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- Historians, poet feted - The Nelson Mail
The Nelson MailHistorians, poet fetedThe Nelson Mail, New Zealand - 4 hours agoMs Le Bas won the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay prize for the best first book of poetry, for Incognito. She received $2500. ...Maori work wins award Stuff.co.nzall 5 news articles
- Long Branch poetry series makes great summer readings (The Hub)
The Long Branch Summer Poetry Series continues Wednesday, July 23, with an appearance by one of the founders of the Language Poetry movement.
- Hip Hop History: Local artists discuss the culture of hip hop (Pacific Daily News)
Ask Jovan Tamayo to define hip hop and the answer is the same as it's always been: Hip hop is a culture, he says. It's a state of mind.
- CSU, Stanislaus program helps students learn to succeed in college (Modesto Bee)
TURLOCK -- Prisma Lisbeth Soria's high school friends didn't like that she wanted to take honors classes. They ignored her on campus for months and accused her of leaving them behind. So, the 17-year-old threw away her poetry collection and hunkered down in her basic classes to be accepted again.
- 'Saddam's jail diaries' published - BBC Middle East
An Arab newspaper has published what it says are excerpts from diaries written by the ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein while in captivity. The extracts printed in Al-Hayat portray a man who never seems to have stopped believing in himself as a ...
- Poet Sheila Tiarks to read May 18 at Depot - Norman Transcript
Poet Sheila Tiarks to read May 18 at DepotNorman Transcript, OK - 9 hours agoSheila Tiarks will be the featured poet at The Performing Arts Studio Second Sunday Poetry Reading May 18. The reading begins at 2 pm in the Norman Depot, ...
- Rumi's Poetry At Hill-Stead - Hartford Courant
The Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival continues Wednesday on the grounds of the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington. Poet and translator Coleman Barks, a student of Sufism since 1977, will read from the works of Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi mystic ...
- A marathon of laughter in Riyadh - Saudi Gazette
RIYADH – It was a marathon evening of laughter for Urdu-speaking community members here. Mustafa Ali Baig entertained the audience with his witty Anglo-Urdu poetry and unique style of presentation at “Jashne Mizah†presented by Tanzeem Hum ...
- Buddhist Community Crosses Barriers - Daily Californian
Buddhist Community Crosses BarriersDaily Californian, CA - 22 minutes ago... which featured poetry by young, non-Japanese American Buddhists, said Reverend David Matsumoto of the temple. Snyder's friendship with Beat Generation ...
- "WTF" of the day: Wii sex game (Salon.com)
Nintendo's popular party console simulates the ultimate party activity.
- Star Poets pen from deep within (Honolulu Advertiser)
No one ever said growing up is easy, but if you're curious about its modern-day complexities, joys and
- Research Challenges Authorship of a Famous Prayer (The Lakeland Ledger)
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."
- Rhyme and punishment: Vandals who trashed Robert Frost's home learn ... - Grand Forks Herald
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Philip Larkin - guardian.co.uk
Philip Larkinguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoLarkin's most famous poem, of course, is the grim doggerel of This Be the Verse ("They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad..."). There's more light and shade, ...
- TRIUMPHS: Mentoring program let her escape life of drugs, abuse (Detroit Free Press)
Janese Shurn was molested as a child. She was beaten by boyfriends. A dropout from Detroit Northern High School, she eventually resorted to using ecstasy and drinking alcohol. "When I think about what I have gone through, life feels surreal," Shurn said.
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