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- Paul McCartney Among Yale's Honorary Degree Recipients (Hartford Courant)
The band played "Hey Jude" as ex-Beatle Paul McCartney stepped on stage Monday to accept an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University. In a short tribute, Yale President Richard Levin evoked some of the songwriter's most memorable lines.
- War of the Words (Idaho Press-Tribune)
BOISE -- "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never" -- ouch!Poets throughout the Treasure Valley showed how versatile words could be at the Poetry Slam DeLux, hosted by local poetry organization Big Tree Arts, in downtown Boise Monday. "A poetry slam is the competitive sport of performance poetry. Performance poetry is poetry written with the intent to perform it," said David ...
- Mary-Sherman Willis' "The Laughter of Women" - Seattle Times
So often, reading a poem can in itself feel like a thing overheard. Here, Mary-Sherman Willis of Virginia describes the feeling of being... So often, reading a poem can in itself feel like a thing overheard. Here, Mary-Sherman Willis of Virginia ...
- The green agenda: June - Guardian Unlimited
Peterborough green festival Saturday,May 24 - Sunday June 8, Cathedral Square, Peterborough For more information, visit the Peterborough Green Festival website. This free two week festival is full of green activities, challenges and events. The 2008 ...
- It’s the Communism, Stupid - Canada Free Press
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to deflect a question about his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers by saying that he “engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old” and that he was now a professor and a ...
- Obsessed, from cover to cover - Globe and Mail
Obsessed, from cover to coverGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoNow, he's on to the poetry winners. "I've read a great deal of these," he says, carefully picking up the book he calls "the Holy Grail" - the inaugural GG ...
- J.J. Abrams to Produce NYT's Fifth Avenue Mystery - New York Observer
A teeny little feature in the Times' Home & Garden section about parents who turned their house into a maze of hidden puzzles, games and treasures for their four pre-teen kids will be a movie. J.J. Abrams (producer of Lost , Cloverfield , etc.) has ...
- Words fly at Southern Fried Poetry Slam - Tallahassee.com
Words fly at Southern Fried Poetry SlamTallahassee.com, FL - 13 minutes agoThe event has attracted more than 200 poets and 40 teams to Tallahassee and is hosted by Black on Black Rhyme, the local poetry troupe founded by Keith ...
- Library toots its own horn with book fest (Philadelphia Daily News)
In sharp contrast with the notion of hollow and dusty, book-filled halls, dimly lit study tables and the gray-haired, bespectacled librarian, the Philadelphia Free Library looks forward to another year of displaying the vitality and fun that it has to offer at its 2nd annual Philadelphia Book Festival.
- Tragic death sparks new beginning - Ashtabula Star-Beacon
SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP — Latasha Moore’s poems sit in an unread book, her words waiting for her mother’s strength to catch up with her grief. Latasha would have been 18 years old, a graduating Lakeside High School senior with a new baby boy and an ...
- Harman excels in futuristic fantasyland of 'Love Story 2050' (Film ... - New Kerala
A star has most certainly been born. There are no two ways about it. After watching Harman Baweja sing, dance, emote and entertain in this Adlab presentation for a full three hours, one wonders if there is anything that this Baweja boy from Bollywood ...
- New Poetry Collection Launching This Weekend - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
New Poetry Collection Launching This WeekendScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 1 hour ago... Emma Neale, Kaye McKenzie Cook, David Howard, Jenny Powell-Chalmers and Alexandra- based Michael Harlow; a poetry writing; and an open mic. ...
- Book fair, computer exhibition at PU - The Post
Book fair, computer exhibition at PUThe Post, Pakistan - 7 hours agoHe said that more than 110 publishers would install their books of national as well as international repute on literature, science, poetry, medical, ...
- Bringing Broadway's 'Bridges' to Haifa - Jerusalem Post
Tony Award-winning playwright and actress Sarah Jones recently visited Jaffa, performing selections from her Broadway hit Bridge and Tunnel in the Arab-Hebrew Theater. Jones also met with various cultural organizations in Israel to run writing and ...
- Marcel Iancu - Romanian Avantgarde - Artline
Marcel Iancu - Romanian AvantgardeArtline, Romania - 14 hours agoThey produced an impressive number of works of art, posters, masks, literature, poetry, they organised conferences about DaDa and the avantgarde and made ...
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