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- The Invisible touch - Metro Boston
The Invisible touchMetro Boston, MA - 7 hours agoAt its core, it’sa combination of jazz and hip-hop, with an influence of spoken word poetry. What we’re trying to do is change, or at least bring something ...
- Publisher Martin Reiner on books, business and Brno (Radio Prague)
As well as being a poet and novelist, Martin Reiner is one of this country’s most successful publishers. He has been in the business since 1991, first at Brno’s Nakladatelstvà Petrov, which he took over after a year at the helm, and more recently at Nakladatelstvà Druhé město (Second City Publishers), which he set up in 2005. He publishes the Czech Republic’s best-selling contemporary writer, ...
- Seattle mayor's office awards $225,000 through CityArtist program - Seattle Times
Just in from the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs: $225,000 will be awarded to 38 Seattle film, media, literary and visual arts projects through the CityArtist program. Projects approved for 2008 include a poetry manuscript examining ...
- History's father - Globe and Mail
History's fatherGlobe and Mail, Canada - 5 hours agoHistory, like poetry, began with war. Around 440 BC, some three centuries after Homer, singing of the wrath of Achilles, composed The Iliad, a Greek by the ...
- Nara Visa Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering set for Sept. 19-21 - Quay County Sun
Nara Visa Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering set for Sept. 19-21Quay County Sun, NM - 1 hour agoBy QCS Organizers are making the final plans for the Nara Visa Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering which will be Sept. 19-21 at theOld School Community Center ...
- BRIEFLY SIDESHOW - The Register-Guard
BRIEFLY SIDESHOWThe Register-Guard, OR - 1 hour agoWhile there, Lisick read at a cocktail party attended by the editor of the prestigious anthology, “Best American Poetry.” A work can’t make it into that ...
- Serenity Prayer's authorship disputed (The News & Observer)
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."
- Laureate attacks reading policies (BBC News)
Children's Laureate Michael Rosen says a macho tests culture is stopping children from enjoying reading.
- Five girls compete for annual Farm Fair Queen crown - Bucks County Courier Times
LUMBERTON — A teenage girl will be chosen this week to reign over this year's Burlington County Farm Fair. Five girls will compete in the annual Farm Fair Queen pageant at 8 p.m. Wednesday, the first day of the 62nd annual fair at the Village Green ...
- Boardwalk in Durban - July 22, 2008 - Tonight
Boardwalk in Durban - July 22, 2008Tonight, South Africa - 7 hours agoBAT Centre Functions Room: Every Wednesday from 5.30pm to 7.30pm set your soul free with live poetry sessions for all you philosophers, dreamers, romantics, ...
- Entertainment Calender - Haddon Herald
Entertainment CalenderHaddon Herald, NJ - 33 minutes agoPOETRY WRITING: Barnes & Noble in Marlton will host a poetry writing group at 7:30 pm on Monday, June 30. The store is located at 200 West Rte. 70. ...
- Life's rich tapestry has provided great poetry – and stories – for ... - Halifax Today
KATHLEEN McBurney has never kept a diary. But all the same, the experiences that have coloured her life have been carefully recorded. And there has been no shortage of them – from personal tragedies to happy family events and from invitations from ...
- "WALL-E" (Salon.com)
This new Pixar movie is an environmental cautionary tale and a story of robot love -- and quite possibly the most melancholy cartoon ever made.
- Original Meaning of the Olympic Games - Huffington Post
Huffington PostOriginal Meaning of the Olympic GamesHuffington Post, NY - Aug 12, 2008The Olympic Games, as reported, were held every four years from 776 BC to 393 AD, when they were abolished by the Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I. ...
- Cowboy poets to perform in Prescott - AZ Central.com
Cowboy poets to perform in PrescottAZ Central.com, AZ - 25 minutes agoDunn, 61, a fourth-generation Arizonan, says even though he and his family shared stories and poetry when he was growing up, he didn't attend his first ...
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