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- Visions of Haiti - Canada.com
The truth can finally be told: Ottawa's high-profile performance poet and social activist, Oni The Haitian Sensation, is not all that Haitian. Actually, Oni was born in Montreal, and has never been to Haiti. She was named after Swedish film star ...
- Poem Prescription - Hopkinton Crier
Poem PrescriptionHopkinton Crier, MA - 35 minutes agoThe plan...to compile all of her students' poems into a book of poetry celebrating Mother's Day and send them home with each student for Mothers Day weekend ...
- Bumbershoot's mighty literary lineup (Seattle Times)
Bumbershoot's Literary Arts lineup has something for everyone. Headliners include Sherman Alexie, Deb Caletti, Dan Clowes, Joshua Ferris, William Gibson, Nathan McCall, Joan Silber and Edmund White.
- Who said, 'God grant me the serenity'? (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Origins of the well-circulated saying often attributed to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr are called in doubt by a Yale University librarian.
- Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival coming soon - Al Arab Online
Alarab-London-Now in its seventh year, the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival is firmly established as a popular event on the city’s cultural calendar. The festival remains the only one of its kind in the UK and the 2008 programme has lined up a ...
- Solo Conor Oberst delivers no different - Calgary Herald
Calgary HeraldSolo Conor Oberst delivers no differentCalgary Herald, Canada - 27 minutes agoBut there's no doubting Oberst's skill for pouring deep wells of poetry, sadness and wanderlust into memorable melodies. Recorded with a group of friends in ...
- Jack White's Poetic Apology - Huffingtonpost.com
White Stripes rocker Jack White came under fire recently for disparaging his home town of Detroit, so he decided to prove his love for the city in a rather unorthodox way -- by writing a poem. This wasn't your everyday means of damage control -- let ...
- Blog: Confessions of a museum junkie - Independent News Online
GROWING UP, my brother and I found ourselves walking through more museums, Civil War battlefields and other educational things than we can remember. We did not voluntarily go to most of these places and thought them lame at best. I think this tends ...
- Bulletin Board: A listing of events in Palm Beach County (Sun-Sentinel)
Today American Contract Bridge League-sanctioned duplicate bridge , 6:45 p.m., Temple Beth El, 333 SW Fourth Ave., Boca Raton . $5. Call 561-483-6166.
- Letters: Blair's fluffy thinking - The Independent
Sir: Far from making the case that we need to learn to live with "a diverse religious ecology", Tony Blair, in his article (14 June) plugging his Faith Foundation, merely succeeds in reminding us of the intellectual poverty of his signature "focus ...
- My sympathies lie with proud, sunny Georgians - Independent
I spent a brief period in Georgia in the 1980s -- before the Soviet Union collapsed, but when it was very obviously in decline -- and thought it a most delightful country. It was Italy on the Caucasus, and the Georgians seemed like the Italians of ...
- Owen Wilson a 'Big Poetry Fan' - People Magazine
Owen Wilson a 'Big Poetry Fan'People Magazine - 2 hours agoBy Amy Elisa Keith "He's a big poetry fan, and I am too. So we email poems to each other," says Academy Award-wining actor Alan Arkin, 74, who recently ...
- Longtime SB Poet Cynthia Anderson Moves On - The Santa Barbara Independent
Longtime SB Poet Cynthia Anderson Moves OnThe Santa Barbara Independent, CA - 50 minutes agoSome of this work, including a long poem based on Little Petroglyph Canyon near Ridgecrest, California, is posted online at rainbear.com. ...
- Gentle spirit mourned - Ottawa Sun
Hamel routinely warned drivers trying to find a convenient parking spot they would be ticketed and never asked for money. He was the "information centre of Ottawa," Boyd said. "The unofficial diplomat and his dog. The best street-level ambassador ...
- Sharjah student is master story teller (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI - Hasaan Yusuf Mohammed, a Business Information Technology student from Sharjah Men's College, became the UAE Regional winner on Thursday evening for the first Regional Extremely Short Story Competition 2008 (ESSC) Arabian Peninsula competition.
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