Tag: arts
group name: borders
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April 09, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
When I was seven years old, my mother dropped me at the library. She did this every Saturday morning. I was to find a book and take it home for the week.
On this particular week, I was feeling brave, . . . more
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January 10, 2007 08:52 PM EST --
Today, I’m exceptionally excited to announce Gather’s newest writing competition, one of our most promising programs to date: The Gather.com First Chapters Writing Competition. First . . . more
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February 22, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
One of the most common things a new novelist is likely to hear from well- meaning friends and relatives is, “Hey, why don’t you call Oprah
and see if she’ll put you on the show?” . . . more
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July 26, 2007 04:48 PM EDT --
This is one of my beginning pieces and very close to my heart.....
I wake up with the first ray of sunshine. "Should I sleep more or should I wake up?” I contemplate. Another long . . . more
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April 04, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
This is a very intriguing question to me. Do people actually buy CD's anymore? With the closure of Tower Records, and the continuing increase of pirate downloads, does this spell the end of the hard . . . more
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May 02, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
ISIS AS CHILD AT RIVER
My star has fallen from the sky
the star that I'd chosen to pray to.
Has it done this just to terrify
and leave me wanting to die, too.
The sky is high and far away
the . . . more
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May 15, 2007 05:44 PM EDT --
Rarely does a film combine visual brilliance and emotional pitch quite like Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth. It takes place in 1944 Spain, but it represents the sad horror of all wars. It . . . more
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September 01, 2007 03:55 PM EDT --
Angel of the night
As my thoughts race
restless,
in my worried mind.
And dream I chase
you hopeless,
despair I find
I see your face
but darkness
drives me blind
I close my eyes . . . more
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August 22, 2007 11:05 PM EDT --
As the night passed…
like a shadow
And the sun shied…
away from my sorrow
I woke up terrified…
To a midnight dream
You hear me scream…
lone in my room
as the . . . more
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May 13, 2007 02:53 AM EDT --
I thought I'd start hear and end they're. Wear will it all end? Several years ago, in a far aweigh land lived a short phat woman who wove tapestry four a living. Somethymes . . . more
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April 23, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
VENICE, WITH BONES
sack me gobs of lilacs the next time you float through
Venice
the glass lasts longer but is it as fragrant and
rife
all beauty bleeds so fast you have to run madly to
replenish . . . more
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February 06, 2007 09:28 PM EST --
"I don't think writing is an art. I think it's sometimes raised to an art, but basically it's a craft, like cabinet making or carpentry." William Zinsser, On Writing Well
No . . . more
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September 30, 2007 02:18 PM EDT --
The musical "Wicked" has returned to The Opera House in Boston bringing a burst of color to the city's autumn arts scene. It's interesting, though, that a show that features a lead character . . . more
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April 17, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
Peter Swanson's Hollywood Sinners is a loopy "Wizard of Oz" where
assorted down-at-heel characters, all of them of questionable virtue,
cross paths in 1930's Hollywood -- specifically . . . more
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August 15, 2007 09:58 AM EDT --
Nancy Horan's provocative and moving debut novel, Loving Frank, examines an era in architect Frank Lloyd Wright's career that is rarely considered, even by the the most avid followers of his Prairie . . . more
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April 27, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
In the ancient world the had the seven wonders. What would be the seven wonders of the modern American World? Here are mine:
1- Mount Rushmore
2- Empire State Building
3- Space Needle
4- Golden Gate . . . more
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March 23, 2007 01:25 PM EDT --
In 6th grade i didn't get great grades. The teacher I had nticed ny problem after 5 tests . He cared about me getting good grades because he new my potential was great. He said . . . more
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March 20, 2007 08:22 PM EDT --
My First Grade Teacher was memorable to me, because she tried to have me certified as retarded.
I had a Sister 8 years older than me. She taught me to read at at First Grade Level when I was . . . more
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November 19, 2007 08:05 PM EST --
They all wore black.
The perfect color to deliver a hard hitting, high energy night of music with a purpose -- and a conscience. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band had a message to deliver in . . . more
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June 13, 2007 12:40 AM EDT --
Two weeks ago in New York, I had the privilege of appearing on a panel at the Backspace Conference. It was my first experience at a writing conference, and one I'd recommend to anyone in our solitary . . . more
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