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- Power to the poems - Portsmouth Herald News
Power to the poemsPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 1 hour agoI find it inspirational and find it's just a pleasure to be around other poets — like-minded people." Listening to a feature reader was definitely ...
- Parallel Lives - Weekly Standard
Born a little over 150 years apart, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) both had the experience, on the threshold of adulthood--he was 20, she 22--of fleeing the culture they'd grown up in and entering another. For both, it ...
- Planet writer, ‘Wordwoman,’ named poet laureate (Telluride Daily Planet)
In keeping with Colorado’s rich history as a state that both inspires and nurtures the art of poetry, San Miguel County resident Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has accepted a second two-year term as the county’s poet laureate. As poet laureate, she will continue to promote the literary arts both locally and throughout Colorado.
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies (AP via Yahoo! News)
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.
- 5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day - PR.com (press release)
5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage DayPR.com (press release), NY - 11 hours agoAlthough the creators of folk Spirituals are unknown, scholars suspect they were folk poets, Black preachers, and slave communities. ...
- Last logged in: Today - guardian.co.uk
Last logged in: Todayguardian.co.uk, UK - 58 minutes agoPoetry and music, mostly classical, have travelled with me; and I also enjoy writing (though only for myself so far) and flying. ...
- Signs of recession - Southeast Missourian
Signs of recessionSoutheast Missourian, MO - 3 hours agoYa ripped off my thunder, albeit I'm not into doing poetry anyway. Even so, I've often pondered what it'd feel like to have suicidal tendancies, ...
- Artists for Lovelace concert features ‘Canada’s Bono’ - Kingston This Week
Artists for Lovelace concert features ‘Canada’s Bono’Kingston This Week, Canada - 7 hours agoThey received many positive responses and a total of 11 artists are scheduled to present music, poetry and prose at the concert. ...
- Preparing for departure - The Columbus Dispatch
SEVILLE, Ohio -- When the nights get warm in this northeastern Ohio town, Lawrence Bartter sleeps on his screened-in back porch, cozying up beside his coffin. He started laboring on the wooden box years ago. The lid lies off to the side, the hinges ...
- Summer Reading + Writing - About - Cities & Towns
Summer Reading + WritingAbout - Cities & Towns, NY - 6 hours agoThe Teen Writing contest is open to students in grades 6 – 12. To enter, write your best prose or poetry (under five pages, in English) and submit it. ...
- Jessica Alba scores herself a husband; Kristi Yamaguchi scores herself ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jessica Alba has Cash in hand. Wedding season is in full swing, and Jessica Alba is our latest blushing bride. The actress, 27, married babydaddy Cash Warren, 31, at the Beverly Hills courthouse on Tuesday, taking care of the love and marriage stuff ...
- Haqqani heckled at meeting - Pakistan Dawn
Haqqani heckled at meetingPakistan Dawn, Pakistan - 10 hours ago“Foreign relations are not discussed in poetry,” said Mr Haqqani. “Saddam Husain’s last speech was also full of poetry but it could not save him or his ...
- STAGE REVIEW: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' a feast for the senses - Reading Eagle
STAGE REVIEW: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' a feast for the sensesReading Eagle, PA - 3 hours agoSince words are of the utmost importance in this play, the poetry needs to soar, and Burgess' does indeed. As Cyrano, the wizard swordsman and poet with the ...
- 50 Cent sues Taco Bell over ad campaign - Newsweek
Recommended (6) Periscope: How Hot Money Is Pushing Oil To $100 a Barrel And Beyond Euro Euro Bill, Y’all Still 'Alright' Rapper The Game: A Family Man? Books: Poetry In Motion Saigon (NEW YORK) 50 Cent has sued Taco Bell , claiming the fast-food ...
- Canadian poet and playwright James Reaney dies at 81 (CBC)
James Reaney, a poet, author and dramatist of three famous plays about Ontario's feuding Donnelly family, has died. He was 81.
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