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- Kay Ryan Is Named New U.S. Poet Laureate (The Online NewsHour)
The Library of Congress announced Thursday the appointment of Kay Ryan as the 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009.
- English riding school takes different tack in rodeo country - Beaumont Enterprise
English riding school takes different tack in rodeo countryBeaumont Enterprise, tx - 12 hours agoThe 6-year-old thoroughbred and his rider create a poetry in motion that belies the usual brand of horsemanship found in rough-and-tumble rodeo country. ...
- Madison spoken word artists on home turf at National Poetry Slam - The Capital Times
Madison spoken word artists on home turf at National Poetry SlamThe Capital Times, WI - 1 hour agoJeanne Bergmann, another poet at Genna's, said in a later interview, "There's a funny little noise that the audience makes when things hit home, ...
- Shopped: 69A, Renshaw Street, L1 - Liverpool Confidential
Liverpool ConfidentialShopped: 69A, Renshaw Street, L1Liverpool Confidential, UK - 54 minutes ago... another gave away the location of a stuffed buzzard sat high by the poetry books who looked ready to attack an old vulnerable looking rocking horse. ...
- World’s top 20 public intellectuals - The Post
World’s top 20 public intellectualsThe Post, Pakistan - 3 hours agoAbdolkarim Soroush, religious theorist, Iran: Soroush, a former university professor in Tehran and specialist in chemistry, Sufi poetry, and history, ...
- Richard Ingrams Week': Jobs for Americans and Australians, but not Brits (Independent)
ETS, the American firm responsible for the recent SATs marking fiasco, has now been put in charge of English language tests for immigrants. In other words, they will have the power to decide who is allowed to settle in this country under the Government's newly introduced regulations.
- Man says he's had sex with 1000 cars and he's not sick - News.com.au
A MAN who claims to have had sex with 1000 cars, writing them poems and singing to them, has defended his "romantic" feelings towards vehicles. Edward Smith, who lives with his current "girlfriend" - a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted ...
- Kudos: San Francisco's Mission district lights up with flowers and song (The San Francisco Examiner)
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. Wordsmiths will find some choice cuts Thursday through Saturday at this year's "Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry" in San Francisco's Mission District.
- Mixing culture, mixing media - Juneau Empire (subscription)
Mixing culture, mixing mediaJuneau Empire (subscription), AK - 7 hours agoThe band's only non-Native members are African-American Maurice Caldwell Jr. on guitar and Euro-American Terry Maloney on drums, both accomplished Seattle ...
- Oxygen for dying scripts - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphOxygen for dying scriptsCalcutta Telegraph, India - 6 hours agoEven if the scripts survive, the songs and poetry will be extinct in less than a decade, linguists feel. To save these language communities from extinction, ...
- Portsmouth area religious services - Portsmouth Herald News
Portsmouth area religious servicesPortsmouth Herald News, NH - Jun 7, 200810 at 11:30 am, "Poetry Festival" featuring a poetry reading and a family-friendly workshop on reading and writing poetry. All programs are free and open to ...
- Palestinians Turn Out to Lay Beloved Poet to Rest - Washington Post
CBC.caPalestinians Turn Out to Lay Beloved Poet to RestWashington Post, United States - 1 hour agoDarwish "liberated the old Arabic poetry from its constraints and made it accessible to a big audience," Manna said. Many of Darwish's poems have been set ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishChristina Patterson: Where poetry still has power IndependentPalestinian saga personified Arab NewsLos Angeles Times - BBC Newsall 702 news articles
- Kay Goldstein: End Days, Laughing in the Face of Armageddon (HuffingtonPost)
End of Days is a quirky family comedy underscores the vulnerabilities and aspirations of human beings who have survived trauma and even the threat of annihilation.
- Foundations pick up slack for schools (Modesto Bee)
Ruth Ramsay transformed her third-grade classroom into a hip and trendy cafe for just one evening. Her students at La Rosa Elementary School in Ceres shared the spotlight, reading poetry they wrote for friends and family at an open-microphone coffeehouse.
- Quardle, oodle, ardle... - New Zealand Herald
Quardle, oodle, ardle...New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 1 hour agoBy Jo McCarroll It is, in so far as such things can be judged, the best-known line in New Zealand poetry; the refrain of Denis Glover's poem The Magpies ...
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