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- Angelou tells grads to be courageous above all else (The Ithaca Journal)
ITHACA — The clouds over campus retreated and the sun warmed the backs of the audience Saturday as Maya Angelou reminded the Cornell University class of 2008 to be courageous as they look to the future.
- Church Stretton and South Shropshire Arts festival line up - Ludlow Advertiser
Church Stretton and South Shropshire Arts festival line upLudlow Advertiser, UK - 2 hours agoTHIS year's Church Stretton and South Shropshire Arts Festival, the 42nd, again offers a wide variety of events, including concerts, poetry and a fabulous ...
- A Clearfield debut piece for Orchestra's Camden visit (Philadelphia Daily News)
Composer Andrea Clearfield's catalog of works has often been inspired by women's issues and poetry. So when Philadelphia Orchestra's animateur Thomas Cabaniss asked if she was interested in writing a piece based on some heartfelt verses by local women, the answer was yes.
- Over time, immigrants become fully American - Chicago Sun-Times
Underlying the debate over immigration in the United States is the old question of assimilation, or as some people call it today, immigrant integration. Are we a melting pot or a salad? A recent study by the Manhattan Institute measured immigrant ...
- A Fan's Notes - TIME
A Fan's NotesTIME - 1 hour agoWood shouts); Flaubert ("the bearish Norman, wrapped in his dressing gown") writes prose with a precision that until then had been reserved for poetry, ...
- New titles push the cartooning envelope - Waterbury Republican-American
When Harold Ross, editor of The New Yorker, was first shown James Thurber's cartoons by his friend E.B. White, he was reported to be equally amused and confused. White, who had fished the now famous doodle-like work out of Thurber's office trashcan ...
- Tuscaloosa Art - Planet Weekly
Tuscaloosa ArtPlanet Weekly, AL - 56 minutes agoThe exciting aspect of found film, prose, and poetry is the opportunity to delve, for a moment, into someone else’s life. To find an old love note and read ...
- San Bruno group seeks funds to continue student exchange with Japan - Tri Valley Herald
San Bruno group seeks funds to continue student exchange with JapanTri Valley Herald, CA - 4 hours ago... accompanying the American youngsters — taught haiku in a class after being asked how she teaches the traditional Japanese form of poetry in San Bruno. ...
- High Energy Poetry Cabaret @ The Jazz Bar, 15 May - The Skinny
High Energy Poetry Cabaret @ The Jazz Bar, 15 MayThe Skinny, UK - 8 hours agoHer verses are often acerbic, sometimes romantic, rabble-rousing and politically weighty, but always elegant and intoxicating. Regular Big Word attendees ...
- Solomon Volkov's "The Magical Chorus" (International Herald Tribune)
The only thing missing from Volkov's history of Russian culture is moral outrage.
- California Aggie // Jul 10, 08 // Title (California Aggie)
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- Between Nanjing and Chongqing - The Cutting Edge
The Cutting EdgeBetween Nanjing and ChongqingThe Cutting Edge, DC - 2 hours agoSome resisted the politicized vulgarization, but Guo Moro, for instance, who in the 1920s wrote poetry and adapted Marxist analysis to China, ...
- Kathleen Lavey • klavey@lsj.com • July 8, 2008 • From Lansing ... - Lansing State Journal
Kathleen Lavey • klavey@lsj.com • July 8, 2008 • From Lansing ...Lansing State Journal, MI - 1 hour agoHarrison published his first book of poetry, "Plain Song," while he was in graduate school at MSU, working on a degree in comparative literature. ...
- Can't resist a cart of free books - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science MonitorCan't resist a cart of free booksChristian Science Monitor, MA - 2 hours agoI've even reached into the boxes and flipped through quite a few: books on relationships, a book of New Zealand poetry, a book devoted solely to poems about ...
- Music Preview: Taj Mahal chose to harvest blues from around the world - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteMusic Preview: Taj Mahal chose to harvest blues from around the worldPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 57 minutes agoThese were guys with a third-grade education writing poetry that still stands today: "I'm gonna get up in the morning/and I believe I'll dust my broom. ...
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