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- Word: Notes on the local scene - WilliametteLive.com
Word: Notes on the local sceneWilliametteLive.com, OR - 2 hours ago"Poetry: Writing a Keepsake" is a course in which Instructor Nancy Myers will lead participants to learn that poetry can be fun and stress-free. ...
- Seeking the next NH poet laureate - Portsmouth Herald News
Seeking the next NH poet laureatePortsmouth Herald News, NH - 8 hours agoThe Poetry Society of NH is accepting nominations for the next NH Poet Laureate, whose term will begin in January 2009. Deadline to make your nomination is ...
- Writers pick up pens to protest 42-day detentions - The Associated Press
Writers pick up pens to protest 42-day detentionsThe Associated Press - 51 minutes agoAli, who won widespread acclaim for her first novel "Brick Lane," wrote a satirical dialogue between a grandmother and a child who asks if it's true that ...
- Arts: Accepting Nothing - Beyond War And Peace With Poet Bruce Weigl (Cleveland Scene)
By Michael Gill In his memoir The Circle of Hanh, poet Bruce Weigl wrote that the Vietnam war ruined his life and gave him his voice. But when he reads at the Bertram Woods Branch of the Shaker Heights Public Library, as part of the Poetry Not in the Woods Series, he doesn't plan to read war poems. Instead, he'll read from a new collection, which is based on his Buddhist practice. This is no ...
- WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT (New York Post)
POETRY GARDEN Words - November 15 Urban Word NYC teams up with the New York Knicks in co-hosting an open audition for the Poetry Slam program, which offers aspiring poets $200,000 in college grants including two full, four-year scholarships to the...
- Wolston To Read From New Book September 19 (Rockbridge Weekly)
Author Jon Wolston will read from his new poetry book "Paradise Root-stock" at Books & Company in Lexington on Friday, September 19th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Wolston is the brother of Lexington resident Bill Wolston.
- Bookmonger: Crossings Celebrates Our Affair with Ferries - Kitsap Sun
Bookmonger: Crossings Celebrates Our Affair with FerriesKitsap Sun, United States - 1 hour ago... and I have always regarded with suspicion those ferry commuters who seem to be blasé about their daily transits across Puget Sound. ...
- Mark Steel: It's not about great men, but those who put them there - The Independent
The most common view of history is that it's created by the personalities of a handful of important figures. So world events can be explained by the fact that Churchill was strong, or Henry VIII wanted a divorce, or Napoleon had a complex about being ...
- National Pleasures: Music, Mystery and More -- for Free - Washington Post
Washington PostNational Pleasures: Music, Mystery and More -- for FreeWashington Post, United States - 7 hours agoThen the National Theatre has you covered with a full slate of free performances through mid-December. Scheduled events include poetry readings and ...
- Charlie Green’s impressive debut album (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines—Talent searches and singing competitions on the boob tube don’t always get their winners right, but nobody doubts their ability to jumpstart lucrative performing careers for their truly talented participants.
- Governor: Budget deficit has doubled; tough times for state - Newsday
ALBANY - Gov. David A. Paterson projected Tuesday that more than 160,000 residents would be thrown out of work in the recession leading to the biggest drop in consumer spending since World War II and huge deficits in the state budget. In a grim ...
- Bush To Keep Iraq Troop Levels Steady, Bring 8,000 Home In February - The Bulletin
Washington - President George W. Bush will keep roughly the same number of U.S. forces in Iraq through the end of the year and pull about 8,000 troops home by February. The drawdown is both slower and smaller than had been anticipated. In a speech to ...
- PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: American Buffalo — An Effin' Proposition - Playbill.com
PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: American Buffalo — An Effin' PropositionPlaybill.com, NY - 26 minutes ago... when the Belasco crowd reconvened for the party and poetry appreciation at 230 Fifth Avenue, a swanky new club at 27th Street on the 20th floor. ...
- Sussex County festival is ruled by the word - Newark Star-Ledger
Photos by Patti Sapone /The Star-Ledger Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Robert Hass reads during the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival at Waterloo Village. There were walks in the woods, gift shopping and food, hacky sack games and flirting, but the day ...
- Scrapbooks valued as history, snapshots of person's life, - The Canadian Press
Scrapbooks valued as history, snapshots of person's life,The Canadian Press - 48 minutes ago"It's one happy year," says Helfand, who notes that Sexton's poetry emerged early on in her youthful scrapbooks. "You see the scrapbook as almost a ...
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