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- Societies Open Contest To East Texas Poets (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
The Rusk County Poetry Society of Henderson and the Rose Garden Poetry of Tyler are sponsoring a contest with 38 categories and prize money of $1,480 total, awards chairman Bill G. Anderson said.
- Revisit times that inspired Key's 'Star-Spangled Banner' (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Aug. 1 was Francis Scott Key's birthday, making this an ideal time to visit Fort McHenry in Maryland and learn about the battle that inspired Key to write the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner."
- 'Meet Dave': Eddie Murphy phones another one in, this time from outer ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dave has arrived. "Meet Dave." Or don't. Eddie Murphy doesn't particularly seem to care one way or the other. Essentially phoning in the broad, family-friendly shtick that has become his trademark over the past decade, Murphy stars as both a human ...
- Anderson Award will go to Lear, Angelou - Philadelphia Inquirer
Anderson Award will go to Lear, AngelouPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 1 hour agoAngelou, 80, has written dozens of memoirs, plays, children's books and poetry collections, garnering nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and the National ...
- Activist Moore gets tearful at event in her honor (The Palm Beach Post)
Dr. Alice E. Moore - teacher, activist and participant in virtually every organization imaginable devoted to the black community's social and educational success - had just listened to a 90-minute thank-you full of poetry and song.
- Noted Poet, writer Khatir Ghaznavi dies, burial today - Associated Press of Pakistan
Noted Poet, writer Khatir Ghaznavi dies, burial todayAssociated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - 6 hours agoHe was author of various books including poetry and short stories. Apart from Urdu he also wrote books in Hindku language and had setup his personal library ...
- Ancaster native Art Moore's Just Another School shooting... - Ancaster News
Dawson College, Columbine High School and Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique are notable examples. The names of each school are synonymous with violence, thanks to deranged gunmen and overwhelming media exposure. The gunmen captured headlines, but what ...
- Palestinians in mourning for their national poet - euronews
euronewsPalestinians in mourning for their national poeteuronews, France - Aug 10, 2008“He represented Palestinian pain and experience since the Nakba in 1948 when he was a child, until the last breakaway in 2006 which he suffered as a pain in ...
- Friends of the Belmont Library Book Sale - San Francisco Chronicle
Friends of the Belmont Library Book SaleSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - Jul 18, 2008Discuss "Black Wave." 4 pm Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. (415) 927-0960. Discusses his poems and reads from his works. ...
- Other Voices: Writers want to return to longtime meeting place (The Union)
On a recent Tuesday morning, at the weekly meeting of our Senior Writers' Group, we were told that we would no longer be able to meet in our usual room at the Gold Coun-try Community Center at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
- Times Gone By - Cherokee Daily Times
Sam Betts is beginning to believe that the goblins will get him if he doesn't watch out. Monday morning as recounted in the Times his house was destroyed by fire. That afternoon he moved into the Dr. R. L Cleaves tenement located a few rods west of ...
- Museum of Jurassic Technology - WorldChanging
Museum of Jurassic TechnologyWorldChanging - 57 minutes agoAnd, the practice of telling of the bees of important events in the lives of the family has been for hundreds of years a widely observed practice and, ...
- Taj Mahal harvests blues from around the world (The Toledo Blade)
Back in the late '50s, when he was a teenager, Taj Mahal was torn between a career in music and a life on the farm. With his passion and intelligence, he would have been successful at either one, but his fans can be thankful that he chose the guitar over the plow. Throughout his career, the 65-year-old Mahal has gotten his share of tail feathers shaking with his effusive Afro-Caribbean ...
- Susan Carol Watkins (Lahontan Valley News)
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- Monongahela native receives award from French ambassador - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Monongahela native receives award from French ambassadorPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 58 minutes ago... former president of Senegal and the leading black poet featured on the French Advanced Placement reading list. "I had been teaching Senghor's poetry to ...
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