Nelson's Dustin Stashko shares his list of the best cover songs
Nelson Star
Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show) - This was an unfinished Bob Dylan song that Old Crow Medicine Show took the time to complete. Against Me! strip this song down to an acoustic guitar and hold it together with Tommy Gabel's unpolished voice.
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'Big Easy Express'
RollingStone.com
Members of Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show were on hand at SXSW in Austin to discuss Big Easy Express, a new documentary about the bands' joint trip from the Bay Area to New Orleans by train.
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Back at the Quonset Hut
Nashville Public Radio
When Mead brought in special guests for the first recording session, producer Janas took the opportunity to introduce 36 of his Belmont students to the "old style" of recording. "We brought in Old Crow Medicine Show," Janas says, "And some of the ...
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Musings from Vermont: Evenings of Poetry; Hitchcock; Trivia Contest ...
By jjocarbone
Lucas Farrell is the author of The Many Woods of Grief (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011), which was winner of the 2010 Juniper Prize for Poetry. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in Boston Review, Jubilat, Poetry Daily, ...
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Steel Wheels roll through
McDonough Voice
The Steel Wheels are the final band in the Tri States Public Radio Celebration Concert Series, winding up the season with "a blend of the passion of The Avett Brothers, the instrumentals of Old Crow Medicine Show, and … the backwoods feel of The ...
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Sound Bites: This week's hot concerts
By Courtney Devores
Ketch & Critter. 7 p.m. Saturday, March 17, Neighborhood Theatre, 511 E. 36th St. $20. 704-358-9298. Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua perform two intimate acoustic duo sets that focus on the more traditional side of ...
Sound Bites

Live performance by Mumford & Sons part of SXSW Film's closing day Community Impact Newspaper The film follows three bands, Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show, as they embark on a train from Oakland to New ...

Poetry Contest News--3.14.12

Patricia A. Hawkenson Video Takes First Place in Outskirts Press "Love" Contest San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Poet, artist and educator Patrica A. Hawkenson received her "valentine" of a free Apple iPad 2 from Outskirts Press when her delightful video was voted number one by the self-publisher's fans in their Valentines Day "Show Me the Love" video contest. See all stories on this topic »

A Poem About a Staring Contest Between a Man and a Fish Slate Magazine The switches in point of view may seem familiar to us fans of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon who have been schooled in relativity, but what could have prepared a reader of the 1830s for this poem involving a staring contest between a man and a fish? See all stories on this topic » Slate Magazine

Tulare County's students take the stage for poetry contest Visalia Times-Delta Kindergarten students from Monson-Sultana Elementary School perform a poem at the Poetry and Prose event Monday at the Tulare County Office of Education complex in Visalia. Eric Woomer Alysa Garaygordobil, 9, of Columbine Elementary School, Delano, ... See all stories on this topic »

Finding poetry on the sidewalks of St. Paul Minnesota Public Radio So far, they've added poems to nearly 300 sidewalk panels. This year's contest for sidewalk poetry begins this week. I asked the program's creator, St. Paul artist-in-residence Marcus Young, what makes a good sidewalk poem. "I think it makes you stop ... See all stories on this topic »

VOCAL weaponizes words in contest The Justice Audience members and competitors were invited to perform at the open mic that drew in the audience before the official competition. This is when the atmosphere of the slam poetry competition really began to wash over the room. The poems performed at ... See all stories on this topic »

College students excel at music symposium Sarasota Herald-Tribune Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School junior Alexandra Simic-Hachman won the school's recent Poetry Out Loud competition. Alexandra chose "Since There Is No Escape" by Sara Teasdale and "Video Blues" by Mary Jo Salter for her recitations. See all stories on this topic »

VETTE Block Club set to Rock Nietzsche's to Raise Funds for Beautification ... Buffalo Rising White was the 1995 writer-in-residence for Just Buffalo Literary Center, 1997 University Prize winner in the Academy of American Poets contest, and has been named Best Poet several times by Artvoice and Buffalo Spree Magazine. See all stories on this topic »

