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- Summer festival season is upon us (The Lisle Sun)
Summer's here and the time is right, for dancing in the streets. And eating. And shopping. And riding.
- Blood sport - Abington Mariner
        You can say what you want about the Tabanus Nigrovittatus, which, for a short but brutal three-week period rules the salt marshes from Gloucester to Newburyport, but chances are that it won’t be complimentary because, face it ...
- First Chapter - New York Times
First ChapterNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoHe also wrote poetry. At home we had the slenderest book of his poems: Thirty-three Poems, four or five inches square, bound in a patterned magenta cloth, ...
- Robarchek again at the forefront (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
By Matt Brunson.• The scribblings of longtime (and now retired) Charlotte Observer columnist -- and frequent Best of Charlotte CL award winner -- Doug Robarchek can be found in The Best of the World's Worst Poetry: 20 Very Odd Years of Outfrontery. The paperback, published by the local outfit Main Street Rag, is available for $14. For a sample poem from the book, see Quote This, below right....
- Recovery and Discovery - RedOrbit
Recovery and DiscoveryRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoDudley has been writing poetry since the 1980s and showcases his performance pieces at all sorts of places, from the Edinburgh Fringe to this coming July's ...
- Latitude: Highlights and music line-up - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Latitude: Highlights and music line-upNorfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK - 7 hours agoWinner of the Forward Poetry prize who has made waves since the publication of his Look We Have Coming to Dover! His work describes the experience of the ...
- Local author set to be published - Ironton Tribune
Local author set to be publishedIronton Tribune, OH - 5 hours ago“I’ve always had a passion for it. I started out writing poetry,†she said. “I wanted to write a children’s book.†What she came up with is “The Magic ...
- 'The Riders are Just Regular Employees' - Spiegel Online
Spiegel Online'The Riders are Just Regular Employees'Spiegel Online, Germany - 8 hours agoNow the poetry is gone, the sublime has been steamrolled. The riders are just regular employees. They no longer live in an aura of brilliance. ...
- Marginalia: Suspended until further notice (Al-Ahram Weekly)
"Are the Arabs ready for a literary revolution?" the cover of the Extra section of the British daily The Independent asked on 15 April, the day following the opening of the London Book Fair (14-16 April), an event which this year designated the Arab publishing industry as "market focus".
- The Power of Poetry : Boy Beaten to Death Over Love Poem - Seattle Post Intelligencer
The Power of Poetry : Boy Beaten to Death Over Love PoemSeattle Post Intelligencer - 26 minutes ago16 year old Surjit Singh wrote a love poem in praise of an older girl. The problem was the girl was an "upper caste girl" and such cross-caste appreciation ...
- Quillblog exclusive: Summer reading picks from Lawrence Hill ... - Quillblog
Quillblog exclusive: Summer reading picks from Lawrence Hill ...Quillblog, Canada - 4 hours agoBetween these meals, I’ll snack on three books of American poetry: Time and Materials by Robert Hass, Nomina by Karen Volkman, and Azores by David Yezzi. ...
- Teens to get new space at club (Berkshire Eagle)
PITTSFIELD — Back to the future. The Boys and Girls Club of Pittsfield will use part of a recent $13.9 million gift to revitalize a dance hall-like room known as The Lighthouse, once considered "the place to be" for area teens.
- Cultural Life: Ben Whishaw, Actor - Independent
Cultural Life: Ben Whishaw, ActorIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoI love the way he writes about fantasy, truth, honesty and lies with such courage, passion, humour and poetry. I think he's a true original. ...
- Exhibit on Bulgaria Hero and Poet Hristo Botev Opens in National Library (Novinite.com)
An exhibition dedicated to the life of the Bulgarian revolutionary hero and world-renown poet Hristo Botev (1848-1876) was opened Monday in the National Library in Sofia by the Parliament Speaker Georgi Pirinski.
- Death and loss to be examined - Scoop
People can learn about loss and grief from a poet and world leader on these subjects at a workshop to be presented by Mercy Hospice Auckland, the University of Auckland and the National Association for Loss and Grief. Professor Bob Neimeyer is ...
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