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- On the cusp (Cleburne Times-Review)
Scott Johnson wants to change the world. The 33-year-old Cleburne lyricist has been stringing together rap rhymes for years, but unlike most of the acts heard on mainstream radio, he’s not trying to simply entertain.
- Zipping It - ChristianityToday.com
Zipping ItChristianityToday.com, IL - 2 hours agoAt the spiritual schools you may be able to take a class where you read Jane Austen or romantic poetry, but dating and relationships are often discussed in ...
- Q&A: Former poet laureate Billy Collins cracks wise in verse - Kansas City Star
Q&A: Former poet laureate Billy Collins cracks wise in verseKansas City Star, MO - 4 minutes agoYour message seems to be, “Life is short, stop and smell the roses.” That’s the message poetry has delivered since Roman times. ...
- Religion Briefs - Pasadena Star-News
Religion BriefsPasadena Star-News, CA - 6 hours agoPASADENA - Golden Poets Guild is sponsoring a Christian poetry contest, which offers a $1000 grand prize. To enter, send a poem of 21 lines or less to Free ...
- Local Newsmakers - August 24, 2008 - Rock Hill Herald
Local Newsmakers - August 24, 2008Rock Hill Herald, SC - 33 minutes ago21 at the Center for the Arts. Winners were: first-place poetry competition, Allan Ryder-Cook of Rock Hill; first-place short story competition, ...
- Northeast Ohio artists to sell, swap wares at BAYarts 'creative' sale - Cleveland Plain Dealer
BAYarts has an interesting yard sale planned for Saturday, June 21, with diverse offerings ranging from $10 to $500. It's not the only shopping event planned for the week: A Gordon Square store has local items worth checking out in the "Made in the ...
- Sekolah Sinaran Mas holds poetry competition - Borneo Bulletin
Borneo BulletinSekolah Sinaran Mas holds poetry competitionBorneo Bulletin, Brunei Darussalam - 2 hours agoBy RDN Sekolah Sinaran Mas recently held a poetry competition, which was one of the annual activities organised by the school. The winner in the Primary Two ...
- Back to basics for a geyser of musical creativity - The Gazette (Montreal)
Back to basics for a geyser of musical creativityThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 9 hours ago"It was funny, too, because when I put Let's Just Be out ... people who liked Nuclear Daydream would be like, 'He lost it.' Man, Nuclear Daydream came out, ...
- W. Bloomfield native premieres film, assists local charity - Observer & Eccentric
Sam Logan Khaleghi spent two years of his life crafting the crime drama Love is a Thieves Game. The West Bloomfield resident will premiere his independent film next week in Farmington Hills. "I wrote it, directed it, produced it and, I did not intend ...
- A book of poetry has been written for orchestra and will premiere ... - Sioux Falls Argus Leader
A book of poetry has been written for orchestra and will premiere ...Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - 3 hours agoKooser, whose poetry column runs in Sunday editions of the Argus Leader, experimented with a new style for his work. It's a poetic conversation, ...
- RIK JOKES ABOUT UNI'S 'TERRIBLE MISTAKE' - Express & Echo
Express & EchoRIK JOKES ABOUT UNI'S 'TERRIBLE MISTAKE'Express & Echo, UK - 1 hour agoThe pair met when Rik, who is also a novelist, was performing political poetry above a strip club in London. Paul then received Rik's scripts for the Young ...
- Digital TV Conversion - First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Years before Randy Goodwin made PRI a Southbank Landmark, the old cinder-block building was a popular roller-skating rink known as "Skatetown." In the 1950's and 1960's thousands of Jacksonville teens flocked to socialize while ...
- Professor contributes to Web site project - Asu News
For a mind-boggling experience, go to http://edsitement.neh.gov . There, with just a click of the mouse, you will find dozens of Web sites covering art and culture, literature and language arts, foreign languages and history and social studies. You ...
- How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory (Medical News Today)
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory. In several experiments, researchers R. Brooke Lea of Macalester College, David N.
- Poet of the Palestinians dies (TVNZ)
Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died after heart surgery in Texas.
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