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- Hallmark Launches World's First Twitter-only Romantic Verse ... - Yahoo Finance
Hallmark Cards is giving the UK's wannabe romantic poets, writers and song-smiths the chance to show off their talents through a new national creative writing contest, launching today. But there's a unique twist - it needs to be done in just 140 ...
- What our critics are listening to - RocNow
What our critics are listening toRocNowLots of composers try to set poems to music, and while many may do so with nice results, it's not often that the music is fully reflective of the verse. ...and more »
- Sentinel Morning Update: Mechanicsburg teacher named semifinalist - Cumberland County Sentinel
I love teaching because every day is new; every day is different ... class period with a hook — a video clip, a game, or perhaps a silly song, as she did at the start of Wednesday’s poetry class — to lure her students into a 40-minute English ...
- Friend's influence not soon forgotten - Clinton News
No matter the occasion, the season or the reason for her presence, Betty Pope (1927-2009) was never out of style. She had a rare and hard-to-define personality and calmness of spirit that automatically surfaced from within her very being. She was ...
- Events calendar: 2-4 - Toledo Blade
Events calendar: 2-4Toledo BladeD'vine Design: 116 Louisiana Ave., Perrysburg; 874-2816; jewelry, paintings, sculptures, metal works, rug weaving, and poetry art; on permanent view. ...
- Surfing the Net with kids: Presidents' Day - Boston Globe
Although the federal government calls the holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February, Washington’s Birthday, most people (and many states) call it Presidents’ Day. Presidents’ Day became popularized in the mid-1980s as a holiday ...
- Following her bliss: Waco native leaving post at LBJ Library to savor life's next chapter (Waco Tribune-Herald)
Betty Sue Flowers delivered a commencement address to liberal arts honors students last month at the University of Texas. She dressed in the scarlet and black ceremonial regalia. She evoked Joseph Campbell’s call to “Follow Your Bliss.†And in a fleeting moment, she marveled at the presence of poetry, a dramatic sense of déjà vu, all around her in Hogg Auditorium.
- Shakespeare In Paradise 2010 Productions Announced - thebahamasweekly.com
thebahamasweekly.comShakespeare In Paradise 2010 Productions Announcedthebahamasweekly.comWritten in 1927, this work is based on a book of poems by Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. ...
- Safe harbor school - Idaho State Journal
POCATELLO — Only the sound of footsteps — no voices — can be heard when lines of students pass through the halls at the Academy at Roosevelt Center. They’re just as quiet during their bathroom breaks. In each classroom at ...
- Elective Affinities - San Diego weekly Reader
And the narrative imagination reaches heights of poetry accessible only to the Romantic with ... mysteries of the human heart -- the film bypassed the art-house circuit in America, or rather American art houses opted to pass over the film, and it ...
- Celebrated Poet DA Powell to Read at Sweet Briar - SBC News
SBC NewsCelebrated Poet DA Powell to Read at Sweet BriarSBC NewsAdmission is free. Powell is the author of the widely acclaimed poetry collections “Tea,†“Lunch†and “Cocktails.†The three books have been considered a ...
- Ivory Tower of Babel - CU Columbia Spectator
Ivory Tower of BabelCU Columbia SpectatorFor Mark Hay, a Columbia College sophomore, the choice to study Hindi-Urdu was as much a visceral choice as an intellectual one. “I'm an Indophile,†he says ...
- Hometown heart behind the ‘Heights’ - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - Lin-Manuel Miranda doesn’t have to look far to see the signposts of his youth. The songwriter and actor has spent a majority of his three decades living within a 10 block-radius of the quiet cafe in which he’s ensconced on this winter ...
- 200 years after his birth, Chopin remains a key composer - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post Gazette200 years after his birth, Chopin remains a key composerPittsburgh Post GazetteNo other composer brought that much poetry into piano music." Students, too, benefit from Chopin as a teacher. "Students, who can master Chopin's works with ...and more »
- Emma Watson Is Single, Brings Hope to Wizard-Loving Geeks Everywhere - Celebuzz (blog)
Celebuzz (blog)Emma Watson Is Single, Brings Hope to Wizard-Loving Geeks EverywhereCelebuzz (blog)Maybe someone in show-biz like herself, or a quiet student-type who writes love poems in iambic pentameter when he's not studying comparative literature? ...and more »
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