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- Kay Ryan goes to Washington -- as poet laureate - Miami Herald
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike enthusiast and self-described ''modern hermit,'' will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been ...
- Chapel Hill Students Attend Conference - Tyler Morning Telegraph
Chapel Hill High School technology students participated in the Technology Student Association National Conference last month in Orlando, Fla. From left, Colton Rudd, Tony Adams (TSA advisor), Lamond Dean (high school Principal) and Josh Roberts ...
- Around the Bend: 06.06.08 - 06.12.08 (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
READING WITH BONZO: Bonzo Crunch, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey goodwill ambassador, will read at 10:15 a.m. today at the Janet F. Harte Library, 2629 Waldron Road; 11:30 a.m. at the Central Library, 801 Comanche St.; 2 p.m. at the Greenwood Library, 4044 Greenwood; and at 3:30 p.m. at the Northwest Library, 3202 McKinzie Road. Free. Information: 241-9329.
- Ex-reporter offers help for the grieving - Collinsville Herald
Ex-reporter offers help for the grievingCollinsville Herald, IL - Aug 10, 2008With stories from grieving parents and photos accompanied by poetry, the book is especially meant to help those who have lost a loved one, Hodapp said. ...
- From Verse to Controversy -- And Fleeting Fame - Wall Street Journal
William Cullen Bryant: Author of America By Gilbert H. Muller (State University of New York Press, 410 pages, $30) When poet and newspaperman William Cullen Bryant died in June 1878, the mayor of New York ordered the city's flags lowered to half mast ...
- [From The Times-Picayune] (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
When Ruby Bridges walked into the formerly all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960, she stepped into history as an indelible symbol of integration.
- Fun family picks for the week - DetNews.com
Fun family picks for the weekDetNews.com, MI - Jul 23, 2008It's a funny and funky combination of Harley's storytelling with lots of funny voices, sing-alongs and poetry. Many of the songs and stories are about his ...
- Feature Story - Uptown
Feature StoryUptown, Canada - 31 minutes agoWhile most of the poet's earlier shows have consisted of smaller, slam poetry-style pieces linked together to create a full-length performance, ...
- 'Audiences want to laugh' (News 24 South Africa)
Egoli actor Gideon van Eeden says audiences want to laugh, which is why he focuses on comedy with social commentary in his play Steriel .
- ROCHELLE RILEY: The two sides of Nathaniel Abraham (Detroit Free Press)
There are two sides to every story. Nathaniel Abraham is either a 22-year-old Pontiac man released from juvenile detention last year after serving seven years for killing an 18-year-old man without remorse. Or Nathaniel Abraham is a 22-year-old Southfield man who was arrested a week ago by Pontiac police officers who had stalked and harassed him since his release, pulling him over and then ...
- After three decades, Tom Petty ranks among the best - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comAfter three decades, Tom Petty ranks among the bestThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 44 minutes agoLive, Petty's drawling charm made that song's lyrical hook -- "Oh, my, my/Oh, hell, yes/Honey, put on that party dress" -- sound like erotic poetry to rival ...
- Dog Days: Let us just lie around and pant - Azle News
Dog Days: Let us just lie around and pantAzle News, TX - 1 hour agoPoetry drips from my pen like sweat from the end of my nose. I was driving the other day, rapidly switching hands to keep the steering wheel from searing ...
- Yada Yada Yada Write Out Loud - Velocity
Yada Yada Yada Write Out LoudVelocity, KY - 1 hour agoHer poetry, fiction and feminist essays have inspired a generation. Her most lauded work, "The Color Purple," is considered pure genius by most. ...
- Fabu: 'To be black is to be political' (Isthmus)
On the first Saturday night in May, while rowdy college kids roamed the Mifflin Street block party in search of their next keg, a quieter crowd gathered at Escape Java Joint on Willy Street. In the art gallery coarsely decorated with organic fair-trade coffee sacks, over 50 people sat in folding chairs and in the aisles. Madison's new poet laureate, Fabu Carter Brisco, took the mike.
- Hip-hop praise - Savannah Morning News
Hip-hop praiseSavannah Morning News, GA - 1 hour agoSince then, the Gilliards have run the Savannah Drama Club, a private, Christian, cultural arts program that uses theater, poetry, music, dance, ...
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