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- Carlos Alcalá: Gold-medal moment at the fair - Sacramento Bee
Carlos Alcalá: Gold-medal moment at the fairSacramento Bee, USA - 10 minutes agoVoices of Lincoln, the poetry contest, is back for another year, but with changes. Apparently, the city isn't the bottomless source of inspiration we ...
- Nixon and Moore Join Fiennes, McGovern and Neeson July 26-27 in Gate ... - Playbill
Julianne Moore (pictured in The Vertical Hour ). photo by Paul Kolnik A starry line-up has been assembled for the July 26-27 readings of the poetry and prose of Samuel Beckett, part of the current Gate|Beckett production presented by the Lincoln ...
- Regionalist painter documented rural, urban scenes from his life - The Columbus Dispatch
Clyde Singer was a beloved artist, critic and administrator in northeastern Ohio. During a 50-year career at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, he held many titles -- including artist in residence and assistant director. He inspired ...
- Book event: Christopher Somerville - Metro
MetroBook event: Christopher SomervilleMetro, UK - 4 hours agoIt's his second collection of poetry and reflects on the expeiences he's had during his travels in the past ten years. Like his more mainstream work, ...
- Washtenaw Community College offers fall canoeing classes - MLive.com
Washtenaw Community College is offering a month-long canoe course each Sunday in October, beginning this weekend at Gallup Park. The course will include safety techniques, how to "read" the river, outfitting, how to balance and paddling techniques in ...
- Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, to leave ... - Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (AP) _ The confident baritone of Dana Gioia sounded a little hoarse during a recent telephone interview, as it often has since he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a job that has exhilarated and exhausted him. "I have ...
- LOOKING FOR ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - New York Times
New York TimesLOOKING FOR ANNE OF GREEN GABLESNew York Times, United States - 47 minutes agoEwan Macdonald won her affections and carried her off to Ontario, where she raised two children and wrote 20 novels and two poetry collections. ...
- Mooresville man called ‘hero’ for volunteer work (Reporter-Times)
MOORESVILLE — Earlier this year, the Indianapolis Business Journal recognized Mooresville resident Don Perry, 75, as a finalist for its 2008 Healthcare Heroes award. Perry was among the top three volunteers in the state and was honored at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis during a March breakfast.
- Hip-hoppers aim for the charts - Oxford Mail
Hip-hoppers aim for the chartsOxford Mail, UK - 41 minutes agoRSB Present Showtime was held at Blackbird Leys Community Centre last night, along with a football skills competition and poetry competition for girls.
- 'Not-at-home'-schoolers have lots of activities to choose from - Calgary Herald
'Not-at-home'-schoolers have lots of activities to choose fromCalgary Herald, Canada - 5 hours agoThis online e-mail group facilitates the organization and co-ordination of home-school activities. It is a great source of spontaneous get-togethers, ...
- Being the Nation's Poet Laureate is a Total Pain [Poetry] (Gawker)
Being the poet laureate is the highest honor a poet can receive in this country. You get $35,000 and a beautiful office in the Library of Congress. (Kay Ryan just became the newest laureate, tasked...
- First work (The Telegraph)
Michael Down, 24, has loved poetry since he first got interested in it at age 15 - the same age he began writing poetry. "Once I fell in love with poetry, I immediately began writing my own, and hope one day to become a well-known writer," Down said.
- Review: Mezzo-soprano, Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra win praise for ... - MLive.com
Soprano Stacey Tappan received top billing in the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra program for Saturday's "A Night at the Opera 2" concert. And yes, her coloratura voice was superb and met the test of the dizzyingly intricate "Glitter and Be Gay" aria ...
- City Book Fair wants to put burgeoning literary community on the same page (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Buenos Aires had Borges. St. Petersburg had Pushkin. And Nabokov. And Akhmatova. And Brodsky. Not to mention Dostoevsky. (Ah, the Russians!) Even petite Newburyport, Mass., population 17,000, draws thousands of tourists and over 60 authors to its annual literary festival. What about San Diego?
- Letter Policy (Big Bear Grizzly)
The Grizzly encourages readers to write on subjects of current interest. Letters must be free of libel, in good taste and must be of reasonable length, approximately 300 to 350 words. Longer letters will be considered for guest editorials on a space available basis.
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