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- The Los Angeles Black Book Expo Returns in 2008 - PR.com (press release)
The Los Angeles Black Book Expo Returns in 2008PR.com (press release), NY - 7 minutes agoThere is a spoken word venue, “Merilene Murphy’s Spoken Worlds” including poetry readings with featured artists and the first annual LABBX Youth Poetry Fest ...
- From Baghdad with Love - OneWorld.net
From Baghdad with LoveOneWorld.net, UK - 9 minutes agoBushra JamilAl-Mahaba means love in Arabic, and the station’s saga is a triumph of love over countless obstacles. It was the brainchild of Bushra Jamil ...
- Celebrate with song - Albany Herald
ALBANY — Today marks the 232nd birthday of our nation. And in that time, many tunes honoring the United States have been penned. Everything from songs heralding basic American freedoms to melodies celebrating the country’s expansive and varied ...
- CITY OF CULTURE - News & Star
CITY OF CULTURENews & Star, UK - 4 hours agoA special set from West Cumbrian performance poet Emma McGordon before her performance at the Glastonbury Poetry Tent in June and, from the east, ...
- On the cusp (Cleburne Times-Review)
Scott Johnson wants to change the world. The 33-year-old Cleburne lyricist has been stringing together rap rhymes for years, but unlike most of the acts heard on mainstream radio, he’s not trying to simply entertain.
- The Daily Sentinel - Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
The Daily SentinelNacogdoches Daily Sentinel, TX - 1 hour ago... Daughters of the American Revolution Junior American Citizen competition. Saffron Hammock, 7, won first place in the poetry contest, and Trevor Landrum, ...
- Restoration of diners gives inmates a taste of success - Houston Chronicle
Take Sherwood's Diner, once so popular in Worcester, Mass., that patrons who were firefighters rigged a fire bell to ring inside. Or Hickey's Diner, hooked to a 1954 Chevy truck on the town green in Taunton, Mass. Or the gigantic Louis' Diner in ...
- Review: 'Port Authority' ... what might have been - Boston Globe
NEW YORK (AP) -- Is there anything more heartbreaking than what might have been? Recollections of regret are the soul of "Port Authority," a series of three superb, interlocking monologues by Conor McPherson that offers ample evidence why the Irish ...
- Karadzic Was Once Considered A Moderate By Many - NPR News
NPR.org , July 24, 2008 · Radovan Karadzic, the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was indicted for war crimes in 1995 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Among other charges brought against him, Karadzic was held ...
- [Editor’s Note] Dancing in the Kitchen (Jackson Free Press)
After being away from home for three years—only dropping in to pick up left-behind items, or for holiday feasts, or (the more popular) “Can I have some money for fill-in-the-blank?” visits—I forsook my independence and moved home.
- Tod A of Firewater - PopMatters
PopMattersTod A of FirewaterPopMatters, IL - 1 hour agoI admire Hunter S. Thompson for his punk rock attitude and hyped-up hyperbole, Charles Bukowski for his brutal honesty and dark poetry, and Milan Kundera ...
- Griffin Poetry Prizes go to Blaser and Ashbery - CBC News
Robin Blaser, poet and professor emeritus from B.C.'s Simon Fraser University, was awarded the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize for Canadian poetry on Wednesday night. Blaser was joined by acclaimed U.S. poet John Ashbery, who took home the ...
- Athenaeum frames travel in the 1800s (Boston Globe)
In the early 1800s, leisure was a concept more commonly viewed in New England as wasting God's precious time. Here we were more familiar with the practice of taking the cure at a mineral spring, or attending church camp in order to refresh the mind and body - for more work.
- Pool Parties - Baltimore Magazine
Pool PartiesBaltimore Magazine, MD - 5 hours agoBlau came to Baltimore in the early 1990s to attend Hopkins' Writing Seminars program, from which she graduated in 1995. A fiction/poetry-writing teacher at ...
- One of poetry's finest reminds us of our place in the natural world (The Japan Times)
Skinny frog Don't give up! Issa is here He has been dead for 180 years, but Kobayashi Issa's haiku keep reminding us that the essence of Japan's culture lies in its intimate tie to nature. Humans are seen by him entirely as an element in nature, where ideally there is no artificial hierarchy and certainly no holier-than-thou moralizing. Read the full story
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