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- Edison teen learns lesson in standing up for herself (Miami Herald)
Never had Jeislee Alvarez imagined something so cold and humiliating as jail. There she was, all of 18 with her whole life ahead of her except for the grimy cell holding her back. Poet, pacificist and now jail bird No. 08-18621. Despite her tough-girl shell, the 5-foot-4 Miami Edison Senior High student feared using the toilet with other inmates and guards watching. Disgusted by the smell of the ...
- Author fills gap in Hugo-ology - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Author fills gap in Hugo-ologyTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 39 minutes agoOn one occasion, the "Lion" invited Hugo and another writer to compete to please it with poetry. Then, it left during the recital by Hugo’s rival. ...
- We All Watch Oprah (Jackson Free Press)
Juan Felipe Herrera is one of the preeminent voices in 20th-century Chicano poetry. Since the early 1970s, he’s devoted his multimedia work to challenging the notions of what it is to be a Mexican American.
- Carlin was as good as his words - Boston Globe
It's 1972 in a bedroom somewhere in the endless flatness of suburbia. A phonograph needle drops on the last track of a much-played vinyl album, and a teenage boy cranes his ears once more, waiting for the voice to come through the crackle: "I love ...
- Scholarship winners earn top grades in school and high marks in ... - Brampton Guardian
Scholarship winners earn top grades in school and high marks in ...Brampton Guardian, Canada - 20 hours agoShe is interested in reading, writing poetry and choreographing dance performances and will study health sciences in university. ...
- Spirited query gets answer - Anchorage Daily News (subscription)
Spirited query gets answerAnchorage Daily News (subscription), AK - 3 hours ago"Like the poetry of Haines, singular and transcendent." For the curious: Caol Ila is on the Isle of Islay in Scotland. Murray McDavid is based in London, ...
- Science fiction's Thomas Disch ends his life - Gay.com
Science fiction's Thomas Disch ends his lifeGay.com, CA - Jul 7, 2008Following the 2004 death of his partner, poet Charles Naylor, Disch reportedly began suffering from depression. (The Advocate)
- Kuwaiti, Tunisian poets come together - Kuwait Times
Kuwaiti, Tunisian poets come togetherKuwait Times, Kuwait - 1 hour agoTUNIS: Kuwait and Tunisian poetry came together on Friday evening, warming the night in the city of Yasmine Al-Hammamet and taking the audience away on an ...
- Bulletin Board, May 17 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board, May 17Norwich Bulletin, CT - 2 hours agoAMERICAN LEGION POST 4 MEETING, 7 pm, 457 Laurel Hill Ave., NORWICH. Information: 889-7819. CONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY, 10 am to noon, Waterford Library, ...
- Key dates in the life of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ... - Miami Herald
- June 19, 1945: Born in Savnik, Yugoslavia, in what is now the Republic of Montenegro. - July 12, 1990: A founding member of the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia-Herzegovina. - March 27, 1992: Becomes president of Serbia's National Security ...
- Riverfront Reading, Featuring Timothy Allen Pettet and Shawn Pavey - Kansas City infoZine
Riverfront Reading, Featuring Timothy Allen Pettet and Shawn PaveyKansas City infoZine, MO - 4 hours agoSince then, his poetry has been published in a variety of regional literary publications including Independence Boulevard, The Blotter, and The Charlotte ...
- Non-profit seeks baseball haikus (North Adams Transcript)
NORTH ADAMS -- Baseball isn't just for jocks and jugheads but for everyone, even the literary-minded. "America's pastime" has long inspired writers -- not only day-to-day journalists but novelists such as John R. Tunis, Jackson Scholz and the legendary Ring Lardner.
- In the area (Silver City Sun-News)
The Tyrone Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival will be held tonight at 6 p.m. at the Tyrone Community Center. Come out and hear Mike Moutoux, The Copper Creek Wranglers, Dean Foster and others.
- Culture is core part of Adach five-yr strategy (Khaleej Times)
ABU DHABI — Preservation of patrimony, revival of local customs and traditions and an overall promotion of all forms of national and international arts and literature are at the heart of the five-year strategy plan of Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (Adach).
- Losing her home, finding her story - Chicago Sun-Times
Losing her home, finding her storyChicago Sun-Times, United States - 30 minutes agoI would recite really bad erotic poetry in between acts at local clubs. [Laughs.] I can't even remember any of the poems anymore. ...
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