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- Jacksonville poetry artists look forward to international slam - Florida Times-Union
Lucie Roberts is enthusiastic about spitting - the hip-hop term that has found its way to spoken-word poetry. Roberts says spoken-word poetry is a way to speak her mind and share a message. In her poem, Hypocrite , the Jacksonville Beach teen ...
- Serenity prayer stirs up doubt: Who wrote it? - International Herald Tribune
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change." Now ...
- Nuns serve the hemisphere's poorest - Catholic Sentinel
Catholic SentinelNuns serve the hemisphere's poorestCatholic Sentinel, OR - 2 hours agoHoly Names Sister Joan Maiers, a Marylhurst University writing instructor, organized a poetry reading at a Lake Oswego chocolate shop to benefit the ...
- Toronto's Literary Events: July 8-14, 2008 - blogTO
Toronto's Literary Events: July 8-14, 2008blogTO, Canada - 5 hours agoHeather Haley, Terence Go, and Luciano Iacobelli feature at the Art Bar Poetry Series at Clinton's at 8pm. This is Not a Reading Series, Pages Books, ...
- The Flat Earth Glows - Village Voice
The Flat Earth GlowsVillage Voice, NY - 2 hours agos offerings (which include musicals, comedy, poetry, dance, drama, and pornos) can't help but be thrillingly intimate, whether you catch a hit or a ...
- Hip-hop on over to the Green Show - Ashland Daily Tidings
Sneak in some free hip-hop entertainment tonight during the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Green Show. The show begins at 7:15 p.m. in the courtyard at the festival, 15 Pioneer St., Ashland. Did we mention it's free? Buckworld One: Hip-Hop Theater, a ...
- The Sazerac: The cocktail of choice, for some, in New Orleans - International Herald Tribune
I've been leafing through a bunch of cocktail manuals recently. Aside from the vicarious pleasure, I've been trying to figure out the logic of the Louisiana legislature, which, apparently having finished its work with the Hurricane Katrina cleanup ...
- Craigslist romance: How I met my wife with a sofabed (Times Online)
It's astonishing how many things you can find to sell on Craigslist, even in a zero-capital home such as my own.
- Mos Def and Gil Scott-Heron at Carnegie Hall, JVC Jazz Festival - All About Jazz
Mos Def and Gil Scott-Heron at Carnegie Hall, JVC Jazz FestivalAll About Jazz, PA - 1 hour ago“It was fitting that Mos Def, one of hip hop's most recognized, and Gil Scott Heron, considered a 'Godfather' of rap and spoken word poetry (most famous for ...
- 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 ...
- Out & About in Kent | July 26 - PNW Local News
Out & About in Kent | July 26PNW Local News, WA - 26 minutes agoFeatures sporting events, carnival, children’s activities, art shows, car show, poetry, parade and more. Downtown Auburn. ...Out & About in Bellevue | July 26 PNW Local Newsall 3 news articles
- Poetry Comes Alive (WOWK-TV West Virginia)
Cabell County kids interact with poetry.
- Who is Killing the Writers of South Dakota? - New York Times Blogs
Who is Killing the Writers of South Dakota?New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour agoBy Jennifer Schuessler Having declared the death of reading, the folks at the National Endowment of the Arts are now proclaiming the health of the arts ...
- The puck doesn't stop here - Boston Globe
As a proud-of-it Neanderthal, it was especially satisfying for this pucks observer to watch the belligerent Ducks bash their way to the Stanley Cup in 2006-07, playing old-time hockey - a checking line! - and clobbering opponents, throwing sharpened ...
- The inscrutable craftsman - CricInfo.com
CricInfo.comThe inscrutable craftsmanCricInfo.com, UK - 1 hour agoOnly with a bat was he articulate, but even there he was not so much given to prose as to poetry. His beginning was all fairytale: the unknown young ...
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