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- Poetry contest winners (Townsend Times)
TOWNSEND -- The Townsend Public Library has announced the winners of this year's poetry contest, held to celebrate Young People's Poetry Week.
- Grandbois has ear for music - and words (Rocky Mountain News)
Local author Daniel Grandbois talks about how his musical background influences his writing, why he chooses to work in short fiction, and his favorites stories from his new book, "Unlucky Lucky Days."
- Return of the WB, another funny guy from Shaker Heights, the Jersey ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Why do so many funny people come from Shaker Heights? Take, for example, David Wain, formerly of MTV's "The State" and director of "Wet Hot American Summer." His Web series, "Wainy Days" won a Webby for best comedy series. Also, the WB disappeared ...
- Teens put their lives in verse for poetry contest - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Post IntelligencerTeens put their lives in verse for poetry contestSeattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour agoFor Rachel M. Wiegand, winner of the 16-and-younger division of the PI's poetry contest, her poem "Mukilteo Beach" reflects on accepting those transitions. ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse (The Star)
"Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't say that you're the greatest?'"
- Pitchfork Music Festival 2008: Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation Of ... - Stereogum
StereogumPitchfork Music Festival 2008: Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation Of ...Stereogum, NY - 18 minutes agoEven the most basic statements of fact come from Chuck D as poetry, with the right rhythm, at the perfect pitch. It's why It Takes A Nation... is a stone ...
- Lara Feigel's top 10 smelly books - guardian.co.uk
Lara Feigel's top 10 smelly booksguardian.co.uk, UK - 46 minutes agoBaudelaire's poetry was dominated by the sensual and this collection is peppered with paeans to smell. He extols the odours of 'promises, perfumes, ...
- Minority Scholars Program Changes Lives for Local Middle Schoolers - KSPR.com
Think college, minus the late-nights and sleeping til noon. That's what a group of 8th and 9th graders are experiencing this week at Drury University, a sample of higher learning. The kids are part of a first-time program created by three very driven ...
- Verse from three perspectives - Times Online
Verse from three perspectivesTimes Online, UK - 8 hours agoThe sonnet sequence Vicious Circle tells the story of a film-noir love triangle. The story has plenty of intrigue and betrayal, but the sequence is marred ...
- Community Calendar (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
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- Madison Poetry Slam Finals - Isthmus Daily Page
Madison Poetry Slam FinalsIsthmus Daily Page, WI - 1 hour agoOn Friday, May 16, 2008, the top slam poets in Madison will compete in the Madison Urban Spoken-Word Grand Poetry Slam Finals at the Inn on the Park. ...
- Elaine Paige: Another World - Telegraph.co.uk
Elaine Paige: Another WorldTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 13 hours agoHearing the recreation live of those chord sequences, guitar solos, synthesised riffs, that amazing vocalise, and the sheer poetry of Waters's lyrics, ...
- Can A Poet Be More Accurate Than A Journalist? (El Faro)
The author is a Romanian poet, essayist and novelist, living in the United States since 1965. He learned journalism on the road, working for some of the major US radio and television networks.
- That Which "Bugs" a Bush Nazi - Boston IMC
Could it be something I wrote? Bob Packer's Gonna "Fix Your Face"!....if you mess with this Gad damn article! He's gonna make your mother wish she never had you! 7/1 Was Hitler the King of the South? Hitler has a pill for what ails you! Hitlerites ...
- CPAC opens new drama - Sentinel & Enterprise
CLINTON -- The Youth Theatre Company of the Christian Performing Arts Center in Fitchburg will perform the play "Strength of Our Spirit, The Vision of Anne Frank," by Cynthia Mercati, today at 3 p.m., at Congregation Shaarei Zedeck, located at 105 ...
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