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- Queen Elizabeth's thankless poet - femalefirst.co.uk
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says writing for the British royal family is a "thankless" task which is "incredibly difficult". Andrew won the prestigious post - which sees him write poems to celebrate major state and government events, such as royal ...
- Community gets together to help prisoners - Daily Illini
Community gets together to help prisonersDaily Illini, IL - 13 hours agoThey ask for poetry, dictionaries, history, conspiracy books, novels and political science." Not only do volunteers help and identify with those in jail, ...
- On the Down-Low in the Meltdown (And Who Gets Screwed) (New America Media)
Diving into the alphabet soup of the economic meltdown, Ali Mir explains the collapse and considers the Obama victory and the next Act in the struggle.
- Fall TV reviews: 'Heroes' is confusing, 'Gary' is promising - Kalamazoo Gazette
NEW YORK -- The fall TV season officially started Monday, and NBC popped the cork with its returning "Heroes." CBS is ringing in the new year with "Gary Unmarried" (8:30 tonight). Back for its third season, "Heroes" is confronting high expectations ...
- Teenagers invited to enter writing contest (The Oxford Press)
FAIRFIELD — The Lane Libraries will soon launch its seventh annual Teen Writing Contest, "Our Own Words," for short story and poetry writers ages 13-18. Work will be judged on originality, clarity, ideas presented, voice, word choice, presentation, sentence structure/fluency and spelling.
- Surveillance Society: New High-Tech Cameras Are Watching You - Popular Mechanics
Surveillance Society: New High-Tech Cameras Are Watching YouPopular Mechanics, NY - 14 hours agoDozens of cameras record hundreds of hours of video daily, a volume that strains the monitoring capability of guards. The National Park Service has enlisted ...
- Check Out These Page-Turners (Washington Post)
Book festivals: They are fall's antidote to the summer's not-exactly-mentally- stimulating county fairs and fireworks shows, outdoor screenings and beach trips.
- Reason behind the rhymes (The Telegraph)
Does Sukumar Roy need garnishing? Does Abol Tabol really need a musical dip? The modest turnout at the poet’s 101st birth anniversary celebrations, at Nehru Children’s Museum on October 30, seemed to imply that perhaps Roy’s nonsense rhymes, too, need that extra something.
- North Texas Events coming up, October 31 - Times Record News
North Texas Events coming up, October 31Times Record News, TX - 46 minutes agoCowboy poetry, Western music, artwork and more. (940) 549-1470. CLASSIC FILM SERIES: DETOUR 7 pm Nov. 18, Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU. ...
- Visiting children’s author sets poetry to music at Newell (Grand Island Independent)
Poetry was bouncing off the walls all day at Newell Elementary.
- Turning Sophocles's Burial at Thebes into an opera - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukTurning Sophocles's Burial at Thebes into an operaTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 52 minutes agoI'd never met a composer with such a perfect understanding of poetry." But what about Walcott's involvement? "The idea for that came when my wife bought me ...
- Green Festival in San Francisco (San Jose Mercury News)
The San Francisco Green Festival kicks off Nov. 14 with a big party featuring hip-hop pioneer Chuck D and an evening of music and poetry and continues Nov. 15-16 with more than 400 exhibits, how-to workshops and presentations on all aspects of green living.
- Partners in words - Hindu
HinduPartners in wordsHindu, India - 1 hour agoThey collaborated on three plays written in verse, even though Auden’s chosen medium was poetry and Isherwood achieved fame with his novels. ...
- Self-publishing panel at Camden library - knox.VillageSoup.com
knox.VillageSoup.comSelf-publishing panel at Camden libraryknox.VillageSoup.com, ME - 40 minutes agoCAMDEN (Nov 18): The Camden Public Library will host a panel discussion on self-publishing poetry 6:30 pm Tuesday, Nov. 25, in the Jean Picker Room of ...
- Society's holiday gala to benefit new program offering art classes ... - Nashua Telegraph
Society's holiday gala to benefit new program offering art classes ...Nashua Telegraph, NH - 18 hours agoUnique performances are scheduled throughout the weekend by singer and instrumentalist Kim Riley, storyteller Meg Brown, poetry Marissa Houle, ...
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