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- Plano ISD Parents Invited to Empowering Parents Program on Oct. 1 (Plano Courier)
Darlene V. Willis, Ph.D. and Martha Parham will conduct a seminar for Plano Independent School District parents with children in Pre-K through 12th grade important information to make educational decisions that will ensure positive experiences for their students.
- Teachers, please, be good to them - Philadelphia Inquirer
They're coming back to you this week. Presumably, they're ready. While I have no kids to send to you these days, one never forgets. Not their shiny, scrubbed, summer-drenched look. Not those feet that have run bare for nearly three months, now shod ...
- I-35W REPLACEMENT SPAN HERALDED 'BRIDGE OF ITS TIME' - USA Today
MINNEAPOLIS - The new span that stretches across the Mississippi River on the spot where the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed a year ago bears little resemblance to its predecessor. The sleek, white concrete swath includes the latest design and safety ...
- Professor to discuss poet priest - Deseret News
Professor to discuss poet priestDeseret News, UT - 5 minutes agoZarathushtra (known in Greek as Zoroaster) preached in verse, and it is his poetry — but not much else about the poet priest himself — that has survived. ...
- Pup poems - Washington Blade
The iconic gay poet W.H. Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. Two new books, “Homopup: Queer Dog Poetry” edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg and “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays” by Mary Oliver, defy Auden’s dictum ...
- UC Irvine Extension Offers Online Writing Course on 20th Century American Writers (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
IRVINE, Calif.----The University of California, Irvine Extension is launching a new online course titled, “Voices and Visions of 20th Century American Writers.” Course topics include the characteristics of different literary periods in 20th century American literature and identification of leading writers and their works.
- Collective instinct - Financial Times
The author of Collections of Nothing , William Davies King, is a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara (just a few miles from that exotic collector of exotic animals, Michael Jackson). King’s book opens, glumly: “On a hot ...
- History lesson on tap at writer's festival (Guelph Mercury)
An oil canvas of Lucy Maud Montgomery rests on a lawn chair in the backyard of a home in the quiet village of Eden Mills.
- More than 100 authors participating in Capital BookFest - Business Gazette
More than 100 authors participating in Capital BookFestBusiness Gazette, MD - 10 minutes ago... The event is free and includes book readings, cooking demonstrations, writing and publishing workshops, poetry performances and children's storytelling. ...
- The Egyptian Connection (New York Review of Books)
An article by William Dalrymple from The New York Review of Books, October 23, 2008
- Critical acclaim comes to Detroit musician 38 years after album ... - DetNews.com
Critical acclaim comes to Detroit musician 38 years after album ...DetNews.com, MI - 1 hour agoSpin magazine describes the songs as "gutter poetry" of "junkies, dealers, prostitutes" that captures a "dark era of dreams destroyed. ...
- Students leave as friends after summer EIU writing institute (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
CHARLESTON — Strangers only four weeks ago, 14 teachers from area schools huddled together in groups Thursday, laughing and discussing future plans.
- Pulitzer-prize winning poet Hayden Carruth dies at 87 - Brattleboro Reformer
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y. - Hayden Carruth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world, has died. He was 87. Carruth, who lived in Vermont in the 1960s and 1970s, died Monday at his home in Munnsville, about 30 ...
- Greek court allows "lesbians" - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, July 24 -- A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the ...
- Lunch with the FT: Felix Dennis (Financial Times)
I saw some poets in the audience last night, which hasn’t happened before,” says Felix Dennis, 61, multimillionaire magazine publisher and latter-day poet, as he joins me in Sartoria, a smart restaurant on Savile Row. We are discussing Dennis’s third poetry tour of the UK, which had begun the evening before our lunch.
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