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- Death and Dying - Hartford Courant
Alarmed by the recent deaths of two jail inmates who had been shocked with Taser electronic stun weapons, the Orange County Grand Jury on Wednesday recommended that deputies no longer use the weapon if other means to control inmates are available. In ...
- Ibbetson Street Press announces annual poetry contest - Somerville News
Ibbetson Street Press announces annual poetry contestSomerville News, MA - 1 hour agoRecently Ibbetson Street has been included in the prestigious “Index of American Periodical Verse,†along with many other top small press literary journals. ...
- Go & Do - Cool stuff going on - Portsmouth Herald News
Go & Do - Cool stuff going onPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 7 hours agoThe Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program is hold its first ever Ho(o)t Summer Poetry event from 7 to 9 pm on Wednesday, July 2 at Café Espresso, ...
- When the Boat comes in - The Age
The AgeWhen the Boat comes inThe Age, Australia - 41 minutes agoBut his first literary love, before he discovered the short story, even before he attempted the novel, was poetry. When he was completing his Arts/Law ...
- Q&A with California Poet Laureate Al Young (San Francisco Chronicle)
Poetry is music, everyone knows. But few poets connect the two as fluently as California Poet Laureate Al Young. His latest poetry collection, "Something About the Blues" (Sourcebooks; 2007; $22.95), comes with a CD on which he reads blues poetry backed by a...
- Regarding the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (The Union)
From my twentiess on, the magazine Poetry Chicago seemed the main center for American poetry.
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman #8 - Wayne Independent
I have a confession to make. Now, it’s Week 8; by the Universal Law of Diet Columnists, this is supposed to be the part where I tell you about how I haven’t gone to the gym since Week 3, or I’ve been standing in front of my fridge at 2 in the ...
- Folkfest teaches culture within Nipawin On May 3 the Leadership 30 class at L.P. Miller put on their fourth annual ... (Nipawin Journal)
Folkfest teaches culture within Nipawin By Melissa Mangelsen Journal Staff On May 3 the Leadership 30 class at L.P. Miller put on their fourth annual Folkfest.
- Festival fever starts to kick in - Jakarta Post
Festival fever starts to kick inJakarta Post, Indonesia - 1 hour agoThe 2008 Festival is guaranteed to please and covers all genres; from fiction to nonfiction, poetry, journalism, scriptwriting, film, new media, ...
- Lost in Hanoi - VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet BridgeLost in HanoiVietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - 1 hour agoHis latest book of poetry is “Une ligne blancheâ€, which was printed in France in 2007. Folch also won first prize in a photo contest in Lyon city, ...
- Survival tale Be Wolf named Manitoba book of the year (CBC Manitoba)
Alison Calder, a poet and University of Manitoba professor, has won two Manitoba book awards for her debut poetry collection Wolf Tree.
- Leonard Cohen performs for rapturous T.O. crowd (CTV.ca)
After a series of "rehearsal shows," legendary singer and poet Leonard Cohen officially kicked off his world tour Friday with a three-hour performance in front of a rapt Toronto audience.
- Anger and Remembrance for Armenian UCSB Students - The Santa Barbara Independent
Anger and Remembrance for Armenian UCSB StudentsThe Santa Barbara Independent, CA - 13 minutes agoWhile a good part of last night’s ceremony was solemn, the rest was a celebration of Armenian culture, including a dance performance, poetry readings, ...
- Column: ‘Absurd blurbs’ offer hope to hopeless - U-Wire.com
The beginnings of almost any lifetime passion are defined by the confidence it offers you as a child. The kids in my neighborhood couldn’t afford a real musical instrument, let alone lessons. The local schools touted paltry art budgets that had us ...
- Tom Sutcliffe: Would the BMA deny Bond his martini? - The Independent
Some people, it seems, just don't quite understand how drama works. First we had the head of the Bar Council suggesting that Criminal Justice, Peter Moffat's excellent series for BBC One, should be struck from the record as inadmissible evidence. It ...
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