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- Nerds nerd out for Nerd Slam at National Poetry Slam 2008 (Isthmus)
Despite the maps on the walls, the mid-afternoon hour, and the lack of beer and liquor, a lecture hall in the UW Humanities Building has the aura of a downtown bar after midnight. Throngs of poets enter through the double doors, and the result is cacophony as the Nerd Slam gets started at the National Poetry Slam on Thursday. Cheers of "Nerds Rock!" echo, and the blackboard at the front of the ...
- Party got what it wanted from Obama speech - MSNBC
DENVER - Barack Obama's speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night was what many nervous Democrats were hoping for: a forceful challenge to John McCain and the Republicans, and a restatement of the message to change ...
- Shattered Globe's 'Menagerie' opens Sept. 4 - Chicago Daily Herald
Shattered Globe's 'Menagerie' opens Sept. 4Chicago Daily Herald, IL - 29 minutes agoThe Northwest Cultural Council seeks artists to submit works for its 2008 juried international visual art and poetry exhibition with the theme "Life's ...
- Hot Picks: Things to do around the valley - The Desert Sun
Hot Picks: Things to do around the valleyThe Desert Sun, CA - 1 hour ago342-5000 WEIRD WORDSMITH: Classical poetry isn't a big draw for today's generation, with its iPhones and questionable body piercings. ...
- Post and Courier announces 3 newsroom promotions (The Post and Courier)
Stephanie Harvin has been promoted to features editor of The Post and Courier. Hers is one of three major newsroom promotions announced this week by Managing Editor Steve Mullins.
- Getting His Goat: Fun at the Mid-State Fair - Times Press Recorder
Getting His Goat: Fun at the Mid-State FairTimes Press Recorder, CA - 2 hours agoFeatured public contests include: the ugliest cake, famous cookie recipe, adult cake decorating, good ol’ cowboy poetry, junior fashion show, ...
- Atlanta woman turns 108 - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Her friends call her Miss Dollie, a measure of respect due any lady turning 108 years old. “She’s a darling person,” Katie Taylor said of Dollie Wilson Parks. “I’ve known her for years and years and years and years.” The longtime Atlanta ...
- The Language of Hurricanes - OffBeat Magazine
OffBeat MagazineThe Language of HurricanesOffBeat Magazine, LA - 44 minutes agoIn Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Chronicle of a Death Foretold, he writes of the townspeople “trying to give order to the chain of many chance events that [have] ...
- Top Writers to Appear At First Ever Literary Leicester Festival - NewsBlaze (press release)
Top Writers to Appear At First Ever Literary Leicester FestivalNewsBlaze (press release), CA - 2 hours agoAnthony Thwaite will also read a selection of his own poetry. Crime writer and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at De Montfort University Jane Adams will discuss ...
- Painter pictureda future in print - Liverpool Echo
Painter pictureda future in printLiverpool Echo, UK - 4 hours agoA sort of silent workforce almost under the radar,” he says at the risk of sounding poetic even in prose. “Poetry gives you an access-all-areas pass. ...
- Book reviews - Egypt Today
Tahawolat Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimin: Tafakok Al-Ideologia Wa Nehayet Al-Tanzeem (The Transformation of the Muslim Brotherhood: Disintegration of Ideology and the End of the Organization) by Hossam Tamam Madbouli, 2006 In this collection of essays, Hossam ...
- THEATER: Beaty's 'Resurrection' - Washington Times
Washington TimesTHEATER: Beaty's 'Resurrection'Washington Times, DC - 8 hours ago... and powerful energy of hip-hop's poetry and that challenges its audience to compare and contrast the disparate obstacles that black men encounter. ...
- Liu's Injury Shocks China - Hartford Courant
Liu's Injury Shocks ChinaHartford Courant, United States - 2 hours agoWe would never use it in its literal definition, but rather in the classic sense, in the poetry of athletics. For China cried on this day for its sports ...
- Stigler veteran’s poem, artwork win national contest - Muskogee Daily Phoenix
Stigler veteran’s poem, artwork win national contestMuskogee Daily Phoenix, OK - 2 hours agoThe category was creative patriotic poetry. Lockwood, 50, of Stigler, a former cannoneer for the US Army, said the poem and painting of a black soldier is ...
- Can You Haiku? Coffee Lovers Get Poetry "Published" on Millions of Eco ... - MSN MoneyCentral
Coffee lovers across the country have found a new way to share their passion for java. Green Mountain Coffee, the coffee segment of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. GMCR , has announced the winners of its coffee Haiku contest. The coffee company ...
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