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- Community news: VT English professors win national awards (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
Bob Hicok (top) and Paul Sorrentino (bottom), faculty members in the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, were both awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships. Hicok has also garnered the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry.
- At 102, 'grandmother' of Black Panthers is honored - Oakland Tribune
At 102, 'grandmother' of Black Panthers is honoredOakland Tribune, CA - 5 hours agoThe school grew out of a need to help African-American and other disadvantaged children caught in an unequal public education system that tended to have ...
- Martin on Gary V: Poetry in motion (Philstar.com)
I just got the following e-mail from Martin Nievera who has some interesting stories to tell about his US concert tour with Gary Valenciano, considered to be his “arch rival” on the concert scene. The two are actually good friends.
- Business in a bind - Norton Mirror
Business in a bindNorton Mirror, MA - 1 hour agoBoland, who gives poetry readings from Dylan Thomas and William Butler Yeats, frets that growing numbers of non-readers are “enamored by their computers” ...
- All Events for 7 July 2008 (My Hackney)
Until 10 Jul 2008 Frustrated shipyard worker and divorced father Slimane increasingly feels his life has amounted to little. In a desperate bid to escape his depression, Slimane decides to set up his own restaurant....
- Gratuitous curlicues - Daily Telegraph Blogs
Explosions of arts-and-crafts greenery in this style are found in all of the first generation of Everyman's Library classics. They are the reason that, while scavenging at the bargain end of secondhand bookshops, I often find myself choosing a ...
- An Avant-Gardist’s Sparse Stories, in Film and Fragments - New York Times
An Avant-Gardist’s Sparse Stories, in Film and FragmentsNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoThen came the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr., an African-American, by three white supremacist Texans who chained him behind a truck and dragged him to death. ...
- British company launches poetry download site - Silicon Valley
Addressing one of the biggest complaints about the iPhone - the high price tag - Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Monday celebrated the device's one-year birthday by unveiling a cheaper and faster version. In one of its biggest product launches in recent ...
- AP Top News at 10:36 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is ...
- Local Dispatch: A Poetry Slam dunk, from the halls of Pittsburgh ... - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hey, here's an idea. Take a bunch of eighth-graders desperately consumed with what's cool, what's not, what their friends think of what they wear, what they do and what they say -- and have them deliver their hopes, dreams, fears into words on a page ...
- "Honus" cliched. but a home run to audiences - Denver Post
"Honus" cliched. but a home run to audiencesDenver Post, CO - 2 hours agoSometimes it's poetry, like when Richard Greenberg described baseball as "unrelentingly meaningful" in his Tony-winning play, "Take Me Out. ...
- Cops seek suspects, woman clings to life after Orlando shooting - Orlando Sentinel
Cops seek suspects, woman clings to life after Orlando shootingOrlando Sentinel, FL - 1 hour agoThey described Beaubrun as an outgoing, generous young woman who works as a Winn-Dixie cashier, loves to write poetry and go shopping and dreams of becoming ...
- Religion Calendar: 06/14/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Religion Calendar is published weekly by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Information may be mailed to Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; fax to 946-8632; e-mail gmurray@record-eagle.com . Items should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
- ‘That Time’ for professor at crossroads (Centre Daily Times)
A compelling and dramatic novel, set in academia but reaching out to the furthest limits of the world we live in, “That Time of Year” ranks with C.P. Snow’s finest works. The riveting story line centers on a venomous and false charge of sexual assault against the protagonist that, if upheld, would destroy him.
- Internet is fueling emergence of violent Islamist groups in the ... - GovExec.com
Internet is fueling emergence of violent Islamist groups in the ...GovExec.com, DC - 5 hours agoOn a daily basis, al-Fajr issues a host of material, including statements from violent Islamist groups taking credit for attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, ...
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