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- Enter the Youth Talent Contest at Railfest (Asheville Citizen-Times)
BRYSON CITY – The Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Talent Contest will be held Sept. 20 Saturday during the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Railfest, sponsored by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia. The hour-long contest will begin at 10:45 a.m., with awards announced at noon.
- Julie Forbush - Appeal-Democrat
Julie ForbushAppeal-Democrat, CA - 1 hour agoTell us about a life-changing experience: Going to the Amicus Books poetry group after high school. Almost everyone now in my life came from that, ...
- MY NAME CAME FROM . . . (Seattle Times)
What's in a name? All of us have thought at one time or another about our names, perhaps asking why they were given to us, or finding meanings...
- Short Takes On Current Films - Cleveland Free Times
Cleveland Free TimesShort Takes On Current FilmsCleveland Free Times, OH - 2 hours agoHis readers long for their men to spout poetry and say things like, "I know you're hurting." Nights in Rodanthe tells the story of Adrienne (Lane), ...
- More couples wed for better, worse and less - Memphis Commercial Appeal
SIOUX RAPIDS, Iowa -- It wasn't a typical rehearsal dinner, but it was all Liz Jones and Josh Dilworth hoped it would be -- casual, authentic and relatively cheap. Dozens of guests gathered in a barn on the Jones family farm for a simple picnic-style ...
- Yeats provides reliably glorious flourish (Independent)
If only everything in life were as reliable. Not, admittedly, the sort of observation generally prompted by a thoroughbred – except, perhaps, among those who feverishly presume that every vagary in equine performance reflects the cynical intervention of men. But Yeats, the most glorious stayer of the modern era, yesterday dispatched his inferiors with an air of such dependability that he might ...
- FIRST IRANIAN FEMALE ADMIRAL: ARTEMIS - Persian Journal
FIRST IRANIAN FEMALE ADMIRAL: ARTEMISPersian Journal, Iran - 31 minutes agoIn this article, the name of Artemis, the life story of Artemis, her battles, her end, and a poetry referring to Artemis as the First Iranian Female Admiral ...
- How to make a cult musician (Guardian Unlimited)
Culture: In the age of the internet, is it still possible to be a true cult musician? Bob Stanley gets a few tips
- Edinburgh festival: Daniel Kitson - Guardian Unlimited
Daniel Kitson's new standup theatre show, 66a Church Road, is about his longest ever relationship - not with a human being, but with his house. The experiences we share with homes, he argues, are just as special as those we share with our loved ones ...
- San Diego Author Releases Book of Poetry That Reaches Out to Young ... - BlackNews.com
San Diego, CA (BlackNews.com) - A new book has hit the stands at Barnes & Noble and other outlet that promises to be a best seller. The Breaker of the Storms , ISBN #9780595395972, published by iUniverse, retailing for $9.95, has come at a time in ...
- First bard's poetry reading - BBC News
BBC NewsFirst bard's poetry readingBBC News, UK - Apr 18, 2008The first minister recites the opening lines of Robert Burns' Tam o' Shanter at the reopening of the graveyard immortalised in the poem. ...
- Poet's manuscript plea - Hounslow Guardian
A Tolworth author who stopped to ask directions after getting lost in Surbiton said he is “shattered†after a valuable manuscript was stolen from his car. Sohan Lal Saini, 72, of Hamilton Avenue, Tolworth, wants the thieves to return the ...
- A sad, true story that's as strong as its subject - Boston Globe
A sad, true story that's as strong as its subjectBoston Globe, United States - 6 minutes agoFuller knows this rough world intimately and renders it with a kind of spare prose-poetry. Describing an oil rig, she writes: "It's a place of repetitive, ...
- Poet Matt Donovan looks for beauty in violence. (Style Weekly)
Matt Donovan does not channel his poems, nor does he receive them in a dream, through a lightning bolt or at the bottom of a cup of tea. “It feels like sailing in the dark every single time I put pen to paper, for better or worse,†he says.
- A call for young writers - Huntington Herald Dispatch
A call for young writersHuntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 2 hours agoCreative Communication is seeking young writers for the 2008 Essay and Poetry Contest. More than $3000 in prizes and awards will be awarded to poets, ...
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