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- Dropout Dilemma: Parkway Spends Big to Keep Kids Coming to School - KSDK
(KSDK) -- Parkway's Fern Ridge High School is a public school with a proven track record of reaching out to students "at risk" of quitting school. Shatara Parker is a graduating senior at Fern Ridge High School. She says a during-school poetry slam ...
- Buried, razed – but not forgotten (THE TIMES) - Peninsula
IN THE WARSAW GHETTO IN 1940, AN historian named Emanuel Ringelblum organised and carried out an act of resistance without parallel, a feat of historical heroism that has only come fully to light recently: he set about preserving the present, for the ...
- The Good Parents - PopMatters
The Good ParentsPopMatters, IL - 2 hours agoUnfortunately, the undistinguished prose detracts from the interesting themes London touches on: the generation gap and the challenge of parenthood. ...
- American youth say they're left behind - Medill Reports
American youth say they're left behindMedill Reports, DC - 54 minutes agoThe youth spoke out about their experiences during the 11th annual International Youth Poetry Slam Festival called Brave New Voices. ...
- Don Becker: 'clever,' 'funny,' 'likable' (Rocky Mountain News)
Playwright, stand-up comic and creator of his own mythology, Don Becker left a mark on most who met him, whether a result of his caustic sense of comedy, his own struggles or his encouragement of those around him.
- The games people display - The Age
The AgeThe games people displayThe Age, Australia - 33 minutes agoBirley names Neville Cardus, the romantic prose-poet of cricket, as the key offender: "He describes some of the characteristics of certain aspects of art ...
- UW Choral Union sets sail on Ralph Vaughan Williams' vast 'Sea ... - Isthmus Daily Page
UW Choral Union sets sail on Ralph Vaughan Williams' vast 'Sea ...Isthmus Daily Page, WI - 7 hours agoMost unusual, though, is the fact that the "Sea Symphony”'s texts come entirely from the poetry of Walt Whitman, whose writings fascinated British composers ...
- Haycast 07: Michael Rosen, Will Self and Kathleen Turner - Guardian Unlimited
Children's laureate Michael Rosen opens today's programme with a poem and explains how you talk politics to children - and why nothing should be out of bounds. Melissa Benn, journalist, campaigner and daughter of Tony, discusses her latest novel One ...
- World Refugee Day brings cultural events and a 'celebration of trades ... - Idaho Statesman
The celebration of World Refugee Day on Saturday at Boise Centre on The Grove will remind the community of the families who are now making their home in Idaho after leaving troubled spots around the world. Large numbers of refugees from Africa and ...
- Historically Speaking: Norwich man left literary mark - Norwich Bulletin
Historically Speaking: Norwich man left literary markNorwich Bulletin, CT - 2 hours agoHe was invited by Norwich native Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, to present eight poetry lectures there in 1891. ...
- Abu Dhabi to host major Picasso expo - Trade Arabia
Abu Dhabi to host major Picasso expoTrade Arabia, Bahrain - 3 hours ago... prints and illuminated manuscripts that reveal, for the first time, Picasso’s development of a calligraphic poetry on the border between text and image. ...
- Lumley attacks 'obscure' new poetry (Guardian Unlimited)
July 19: The actress has been lambasted as old and out of touch for her controversial views on modern verse
- Maestro John P. Hagon marches on - Barnstable Patriot
Barnstable PatriotMaestro John P. Hagon marches onBarnstable Patriot, MA - 59 minutes agoHe wrote several novels, books of poetry, and operettas. His well-known repertoire of 138 marches includes Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis and the ...
- Literary conversation eases readers' hunger (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
Sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, prominent writers and educators showed solidarity at the first National Book Critics Circle event staged in San Antonio.
- Abu Dhabi revives interest in poetry in Arab World (Middle East Online)
Al Mazrouei: Abu Dhabi’s poetry contests bringing classical Arabic verse back to life.
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