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- Partying in Honor of a Glamorous Locale's Local Library - New York Sun
Partying in Honor of a Glamorous Locale's Local LibraryNew York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoThe poet laureate of Suffolk County, David Axelrod, offered not only his poems but also assistance as a poetry doctor. Architect Robert AM Stern had a ...
- Emerging artists on shortlist for most valuable poetry prize (Guardian Unlimited)
Higher than usual number of new and nascent poets in the running for Forward award
- Olympic book’s author was torchbearer - Temple Terrace University Beacon
Olympic book’s author was torchbearerTemple Terrace University Beacon, FL - 3 hours agoBut now, his book of poetry and history has been taken into an updraft of current events. While promoting his book from now up until the Games begin in ...
- Durham Bulls still bask in Hollywood glory - WRAL
Posted: Today at 12:01 a.m. DURHAM, N.C. — The bull still snarls from atop the outfield wall, snorting smoke after home runs and taunting hitters with four simple words written on it: Hit bull, win steak. The replica of the prop Hollywood built for ...
- K-jay releases the very funny It's Hard Being Tall - Insight News
K-jay releases the very funny It's Hard Being TallInsight News, MN - 4 hours agoRoutine after routine calls on real life situations to fracture your funny bone. As in: Daddy trying to nestle up next to Mom with decidedly amorous intent ...
- Culture at the Marxism 2008 festival - Socialist Worker
The annual Marxism festival brings together activists, writers and campaigners from across the world to discuss the key political issues and the importance of Marxist ideas today. But it is also packed with cultural events – including music ...
- Heinrich Heine's High-Altitude Irony - New York Sun
We do not expect books from the distant past to be genuinely funny. Even those that are advertised as rascally and unorthodox tend to amuse only indirectly, as a kind of in-joke for the historically informed reader. Old books that actually make us ...
- Atlantans flaunt alternative lifestyle choices - AccessAtlanta
FOR MANY, LABOR DAY WEEKEND is the unofficial end of summer, offering one last opportunity to grill out, picnic or catch a fireworks show. But with Atlanta’s Black Gay Pride Celebration taking place Aug. 27-Sept. 1, the holiday weekend also offers ...
- Biker bards - Boston Globe
Biker bardsBoston Globe, United States - 4 hours agoThis combination is cause for celebration tonight when Richard Cambridge's Poet's Theater presents "Rubber Side Down: The Biker Poetry Anthology," which ...
- His performance will not be televised (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
Gil Scott-Heron intrigues with poetry, music... By Grant Britt.Revolution has long been a favorite theme for musicians. John Lennon weighed in on the subject, as did The Clash. But no musical composition to date had the impact that musician/street poet Gil Scott-Heron's did when he told a complacent middle-class American audience in 1970 that the revolution would not be televised. "You will not ...
- Joyce Carol Oates' 'My Sister, My Love': mesmerizing, long - Austin American-Statesman
Joyce Carol Oates' 'My Sister, My Love': mesmerizing, longAustin American-Statesman, TX - Aug 2, 2008The way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that — her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Hip-Hop: Agent for social change or angry, misogynist music? - The Gazette (Montreal)
Hip-Hop: Agent for social change or angry, misogynist music?The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - Jun 29, 2008Is it "pavement poetry that vibrates with commitment to speaking for the voiceless," as Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Georgetown University, believes? ...
- Sports schedule for June 16, 2008 (Calcutta News)
Poet Bareilwi gets first Firaq Gorakhpuri award Agra, June 16 (IANS) Noted Urdu poet Wasim Bareilwi, a regular feature at poetry soirees since the 1960S, has been given the first Firaq Gorakhpuri International Award here.
- Where love is in the air (Haaretz Daily)
"Thank you Sderot, ahla" said Knesiyat Hasekhel vocalist Yoram Hazan when the last chord of the song "Nothing will harm us" died out, ending the performance. "You've done a wonderful thing."
- IN AND OUT - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphIN AND OUTCalcutta Telegraph, India - 5 minutes agoVikram Seth discovers that he has forgotten what had sparked off the composition of his hauntingly sad poem, “Soon”, written in the voice of a person dying ...
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