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- Skating to the top (Coeur d'Alene Press)
COEUR d'ALENE -- The first time Scott Stubblefield's mother saw him skate in a competition, her nerves were in a knot.
- Cynthia Riley, 60, Webster City - Daily Freeman Journal
Cynthia Riley, 60, Webster CityDaily Freeman Journal, IA - 22 hours agoShe was preceded in death by her parents and daughter, Keria Marie Brooks. Cynthia was a member of the First Baptist Church, were she also taught Sunday ...
- Greece's Delphi retains the power to inspire - MiamiHerald.com
Greece's Delphi retains the power to inspireMiamiHerald.com, FL - 24 minutes agoPoetry and singing contests were among the most competitive and well-attended events (foreshadowing the American Idol phenomenon by more than 2000 years). ...
- Birders look forward to annual Shorebird Festival favorites - Homer News
Birders look forward to annual Shorebird Festival favoritesHomer News, AK - 4 hours agoCelebrate birds in poetry and song with "On the Wing," a performance by various musicians and poets at 8 pm Saturday at Bunnell Street Gallery. ...
- Islanders demand legal right to be 'true lesbians' - Belfast Telegraph
Islanders demand legal right to be 'true lesbians'Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - 16 hours agoShe took to writing poetry – lyric poetry, created to be sung to lyre music – and revolutionised the tradition by writing about her own thoughts and ...
- The Fergus Falls Daily Journal (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)
Gerda’s history to be unveiled? The Otter Tail County Historical Society will host a writing contest on Thursday from 6-7 p.m. at the Kadatz Hotel designed to weave a history for “Gerda,†a painting from the historical society’s artifact collection.
- Romanno Bridge, By Andrew Greig - Independent
Romanno Bridge, By Andrew GreigIndependent, UK - 47 minutes agoBy the end of the book, you'll be in no doubt that the author is the same man who has five books of poetry to his name, plus two on mountaineering, ...
- Scratchboard artist gives new meaning to detail - Porterville Recorder
Scratchboard artist gives new meaning to detailPorterville Recorder, CA - 8 hours agoChalk surface board is first spray painted with India ink, and then the artist scratches off the black to create the picture that comes to life in the white ...
- Jazz Legend Joe Beck, Columbia Blowfish - Free Times
Free TimesJazz Legend Joe Beck, Columbia BlowfishFree Times, SC - 6 hours ago... popular poetry night will rise again. Readings begin at 8 pm; call 463-8297 for more information. What’s that? You haven’t gotten around to seeing dark ...
- Hundreds enjoy eco-friendly festival - Oxford Mail
Hundreds enjoy eco-friendly festivalOxford Mail, UK - 4 hours agoI tried harmony singing and poetry." The family festival was organised by brothers Joe and Robin Bennett, of the band Goldrush, as a sister event to ...
- Female Poet Laureate contenders rule themselves out - Telegraph.co.uk
Female Poet Laureate contenders rule themselves outTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoShe said of the current Poet Laureate: "Andrew Motion has been doing a very good job writing poems without making a fool of himself, but he should not be in ...Female contenders rule out 'archaic' post of Poet Laureate IndependentFemale poets recoil from Laureate role First Postall 6 news articles
- Yippe-yi-ya! Get ready to ride, pardners - Pioneer Press
Yippe-yi-ya! Get ready to ride, pardnersPioneer Press, MN - 1 hour agoThe event — cowboy-themed music, movies, poetry, plays, food, yodelers, story-telling, historical figure re-enactors, dancing, rope tricks, wagon rides and ...
- Literary community lobbies for city to create poet laureate - Kingston Whig
By the end of the month, the city's arts and literary community will find out whether a proposal to create a poet laureate for Kingston will become a reality. And compared to the other major projects being bandied about, creating a poet laureate ...
- I'll take (a) Manhattan (The Standard-Times)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
- Leonard Cohen - Canada.com
Leonard CohenCanada.com, Canada - 1 hour agoIt was his mother who encouraged Cohen as a writer, especially of poetry, during his childhood. This fit in with the progressive intellectual environment in ...
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