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- There's no rhyme or reason to this ban - Guardian Unlimited
Having been head of English at my school for some years now, I find it deeply disturbing that the exam board, AQA, should withdraw Carol Ann Duffy's amazing poem about knife crime from their anthology. If any poem should be studied as an antidote to ...
- UGA Arts Festival (The Red and Black)
Situated in the heart of East Campus is a pristine addition to the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Today, the University will be debuting the Performing and Visual Arts Complex with a dedication ceremony. The event also will kick off the first annual UGA Arts Festival, a four-day celebration held at this immaculate new structure.
- At 80, Maya Angelou says she's not done yet (Orlando Sentinel)
Many chapters of the author-poet-activist's life are written, but she's still penning her story 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.
- Poets Deal With Life's Physical Limitations - RedOrbit
Poets Deal With Life's Physical LimitationsRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoThe co-owner of a poetry bookstore in Seattle, Marshall has seen plenty of words come and go. He chooses to write in pared-down style, describing life ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of national mourning to honor ...
- ‘Firehouse’ still fanning the flames of creativity - Tri State Defender
Tri State Defender‘Firehouse’ still fanning the flames of creativityTri State Defender, TN - 14 minutes agoWest: Returning home to Memphis in 1978 to organize the 1st National African-American Crafts Conference & Jubilee (forerunner of Atlanta’s National Black ...
- 'Man on Wire' an amazing feat of balance - Baltimore Sun
(A) Atop the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the high-wire walker Philippe Petit is an epic poem in motion. In Man on Wire , the sight of his accomplishment - he walked back and forth between the towers eight times in his 1974 acrobatic feat ...
- Coffee shops, clubs: Welcome back College students a lucrative ... - Jackson Clarion Ledger
Coffee shops, clubs: Welcome back College students a lucrative ...Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - 3 hours agoJeremy Hill, a 19-year-old sophomore at Tougaloo College, enjoys going to cultural events like Seven*Studioz's poetry sessions, but often stays on campus. ...
- Middletown Arts Center announces fall season (The Hub)
MIDDLETOWN — With the new slogan "You'll find it all at the Middletown Arts Center," the nonprofit, award-winning facility has announced a 21-event fall schedule that includes art exhibits, a concert series, dance, comedy, drama, poetry, magic, themed socials, even a masquerade ball.
- Self-published author is the real deal - Des Plaines Times
Deerfield resident Robert M. Katzman has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15 when he opened a newsstand in Hyde Park. Through the years, he has run a kosher delicatessen, a world travel foreign language bookstore and, for the past 18 years, a ...
- Chick Ball Song Birds (Jackson Free Press)
In June, the quintessential Jackson-area music festival Jubilee!JAM put on the best show in years, with top music acts like Three Six Mafia and ZZTop. Though generally the diversity was noteworthy, one key component was missing: female solo acts.
- Will you just fuck off then? - Moneyweb
Will you just fuck off then?Moneyweb, South Africa - 1 hour agoMiller is the author of the poetry anthology Hintsa's Ghost and will be releasing a book of essays - Getting Up: Thoughts on Falling - in October 2008. ...
- Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn Fine Art - Los Angeles Times
In her second solo show in Los Angeles, Kristen Morgin strips away the sentimentality that made her earlier works look nostalgic -- so obsessed with yesteryear that they seemed to have been made by someone with her heart set on turning the clock back ...
- Gretchen Rubin: The Balanced Life: 19 Tips for Cheering Yourself Up -- From 200 Years Ago. (HuffingtonPost)
While reading a biography of English writer Sydney Smith, Hesketh Pearson's The Smith of Smiths, I stumbled across this letter. In 1820, Smith wrote...
- New Music from Teitur and Rickie Lee Jones - Lahontan Valley News
New Music from Teitur and Rickie Lee JonesLahontan Valley News, NV - 3 hours agoThe lyrics -prose poem soliloquies really - do not adhere to conventional song structures and are presented with a variety of backing instrumentation: the ...
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