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- Cold Snack Devoured by Poetry Award Judges (Scoop.co.nz)
Janet Charman has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards poetry category in a tough contest, one that marked a bumper year for New Zealand poetry. Charman took the prize for her poetry collection Cold Snack.
- The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Saul Williams - BlackBook Magazine
BlackBook MagazineThe Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Saul WilliamsBlackBook Magazine, NY - 2 hours agoWhat’s the difference between writing poetry and song lyrics? When you’re writing, do you know it’s gonna be a song, or do you write poetry and then end up ...
- Fun family picks for the week - DetNews.com
Fun family picks for the weekDetNews.com, MI - Jul 23, 2008It's a funny and funky combination of Harley's storytelling with lots of funny voices, sing-alongs and poetry. Many of the songs and stories are about his ...
- US Infant Mortality Rates Stall - The Bulletin
The CDC defines this category of people as having African ancestry and no maternal ancestors of Hispanic descent. The overall rate, unrelated to premature births, showed very little change from 2004 to 2005, with 6.78 deaths per 1,000 live births ...
- The Real Lincoln Bedroom: Love in a Time of Strife (New York Times)
Daniel Mark Epstein?s careful parsing of the Lincoln marriage interweaves the crisis-filled, mercurial career of Abraham Lincoln with an equally rocky tale of man and wife.
- 2008 Gallatin County Fair Results (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
From the dog diving contest to the best-tasting cupcakes, the results are in from the 2008 Gallatin County Fair competitions.
- Gracing the City - Philadelphia Inquirer
Gracing the CityPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 1 hour ago"He would give me plays and poetry written during the WPA." She may have inherited her social conscience from her parents, but the intensity with which she ...
- Hip-hop praise - Savannah Morning News
Hip-hop praiseSavannah Morning News, GA - 1 hour agoSince then, the Gilliards have run the Savannah Drama Club, a private, Christian, cultural arts program that uses theater, poetry, music, dance, ...
- Our Lady Peace Frontman Sets Solo Release - antiMUSIC.com
Our Lady Peace Frontman Sets Solo ReleaseantiMUSIC.com, CA - 19 hours agoThe lyric, "Sour like democracy," laced into the poetry of this particular track became the sub theme to the album, a sub theme that lays out Raine's ...
- Michael Jackson records pop album of Robert Burns poems - Daily Telegraph
Gest, the former husband of Liza Minnelli, said they recorded the album at Jackson's studio in California with top recording artists, giving a 21st century twist to the Bard's lyrics. Gest, a concert promoter and television personality, said that ...
- Historical anti-slavery speech the subject of July 4th celebration - Oakland Tribune
Oakland musicians and poets will offer an alternative celebration of Independence Day this week with a staged version of Frederick Douglass' famed 1852 speech decrying the hypocrisy of slavery in a supposedly free country. Poetry and jazz ensemble ...
- The Amazing Story of Trumbo (Coming Soon)
ComingSoon.net talks with the creators and two of the cast of the theatrical documentary Trumbo that looks at the troubles faced by Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo when he was put before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947, followed by a blacklisting in Hollywood that forced him to write under assumed names. Trumbo's son Christopher, who wrote the play on which the ...
- 'Jellyfish' is clever, but like its characters, it drifts - Cleveland Plain Dealer
A couple stands in the harsh sunshine, silently but obviously breaking up. The man is sullen. The woman is silent. Behind them, the sea stretches out in turquoise waves -- but there's something wrong with the perspective. This body of water stretches ...
- We talk with acclaimed poet Mark Doty in advance of his Pittsburgh reading. (Pittsburgh City Paper)
"What I really want to do is make a poem that is as involved as it can be in how it feels to live." By Paul Ruggiero.
- Waiting room reading gets a dose of poetry - Herald.ie
Herald.ieWaiting room reading gets a dose of poetryHerald.ie, Ireland - 2 hours agoThe poem leaflets are offered free of charge and visitors are encouraged to take one read it and then recycle it by leaving it in another waiting room. ...
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