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- Bare or Bear, or, the Story of Berserk - OUPblog
Bare or Bear, or, the Story of BerserkOUPblog, New York - 3 hours agoBerserks were mentioned for the first time in a poem commemorating King Harald Fairhair’s victory in a battle that occurred around the year 872. ...
- John Lundberg: Highlights From the 2008 National Poetry Slam (HuffingtonPost)
The National Poetry Slam--or so-called "Superbowl of spoken word"-- took place in Madison, Wisconsin this past week. The event featured more than 75 teams that had won their way through preliminary slams and city championships around the country to reach the final.
- Mashpee 'warrior poet' killed overseas (Cape Cod Times)
Mashpee has lost a second son in the same week to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- Bubbling Venus (The Villager)
Zelda Fitzgerald, along with her husband F. Scott, stirred things up from time to time by bathing in the fountain in front of the Plaza. She may or may not have been a vestal virgin, but Scott thought she was.
- Music Review: P.W. Long - God Bless The Drunkard's Dog - Blogcritics.org
See also: » Jerry Wexler: In Passing (1917-2008) » Music Review: Costanza - Sonic Diary » Interview: Willie Nile - Troubadour Of New York City “Come on come one and Shake what you got. Well easy does it, cause it looks like you got quite a lot ...
- Comfortable in own skin, 'Gargoyle' author takes buzz over novel ... - The Canadian Press
Comfortable in own skin, 'Gargoyle' author takes buzz over novel ...The Canadian Press, TORONTO - 46 minutes agoHe has been writing seriously since age 16, penning screenplays, stage plays, short stories and poetry. Prior to "The Gargoyle," a few of his poems had been ...
- Hear This Hammer Ring - Common Dreams
Stand by my side. - Langston Hughes When we first began organizing the Split This Rock Poetry Festival about a year and a half ago, I told people that we'd chosen the date to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I can't ...
- Teens take a stand against human trafficking - Twin Cities Planet
Teens take a stand against human traffickingTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - Jul 17, 2008.Ideally, I would love to have someone involved at a young age and become the next advocate or lawyer who helps victims …It’sa huge problem. ...
- Like A Turtle, Top Poet Slow To Gain Recognition (The Tampa Tribune)
More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets.
- At Vermont writing summit, schlepping goes with scholarship - Boston Globe
RIPTON, Vt. It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s. Still, somebody's ...
- A winter in solitude - Tahoe World
A winter in solitudeTahoe World, CA - 1 hour agoHe began to write in the 1970s and in 1982 received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University, where he earned his master’s degree in ...
- Carnival of Memories - CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse)
Carnival of MemoriesCNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse), Canada - 1 hour agoLagos narrates through her first sexual experience, disintegration of her parent's relationship, and friend's near-death encounter while terminating an ...
- Russell lectures about Armenian-Slavic folklore connections Thursday - Abington Mariner
Prof. James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University, will give the first lecture of NAASR’s fall 2008 series on Thursday, Sept. 11, at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395 ...
- Mortified Live = Teen Angst as Performance - About - Cities & Towns
Mortified Live = Teen Angst as PerformanceAbout - Cities & Towns, NY - 3 hours agoMortified Live is a comic (and courageous) exploration of youthful artifacts -- journals, diaries, love letters, poems -- performed by the original authors, ...
- Newtown goes it alone to celebrate its artistic women - Tonight
Newtown goes it alone to celebrate its artistic womenTonight, South Africa - 8 hours agoThe Friday poetry evening will showcase Nomakhosazana Xaba (who launches Tongues of their Mothers), Ntsiki Mazwai and Jamaican, Donna Smith. ...
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