Festival
October 6, 2009
- There are so many places that I would still like to visit in the United States, and Washington D.C. is one of them. In addition to the many significant historic sites it has to offer, one place that I absolutely want to visit and explore is the Library of Congress. I came across an article from The Epoch Times, which covered the recent ninth annual book festival that took place at the ...
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October 1, 2009
- There are many Moon Festival stories. So this is only one story about the Moon Festival here in Taiwan. A long time ago a man called Houyi saved the earth from 10 hot suns shining in the sky. He shot 9 of them down with his bow and arrow because he was a great archer. His wife was the beautiful Chang Er. Over time Houyi became a bad Emperor, ruling his people like a bully on the playground – ...
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September 27, 2009
- We decided to see what was going on at the 6th annual Martinez Italian Street Painting Festival today, which took place on Main Street in Martinez, California. As we drove under the old non-working train track through the signal into the main stretch of street that would take us down the main, I had forgotten how much I love driving through this town. I was telling boyfriend that it feels ...
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August 2, 2009
- The plan is to do a 6 hour radio show called Virtual Woodstock on Radio 1190 (radio1190.org) from 12-6pm on Monday Aug 17, the 40th anniversary of the last day of the official show. Jimi Hendrix played the next day, Monday morning, so it went a little over, and this may also. The first thing you notice when you go hunting for this material is how little has been officially produced. At ...
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July 4, 2009
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG74lFzZWE4Here's a slideshow I made for the poetry festival I ran on Sunday, May 17. This was the sixth year for the festival. The purpose of this showcase event is to celebrate the literary journals that give us poets a place for our work. Each year I invite twelve editors to participate—twelve because of the amount of space available. Each editor then invites ...
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June 10, 2009
- Just a quick note to anyone reading this: my first published novel, "From Where The Rivers Come," was awarded an "honorable mention" in the Fiction category at the New York Book Festival for small-published and self-published works "deserving greater recognition."This is the first award for fiction I've won since high school, and the first professional award with a ...
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May 22, 2009
- Let’s say you encountered this sentence: 新聞はあなたの脇にあります。 You likely know 新聞 as shinbun (newspaper, new + hearsay), so you could read the whole sentence, except perhaps for one troublesome character smack-dab in the center. Trying to work around it, you would have this: Shinbun wa anata no ___ ni arimasu. The newspaper is in your … driveway? Birdcage? ...
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May 22, 2009
- Visit my tent at Abingdon's Plumb Alley Day, Saturday, May 23, all day. I'll be somewhere in the vicinity of Hurt & Associates and 159 W. Main Street.
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May 21, 2009
- This past Sunday was the annual Poetry Festival: A Celebration of Literary Journals, an event that I developed six years ago and have run each year since. The festival is always exciting and fun, a day filled with poetry lovers, poets, poems, journals, conversation. This year was extra special for me. Read on and find out why.This is Mayor Joseph Tempesta, of West Caldwell, NJ, where the festival ...
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May 13, 2009
- Sunday, May 17, 2009Poetry Festival: A Celebration of New Jersey’s Literary Journals (and Some Neighbors)12 Journals and Editors: Edison Literary Review, Exit 13, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Lips, The Literary Review, New York Quarterly, Now Culture, Painted Bride Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, River Poets Journal, Tiferet, and US 1 WorksheetsJournals will be available along with ...
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