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Tucked away on the second floor of a North Philadelphia apartment building is Rio Jones, the anonymous bandana-wearing poet currently making a rise on Instagram, the photo and video-sharing platform.

POEM AS LOVELY AS A TREE: Students in Cuyahoga County who love trees and writing are eligible to enter a poetry contest about trees sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District.

If you've ever played Scrabble or Words With Friends , you know how valuable landing double-letter words like "za," "xi," and "yo" can be.

George Saunders gives a speech after winning the 2014 Folio Prize in London on Monday.

Ned O'Gorman, poet and founder of the Children's Storefront, a tuition-free school in Harlem created to combat what he saw as "the pervasive lack of imagination" in children's education, died Friday at age 84 .

Hyderabad, March 10: Award winning textile and fashion designer Gaurang Shah will unveil his "Chandbali" collection of classical Indian weaves fashion innovation at Lakme Fashion Week, beginning in Mumbai Wednesday.

The following was sent in by Eileen Miller of the Block Island Poetry Project after it was announced the group had received a $2,000 grant for 2014: We are so fortunate to have received another grant from the Roosa Foundation for this year's program.

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Did Jesus have a little baby sister? Official history gives no clue but women's voices sing of her to audiences that chuckle, some in delight, others because the idea makes them squirm: an only child so much more fitting as Savior or King of men.

Six Lips Theatre will present HOUSE OF TRAGIC SHE from Friday, 30 May - Sunday, 1 June, at 7:30 p.m. each night.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Love poems written in the sonnet form, all hearts and flowers, are a dime a dozen, so it's a delight to see a poet coming at the sonnet from the flip side.

Poetry lovers are invited to hear 12 student finalists from around the state in New Hampshire's "Poetry Out Loud" competition.

In more ways than one, poetry is cool at the Highland Park Public Library. Since 2005, the institution's Friends of the Library has sponsored a series of free poetry-related events, including readings by poets, open mic nights, and writing workshops.

I would thank her for the the bicycle shops that fix tires without charge and Costco samples on Saturdays, in fact, I would thank her for all of the free things ever except price quotes, I might not thank her for those.

TURNING 21 is a traditional coming-of-age, for organisations as well as people. And if any proof were needed that Glasgow Women's Library has reached maturity, one needs only to look through the pages of the 21 Revolutions, an ambitious collection of new work created for the Library by some of the leading artists and writers in Scotland.

"Friends, with me everything is okay," read the message posted on Facebook by Serhiy Zhadan, Ukraine's most famous counterculture writer.

Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts.

Sunday morning in southern Wisconsin arrived with 6 inches of fluffy new snow hanging in the backyard trees.

Poet Gini Dellow, who raises money for the STARS charity, is producing her own hand-made Mother's Day cards as part of her fund-raising efforts.