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- The Keats, Lung and TB Story teaches children about local history and medicine (London SE1)
Pupils from Cathedral School performed "The Keats, Lung and TB Story" at Guy's Chapel on Wednesday. The play was staged as the culmination of an interactive programme designed to teach children more about science and their bodies.
- 'The Writing Class' by Jincy Willett is a killer murder mystery - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 326 pp., $24.95. Jincy Willett, author of the comic, and bravely titled, "Winner of the National Book Award," has written a murder mystery involving a writing class and has pulled it off brilliantly. The teacher is ...
- Biography - Favorite Poet - Rod McKuen - Gather.com
Biography - Favorite Poet - Rod McKuenGather.com, MA - 12 minutes agoReturning to the US and settling in San Francisco, he read his poetry alongside Beat icons like Kerouac and Ginsberg, and began performing as a singer at ...
- David Berman Finds Comfort In His Own Head - New York Sun
David Berman Finds Comfort In His Own HeadNew York Sun, United States - 22 minutes agoMr. Berman, who also is an established poet and academic (he released a collection of poetry, "Actual Air," in 1999), endured a crippling period of ...
- Authors club annouces Youth Writing contest (Salina Journal)
The Kansas Authors Club announces its 2008 Writing Contest for Youth. Kansas students, grades 1 through 12, may submit one entry in each of three categories. Entrants are grouped according to grade, with different word limits, for poetry and prose (fiction and nonfiction) on any subject.
- Take a Stroll Down Psycho Boulevard -- New Poetry Book Criticizes Conservative Politics and Talks About Society (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 30, 2008 -- Is America falling apart as conservatism leads the way for us all? Find the answers and analyze for yourself by reading Psycho Boulevard, an intriguing new book featuring the insights and poetry talent of author Dennis Doph.
- Willie Nelson - Houston Chronicle
A recent exhaustive biography about Willie Nelson rid me of the need to ask much about the minutiae of his life. So, for the most part, we stuck to songs. Despite the beat-up guitar, the pot smoking, the braids, the tall tales from rowdier days and ...
- Fourth in the four part series: Earl J. Dias - South Coast Today
City takes a backhoe to kids' sign Sex offender charged with assaulting teen in cemetery Driver dies in MBTA train collision Sheriff's legal tab in union case tops $500,000 Reputed gang members arrested in multi-agency sweep 'Sticker shock' for Elm ...
- Out and About: April 30 - May 10 - Taunton Call
Out and About: April 30 - May 10Taunton Call, USA - 5 minutes agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- Government of Canada Supports March Hare Literary Festival - Market Wire (press release)
Government of Canada Supports March Hare Literary FestivalMarket Wire (press release) - 17 hours agoThe growing festival has built non-traditional poetry audiences through its imaginative mix of artists and venues, while at the same time continuing to ...
- News Categories (Yemen Observer)
The Contesting National Unification Hymns and Songs Assessment Committee, presided over by the president’s cultural advisor Dr. Abdul-Aziz al-Maqaleh, reviewed various poems submitted to a recent contest dealing with Yemeni unification.
- Remember When: Sub skipper had no time for heroes at war's end (Vero Press Journal)
In July 1945, just weeks before the Japanese surrendered to end the war in the Pacific, my new submarine, USS Diablo, was in her last stages of training before starting her first war patrol. The realistic training mission, conducted on the surface, was to find and "rescue" two aviators in a rubber life raft on a windy, dark, moonless night, 30 miles south of Pearl Harbor in the Pacific. This ...
- Book review: Finding the deeper Albert Camus in his 'Notebooks, 1951-1959' (International Herald Tribune)
Beneath the author's ideological quarrels is a deeper unhappiness with the critical bent of the Paris intelligentsia.
- Life’s Short - Anchorage Press
Life’s ShortAnchorage Press, AK - 1 hour agoUnsurprisingly, Cockburn’s travel experiences emerge frequently in his songs, such as “This Is Baghdad” from his latest album, 2006’s Life Short Call Now. ...
- Music of Remembrance: Remembering creators of beauty in times of terror (Seattle Times)
Music of Remembrance, presenting classical-music works that commemorate the Holocaust, premiered a commission by Paul Schoenfield, "Ghetto Songs," which reworks the poetry of Mordecai Gebirtig.
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