco Chronicle)
In the wake (pun intended) of Stephenie Meyer's juggernaut of a young adult series, the Twilight vampire saga, a raft of novels about death and young people have arrived this fall. In some cases, the undead are teenage zombies (Zombie Blondes by Brian James;...
- St Lucia to commemorate Emancipation Day - Caribbean Net News
CASTRIES, St Lucia: The Cultural Development Foundation in St Lucia has organised an afternoon of activities to celebrate Emancipation Day. The event will take place at the Derek Walcott Square on Friday and the theme for this year is entitled ...
- Ha Jin wants to visit China - Myrtle Beach Online
On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books. The 52-year-old National Book Award winner told The Associated Press ...
- Still golden (The Columbus Dispatch)
If America had the literary culture it ought to have, every city would have a writer like Herbert Gold.
- Why the Left Doesn't "Get" Obama - Huffingtonpost.com
I've been noticing a defensive note creeping into a lot of response to that "Obama moving to the center" criticism. My friend, Daniel Cardozo, takes a more positive view. Here's what he has to say: A remarkable lecture by neurologist and internet ...
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- Paul Auster on ‘Man in the Dark’ and Seceding From the Union - Nymag.com
In Brooklyn author Paul Auster’s new novel, Man in the Dark (out this week), a book critic named Brill battles insomnia, grief over the recent death of his wife, and a deep dissatisfaction with the state of America, all by telling himself a bedtime ...
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