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- A fun look at 'The Arroyo Seco' - Pasadena Star-News
A fun look at 'The Arroyo Seco'Pasadena Star-News, CA - 4 hours agoInside is a collection of poetry, encompassing prayers, thoughts and reflections, about the people who were affected by the terrorist attacks on Sept. ...
- Cedar Rapids native reads his 'Letters from Abu Ghraib' (The Daily Iowan)
It sounds like the world's oldest set up to some awful joke: What's the difference between President Bush and Joshua Casteel? But the answer helped set in motion a series of events culminating in Casteel's book, Letters from Abu Ghraib, ironically (or coincidentally) released on July 4 this year.
- Jordan- Farah Al Nas hits the airwaves (MENAFN)
Jordan- Farah Al Nas hits the airwaves
- Books picked for Mutahi Wahome award - Daily Nation
Books picked for Mutahi Wahome awardDaily Nation, Kenya - 44 minutes agoOther activities at the upcoming fair include book launches and readings, poetry recitals, seminars, Scrabble competitions and activities for children. ...
- Obama ticks all the boxes: Young, black, family man with tear-jerker ... - Daily Mail
So is he The One? A balmy night. Stepping onstage at sundown, before an audience of 85,000, Barack Obama - the first black man chosen by a major U.S. party as its presidential candidate - offered new politics for a new century. But why did they sound ...
- Discussing 'Writing for Social Change' - IdahoStatesman.com
Discussing 'Writing for Social Change'IdahoStatesman.com, ID - 15 minutes agoThe 30 southern Idaho educators visited the Anne Frank Memorial, took part in a slam poetry workshop led by poet/teacher/Rep. Nicole LeFavour, D-Boise, ...
- 'Remembering the Struggle" - Santa Cruz Sentinel
SENTINEL STAFF REPORTWATSONVILLE -- People hugged. They laughed. They wept. They sang. They danced. They reminisced. For the crowd, about 50 strong, the gathering at the City Plaza on Friday was a reunion of sorts. More than 20 years ago, they ...
- A new understanding of peace (The Naperville Sun)
Visits by the eldest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the father of actress Uma Thurman will highlight ThinkGlobal Arts Foundation's second annual Celebration of Peace month in Naperville.
- Travelin'Arkansas: Events Taking Place August 8-14 - Beebe News
The 13th annual Art in August Competition will be Aug. 2-30 at the Ozark Heritage Arts Center in Leslie. The event is an exhibit of art entries and visitors can vote for a People’s Choice awards. A free public reception and awards ceremony will be ...
- Why Stuffed Sharks Cost So Damn Much - Reason.com
The poet Wallace Stevens, wealthy from his position as vice president of The Hartford Accident and Indemnity insurance company, once remarked that there was a huge difference between appreciating art and owning it. But Don Thompson, a business ...
- It’s raining lawsuits…. and political correctness - Stage
It’s raining lawsuits…. and political correctnessStage, UK - 1 hour agoBut otherwise, I can’t see which of his shows he is talking about: perhaps the poetry police objected to the use of TS Eliot poems to animate Cats. ...
- Danube Express: Awaken, not stirred - Independent
Danube Express: Awaken, not stirredIndependent, UK - 8 hours agoBond's train, he wrote, "throbbed with the tragic poetry of departure". What, I wonder, would Bond have thought of the train claimed to "set new standards ...
- Messiaen's haunting 'Quartet' soars - Detroit Free Press
"A piece of music must be interesting, it must be beautiful, and it must touch the listener," the French composer Olivier Messiaen once said. No work more compellingly embodies these qualities than Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time," an ...
- Local poet teams up with photographer to produce beautiful book - Villages Daily Sun
THE VILLAGES — When Roger Cooper was in the fourth grade, his cure for boredom was writing poetry. When his teacher noticed him becoming bored in class, she would tell him to write a poem about whatever he wanted. “This was the way my fourth ...
- Armantrout's Poetry "Reflects the World" - Harvard Crimson
With the waning day peaking through the windows that look out onto Prescott Street, Rae Armantrout, one of the world’s most famous living postmodern poets, seated herself at a mahogany table and began to read to a couple dozen audience members ...
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