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- Writer offered young Obama life advice - Politico.com
HONOLULU (AP)  At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had ...
- Gervase Phinn: What pupils can teach us... - yorkshirepost
Last week, I received a letter from Ben, telling me how he had done in his GCSEs. It came as no surprise to me that he had achieved all top grades. Ben has been writing to me on and off since I met him in a primary school where I was undertaking a ...
- Workshop seeks balance with help of poetry, music - The Coloradoan
Workshop seeks balance with help of poetry, musicThe Coloradoan, CO - 5 hours ago"Life is such a delicate balancing act between the opposites," Bielecki said. "We prefer the easier way of settling for one pole or the other: solitude or ...
- Portsmouth-Based Ezine Names New Zealand Medical Pro Winner of Writing ... - PR.com
"First Consultation" by Fiona Imlach has been named Word-wise's second 2008 Short Writing Contest winner. Portsmouth, VA, August 13, 2008 --( PR.com )-- The ezine Word-wise has named Fiona Imlach of Wellington, New Zealand, winner of its 2008 Short ...
- Inspiring with words, not deeds (Stuff)
When Elizabeth Smither heard she'd won a $60,000 poetry prize she was stunned into calmness.
- Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death - Village Voice
Village VoiceAin’t Supposed to Die a Natural DeathVillage Voice, NY - 9 hours agoNominated for seven Tony Awards when it debuted on Broadway in 1971 and considered a precursor of hip-hop and poetry slams, the hit musical made a ...
- SHS Class of 1933 marks 75th reunion - Shelbyville News
SHS Class of 1933 marks 75th reunionShelbyville News, IN - 2 hours ago... she is living in her 90s and remains active physically and mentally, cycling two miles a day on a stationary bike and writing lines of poetry daily. ...
- Draw We Have Coming to Dover (IE via Yahoo! India News)
Last year, when Daljit Nagra brought out his slim volume Look We Have Coming to Dover!, rapping in verse about his mother with "mustard-oiled trail of hair, brocaded pink sandals and the smell of curry" and Everyimmigrant in the UK, he was feted as the brave new voice.
- June dance program reaches back to roots (Massachusetts Daily Collegian)
Spoken word. Hip-hop. Jazz. Gospel. Blues. Spirituals. The history of American music and dance is intricately bound to the evolution of African music.
- You're never too young to kill - Guardian Unlimited
Between 1985 and 1991, as a result of his anti-government writings, Nigerian author and poet Chris Abani was repeatedly thrown into prison and tortured by his country's military dictatorship. During one such spell, Abani, who was 18 the first time he ...
- Virgin Festival? Who Needs It? (Washington Post)
The Virgin Mobile Festival kicks off today in Baltimore, but what are we doing? Not going to Virgin Festival.
- Paint yourself into the Tate - Times Online
From Pablo Picasso to Jackson Pollock, some of the world's most celebrated artists have been inspired by the work of the Surrealists. This exuberant movement, including Salvador DalÃÂ, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Joan Miró, responded to the ideas of the ...
- Author Spotlight: Lawrence Berger of Henrietta (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Author Lawrence Berger of Henrietta will be the featured reader at the Rochester Poets monthly open mike on Sept. 3 at St. John Fisher College.
- VIRTUAL VANITIES - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphVIRTUAL VANITIESCalcutta Telegraph, India - 2 hours agoThe literature on the profile can be esoteric prose or poetry interspersed with ordinary language  in font size 6.5, or 26. The creatively challenged would ...
- Together again, Tashi celebrates Messiaen work - Chicago Tribune
Together again, Tashi celebrates Messiaen workChicago Tribune, United States - Aug 8, 2008Loriod played the "20 Contemplations" at Northwestern University for the composer's 70th birthday in 1978, and in 2002 Pierre-Laurent Aimard brought it to ...
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