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- Jilted husband guilty of murder (Vancouver Province)
Former waiter said he just wanted to scare romantic rival, but gun was fired at close range.
- Village poet receives six awards (Hot Springs Village Voice)
Marilyn Camden Norton of Hot Springs Village was recently notified that she had received six awards in the 71st Ohio Poetry Day 2008 Contest. The notification came from contest chairman, Bill Reyer, Department of English, at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio.
- Iola spirit of teamwork provides support from within (Navasota Examiner)
“I know if we ever need help, we can always come back to our teachers,†says Iola High School Salutatorian Divin Leigh Upchurch, who is the daughter of Robert and Denise Upchurch of Bedias and acquired a 3.94 GPA.
- Plattsburgh Writers Group supports newcomers, veterans (Plattsburgh Press Republican)
PLATTSBURGH -- Patrick O'Brien writes his short stories in West Chazy, but on the second Monday of the month he goes to Plattsburgh to get "some feedback and Katherine's gentle criticism."
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life - Radar Online
Patti Smith: Dream of LifeRadar Online, NY - 1 hour agoThe film opens with a blurry shot of running horses (a reference to her debut album) and Smith dishing hard-knuckled wisdom in spoken-word poetry. ...
- Hillcrest CityFest 2008 - San Diego Union-Tribune
The 25th annual Hillcrest CityFest celebrates this eclectic community with a full day of fine art, food and live entertainment. The free street fair runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will be held along Fifth Avenue, from Upas Street to University ...
- Book takes readers on backroads tour (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
Austin area author Amy K. Brown focuses on 10 regional themes in her Texas travel book, Backroads & Byways of Texas (The Countryman Press, $16.95 ...
- Kudos: San Francisco's Mission district lights up with flowers and song (The San Francisco Examiner)
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. Wordsmiths will find some choice cuts Thursday through Saturday at this year's "Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry" in San Francisco's Mission District.
- Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' - International Herald Tribune
Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places'International Herald Tribune, France - 20 minutes agoIt is a formidable consideration by a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence - poetry, really - with the breathless ease of a master angler, a writer whose ...
- On issues, Obama poetry won't rhyme - Everett Herald
Barack Obama is such a stand-up guy that he'll stand up twice -- once for each side of an issue. The poetry reading on change and hope is over. Now that he has to talk about real policy, there's little rhyme in the rhythm. Take James Johnson, who was ...
- Former teacher still remembered at 100 (Altoona Mirror)
When Eleanore Steckman celebrated her 100th birthday May 30, she received more than 150 birthday cards from family, friends and past students. Some students included the long list of prepositions they were made to memorize from her English classes at Keith Junior High School.
- Do North calendar, part 2 - Eagle-Tribune
HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. Site includes House of the Seven Gables (Turner-Ingersoll Mansion) that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, his birthplace and other historic houses, Colonial Revival gardens designed in 1909 and costumed interpreters ...
- Police rally around officer shattered by Cowra axe attack - News.com.au
LYING in her hospital bed yesterday, the female senior constable's physical pain was nothing compared with her emotional turmoil. The 31-year-old has not only lost her mother and two young children - but also her father, who stands accused of their ...
- American Teen: Reality bites the documentary - Creative Loafing Sarasota
American Teen: Reality bites the documentaryCreative Loafing Sarasota, FL - 15 minutes agoThe smoothly digestible freneticism of WALL-E's last act is a bit of a let-down after the near-minimalist poetry of the unconventional opening passages ...
- Vidal takes aim and why the web makes us dumb - Canberra Times
Welcome, to a hopefully weekly blog which will take a wide global view of the books and information worlds. Rather than impose my thoughts on the on-line readership, I'll usually try and sift through and then annotate key interesting trends and ...
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