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- Espada presenting lecture on writing as a tool for democracy (The Easterner)
Fifteen Eastern students and faculty, who were the winners of an essay/poetry contest at EWU earlier this year, will be reading their works May 30 at the JFK Auditorium, where Martin Espada will be presenting his lecture on the idea of writing as a tool for democracy.
- Free Music Program For Rockford Youth (WIFR Rockford)
Thanks to an $18,000 grant from the state a local church is starting a free music program for at risk youth in our area.
- How movies are made - Bright Lights Film Journal
Bright Lights Film JournalHow movies are madeBright Lights Film Journal - 12 minutes agoBy the early '90s I'd survived the death of so many art forms — the Musical, the Novel, the Theatre (right), and, oh, my God, Poetry itself — that, ...
- Collection of bad poetry fetches $12,840 - KVUE
EDINBURGH, Scotland — The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating, but a collector paid $12,840 Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language. Up for ...
- Set to lasers, Subtle's hip-hop is a revolutionary experience (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
In independent hip-hop, Subtle is about the closest thing there is to psychedelic music. Band members perform with eerie mannequins, they write songs about getting brainwashed, they paint their faces black and white -- now they've entered into the great tradition of laser dome bands.
- Evan Goldberg on Screenwriting & 'Superbad' - The Irish Film Television Network
The Irish Film Television NetworkEvan Goldberg on Screenwriting & 'Superbad'The Irish Film Television Network - 1 hour agoGoldberg, a History and Humanities graduate from McGill University, Montreal, began his writing life composing somber poetry as child before he found his ...
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- The Ballad Of Dorothy Wordsworth - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldThe Ballad Of Dorothy WordsworthSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 35 minutes agoDorothy removes the wedding ring that has been on her finger the entire night and hands it back to William with a blessing. William returns it to Dorothy's ...
- Duo draws crowd - East Tennessean Online Edition (subscription)
Duo draws crowdEast Tennessean Online Edition (subscription), TN - 7 hours agoBlackwell has been dabbling in poetry and song writing for a while now, but just taught himself to play the guitar two years ago. ...
- Variety shows, open mics on tap at Cafe Victoria - Lake County News
Variety shows, open mics on tap at Cafe VictoriaLake County News, CA - 6 hours agoThe First Saturday Open Mic will be on June 7 from 4 pm to 6 pm They need performers, so come on down and read your poetry, tell some jokes, do some magic ...
- DION: It was all the last guy's fault, 05-19-08 - Fall River Herald News
DION: It was all the last guy's fault, 05-19-08Fall River Herald News, USA - 26 minutes agoYou don’t hang that name on a guy because you want to write love poetry to him. Lambert wasn’t about accounting. Lambert was about control. ...
- Let the revelry begin: Society for Creative Anachronism holds event in ... - Salisbury Post
The 550 Timberline Trail house is typically modern. At least, until you step in the backyard, where people dressed in pre-1600s clothes are singing battle songs. "It's the Middle Ages the way they should have been," says David Ritterskamp, a member ...
- Calligrapher surmounts paralysis - Daily Yomiuri On-Line
A calligrapher from Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, who became paralyzed on his right side after suffering from a stroke more than a year ago is currently holding an exhibition of works he completed with his left hand. Calligrapher Kamei Hoetsu, 60 ...
- Leonardtown Tricentennial Student Art/Essay Contest - Southern Maryland Online
Leonardtown Tricentennial Student Art/Essay ContestSouthern Maryland Online, MD - 8 hours agoThe "Creative Writing Contest" submissions should be essays or poetry about Leonardtown, reflecting fond memories, special events, historical facts, ...
- We Need More Novels about Real Scientists [Scientific American Magazine] (Scientific American)
In novels and films, the most common scientist by far is the mad one. From H. G. Wells’s Dr. MoÂÂreau to Ian Fleming’s Dr. No to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, scientists are portrayed as evil geniuses unrestrained by ethics and usually bent on world domination. Over the past two years, as I struggled to write my own novel about physicists and their quest for the Theory of Everything, I ...
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