Convent of the Sacred Heart students showered with writing awards Greenwich Post Convent of the Sacred Heart announced 43 awards to 26 students in the Upper and Middle Schools for short story, poetry, memoir, journalism, persuasive essay and dramatic script, in the Scholastic Writing Awards Competition. Nine students won honorable ... See all stories on this topic »

Jupiter High Spanish Competition Team excels at state competition TCPalm ... in this statewide contest: impromptu speaking, where students speak in Spanish about a randomly-selected topic; dramatic presentation, where students perform a 10- to 15-minute play; and declamation, where students recite poetry or monologues from ... See all stories on this topic »

Herricks High School Junior Named Regional Poetry Winner Patch.com Courtesy Herricks School District Herricks High School Junior Meenakshi Krishna was selected as a winner at the regional finals of "The Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest," a program designed to encourage the nation's youth to learn about ... See all stories on this topic »

Writing competition returns to Craigmillar STV Local A writing contest aiming to find Craigmillar's new 'makar' has returned for the third year. Craigmillar Poetry and Creative Writing Contest is open to everyone in Edinburgh, and welcomes prose and poetry on any chosen topic. The competition also has a ... See all stories on this topic » STV Local

Sign up for kids to explore the arts, coming on May 12 in Morristown Morristown Green Youngsters ages 6 to 13 will rotate through six workshops in cartooning, drama, pottery, poetry, music and eco-sculpture, plus dabble in "food art" during lunch with Chef Melody of the Main Event. The day begins with sign in at 8:30 am and ends with a ... See all stories on this topic »

Clayton Library gears up for the 2012 Creekside Arts festival Clayton Pioneer On Sunday afternoon, two-time national Haiku poetry winner and filmmaker Tazuo Yamaguchi will emcee the ever growing popular performance poetry slam with open readings. Winners from the countywide "Poetry Out Loud" contest will be present to read as ... See all stories on this topic » Clayton Pioneer

SHS speech students advance Spencer Daily Reporter Spencer High School sent 24 performers to the State Individual Speech Contest on Saturday in Sibley. Those students brought home 18 division "I" ratings and 11 division "II" ratings through 29 events, and four students are advancing to the All-State ... See all stories on this topic »

Bishop Ahr's Liz Sharlow doesn't settle for being good Edison Sentinel Whichever direction, her 6-1 frame is poetry in motion. Don't be fooled. Every move she makes is effortless because of countless hours of practice, practice and more practice. That, and a heck of a lot of ability nurtured by countless high school and ... See all stories on this topic »

The Thomas way of dressing chickens Buffalo Reflex For a contest entry, I wrote an article titled, "Why do I feel incomplete if I do not write?" Here is a portion of that article, "Also during this time, the Springfield News-Leader had a weekly feature called 'Prose and Poetry. See all stories on this topic »

The Arab Spring - Senegalese Echoes? AllAfrica.com After giving his people long notice, he resigned and declared his deep regrets that he had spent so long in politics when he could have been better engaged in creative writing, especially poetry. During the tenure of President Abdou Diouf, ... See all stories on this topic »

Becca Honoured Daily Guide The Heritage Ghana Night is basically geared at preserving the rich culture of our motherland. Again, other activities such as drama, poetry recitals, Inter-Hall proverb recitation contest and cultural/traditional dance performance were witnessed. See all stories on this topic » Daily Guide

Blogs

NewPages Blog: Poetry Hunt Contest Winners By Denise Poetry Hunt Contest Winners. The newest issue of Schoolcraft College's national literary magazine The MacGuffin (Winter 2012) features the winners of the issue of the 16th National Poet Hunt Contest, judged by Terry Blackhawk: First place: ... NewPages Blog

WAX WROTH: 2012 Independent Poetry Contest Reading By Brian His poetry, sound art and videos have appeared in journals and chapbooks often enough that writing about himself in the third person does not even faze him. He capriciously runs the Wax Wroth Reading Series, and keeps a sound and video ... WAX WROTH

DPL News & Views: Can It Really Be Ten Years? By Denise The Dover Public Library is pleased to announce the 10th Annual Dover Public Library Poetry contest for grades K-12. Prizes will be awarded in six different categories: Grades K-2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, 7 & 8, 9 & 10, and 11 &12. Poems will be judged ... DPL News & Views

Patricia A. Hawkenson Video Takes First Place in Outskirts Press ... By Elise L. Connors Appropriately enough, as a winner of the Valentine's Day "Show Me the Love" contest, Patricia A. Hawkenson's Magnetic Repulsion: 100 Poems from Desire to Disgust is an original collection of poetry about being in love…and out of it. Self Publishing News For Self-Publish...

