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- Highlights From the 2008 National Poetry Slam - Huffingtonpost.com
The National Poetry Slam--or so-called "Superbowl of spoken word"-- took place in Madison, Wisconsin this past week. The event featured more than 75 teams that had won their way through preliminary slams and city championships around the country to ...
- Poet, novelists among winners of $25,000 US prize for women writers - CBC News
A poet from New Mexico and a nurse from Washington are among the six winners of this year's $25,000 US Rona Jaffe Foundation awards, given annually to emerging women writers in the United States. The awards, created by the author who wrote the 1958 ...
- Police search for mystery dad and daughter (UPI)
BOSTON, July 31 (UPI) -- Boston police are searching for a mystery man whose real name and life history are unknown and who is believed to have kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter.
- Samuel Ullman, great-great grandfather of Burien's Carolyn Rosenfield - The B-Town Blog
The B-Town BlogSamuel Ullman, great-great grandfather of Burien's Carolyn RosenfieldThe B-Town Blog, WA - 22 minutes agoDocumentary filmmaker Judith Schaefer details his life, as well as the impact of a poem he wrote, on the re-building of Japan after World War II in a ...
- Poetry festival packs a punch - Enfield and Haringey Independant
WHETHER you’re a verse virgin or a budding bard, the Essex Poetry Festival guarantees to give you something to wax lyrical about. From Buckhurst Hill to Wivenhoe, and Harlow to Southend-On-Sea, melodic ditties will be ringing in ears as rhyme and ...
- With tunes from Scotland's past, she finds a resonance with the ... - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeWith tunes from Scotland's past, she finds a resonance with the ...Boston Globe, United States - 4 hours ago"There's such wonderful poetry in the songs," Fowlis says. "The melodies are very distinctive, very influenced by the scales of the bagpipes. ...
- Idaho History: Joaquin Miller's imagination led to a colorful career - IdahoStatesman.com
Idaho History: Joaquin Miller's imagination led to a colorful careerIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 1 hour agoDuring these years he began writing poetry, and in 1868 he published the first of several books of verse, "Specimens." It was ignored by the critics, ...
- Authors grieve over Wallace's apparent suicide (The Oklahoman)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest" and the essay collection "Consider the Lobster." Wallace, who wrote with an explosive, ironic, but deeply serious passion about ...
- `Obama Singalong' Will Resound at Democrats' Convention - Bloomberg
`Obama Singalong' Will Resound at Democrats' ConventionBloomberg - 9 hours agoHe and Jack Kerouac pioneered jazz and poetry readings in the 1950s. Along with Julius Watkins, Amram was one of the first to improvise on a French horn. ...
- ‘Iodine' presents a darker change of pace for ‘Girl Named Zippy ... - Macon Telegraph
‘Iodine' presents a darker change of pace for ‘Girl Named Zippy ...Macon Telegraph, GA - 3 hours agoThen I moved here, and I lost the ability to write poetry, which I thought would kill me. There was no reason for me to go on. Then I realized that I could ...
- All Events for 7 Sept 2008 (My Village Tooting)
Until 11 Sep 2008 Lavish biopic about 18th century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. The Duchess is developing herself to be a significant political power-broker and soon becomes better...
- A Modern Mass With Notes of Messiaen - New York Sun
A Modern Mass With Notes of MessiaenNew York Sun, United States - 4 hours agoThe fast opening section was divided between bouncy choral writing and odd meanderings at the organ, unfolding tendrils of surrealistic poetry disappearing ...
- In search of new storytellers - The Daily Star
The Daily StarIn search of new storytellersThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 4 hours agoToo many people here exhaust themselves wrestling with poetry. Or is it? Do they find composing poems easier than writing short stories or novels? ...
- Young Western Saharan refugees build for the future in Cuba - Caribbean Net News
Young Western Saharan refugees build for the future in CubaCaribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - 8 hours agoHafdala, whose particular loves are the theatre and writing poetry and short stories, has also won several awards in national environmental contests. ...
- Plenty to partake this Heritage Day - Calgary Herald
Plenty to partake this Heritage DayCalgary Herald, Canada - 1 hour ago"It's a celebration of the days we represent of the turn of century, so it's theatre, family games and entertainment in that old-fashioned spirit," said ...
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