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- Mad About Art in August (Valley Reporter)
The Mad River Valley has a thriving arts community, but in August local artists really put on a show! The Vermont Festival of the Arts includes more than 125 events, each one as unique as the artist, artisan, musician or muse creating them.
- Ryan Adams, the Book - Gawker
The musician/experimental blogger is already publishing a book of poetry, and today's Page Six says he's "signed with indie Brooklyn house Akashic Books." Is it the same poetry book they're referring to—or a separate one? (Our e-mail to Adams ...
- The $25 Haiku - Denver Post
The $25 HaikuDenver Post, CO - 56 minutes agoIf it all makes you feel like you've got something to say in a 5-7-5 poetry form, enter a one-stanza haiku at lifestyle@denverpost.com or file it at ...
- Christian youth groups get ready for a battle of the bands - IdahoStatesman.com
Christian youth groups get ready for a battle of the bandsIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 3 hours agoBY STEPHANIE EDDY - seddy@idahostatesman.com Sometimes the lyrics come in the middle of the night, and sometimes, like poetry, they build over time. ...
- LAist Interview: Ed Park, founding editor of The Believer and author ... - Laist.com
Ed Park is in town this week to read from and sign Personal Days , his funny, frightening & frighteningly spot-on novel about modern-day office life in this time of mergers, acquisitions, and business books full of empty platitudes that encourage ...
- News Briefs July 25, 2008 - Saipan Tribune
News Briefs July 25, 2008Saipan Tribune, Micronesia - 3 hours agoAn evening candlelight vigil featuring performances of peace songs and poetry by community members will be held at 7pm on the night of the ceremony. ...
- In the driver's seat - Globe and Mail
In the driver's seatGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoThere is no melodrama in her tone; death is what she wants, has wanted for some time. The kids ask what their mother said. Hattie spontaneously replies that ...
- NSU professor wins poetry contest - Alexandria Town Talk
NSU professor wins poetry contestAlexandria Town Talk, LA - 4 hours agoJulie Kane, an associate professor of English at Northwestern State University, won the Open Poetry Sonnet Competition, which was sponsored by Open Poetry ...
- Academics unearth UK's oldest joke 1 Aug 2008, 1356 hrs IST,IANS (The Times of India)
LONDON: A 1,000-year-old double-meaning wry observation is what British academics consider to be their country's oldest joke. They found it in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral.
- Bosnia's butcher poet - The Australian
Bosnia's butcher poetThe Australian, Australia - 34 minutes agoIn 2005, he thumbed his nose at the world by publishing a book of poetry, Under the Left Breast of the Century. From Pale, Ljiljana reacted yesterday to his ...
- The road to Nirvana - Kolkata Newsline
The road to NirvanaKolkata Newsline, India - 3 hours agoIn fact, it was during interactions with another Kolkata-based poet that Baker first heard of the American who had come to Kolkata and poetry over cups of ...
- SPOKEN WORD Day One scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison - Isthmus
SPOKEN WORD Day One scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in MadisonIsthmus, WI - Aug 6, 2008Nearly two-thirds of the 76 teams in the National Poetry Slam competed in their first bouts on Tuesday night at multiple venues throughout downtown Madison. ...
- Kay Ryan is the new poet laureate - Philadelphia Inquirer
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to ...
- Adventures in Learning - Daily News Journal
Those attending the Adventures in Learning four-week Spirituality and Space for Rest, Relaxation and Healing course in September will learn how to press the pause button in their hectic life. Whether it is through prayer, meditation, enjoying a ...
- Stanford Summer Theater opens its 10th anniversary season (San Jose Mercury News)
Stanford theater program celebrates the work of Irish playwright Brian Friel
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