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- Del Martin, gay-rights pioneer - Philadelphia Daily News
SAN FRANCISCO - Pioneering lesbian-rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, died yesterday. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center ...
- Stony Plain: 100 good years - Edmonton Journal
Stony Plain: 100 good yearsEdmonton Journal, Canada - 2 hours agoBoth the Blueberry Bluegrass and Country Music Festival and Stony Plain's Cowboy Poetry Gathering have literally developed national reputations, ...
- Former US poet laureate receives $100000 prize - The Associated Press
Former US poet laureate receives $100000 prizeThe Associated Press - Sep 2, 2008... the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday. ...
- THE GREEN FAIRY - Globe and Mail
THE GREEN FAIRYGlobe and Mail, Canada - Aug 16, 2008More than a century later, the poetry lives on. As the drink of choice among such 19th-century writers and painters as Charles Baudelaire and Vincent van ...
- Leonard Peltier Update - Bay Area Indymedia
Leonard Peltier UpdateBay Area Indymedia, CA - 1 hour agoHe has written poetry and prose from prison, and completed a moving biography titled Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance (St. Martin's Press, NY, ...
- WWII pilot pens memories of Hiroshima - Ventura County Star
WWII pilot pens memories of HiroshimaVentura County Star, CA - 4 hours agoHe has also authored two chapbooks of poetry. "James has led an interesting life, to be sure," said his wife of 58 years, Doris. ...
- Popsters find they can hang with twang - St. Petersburg Times
Do you have a middling pop music career? Are you a mortgage payment away from schlepping the RibFest beat? Do you wish people would stop calling you Hootie? Then maybe it's time to consider a career in country. After all, crossing over has never been ...
- Roy balloonist stampeding his way to Antelope Island (Standard-Examiner)
ANTELOPE ISLAND -- Flying a balloon over Antelope Island is a challenge because it is surrounded by water, says Mark Fox, of Roy.
- Will it be 'The September that Was?' - Boxing Herald
Will it be 'The September that Was?'Boxing Herald, MA - 53 minutes agoYes when we cast our memories back to six months ago we saw the most beautiful poetry and prose being written before our eyes. ...
- Jimmy Fike - Birmingham News
Location Alabaster Alexander City Alpharetta Anniston Atlanta Bessemer Birmingham Brownsboro Calera Center Point Chelsea Collegeville Crestline Cullman Decatur Ensley Enterprise Fairfield Fairhope Florence Forest Park Fultondale Gadsden Gardendale ...
- Aspen Musicians Peace Project - Aspen Daily News
This summer we have begun an exciting new program at the Aspen Music Festival and School: The Aspen Musicians Peace Project. It is a program that advocates using the unifying power of music to help bring peace and compassion to this world. Among the ...
- Turner takes a wider view (Otago Daily Times)
Poet, writer, angler, conservationist . . . Brian Turner's new book, Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany , gets to the heart of matters, writes Shane Gilchrist.
- Poetry addressing world's violence - Louisville Courier-Journal
Poetry addressing world's violenceLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 4 hours agoHer poem "Ruin is Not the End of Anything" is nothing short of a prayer, asking God to hold him in all your arms. At the sword's edge, turn him to water. ...
- Is Eloquence Overrated? (New York Times)
There remains a tantalizingly imprecise link between a great political speech and a great political career.
- Wall of Shame - NY Arts Magazine
Wall of ShameNY Arts Magazine, NY - 1 hour agoOur backgrounds are in poetry, music, and theater, and we generally think of our work as a kind of opera, whether it’s presented in a theater, gallery, ...
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