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- Neofile: Andy Murray's Scottish highlights - Times Online
Neofile: Andy Murray's Scottish highlightsTimes Online, UK - 3 hours ago... at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, which continues all this week. Of almost 1000 entries to its annual competition, more than 33% deal with “death, decay, ...
- The refined and the folksy (The Daily Tribune)
Bacolod City is the gateway to Negros Occidental, known as the Philippines’ “Sugarlandia.” The province prospered with sugar, its vast tracts of land planted with sugar cane. During its heyday, mansions were built and the lifestyle was lavish.
- National magazine, "Hope Keepers", publishes work by Laura Beth Young. - 24-7PressRelease.com (press release)
National magazine, "Hope Keepers", publishes work by Laura Beth Young.24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - 2 hours agoThe poem published in "Hope Keepers" was written when she was feeling her life could only be joyful if her chronic spinal condition improved. ...
- Psst! Something's bothering your pet - Detroit Free Press
Ears twitching wildly, Nikki and Lucy hovered near the telephone, aroused by the caller on the other end. He was their cat whisperer" and the girls had something to tell me: "Their food tastes like sawdust." Nikki and Lucy are my 10-year-old cats ...
- A job for a professional - Guardian Unlimited
Picture the scene: it's 2011 and there is a late-night meeting of high-ranking civil servants in an office somewhere in Whitehall; men and women in suits are discussing matters of policy, their briefing notes spread across the table like confetti ...
- Girls urged to get creative - The Asian News
Girls urged to get creativeThe Asian News, UK - 6 hours agoEntries must fall into one of three categories – poetry, fashion and art/design. l Poetry, to be judged by the Advertiser staff, must be submitted on one ...
- AIMING FOR SAINTHOOD opens July 11 - Broadway World
AIMING FOR SAINTHOOD opens July 11Broadway World, NY - 4 hours agoAiming for Sainthood will be followed by the theatrical adaptation of Susan Hahn’s book of poetry The Scarlet Ibis opening on Thursday, July 24 at 7:30 PM, ...
- Outfront and center: Bad poetry returns! (The Charlotte Observer)
When the Observer's Doug Robarchek retired in 2005, the humor columnist known as the Outfront Guy single-handedly caused a citywide shortage of cheesy jokes that make you laugh in spite of yourself. For readers who've been jonesing for an Outfront fix ever since, great news: A new book, “The Best of the World's Worst Poetry: 20 Very Odd Years of OutFrontery,” ($14, Main Street Rag). Most of ...
- Trashing Robert Frost's home leads to a lesson in poetry - Seattle Times
Leo Hotte of Middlebury College shows an antique chair that was part of the damage wrought by partygoers who ransacked the Homer Noble Farm, a former Robert Frost residence. MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people ...
- Asia's love of 'living art' koi fish growing (Straits Times)
KOI, an ornamental fish which enthusiasts liken to a moving work of art, are gaining popularity across Asia thanks to changing lifestyles and increasingly sophisticated tastes, experts say.
- Growing Pains - Forbes
A dark-haired teen named Elizabeth comes clean on MyYearbook.com about her obsession with self-mutilation. "One night in my room I found a pocket knife and started to cut my arm up," writes Elizabeth, whose profile says she is 14. Her 1,240-word ...
- Central Cong leaders dither on contesting from state - Tribune
Many Central Congress leaders, who are eyeing Punjab as their launch pad for an entry into Parliament in the next Lok Sabha polls, seem to have developed cold feet after the party received a drubbing from the SAD-BJP alliance in the recent Panchayat ...
- Andre Dubus III will speak on "The Garden of Last Days" at 7 pm on ... - Portsmouth Herald News
Andre Dubus III will speak on "The Garden of Last Days" at 7 pm on ...Portsmouth Herald News, NH - 42 minutes ago“I read a lot of poetry, and there is a collection today I started by one of my favorite writers, who is one of those writers like my father (famous short ...
- Enters $1.5 Billion Virtual Goods Market Company Launches First Venture in Partnership with Elvis Presley (INO News)
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 14, 2008--Millions of Us LLC, an agency specializing in virtual worlds and large online communities, today announced that it has launched a new company, "Virtual Greats," to take advantage of the rapidly growing market for virtual goods.
- Two groups offer support for new writers (Pahrump Valley Times)
For those pursuing literary talent and who like some company, Pahrump abounds with talent and enough enthusiasm to support not one but two lively literary groups, both of which are vying for public attention and new members.
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