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- Chairs draw top dollar (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
A crescent-shaped chair at the Contemporary Arts Center's Silk & Spice gala doesn't sell, but nine others do, artists tackle Laughing Brook, and Jack Meanwell is honored.
- Poet slams at Daggy - The Daily Evergreen
Poet slams at DaggyThe Daily Evergreen, WA - 3 hours agoHis poetry included everything from the duties of a Scottish superhero, to an open letter to Neil Armstrong, and many of his poems hummed a theme of love ...
- Raleigh County Students Celebrate in Spanish - WVNT-TV
BECKLEY -- Kids in Kindergarten through fifth grades celebrated their Fine Arts Fair and fiesta today. It's Greater Beckley Christian School's fourth annual event. Students performed songs in Spanish and English, played piano and recited poetry for ...
- 3 poets to speak at Dominican festival - Marin Independent Journal
Three acclaimed poets will discuss their work at the concluding program of the Marin Poetry Festival on Sunday at Dominican University in San Rafael. Robert Bly, a widely influential American poet from Minnesota, author of "Iron John" and "The ...
- So long G-Town and thanks for the frostbite … - Tonight
So long G-Town and thanks for the frostbite …Tonight, South Africa - 4 hours agoBallistic beat-poet Ewok's rib-crackingly powerful poetry production, Spitfire. His caustic, but accessible rhymes reconstructed the way my synapses fire. ...
- On the Bright Side - Daily Star
ONEONTA _ The love of the spoken word was evident Friday as 10 students read their works during the finals of the 12th annual Share the Words high school poetry competition. The event, held in Oneonta at the Foothills Performing Arts Center by Word ...
- Fabu: 'To be black is to be political' (Isthmus)
On the first Saturday night in May, while rowdy college kids roamed the Mifflin Street block party in search of their next keg, a quieter crowd gathered at Escape Java Joint on Willy Street. In the art gallery coarsely decorated with organic fair-trade coffee sacks, over 50 people sat in folding chairs and in the aisles. Madison's new poet laureate, Fabu Carter Brisco, took the mike.
- Batman is Back — TIME Reviews The Dark Knight - Time
Warner Bros. The Dark Knight , Christopher Nolan's second chapter in his revival of the DC Comics franchise, will hit theaters with all the hoopla and fanboy avidity of the summer season's earlier movies based on comic books. It's the fifth, and ...
- Neocons Stay on Message: Philip Giraldi - Antiwar.com
Neocons Stay on Message: Philip GiraldiAntiwar.com, CA - Jun 30, 2008Yes, she reportedly said narcissism – probably including such un-American activities as reading poetry, eating Chinese takeout, and writing letters to the ...
- Report says Taliban using sophisticated media network to undermine ... - CJAD
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a report ...
- Worst poetry sells for £6million (Daily Mirror)
Verses by a Scot dubbed the world's worst poet sold for £6,600 at auction yesterday.
- DEL MAR: Fair chefs take a stab at an old favorite (North County Times)
DEL MAR ---- Spam, and not the e-mail kind, has inspired songs, poetry contests and even a hit musical celebrating Hormel Foods Corp.'s trademarked, canned ham-based product. The 71-year-old economically priced Spam made fresh headlines this summer f
- Freedom from Ickiness with David Berman - Utne Reader Online
Freedom from Ickiness with David BermanUtne Reader Online - 2 hours agoHis lyrics are poetry in a cracked, catchy, alt-country frame. And yet the songs seem a little more straightforward this time around, less cryptic and more ...
- Spot-on poetic types (Straits Times)
GIVE them a word, any word, and members of the Proletariat Poetry Factory will spin a poem out of it - on the spot. Armed with portable typewriters, the group of arts students and young working adults have been making appearances at flea markets, selling poems.
- LIT PICKS - San Francisco Gate
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 234 pages; $26) by August Kleinzahler: Longtime San Francisco poet August Kleinzahler has been quietly amassing a body of work that demands one's attention, as this ambitious new collection amply demonstrates. Although he ...
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