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- NORM: Duck to water: Phelps and poker - Las Vegas Review Journal
Olympic swimming royalty Michael Phelps continues to possess the Midas touch. We also now know that he's a fast learner. Six weeks after coming to Las Vegas to learn how to play poker, Phelps made the final table of the Caesars Palace Poker Classic ...
- An Irish playwright revisits the American dream (International Herald Tribune)
Ronan Noone has moved to American subjects after the series of Irish ensemble plays, and is taking on New York with a star, Campbell Scott, in "The Atheist," about a compromised, washed-up celebrity journalist.
- We were teachers for the day - CBBC Newsround
CBBC NewsroundWe were teachers for the dayCBBC Newsround, UK - 57 minutes agoBut the literacy lesson was even more fun because we did rhyming poetry. Also in the lesson we were disrupted by a filming crew who filmed the teaching and ...
- Poetic opportunity to celebrate Fairtrade anniversary - Southport Visiter
Poetic opportunity to celebrate Fairtrade anniversarySouthport Visiter, UK - 48 minutes agoWRITERS in Southport are being called on to write about Fairtrade for a poetry competition. Sefton Council has backed the event, which is to celebrate the ...
- Celebrating 91 years of independent Finland - Helsinki Times (subscription)
Helsinki Times (subscription)Celebrating 91 years of independent FinlandHelsinki Times (subscription), Finland - Dec 3, 2008This custom used to commemorate the birthday of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the patriarch of Finnish poetry, as a demonstration of national identity. ...
- Travel calendar (Contra Costa Times)
Events and happenings in the world of travel
- Poetry night at the Gregson - The Visitor
Poetry night at the GregsonThe Visitor, UK - 2 hours agoLANCASTER'S Gregson Centre will host a night of poetry tonight (Wednesday, October 22) with a varied line-up of writers. Starting at 7.30pm the night is ...
- It's no secret: 'Tell No One' is a first-class shocker - Kalamazoo Gazette
Kristin Scott Thomas and Francois Cluzet star in the French thriller "Tell No One," which will be shown this weekend at the Little Theatre. It's said that good things come to those who wait, and American audiences have had to wait almost two years to ...
- Sample uncommon yet beautiful forms of expression in these works - Sun and Press
"What Remains" (Nightshade Press) by Joe Weil. In a culture saturated by best-selling novels and titillating "tell-all" memoirs, more beautiful forms of literary expression are often pushed aside. Poetry falls victim to this more often than it should ...
- Poetry slam features locals, city slickers at Chico Peace ... - Enterprise-Record
Poetry slam features locals, city slickers at Chico Peace ...Enterprise-Record, CA - 13 hours agoBy DEEANN RESK - The Buzz CHICO -- US Poet Laureate, Rita Dove, once wrote, "Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ...
- Hall feted at 80, for new book - Laconia Citizen
Hall feted at 80, for new bookLaconia Citizen, NH - 1 hour agoAll three subjects figure prominently in Hall's opus which has included poetry, numerous prose works, plays and even sports journalism; but his writing ...
- Sun City senior recognized for her poetry by Mensa - Press-Enterprise
Sun City senior recognized for her poetry by MensaPress-Enterprise, CA - 44 minutes agoHer writing takes other creative forms: children's fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Her poetry recently received national recognition from Mensa, ...
- Author Publishes Debut Novel - PR.com (press release)
Author Publishes Debut NovelPR.com (press release), NY - 14 minutes ago... “When I think of my childhood I visualize Mother with spiral notebooks: journaling, writing poetry and short stories. I started journaling early in life ...
- Talking Myself Home, by Ian McMillan (Independent)
Ian McMillan's latest collection of poems – completing nearly 30 years in the business – is subtitled "My Life in Verses". The echo of John Betjeman's Summoned By Bells, promoted in 1960 by the same publishing house as a "verse autobiography", is instant. The heart shrinks: all that archaism, all that jollity, the unanswerable question Betjeman poses ("Why is this account... not written in ...
- ‘Library in the Park’ set for Saturday (The Valdosta Daily Times)
The Judeo-Christian Public Library will host “Library in the Park” from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday at McKey Park.
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