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- U.S. Poet Laureate to Give Reading at CSE, Oct. 15 - Bridgeton News
Photo by Jane Hirshfield U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan The public has an exceptional opportunity to attend a reading by U. S. Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan on Wednesday, October 15 at 4:45 p.m. at the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE) in Morristown. Held in ...
- Mark Steel: Life begins at forty* - The Independent
I've always been suspicious of the lifestyle crisis. One of my first jokes when I began as a stand-up comic was about how a "mid-life crisis" was only possible if you were comfortable enough to afford one, because you couldn't imagine a peasant in ...
- the spectator - Slate
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against yoga—or Eastern disciplines in general. In fact, I've done tai chi exercises for many years. No, it's the commodification and rhetorical dumbing-down of yoga culture that gets to me. The way something that ...
- Mom and dad's lives -- real and imagined - MiamiHerald.com
Mom and dad's lives -- real and imaginedMiamiHerald.com, FL - 1 hour agoBY VALERIE SAYERS Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books -- novels, story collections, poetry and ...
- Unique kid biography brings Abraham Lincoln alive (Post-Bulletin)
"LINCOLN SHOT," screams the headline! "Condition Considered Hopeless. Will Not Live Through the Night." So begins a gripping read for middle-graders ahead of the February bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a b
- The Third Screen: Barbara Feldon on the Future of Television - Huffingtonpost.com
I wonder if Barbara Feldon knows that she's still adored as Agent 99 from the original Get Smart television series. Consider these recent posts from the imdb.com site: "In the 1960s, I followed Barbara Feldon closely during her Get Smart days, Diana ...
- Patti Smith and Philip Glass Front Melbourne International Arts Festival (Undercover)
The return of Patti Smith to Australian shores has been announced as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Smith’s tour is hot on the heels of a new film about her life by Stephen Serbing called ‘Dream of Life’.
- Anthony Westbury: 'Friends, Romans' listen to this (Fort Pierce Tribune)
He refers to them as being “rusted by television,” but Len Weingart sees great possibilities in today’s elementary school students — if they can be challenged intellectually.
- Interactivity & Empowerment: Eight Innovators Place in 2008 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations (Newswise)
Four bold Web site projects are finalists for the $10,000 Grand Prize in the 2008 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The awards, administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University's School of Communication, honor creative uses of new technologies to engage citizens in public issues and to showcase compelling models for the future of news.
- New Arts Festival Linking Weimar and Shiraz Planned For 2009 - Deutsche Welle
New Arts Festival Linking Weimar and Shiraz Planned For 2009Deutsche Welle, Germany - 11 minutes agoThe word "divan" has passed into several western languages meaning a collection of poetry. This was inspired by the Divan of Hafez. ...
- Oakland Township man puts Dempseytown in book of poetry (The Derrick)
William Bucholz's "Real Fantasy Dreams" has been published by AuthorHouse. A rural highway, a junkyard and a race track are poetic muses for 49-year-old William Bucholz of Dempseytown, Oakland Township, author of a newly published volume of sonnets and poems.
- Abilene State School in need of donated items - Abilene Reporter-News
Abilene State School in need of donated itemsAbilene Reporter-News, TX - 11 hours agoAdded to the lineup this year is the West Texas Poetry Fest at noon Sept. 22 at the downtown library, 202 Cedar St. Area poets are invited to come to an ...
- Wisconsin Books for Prisoners, the Madison Roots Festival, Tedd O'Connell, and more in Madison MIscellany (Isthmus)
The state DOC blocks Wisconsin Books for Prisoners, Soglin remembers the late Ted O'Connell, the Madison Roots Festival, an interview with We Are Scientists, details on the fifth annual Madison World Music Festival, the National Poetry Slam gets started, another take on the new Restaurant Muramoto, an interview with Jin's Chicken and Fish owner Jeffrey Okafo, the brewery list and pre-parties for ...
- Bards of a feather rhyme together (The Maclay Argus)
IT WAS poetry in motion. The words of eight bards, fastened to the legs of eight, elite homing birds, were carried aloft yesterday in a unique flight of imagination along the South Coast.
- Top poet aims for brevity, ephemeral substance (Seattle Times)
More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle...
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