FREE – Mad as a Hare writing contest « Ask Wendy-The Query Queen By askwendy deadline is June 30, 2012; $6 entry fee; prizes are $50, $100, $350; details HERE: http://everythingamiracle.com/poetry-contest/. askwendy; Horror/ghost story contest March 10, 2012. Writers' Journal; prizes are $250, $100 and $50; deadline ... Ask Wendy-The Query Queen

Poets & artists collaborate in Zumbrota and I'm in « Minnesota ... By Audrey Kletscher Helbling I SET A GOAL for 2012 to write more poetry. I've posted a contest list on my office desk and filed information in a three-ring binder. But all the best-laid plans and organizing are meaningless unless I follow through with my intentions. Thus far ... Minnesota Prairie Roots

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: Phantom Drift, A ... By Doug Holder Next I read a review of McNally's Child of Amber, which won a well-deserved prize in 1992, by Matt Schumacher. It turns out that this was McNally's only collection of poetry and Schumacher was stunned by its quality. The poet had a ... Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

Web

NPL Teen Poetry Contest 2012 | North Shore Kid for Children and ... Students in grades 7 through 12 are invited to submit an original poem of thirty lines or less on any subject for the Library's third annual Teen Poetry Contest. www.northshorekid.com/story/npl-teen-poetry-contest-2012

Poetry Contest - Walnut, CA Patch The Whitter Poetry Group is looking for a few good wordsmiths. The group is having a poetry contest this month that is open to residents in the area, including ... walnut.patch.com/topics/Poetry+Contest

Duotrope - Publication Details: straight forward Poetry Contest Submit your flat out, honest to goodness, no bull about it best poems. That is all it takes. In addition to publication in Issue 5 (March 2013), the winner will receive ... duotrope.com/market_7326.aspx

Poetry Contest: Father - High School Questions - Stage of Life - High ... Father / We look into the mirror as the mirror looks back at us, reflecting one and the same. / There is no doubt about it, I am yours. / Darkness sprouts from the ... www.stageoflife.com/Default.aspx?tabid=72&g=posts&t...

Bacon Poetry Contest - Gapers Block Book Club | Chicago Ponder these meaty matters over brunch tomorrow and enter the Bacon Poetry Contest. The winner will get two tickets to the sold out Baconfest Chicago 2012 ... gapersblock.com/bookclub/2012/03/.../bacon_poetry_contest/

Poetry Contest Winner Announced! | Space Game Junkie So yesterday was the last day to enter the poetry contest. Sadly we didn't have many entries, but the entry that won was by Blips for the following: Bright and red ... www.spacegamejunkie.com/.../poetry-contest-winner-announc...

Literary Documents

"The quarry is Literary Documents--a generic term which includes all kinds of written records that throw light on some aspect of a literary figure's life and work:  the successive drafts and revisions of his writings; his diaries, letters, and autobiographical fragments; the letters and reminiscences of members of his family and his friends; legal records such as affidavits, deeds, and wills."

The Scholar Adventurers by Richard D. Altick, 1966.

Cowboy Coffee

Just figgered out the easy way to make coffee (when you have have no machine or strainer, or even if you do):

1. pour a scoop of ground coffee into a big ol' mug
2. pour boiling hot water over it
3. let sit for a coupla minutes
4. take a big ol' spoon and scoop out the grounds on top
5. do not stir
6. drink down only so far so you don't disturb the grounds at the bottom of the cup

So far it's worked best with some Starbucks® Espresso Roast (dark) that I got at a discount, odd lots grocery store run by Mennonites.

Mmmmmm GOOD!!

(When you're done it looks like this . .)