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- Audience discovers humour in darkness - Calgary Herald
Two eyes are better than one, so the saying goes. But according to Toronto's Justin Rutledge, a hundred ears are even sharper. Especially if these ears are hungry for a contemporary take on Saskatchewan writer Guy Vanderhaeghe's works. "Jesus, I've ...
- Poet to America's `first black president' not expecting to read at ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune
RALEIGH, N.C. - Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton — affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president — asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her ...
- Skilled manoeuvres in the dark - Courier Mail
Skilled manoeuvres in the darkCourier Mail, Australia - 11 hours agoON THIS opening night, there were moments of sheer physical poetry. A stark set, with black surround and white backcloth, and costumes in tones of grey, ...
- Parents' Association of Monmouth Academy sponsors book fair Dec. 8 - Asbury Park Press
Timothy Costello, the director of Monmouth Academy, a K-12 preparatory school, in Howell, N.J., is reading "Olive, the Other Reindeer" during story time (6:00 p.m.), students are sharing their original poetry (6:30 p.m.), and even Santa will be ...
- Appealing reeling - Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Appealing reelingArkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - 1 hour agoForget anything you might recall from high school poetry class about drunken Tam O’Shanter. Especially forget the great Scot bard Robert Burns’ immortal ...
- A Celebration of Hope Through The Arts: - Scarlet Scuttlebutt
A Celebration of Hope Through The Arts:Scarlet Scuttlebutt, NJ - 3 hours agoPerth Amboy, NJ (December 19, 2008); Cathedral International will host "An Evening of the Arts" uplifting the community through music, dance, poetry and ...
- Fiesta Mexicana reunites old friends - Salt Lake Tribune
Fiesta Mexicana reunites old friendsSalt Lake Tribune, United States - 2 hours agoBarker, a native of Chiapas herself, performed some of her own music and poetry for the crowd. "We are trying not to lose our culture. ...
- Just a Minute for performance art - guardian.co.uk
Just a Minute for performance artguardian.co.uk, UK - 42 minutes agoIt was a funny, strangely fascinating presentation, reminiscent of the Edinburgh Fringe hit Dirty Fan Male. The occasional flat spots in the session are ...
- Ballot Language Can Baffle Voters - The Ledger
Ballot Language Can Baffle VotersThe Ledger, FL - 4 hours ago"In a perfect world, it would have been poetry," said Eric Draper of Audubon of Florida. But Draper said the staff of the TBRC was constrained by state law ...
- A one-word response to Engdahl (Guardian Unlimited)
Giles Foden: Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures
- Veterans coping with war experiences turn to writing - Press-Enterprise
Veterans coping with war experiences turn to writingPress-Enterprise, CA - 2 hours agoAt the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center in Loma Linda, veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Iraq war find solace in writing: poetry, ...
- Prolific Turkish poet dies at 94 - Turkish Daily News (subscription)
Prolific Turkish poet dies at 94Turkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - 8 hours agoDağlarca was selected as “best Turkish poet” by the International Poetry Forum meeting in Pittsburgh, United States, in 1967 and received a golden wreath in ...
- Beat happening - The National
Beat happeningThe National, United Arab Emirates - 1 hour agoAs the African-American (in the Obama sense) DJ Chief Boima put it to me: “I wasn’t sure why they even had to signify that it was related to Islam. ...
- Sacred writing subject of workshop - Peterborough Examiner
Sacred writing subject of workshopPeterborough Examiner, Canada - 5 hours ago"I realized that so many secular writings were based on Judeo- Christian writings," she says. She references The St. Augustine's Confessions and John of the ...
- People Profile --Clower spent 5 years as Hanoi POW, released with ... - Brenham Banner Press
People Profile --Clower spent 5 years as Hanoi POW, released with ...Brenham Banner Press, United States - 3 hours ago... would manage to put at least some of his strongest emotions into poetry, dedicated to Maurine and lamenting missing Virginia’s 13th-18th birthdays. ...
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