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- Mad Cat Theater Company's stirring it up with 'Mixtape' (Miami Herald)
Remember the mixtape? Before we started downloading music and burning CDs, a personalized tape of carefully chosen, precisely ordered songs was a way to make an artistically expressive personal statement.
- Western weekend enjoyed (Maple Creek Times)
By Kaylie Blair Maple Creek’s 19th annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Western Art and Cowboy Gear Show wrapped up Sept. 21 after a three-day celebration of western art, community and entertainment.
- Redistribution flashback: 1996 - Hotair.com
Barack Obama opened a can of worms with Joe the Plumber and his remarks on government “spreading the wealth”. Over the weekend, an NPR interview from 2001 surfaced in which Obama noted that the failure to achieve redistributive change through ...
- Black waves in Cardiff Bay (NewsWales)
Talented students from Cardiff University creative writing course have had their poetry and prose published in a new anthology.
- Margaret Zarudny Freeman SM ’34 (The Tech)
By Gloria Negri THE BOSTON GLOBE Margaret Zarudny Freeman SM ’34 was only eight when rumblings of the Russian Revolution against the Czarist regime shattered the peace of her quiet village in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Alex Remington: I Am 25 Today: Happy Birthday To Me! (HuffingtonPost)
Today, I am officially a quarter-lifer. I've always been old for my age, I think, the professor's son only child type, the kind of kid...
- Hayden Carruth: Poet who produced work of 'unapologetic affection' despite lifelong struggles with mental illness (Independent)
Hayden Carruth was a gentle, gifted man (though with a marvellously ornery side) who suffered such inner mental torment that he wiped himself off the American poetic map for many years. It was only in relatively old age that he enjoyed the acclaim and rewards his talent deserved, though by then he had developed what a profile writer described as an enduring "respect for disappointment." His ...
- The green thumb of Jack Blue - Augusta Chronicle
The green thumb of Jack BlueAugusta Chronicle, GA - 12 minutes agoHe enjoys writing poetry, and for 12 years, he designed custom Christmas cards, complete with a poem on the back. In December 1994, he wrote a poem called A ...
- Feeling Positive - Cricket365.com
It's been the Yuvraj Singh show at the moment. He's played extremely well and although a slow starter, has hit through the line once he's got in and is extremely difficult to bowl at, at the death. That said I honestly believe England are getting ...
- OFF THE BOARD: The unappreciated art of text messaging - McGill Tribune (subscription)
OFF THE BOARD: The unappreciated art of text messagingMcGill Tribune (subscription), Canada - 3 hours agoElectronic messaging has become the new writer's craft teacher, and our messages are often infused with the same thought and feeling as poetry. ...
- Mac makes last stand in stale 'Soul Men' - MLive.com
The stale buddy road-trip movie "Soul Men" will be remembered mainly as the untimely swan song of Bernie Mac, the comic great who died in August at just 50. When it's about Mac and Samuel L. Jackson, co-starring as former band mates bickering over ...
- Poetry anthologies should reflect women's work - Guardian Unlimited
"Feminism," I once heard Margaret Atwood say, in her marvellously laconic drawl, "is the new 'F' word". She neatly encapsulated the backlash of recent decades against the lively, eloquent, radical activists for women's rights whose works formed the ...
- WGA High School Creative Writing Contest - The Daily Advertiser
Who: All 9th - 12th grade public, private, and home schooled students. Categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Note: A contestant may enter only one category and submit only one entry in that category. All winning entries will be published in ...
- 'Publishing Is Definitely a Business' - OhmyNews
Patricia Fry is an editorial consultant, a publisher and a freelance writer. She is also president of the Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network (SPAWN). In 1983, she set up her own publishing company, Matilija Press and went on to publish ...
- Longridge schoolgirl wins Great War poetry prize - This is Preston
A Longridge school pupil's moving First World War poem, When We Said Goodbye, has won the youngster a special award. St Cecilia’s Roman Catholic Technology College pupil, Lindsay Donickey, won a book about The Great War and £25 from the North ...
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