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- Latrobe instructor is state's Teacher of the Year - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rebecca Snyder teaches poetry by asking her students to find song lyrics that touch them emotionally. She introduces the big ideas of the enlightenment and romantic literature by showing paintings to her students. It's those innovating teaching ...
- Poet speaks up for clear writing - Boston Globe
Poet speaks up for clear writingBoston Globe, United States - 5 hours agoPoet Marian Kaplun Shapiro would like to refute what she sees as a common misconception: Poetry is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to understand. ...
- Flap over arts cuts is a 'niche' issue: Harper (CTV.ca)
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper defended slashing $45 million from the arts budget and dismissed mounting criticism by calling it a "niche" issue that doesn't resonate with "ordinary" Canadians.
- Dario Robleto on exhibit at Tang Museum - Albany Times Union
Dario Robleto on exhibit at Tang MuseumAlbany Times Union, NY - 2 hours agoAfter 9/11, Robleto began applying his "material" poetry to the carnage of battlefields since the Civil War. "No One has a Monopoly on Sorrow" transforms ...
- School winners - HeraldNet
School winnersHeraldNet, WA - 15 minutes agoJessica Simpson, 14, of Everett recently won an Editor's Choice Award in a poetry contest for a poem she submitted to the International Library of Poetry. ...
- Authors announced for this semester's Visiting Writers Series at UCM - digitalBURG.com
Authors announced for this semester's Visiting Writers Series at UCMdigitalBURG.com, MO - 55 minutes agoAn editor at both "Publishers Weekly" and "Pleiades," his poetry has been published in "The Yale Review," "The Paris Review," "Verse," and other journals. ...
- 'A peaceful place': Indian Lake park is one of Dane County's largest, and it's a popular destination during all seasons (Wisconsin State Journal)
TOWN OF BERRY -- From the top of a hill in Indian Lake County Park, the view is of the glacial lake that gives the park its name, along whose shores Native Americans once camped. The hill, though, is home to something more notable. A small chapel is there, built in 1857, by a Dane County homesteader whose family was spared in a diptheria epidemic. It's barely big enough to hold more than a ...
- Community Notes - Abington Mariner
To send an announcement, write to the Watertown TAB, 254 Second Ave., Needham, MA 02494; fax 781-433-8202 or e-mail watertown@cnc.com. Please keep submissions to 150 words or fewer. The deadline for listing submissions is Friday at 5 p.m. for the ...
- Banking crisis live: shares tumble - Guardian Unlimited
1:33pm: Oliver Carboni, an entertaining and fast-talking New York analyst, gives video advice to traders ahead of the opening of the markets in Wall Street. "It's getting ugly out there and you need to be really careful," he warns. 1:21pm: Baghdad's ...
- A tumultuous year - The News International
A tumultuous yearThe News International, Pakistan - 2 hours agoI again toured the country, making speeches and reciting poetry to mobilize the people. The march began in the distant parts of the country on June 9 and ...
- Tea Barn owner remembered - Terrace Standard
Tea Barn owner rememberedTerrace Standard, Canada - 4 hours agoYou could tell how much she savored the rhythm, the story and the thought of this old poetry. Like all writers, she possessed a vivid imagination. ...
- Cool rhymes entertain students - Famuan
Cool rhymes entertain studentsFamuan, FL - 4 hours agoWe just had poetry readings at my place and people would drive by, get free food, entertainment, and be out." After a year of hosting poetry affairs at his ...
- Police believe body found in SUV to be Jennifer Hudson's nephew - Grand Rapids Press
AP Photo Chicago police are seen in the area on the city's West Side Monday morning, where authorities say they found the body of a young black boy in an SUV that reportedly has a license plate matching the number listed on an Amber Alert issued for ...
- Burying The Hatchet - Sky News
Sky NewsBurying The HatchetSky News, UK - 6 hours agoIf campaigning is poetry, getting you agenda through Congress is prose - fierce, hard fought, nasty and blood curdling prose. By welcoming the "Old Warrior" ...
- Creative writing conference covers 'mirror of words' - Spectrum
CEDAR CITY — High school teachers have the opportunity to explore teaching various genres of English to students at “The Mirror of Words: A Mosaic of Self-Portraits” creative writing conference, which continues today, sponsored by the Southern ...
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