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- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his opinions. He once argued that the public schools of his youth prepared neither blacks nor whites for "life in a multiracial, democratic nation." He called ...
- Ben Macintyre on the accidental poetry of George W. Bush - Times Online
Ben Macintyre on the accidental poetry of George W. BushTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoAn enterprising schoolteacher, Dirk Schulze, welded together some of Bush's more famously peculiar phrases to create an entire poem: Will the Highways of ...
- The sonnetmeister (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
is a pleasant bonus to being a friend or colleague of Martin Bidney, Binghamton University professor emeritus of English. If you spend time together, have a lunch or even a conversation while passing in a hallway, he will often pen a poem in response. And then he will e-mail it to you.
- Standout performances best part of Theatre Q's Wilde production of "Gross Indecency" (Contra Costa Times)
While flamboyant Oscar Wilde led a life filled with drama, "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" is an enormously difficult subject to make into a dramatic play.
- Calendar: Exhibits - Sun-Journal
Augusta: A 40-piece exhibition featuring contemporary artists and their views of the Katahdin wilderness will be featured through Nov. 1 at the Maine Capital Hall of Flags. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. 287-2121 Bangor: "Todd Webb ...
- North Iowa Calendar for Friday, Aug. 8 - Globe Gazette
BELMOND — The Newman Singers from Iowa City will perform at 7 p.m. at St. Francis Xavier Church, 1207 3rd St. N.E. The public is invited. A freewill offering will be received. BRITT — Hobo Days continues, with a flea market, Hobo Memorial Service ...
- Coffee with a conservative kick - Boston Herald
Coffee with a conservative kickBoston Herald, United States - 16 hours ago"I don’t have to worry about listening to beatnik poetry or some political ideology that makes me want to vomit." During his weekly visits, McPhee usually ...
- Sufism and politics have the same goals — Sabir Zafar - DAWN Group
Although his fame hinges on his geets, or lyrics, noted poet Sabir Zafar is trying to shake off his image as a lyricist. He has as many as 22 collections of ghazals (lyric poems) to his credit and wants his name to be recognized with that genre. With ...
- Hartford Cares - Hartford Courant
Hartford CaresHartford Courant, United States - 1 hour ago... at the request of Mayor Eddie Perez, will kick off Monday evening at 7 pm with a candlelight vigil along with music, dance, poetry and storytelling. ...
- Poem on the Boardwalks Makes a New Kind of Beach Read - RedOrbit
Poem on the Boardwalks Makes a New Kind of Beach ReadRedOrbit, TX - 3 hours agoMost poetry is read top to bottom, beginning to end. Michaels and Dumont knew most beachgoers were unlikely to spend that much time before spreading their ...
- Penniless author sells shares in next novel - Daily Telegraph
Tao Lin's first novel Eeeee Eee Eeee is at 29,914 in the Amazon sales rankings Investors can pay $2,000 (£1,000) in return for a 10 per cent share of the royalties of Tao Lin’s as-yet-unfinished second novel. Tao posted details of his “initial ...
- ‘Living in the now' in Lower Woodstock - Bugle-Observer
‘Living in the now' in Lower WoodstockBugle-Observer, Canada - 3 minutes agoThat single tree, which dominated the rural skyline – accompanied by Johnny Ray Ryder Jr.'s inspirational poem, The Oak Tree – provided a philosophical and ...
- Stray Questions for: Katha Pollitt - New York Times
Stray Questions for: Katha PollittNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoThe poems I’m writing at the moment are part of a series drawn from the Bible. Amazing how much life those old stories have, even if, like me, ...
- River Forest - Chicago Tribune
Diana M. Nicholas was a longtime patron of the arts and daughter of the founder of the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Elmhurst. A lifelong resident of Elmhurst, Mrs. Nicholas was a former director and member of the board of directors of the... As ...
- A life through words as Jidariyya gets its first performance - Metro
BBC NewsA life through words as Jidariyya gets its first performanceMetro, UK - 6 hours ago'Every Palestinian and every Arab who knows his poetry feels the loss,' says director Amir Nizar Zuabi of Palestinian National Theatre, speaking from Tel ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishPalestinian saga personified Arab NewsChristina Patterson: Where poetry still has power IndependentBBC News - The Media Lineall 625 news articles
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