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- Motivation pays off for WCA essay winners - Coloradoan
And Windsor Charter Academy fifth-grade teacher Jen Stowe is partly to thank. "This all started out as an assignment," Stowe said. "After that, I gave the students the option of submitting their essays for the contest. And I believe by giving them ...
- Poetry, Bow Ties, Station Wagons, and the Scholarly Life - Inside Higher Ed
Poetry, Bow Ties, Station Wagons, and the Scholarly LifeInside Higher Ed, DC - 12 minutes agoI was an economically-challenged immigrant kid from New Jersey trying out an English major because an acquaintance back in Portugal had told me that if I ...
- Author brings opposing selves together in collection of essays - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Author brings opposing selves together in collection of essaysFairbanks Daily News-Miner, AK - 16 hours agoPoetry in prose form. Many of her essays touch on loneliness, even when in a crowd. I found myself wondering if the loneliness is related to being in her ...
- The sound of love - New Statesman
New StatesmanThe sound of loveNew Statesman, UK - 15 minutes agoIt is a philosophy that proved to be fruitful ground for the Syrian poet Adonis, a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry who, it is rumoured, has been nominated ...
- Stratford Library gets kids' 'nook' (Connecticut Post)
STRATFORD -- From Grisham mysteries to the poetry of Frost and Tolstoy classics, Carol Pieper was never without a book in her hands, or short on advice for children about what to read.
- Poetry slam showcases diversity of talent, thought (The Wilmington Star-News)
The audience laughed, gasped, cringed, clapped as some of the Port City's poets exposed their hearts at a poetry slam by the river.
- Fiction and reality - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphFiction and realityCalcutta Telegraph, India - 12 hours agoNovember 26 at Aikatan, IA 290 Salt Lake; 5 pm: In collaboration with Sahaj, EZCC will host a literary conference and poetry session. ...
- The North Star: A Moving Target (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
One of my earliest memories of looking up at the night sky happened when I was about 6 or 7 years old. I was visiting an uncle of mine, and on an early fall evening at dusk he pointed almost directly over our heads at a brilliant, bluish-white star. "See that star, Joey? That's the North Star, the brightest star in the sky."
- The Pajamaist by Matthew Zapruder - Bookslut
The Pajamaist by Matthew ZapruderBookslut, IL - 3 hours agoSound, not light, carries the force of creation in this poem, and Zapruder wryly marks neighborly gossip as a source of pleasure (“a little musicâ€) as well ...
- Charles Carroll - am New York
Today Poet in nature HoCoPoLitSo (Howard County Poetry and Literature Society), in partnership with the Howard County Conservancy, will sponsor a family-focused program of poetry and nature with poet Joy Harjo at 3 p.m. at the conservancy, 10520 Old ...
- Local Talent Wins Going West Poetry Slam (Scoop.co.nz)
Avondale’s Courtney Meredith won the Going West Poetry Slam on Saturday night – the first woman to ever win the event.
- Paul McCartney - Guardian Unlimited
Billed as an evening with playwright Willy Russell and friends, this event deteriorated into a media circus for the launch of Paul McCartney's new career as a poet. McCartney, it was announced, would fill the last spot in the event (ostensibly a ...
- Close to home : Take time to indulge (The New Zealand Herald)
Pamper yourself at Pawhaoa Bay Lodge in the Bay of Islands. A spring package is available until October 30 and includes two nights' accommodation, pre-dinner drinks and brunch and dinner. It is $700 per couple, $650 per couple for groups of four or more or $375 per person twin-share.
- Novel's inspiration came on ball field (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
"Baseball's a magical sport for me," says Bill Meissner, who has always loved the sport but was never good enough to play seriously. Now, he writes about it.
- Fight of McLure's splendid life - Iowa City Press-Citizen
On my way to see my friend, the educator and poet John McLure, I was immersed in a myriad of reminiscences and feelings. Between the joy of seeing him and my deep sorrow that he is ill, I found myself in a state of melancholy and wretchedness. It was ...
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