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- National Poetry Slam 2008 enriches Madison: The week in review (Isthmus)
At any National Poetry Slam, you're bound to see some stuff that disappoints you, but you'll also see a whole lot of stuff that inspires you. This year's gathering in Madison was no different.
- Who We Are - Slate
David Plotz is editor of Slate . Before joining the magazine in 1996, Plotz was a senior editor and staff writer for the Washington City Paper . Plotz has written for the New York Times Magazine , Harper's , Rolling Stone , GQ, the New Republic , and ...
- Things to do Monday July 28 - St. Petersburg Times
Spoken word night The Studio@620 puts on a night of spoken and sung poetry hosted by poet Pedro Jarquin at 620 First Ave. S St. Petersburg starting at 8 p.m. $8 admission (727) 895-6620. Dinosaurs! The Exhibition There's still time to catch the ...
- Famed Authors to Participate in Eighth Annual National Book Festival (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The 2008 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, rain or shine, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 3rd and 7th streets.
- Campus briefs - University of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel
Campus briefsUniversity of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel, NC - 2 hours agoCollins has published eight collections of poetry and is a Guggenheim Fellow. His last three books have broken poetry sales records. ...
- Xero†Skidmore a poet, musician - 2TheAdvocate
Xero†Skidmore a poet, musician2TheAdvocate, LA - 4 hours agoBy JOHN STARR When you think of Baton Rouge, music, poetry and the arts are probably not the first things that come to mind. This is the motivation behind ...
- All writers are invited to enter poetry competition - Portsmouth News
All writers are invited to enter poetry competitionPortsmouth News, UK - 11 hours agoIf you have a talent for writing poetry then you may be in with a chance of winning a cash prize at the Havant Literary Festival Open Poetry Competition. ...
- 'The Writing Class' by Jincy Willett is a killer murder mystery - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 326 pp., $24.95. Jincy Willett, author of the comic, and bravely titled, "Winner of the National Book Award," has written a murder mystery involving a writing class and has pulled it off brilliantly. The teacher is ...
- Cyndi Lauper (RainbowNetwork.com)
The legend that is Cyndi Lauper has taken her music in an exciting new direction with an edgy dance album and an upcoming tour of live performances.
- McCartney, Daltry, Bennett and Brooks join Joel in Shea Stadium ... - Buffalo News
Billy Joel bade a stirring farewell to Shea Stadium on Friday during an electrifying, sold-out final show at the same ballpark where the Beatles famously ushered in a new era in rock 'n' roll four decades ago. He was joined by an all-star lineup of ...
- Bright Star - femalefirst.co.uk
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of high fashion. This unlikely pair began at odds, he thinking her a stylish minx, while she was ...
- On Native Ground - American Reporter
My hearts sings for my country today. It is a song that rises from the sea chants and shanty songs, from the sweat-drenched fields and forests, from the hymns of slaves and the poetry of anguished souls, from the ancient, irrepressible longing for ...
- George Carlin: An Appreciation (The Plain Dealer)
The first reactions varied Monday when people learned of comedian George Carlin's death: "George Carlin, really?" "How old was he?" "Oh, man, too bad."
- Nigeria: Ceramics - Otimeyin's Statement of Ash and Life (AllAfrica.com)
The expression that came to the minds of many viewers of last month's ceramics exhibition of Delta State Polytechnic's lecturer, Pius Otimeyin, and his friends tagged; Ash to Glaze was that portion in the Holy Bible that says... and, on the sixth day, God said, Let us make man in our own image...'
- 'Romeo and Juliet' at the Vanderbilt Museum - Newsday
This is the 10th summer since "Shakespeare in Love." For fans of that film, what better way to launch the Bard-takes-Long-Island season than with "Romeo and Juliet" chased by "Twelfth Night"? In the 1998 Oscar winner, Will, on the advice of Queen Liz ...
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