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- Rhyme and punishment: Vandals who trashed Robert Frost's home learn poetry as punishment (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment.
- Downturn affects the traditionally self-sufficient - Herald Tribune
The death of her husband, a World War II veteran, two years ago started a chain of events that pushed Kleiss, 67, into a financial crisis. It culminated with the loss of her job in February, just before she saw a spike in her flood insurance. Unable ...
- Avon Duct Tape Festival offers sticky fun - Cleveland Plain Dealer
FILE PHOTOGRAPH The annual Avon Duct Tape Festival is a three-day salute to that most useful of materials -- duct tape. When a group of citizens asked Henkel Consumer Adhesives, Inc., to sponsor a town festival, Henkel agreed -- if it were also a ...
- Gerda’s history to be unveiled? - Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Gerda’s history to be unveiled?Fergus Falls Daily Journal, MN - 2 hours agoThe contest is free, and no registration is necessary. Pieces will be read in an informal discussion setting, and gift certificates donated by local ...
- BR Area for June 20-June 26, 2008 - 2TheAdvocate
BR Area for June 20-June 26, 20082TheAdvocate, LA - 1 hour agoGAY MEN’S CHORUS IN CONCERT: 8 pm, Unitarian Church, 8470 Goodwood Blvd. The chorus presents Home, arrangements of familiar songs about friendship, family, ...
- Artworks not made to order (Wairarapa Times-Age)
A plethora of video art, painting, clay work, needle felting, drypoint etchings and poetry grace Aratoi from today as part of King Street Artwork's 11th retrospective exhibition Not Made To Order.
- Young poet wins prestigious prize - Oxford Mail
Young poet wins prestigious prizeOxford Mail, UK - 38 minutes agoBy Fran Bardsley A poem inscribed on a tiny scrap of paper has won the regional round of a prestigious human rights poetry competition. ...
- Montana NZ Book Awards 2008 finalists booklet - Scoop
Non-fiction Takes a Bow in This Year's Montana New Zealand Book Awards Finalist Line-up The quality and scholarship of the non-fiction finalists are the stand outs among the more than 220 books entered in this year's Montana New Zealand Book Awards ...
- In vodka veritas - Daily Telegraph
One night Fyodor, the eponymous hero of this modern Russian masterpiece, is seized by the thirst of a ferocious hangover. Without turning on the light, he takes up a bottle from a shelf and begins to drink. At the first gulp, he realises that it is ...
- Authors visiting Borealis Books in Wadena - Wadena Pioneer Journal
Authors visiting Borealis Books in WadenaWadena Pioneer Journal, MN - 6 hours agoBorealis will host “Poetry and Chocolate†at 7:30 pm on Friday, June 20. Featured poets are Diana Lundell of Eagan, Minn., and LouAnn Muhm of Park Rapids. ...
- Thursday Best Bets - MetroMix
Feeling strummy: The 20 hopefuls at this year’s U.S. Air Guitar Championships Regional Finals are poised to prove that you don’t need an actual instrument to rock out on stage. Last year’s regional winner, Nordic Thunder, competes again this ...
- BORO BACKING FOR CHIP PAN CAMPAIGN By Rob Nichols - FansOnLine.net
FansOnLine.netBORO BACKING FOR CHIP PAN CAMPAIGN By Rob NicholsFansOnLine.net, UK - 24 minutes agoLynn Ford, of Stockton, has published a book of poems she has written about her son Andrew’s life that was taken in a fire at their family home. ‘Poetry of ...
- Sad details of everyday life distilled into brilliant collection - Norwalk Hour
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You'll remember Seinfeld, the '90s sitcom famously dubbed "a show about nothing." Here's part of Charles Simic's blurb for Tate's new collection, "The Ghost Soldiers": "To write a poem out of ...
- Obama-Clinton ticket pushed, doubted - Owen Sound Sun Times
There's nothing quite like a happy ending - or at least what seems to pass for one. Maybe that's why so many Democrats want to see a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket this fall. The idea of a dream team is gaining ground again, now that Obama's ...
- Living slow and other summer vacation resolutions - Baltimore Sun
Living slow and other summer vacation resolutionsBaltimore Sun, United States - 15 minutes agoThe poet said (tongue in cheek) that a poet's way with words is superior to mere prose. Poetry picks up, he said, where prose is simply inadequate. ...
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