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- Poet touts the power of 'rainbows in the clouds' - Salem News
SALEM - "Please be me for just a minute," poet Maya Angelou asked the crowd last night at Salem State College. "Just see it," she said, before describing the moment that she first learned about the United Nations. She was 16, pregnant and unmarried ...
- Ulster Scots cultural boost in the Glebe - Ballymoney Times
Ulster Scots cultural boost in the GlebeBallymoney Times, UK - 3 hours agoFor instance many of the participants had never tried cooking, Scottish country dancing, writing poetry or playing the pipes or accordion. ...
- TheStar.com | entertainment | Coldplay leaves fans out in cold - Toronto Star
Tour promoter Live Nation says "production delays" forced Coldplay to revamp their North American tour schedule, cancelling three shows in Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg and setting new dates for Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. As well, one of two ...
- Much Ado About A Stolen Shakespeare Folio (CBS News)
Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of dollars after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C., and asked to have it authenticated.
- Italian singer adds new facet to Rabindra Sangeet (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's music transcends geography and culture. For Italian singer Francesca Cassio, a blue-blooded Roman, it is both a passion and vocation.
- African diva Dobet Gnahoré tours US and Canada - dates - Monsters and Critics.com
Monsters and Critics.comAfrican diva Dobet Gnahoré tours US and Canada - datesMonsters and Critics.com - 52 minutes agoIf you love world music like I do, please make every effort to see Dobet Gnahoré live in concert. When she was only 12, she told her father she was going to ...
- Outsider looking beyond borders - The Age
The AgeOutsider looking beyond bordersThe Age, Australia - Aug 7, 2008Theatre might derive from Arabic poetry (Jidariyya) or the Bosnian East West Theatre company reinterpreting the British 1970s play, Class Enemy in modern ...
- Alex Boyd, Anne Simpson win $1,000 national poetry prizes - Canada East
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced over the weekend at a festival and conference held ...
- NIN, Kanye, Gnarls Barley showcased in Lolla's final day (SouthtownStar)
After the audience melee at Saturday's Rage Against the Machine concert, Sunday's final day of Lollapalooza felt like the calm after the storm.
- Book it Over to the Festival - The Emory Wheel
Book it Over to the FestivalThe Emory Wheel - 5 minutes agoBy Bridget Riley Posted: 08/25/2008 Poetry slams are already the norm at Java Monkey, a downtown coffee shop, while a recent “Save Our Bookstore” campaign ...
- Many religious retreats open to guests - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
EW LEBANON, N.Y. - At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- America Back on Track... for Friday, August 8th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Friday, August 8thOpEdNews, PA - 1 hour agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Watching Rachel - Walrus Magazine
Watching RachelWalrus Magazine, Canada - 3 hours agoThe actor Alan Rickman and Guardian newspaper editor Katherine Viner have adapted Corrie’s diaries, correspondence, and poetry into My Name is Rachel Corrie ...
- Sister Islands Person of the Week - Alva Petrona Sutton - Cayman Net News
Cayman Net NewsSister Islands Person of the Week - Alva Petrona SuttonCayman Net News, Cayman Islands - 2 hours agoMs Sutton enjoys writing poems and doing dub poetry, which she has been doing from a tender age. She explains that her tone and grammar has changed because ...
- Do we protest too much about where we write? - guardian.co.uk
Do we protest too much about where we write?guardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago... to wordsmithing: the space at Paragraph has been specially designed to provide the kind of atmosphere that brings forth beautiful prose and poetry. ...
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