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- Students To Have Their Words Made Into Smash Song (Scoop.co.nz)
Talented young poets, songwriters and lyricists have just three weeks to enter their best work into the New Zealand Post National Schools Poetry Awards.
- You Don't Know Me - Los Angeles Weekly
As the title of playwright-poet Patricia Zamorano’s Chicana coming-of-age tale suggests, there is much that her hardscrabble East L.A. characters choose not to reveal to each other — or even to themselves. For 17-year-old Santa (Erika Beas), it ...
- The Magic of Words - A Reading for Children - Indymedia Ireland
Seamus Cashman comes from Conna in Country Cork. He is the founder of Ireland's leading literary and cultural publishing houses, Wolfhound Press. His own publications include three poetry collections, the most recent of which That Morning Will Come ...
- Boyd Tonkin: A Week in Books (Independent)
If rhyme doesn't pay, then – when it comes to authorial bank accounts – crime more often does. While picking his way through a tangled domestic life (which included, of course, the childhood of his Oscar-winning son, Daniel), the poet Cecil Day-Lewis needed more ample funds than even a Laureate's career in verse will ever supply. Under the pseudonym "Nicholas Blake", he published 20 popular ...
- Obama dismisses Dobson criticism about Bible - Buffalo News
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks during a town hall style meeting at the Springs Preserve, a cultural and historic attraction, in Las Vegas, Nevada Tuesday, June 24, 2008. Barack Obama said Tuesday evangelical leader ...
- Poets offer a taste of the medieval - Lakeland Today
Poets offer a taste of the medievalLakeland Today, UK - 21 minutes agoTWO poets with an interest in Medieval England will be joining forces to read their work at the Summer Poetry readings organised by the Wordsworth Trust in ...
- Jason Collett Is Helped By Ghosts (ChartAttack.com)
It's damn near impossible to capture the easy swagger of Toronto-based singer-songwriter Jason Collett 's voice. That same laid-back lilt you hear on his records comes through in conversation, too.
- South Africa: Human Rights Education Project to Be Unveiled in Soweto - AllAfrica.com
South Africa: Human Rights Education Project to Be Unveiled in SowetoAllAfrica.com, Washington - 3 hours agoThe programme will include a vibrant, multilingual range of books, a radio series and a national poetry competition to foster youth dialogue on racism and ...
- Get your story into print - This is Wiltshire
PEOPLE with a story to tell can learn about the best way to go about getting published at an event being held at a Wiltshire library. Wiltshire County Council has organised the event at Warminster Library on June 26 as part of the National Year of ...
- Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other' (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Other By David Guterson Knopf; 256 pages; $24.95 Two 16-year-old runners from opposite sides of Seattle, one descended from bankers, the other from "nail bangers," meet at a high school race. They connect over a shared love of wilderness hiking and...
- African-American celebration (The Journal News)
Ethnic food, arts and crafts, music, drama, poetry, children’s activities, dance and entertainment fill Kensico Dam Plaza today from noon- 7 p.m. This free festival celebrates African-American heritage. Off the Bronx River Parkway in Valhalla. 914-864-7275.
- Community Calendar (Stevens Point Journal)
Fish Fry, 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., VFW Hall, 2700 Hickory Drive, Plover. 715-341-8414.
- Somerville bookstores few and far between - Somerville News
Somerville bookstores few and far betweenSomerville News, MA - 2 hours agoIfeanyi Menkiti, Somerville resident, Wellesley College professor, and owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, said, “It's an immeasurable loss ...
- Anger and handstands (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Award-winning poet Luke Kennard on the unusual passions that drive his writing
- Shabazz grads celebrate marching to their own drummer - Wisconsin State Journal
Instead of flinging mortar boards into the air, students playfully batted around a beach ball. "Pomp and Circumstance" was replaced by an all-staff rendition of Crosby Stills Nash and Young's "Teach Your Children." One student even replaced the ...
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