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Edit Atlanta Journal 11 Jun 2016
To escape the fast pace of city life, Atlantans need only head south and call on their charming neighbor with the sunny personality — Florida ... Swim with manatees in Crystal River. In Crystal River, you don’t have to be pretty to be popular ... Here’s the good news ... It’s thrilling to see an anhinga, sometimes called a snake bird because of its serpentine neck, dive headfirst into a marsh and emerge with a fish impaled on its spear-like beak....

Winter Park scenic boat tour works on ADA compliance

Edit Orlando Sentinel 02 Jun 2016
Lakes Osceola, Virginia and Maitland offer sweeping vistas of historical homes, canals canopied with tangles of Spanish moss and Anhinga birds bobbing in the water. Eithne Clarke and her late mother, Julia, used to take in the panorama together on the Winter Park Scenic Boat Tour, an attraction... ....

Swamp buggy takes visitors deep into Corkscrew Sanctuary

Edit Naples Daily News 30 Apr 2016
Visiting Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a trip that should be on the "bucket list" of everyone in Southwest Florida ... "It is managed for wildlife and habitat ... I guess it's job security." ... The passengers also spotted a virtual nature guide-full of native birds, from wood storks to anhinga, red-tailed hawks, ibis, belted kingfisthers, roseate spoonbills, tri-colored, little green, and great blue and night herons, black and turkey vultures ... ....

11th Youth Birding Event 'Raises Bar,' Breaks Record Again (Georgia Department of Natural Resources)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Apr 2016
(Source. Georgia Department of Natural Resources). Another Georgia Youth Birding Competition, another birding record. The 11 annual competition held last weekend set a new high for bird species seen or heard by a team, while also adding to the event's legacy of spurring an appreciation of birds among youth ages 4 to 18 ... Both are longtime participants in the competition ... Deitsch agreed ... Running from 5 p.m ... 1 ... 1 ... Amazing Anhingas (65 species)1....

Students to read winning works at writing festival (University of Wisconsin - Platteville)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Wisconsin - Platteville). PLATTEVILLE, Wis ... The event is free and open to the public ... The creative writing contest was open to all students who were enrolled at least part time at UW-Platteville ... First Place ... A 2015 US-UK Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, Meitner is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls (Anhinga Press, 2011) and Copia (BOA Editions, 2014)....

UT’s Writers at the University Closes Season with Two Award-Winning Poets April 19 (University of Tampa)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Tampa). Published. April 13, 2016 ... She served as co-editor of the anthology Isle of Flowers , published by Anhinga Press, and individual poems have been published in multiple journals and anthologies ... Her collection Falling Landscape was published by Anhinga Press in 2015, and she is the author of three other poetry collections, The Secret History of Water, The Geography of Leaving and Ambush ... Original Document....

Six NYU Faculty Awarded 2016 Guggenheim Fellowships (NYU - New York University)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Apr 2016
(Source. NYU - New York University). April 6, 2016. 324 ... This year's 175 recipients were chosen from nearly 3,000 applicants in the United States and Canada ... Her plays include Twilight ... The Uses of the Body, included on 'Best of 2015' lists by The New Yorker, Vogue, BuzzFeed, and O, The Oprah Magazine, as well as The Last Usable Hour and Orchidelirium, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry ... Type ... (noodl....

A Golfing Getaway at Innisbrook, a Salamander Golf & Spa Resort, Florida

Edit Huffington Post 17 Mar 2016
If you're a golfer and looking for a golf resort in Florida, then Innisbrook, A Salamander Golf & Spa Resort at Palm Harbor, Tampa Bay, is your paradise. But If you're not a golfer (like me) but are looking for a relaxing getaway home to a luxury spa and salon, to rejuvenate your mind and body, this is a perfect destination for you ... They have several varieties of turtles, alligators, wood duck, blue heron, anhinga and swans ... ....

University of Tampa Author Honored with Florida Book Award (University of Tampa)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Mar 2016
(Source. University of Tampa). Published. March 04, 2016. Don Morrill, associate dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at The University of Tampa and Dana professor of English, received the silver medal for poetry in the 2015 Florida Book Awards for his volume of poetry, Awaiting Your Impossibilities (Anhinga Press) ... (noodl....

CGU announces winners of 2016 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards: Ross Gay and Danez Smith (Claremont Graduate University)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Mar 2016
(Source. Claremont Graduate University). Wednesday, March 02, 2016 ... 6th Street, Claremont) ... Finalists for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award were Meg Day for Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street); Bethany Schultz Hurst for Miss Lost Nation (Anhinga Press); Michael Morse for Void and Compensation (Canarium); and Henry Walters for Field Guide A Tempo (Hobblebush Books) ... About Claremont Graduate University ... Original Document ... (noodl....

Honda Classic a new start and a chance for redemption

Edit Austin American Statesman 24 Feb 2016
A missed tee shot by Rickie Fowler. A missed putt by Phil Mickelson. A missed opportunity for Rory McIlroy. All three had great chances to win in the last tournament they played ... 24, 2016, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) ... Is it the nature of the golf course? The wind?Phil Mickelson watches an anhinga as he waits to putt on the 14th green during the pro-am of the Honda Classic golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb ... P ... ....

Fighting Chicken Nuggets of Key West

Edit Huffington Post 23 Feb 2016
Of course, there has to be at least a mother hen in this story of how love overcame conflict and they multiplied to claim their share of dominion ... � ... While some are in awe of the birds of prey, hawk to anhinga, which flies below as well as above the water, ("Been There Done That Anhinga Trail"), I pay respect to the ibis and vulture consuming death and the stagnant thus enabling the dynamics of life ... From Fighters to Lovers to ... (See ... ....

Dr. Ruth L. Schwartz named as 2016 Glasrud Distinguished Lecturer (Minnesota State University – Moorhead) ...

Edit Public Technologies 22 Feb 2016
Her other poetry books are Miraculum (Autumn House Press, 2012), Dear Good Naked Morning (Autumn House Press, 2005, selected by Alicia Ostriker as winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize), Singular Bodies (Anhinga Press 2001, selected by Allison Joseph as winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry), and Accordion Breathing & Dancing (University ......
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