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- National Poetry Slam 2008 announces bouts draw and schedule (Isthmus)
The wait is over for hundreds of spoken word devotees wondering who they will face in the opening rounds of this year's National Poetry Slam in Madison. Organizers conducted a random draw this week to determine match-ups in the opening two rounds of the competition, which will be held in multiple venues across downtown over the first week of August. Teams hailing from the same city will face off ...
- Padma Lakshmi: The anti-Martha Stewart - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesPadma Lakshmi: The anti-Martha StewartLos Angeles Times, CA - 49 minutes agoHer long black hair is in a ponytail and she's wearing an oversized navy blue fleece sweater, jeans and gray sneakers. The 37-year-old host of Bravo's ...
- Leah Garchik Archive - San Francisco Gate
January February March April May June July August September October November December 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 Steve Heilig forwards two poems written by Barack Obama in 1981 for an Occidental College ...
- A page-turner on every corner - Brisbane Times
A page-turner on every cornerBrisbane Times, Australia - May 18, 2008Junot Diaz is inspirational. Last here in 1998, he bowled everyone over then with his brilliance. His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, ...
- Djelloul Marbrook`s First Book of Poems, Far From Algiers Debuts - NewsBlaze
Djelloul Marbrook`s First Book of Poems, Far From Algiers DebutsNewsBlaze, CA - 5 hours agoThe Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University awarded the 73-year-old poet the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Prize. The book, which will be published in the fall ...
- Family of Baghdad booksellers hangs tough Nabil al-Hayawi lost his ... - San Francisco Chronicle
Family of Baghdad booksellers hangs tough Nabil al-Hayawi lost his ...San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 48 minutes agoHe bought the poetry book. He anticipates lending it to at least a dozen classmates, who, in exchange, will lend him their books. On a recent day, ...
- Dark side of Clive Barker - News.com.au
'I AM not a horror writer," Clive Barker says. "Nor do I consider myself a fantasy writer. I am a writer who works in my imagination." In one sense, all writers re-invent the world, though some do it with more enthusiasm than others, and with more ...
- My boyfriend tries to find happiness in homelessness (The Charlotte Observer)
In April of my freshman year, my boyfriend, Terry, decided he wanted to be homeless. Among the decisions I expected a college boyfriend to make (changing cell phone plans, or maybe going vegan), homelessness was not one of them. Still, I took the situation calmly. I had known Terry since high school and had watched him pass through various phases: Goth, punk, anarchist, Marxist and Zen. When ...
- Service is Tuesday for Carrie Allen McCray Nickens - The State
Service is Tuesday for Carrie Allen McCray NickensThe State, SC - 7 hours agoHer first poetry book, “Piece of Time,” was published in 1993. She came to much wider recognition with her book “Freedom’s Child,” which told the story of ...
- CONCERTS, FESTIVALS AND MORE - The Wichita Eagle
CONCERTS, FESTIVALS AND MOREThe Wichita Eagle, KS - 2 hours agoPoetry Aloud, read your own poetry or that of a poet you admire, 7 pm Tue., Zoomdweebie's Tea Bar, 3010 E. Central. Free. Information, 316-440-4202. WED. ...
- Faith & Spiritual Life: Outreach (Everett Herald)
Crosswater Community Church and Mountainview Christian Fellowship host a free Vacation Bible School from 9 a.m. to noon July 28 to Aug. 1 at Mountainview Christian Fellowship, 211 Sixth Street, Sultan. The theme is "God's Big Back Yard: where kids have a blast serving Jesus."
- Great dates in Cleveland that are easy on the wallet - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Plain Dealer file The Tremont ArtWalk is a great cheap date. Just because the economy is on the decline, your social life doesn't have to be. Especially when it comes to dating. Greater Cleveland offers so many cheap dates that don't seem "cheap ...
- For Hollywood Crowd, Piano Man's Name Is Lang Lang: Alan Rich - Bloomberg
July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Thursday nights at the Hollywood Bowl are usually placid affairs, drawing modest crowds of, say, 5,000 seeking surcease in the familiar classical repertory. Not so this past Thursday, however, when a concert veering well off ...
- GoodReads shows that people still read and love their books - Industry Standard
what we read. It’s no surprise to find the last Harry Potter novel and “The Da Vinci Code” at the top of the charts. But it is heartening to see that readers haven’t forgotten about titles such as “1984″ and “Slaughterhouse Five.” I ...
- Hip-hop praise (Savannah Morning News)
Carl and Lashawanda Gilliard used to come home to teenagers wandering aimlessly around their Savannah neighborhood. The kids seemed to have little to do other than talk about rap and hip-hop music. So Carl Gilliard, himself a rapper, decided to talk rap and hip-hop music with them. "When we would come home to our apartment and see these kids, we just kind of gave them what we had, what we ...
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