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- Africa Alive Festival aims to help orphans with AIDS - Wisconsin State Journal
Capital Brewery in Middleton will host an important fundraiser for South African AIDS orphans on Saturday, Aug. 2. The 3rd annual Africa Alive Festival, sponsored by Kidlinks World Inc., will feature a variety of entertainment for the entire family ...
- A poet for the people - New Statesman
New StatesmanA poet for the peopleNew Statesman, UK - 21 hours agoSadly, Darwish's death serves only to highlight the ever-growing fragmentation of Palestinian society, rather than accentuate, like his poems, ...
- Literary legend Hass awarded UI Honorary Degree (first in four-part series) (The Daily Iowan)
Robert Hass has spent most of his life and career in the Golden State, but he still cherishes Iowa City as a "legendary place." And rightfully so, because the UI Honorary Degree Committee also sees the internationally acclaimed poet as a literary legend and awarded Hass an honorary UI degree last week.
- Literary Happenings: Adventures for Kids leaves memories - Ventura County Star
Literary Happenings: Adventures for Kids leaves memoriesVentura County Star, CA - 4 hours agoPoetry Reading 7:30 pm Tuesday. Featured poet is Sarah MacLay. Artists' Union Gallery, 330 S. California St., Ventura. 320-3524. ...
- Creative Arts Emmy winners for 60th annual awards - Boston Globe
List of winners in the creative arts categories of the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour): "The Simpsons: Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind," Fox ...
- Being Bode: Young Man of the Mountain - New Hampshire Magazine
Being Bode: Young Man of the MountainNew Hampshire Magazine, NH - 28 minutes agoWe took a chance and asked him for some exclusive face time and he invited us, and you, into his remarkable life, both at home and on the razor’s edge of ...
- Paying to go on a publishing ego trip - Times of India
Paying to go on a publishing ego tripTimes of India, India - 8 minutes agoThese DIY authors congregate at Rabindra Sadan hall to listen to poetry and distribute their books for free. For Amalendu Sarkar, this yearly ritual is a ...
- South Africa: Thabo Mbeki's Downfall - AllAfrica.com
The strident clamour of calls for the ANC to axe the "lame-duck" President Thabo Mbeki is far from the epithets the country's leader once enjoyed as the crown prince who became the philosopher king and was hailed as Mr Delivery. As Mbeki's comrades ...
- Rutherford: A poets haven - South Bergenite
Rutherford: A poets havenSouth Bergenite, NJ - 3 hours ago... the Second Wednesdays poetry readings. The until now unpublished Williams poem, a short two quatrain affair called "Plaint," was written on June 5, ...
- And not only that, she lived here and graduated from Reynolds High ... - Asheville Citizen-Times
Maureen MacDonald, a 27-year-old former Rockette, wife and mother of two, beat 50 other contestants in Tuscon, Ariz., this month to become Mrs. America 2009. She is a 1998 Reynolds High School graduate and a 2001 graduate of Florida State University ...
- Equine therapy: Creative Growth Center uses horses to help children - Dekalb Daily Chronicle
Equine therapy: Creative Growth Center uses horses to help childrenDekalb Daily Chronicle, IL - 26 minutes agoSkeptical at first that the animals could teach him such valuable lessons, Riccardo found it true through a six-session “Cowboy Poetry” program at the ...
- What did I learn at uni? Sorrry, it's all a bit of a blur (Times Online)
Last week, 430,000 freshers made their way to university, an event that The Daily Telegraph would normally have marked with a photograph of an 18-year-old exposing a tantalising stretch of midriff as she ferried crockery on to campus, but this time honoured with an article asking famous people to proffer advice to new undergraduates.
- Fundraisers (Daily Herald)
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- NAMES AND FACES: Elizabeth Hurley's gourmet hogs a hit in England (Detroit Free Press)
Actress Elizabeth Hurley's major career move, LL Cool J's love of luxury at the MTV VMA's and more.
- What Are Literary Readings so Excruiatingly Bad? - Maisonnueve
What Are Literary Readings so Excruiatingly Bad?Maisonnueve, Canada - 15 minutes agoThe protagonist attends a poetry reading in an unventilated room with a strong “odour of feet” and a drunken patron who shouts invective at the small ...
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