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- Nigeria: All the Music Everyone's Talking About (AllAfrica.com)
We were getting used to seeing him as the bonafide hooks man - the kinda singer whose cameo appearance on a song automatically catapults it into 'hit-dom'.
- Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimism - Financial Times
Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimismFinancial Times, UK - 16 minutes agoBy Kevin Goldstein-Jackson As well as writing this column, I am trying to meet the deadline for delivery of haiku for a small poetry magazine, ...
- Cambridge students asked to compare Raleigh and Shakespeare with Amy Winehouse lyrics in final year exam (Daily Mail)
Baffled Cambridge University students were asked to compare a 15th century poem with lyrics by troubled singer Amy Winehouse in their final year exam paper.
- London Poetry Festival - Red Carnation Hotels
London Poetry FestivalRed Carnation Hotels, UK - 14 hours agoThe fourth London Poetry Festival will be held at the recently restored Waterloo St John's Church. Growing out of the Poet's Letter Magazine Poetry ...
- Peebles gallery gets rare show of Bob Dylan prints - Sunday Herald
AN EMERGING ART GALLERY IN PEEBLES has scored a coup by becoming one of only two venues in Scotland to display artworks by the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. Dylan's intriguing drawings and sketches, produced while he toured ...
- Venus flytraps for Lord Whimsy - National Post
Venus flytraps for Lord WhimsyNational Post, Canada - 4 hours agoIt's a strange little book, billed as "a bounteous selection of essays, philosophical diagrams, poetry and other Arcadian follies concerning the art of ...
- 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 ...
- Sunday is libraries’ new fun day - Examiner.com
Sunday is libraries’ new fun dayExaminer.com - 2 hours ago“Now, our kids go there every day for some activity — and if I’ma teen and I can go to a poetry reading, I’m not going to be on the street. It’s wonderful.”
- Poetry contest offering $1,000 - Iowa City Press-Citizen
A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a poetry contest sponsored by Golden Poets Guild. Free to everyone, the contest offers 50 prizes, totaling $5,000. Poems may be written on any subject, using any style. Deadline for entering is July 26. To ...
- New scholarship announced - Emporia Gazette
New scholarship announcedEmporia Gazette, KS - 7 hours agoLeona still has a love for music and continues to compose and share her talents with her family, friends, and the local community, and also writes poetry. ...
- Poetry Slam allows young and old to use the power of words - UT The Daily Texan
Poetry Slam allows young and old to use the power of wordsUT The Daily Texan, TX - 2 hours agoAustin Slam member DaShade Moonbeam defended his status as a "Black nerd" but mocked himself by adding that he cried during "Transformers. ...
- Falletta recognized as force for new music - Buffalo News
BPO conductor JoAnn Falletta is honored in Manhattan. As music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta has always shown an adventurous spirit. And the world, it turns out, has been watching. This week, Falletta received a high ...
- At 80, Maya Angelou says she's not done yet - Orlando Sentinel
NEW YORK - It takes just seconds to leave behind this muted Harlem side street and enter the parlor of Maya Angelou 's brownstone, a step as bright and quick as a black and white film dissolving into Technicolor. Plump sofas and armchairs in bursts ...
- 'An embarrassment of riches' - St. John's Telegram
St. John's Telegram'An embarrassment of riches'St. John's Telegram, Canada - 1 hour agoFor the first time in its 35-year history, the League of Canadian Poets is holding its annual poetry festival and conference in this province. ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate (AP via Yahoo! News)
Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet.
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