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- April is National Poetry month (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Do you have an original poem? Send it in. Poems will be published each Friday in April. Be sure to include your name, age and city.
- 'Vampire teacher' wins book award - Middleton Guardian
A FORMER teacher who lost her job for writing steamy vampire fiction has won an award for her first book. Samantha Goldstone walked away from her job teaching English and drama at St Christ-opher’s C of E High School in Accrington after bosses ...
- One-to-One with Writer John Burnside - Deutsche Welle
One-to-One with Writer John BurnsideDeutsche Welle, Germany - 14 hours agoJohn Burnside is the author of nine collections of poetry and six works of fiction. He's achieved wide critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award ...
- Mount Arlington youths use their own newsletter to help save Lake ... - Recorder Community Newspapers
MOUNT ARLINGTON – Eleven-year- old George Cicero and his 10 year -old brother Tyler, released the fifth issue of their upstart newsletter, The Lake Hopatcong Times on Sunday, April 20. The two Howard Boulevard residents were inspired by a desire to ...
- Thinking about Mother’s Day - La Crosse Tribune
I was just thinking about my mother since Mother’s Day is approaching, and thought of a line I’d written in a poem I wrote her when I was a child. It read, “Thanks for scrubbing on your hands and knees and giving the dog a bath so it won’t ...
- Big City - New York Times
Some enterprising Brooklynite was clearly inspired on Friday afternoon to host a really good Memorial Day weekend barbecue — the best kind of barbecue, in fact, the kind someone else pays for. “Need grill, charcoal, top-quality hamburgers, hot ...
- New Yorker praises C.D. Wright's latest book of poetry - Harrison Daily Times
A new book of poems by Carolyn Wright, daughter of Ernie and Aline Wright of Harrison, is drawing critical acclaim. Her “Rising, Falling, Hovering” brought this review from The New Yorker: “Wright is a resolutely experimental poet, funny and ...
- NSO's Slatkin sendoff: lively and upbeat - Baltimore Sun
NSO's Slatkin sendoff: lively and upbeatBaltimore Sun, United States - 1 hour agoIt's pithy and seamlessly constructed, with a neat ratio between bravura and poetry. Slatkin's masterful ear for instrumental coloring is everywhere ...
- This Day, Like the Future, Belongs to Patriots - Nation
As the 50th anniversary of America's revolution against colonialism and the divine right of kings approached, the author of the rebellion's founding document -- still alive at age 83 --was asked to attend a July 4, 1826, celebration in Washington ...
- Tony winner recites local poet’s work - Duluth News Tribune
Tony winner recites local poet’s workDuluth News Tribune, MN - 41 minutes ago... MPR poetry show as well as on “A Prairie Home Companion” — but finding out that a poem of his was recited on the Tony Awards CBS television broadcast on ...
- Master class: How the National Gallery is turning children on to art (Independent)
Harry is five, and tired in an I'm-not-tired-Miss way, despite having travelled for four hours on a bus from Wolverhampton to the capital. He has walked up the marble entrance stairs of London's National Gallery, and up another flight to reach Room 1. Here, surrounded by artworks, his words come in a seamlessly rhythmic stream, untroubled by doubt or pauses. "When I saw a picture of it real I ...
- War e-mails offer immediacy, but sacrifice eloquence - St. Petersburg Times
Sally Clark looks over Reed Brown’s shoulder during an Internet skills class at MacDill. One goal of the class is to teach them to communicate with family members in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sometimes, Iraq didn't seem so far away. Marine Tom Brunk ...
- THE DYLAN PRISON, ANYONE? - South Wales Evening Post
THE DYLAN PRISON, ANYONE?South Wales Evening Post, UK - 8 hours agoPoetry indeed! My final point about the popularity of poetry in the local community draws upon many years of personal experience - stand on the Kingsway and ...
- Help schools at the Forum 35 book fair - 2TheAdvocate
Help schools at the Forum 35 book fair2TheAdvocate, LA - 2 hours agoMama Saba will be presenting Hip Hope Verse, a poetry program for teens. She will share poetry and stories geared toward what teens are interested in and ...
- Poetry Out Loud - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Poetry Out LoudChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - May 2, 2008The Poetry Out Loud finals were held in Washington, DC, this week, and the winner was a student from the Virgin Islands who recited “Frederick Douglass” by ...
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