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- Angelou, local women honored (The Charlotte Observer)
Renowned poet Maya Angelou urged a Charlotte audience Saturday to “be ashamed if we die before we can do some great favor for humanity.†Angelou, who recently turned 80, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the sixth annual Maya Angelou Women Who Lead luncheon at the Westin Charlotte hotel. The event, which drew 700 men and women, raises money for the United Negro College Fund. It ...
- Christian-inspired art, music are living treasures, pope says - Catholic News
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christian-inspired art, architecture and music are not dead artifacts from the past, but are living treasures reflecting the beauty of God and the joy of being a child of God, Pope Benedict XVI said. The Christian culture is ...
- NPS2008: First round bouts released for National Poetry Slam - Dane101
NPS2008: First round bouts released for National Poetry SlamDane101, WI - 8 hours agoSeventy-six slam poetry teams will be descending on the city of Madison starting August 3rd to engage in a war of words. NPS announced the final list of 76 ...ARTS BEAT Mouth music Isthmusall 2 news articles
- Leftist Arabist named Paraguay foreign minister, says he wants to ... - International Herald Tribune
ASUNCION, Paraguay : Paraguay's president-elect has named a foreign minister. He's a leftist historian who has written sympathetically of the Palestinian struggle. Alejandro Hamed is due to take office alongside President-elect Fernando Lugo on Aug ...
- Leonard Cohen - Canada.com
Leonard CohenCanada.com, Canada - 1 hour agoIt was his mother who encouraged Cohen as a writer, especially of poetry, during his childhood. This fit in with the progressive intellectual environment in ...
- New Yorker praises C.D. Wright's latest book of poetry - Harrison Daily Times
A new book of poems by Carolyn Wright, daughter of Ernie and Aline Wright of Harrison, is drawing critical acclaim. Her “Rising, Falling, Hovering†brought this review from The New Yorker: “Wright is a resolutely experimental poet, funny and ...
- Pettit: Remembering an uncle whose life was all about his death - LubbockOnline.com
Pettit: Remembering an uncle whose life was all about his deathLubbockOnline.com, TX - 2 hours agoI had come here to gather data from the tombstones of relatives I needed for family history. I am not into genealogy; I don't have the patience for it. ...
- Long River Review Keeps Flowing - UConn Daily Campus (subscription)
Long River Review Keeps FlowingUConn Daily Campus (subscription), CT - 6 hours ago... Thursday evening at the Co-op where a full crowd gathered to hear UConn students' award-winning submissions of prose, poetry, fiction and non-fiction. ...Long River Review Releases Tonight UConn Daily Campus (subscription)all 2 news articles
- TheStar.com | entertainment | Coldplay leaves fans out in cold - Toronto Star
Tour promoter Live Nation says "production delays" forced Coldplay to revamp their North American tour schedule, cancelling three shows in Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg and setting new dates for Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. As well, one of two ...
- Get Ready for the Great Labor Arts Exchange - AFL-CIO
AFL-CIOGet Ready for the Great Labor Arts ExchangeAFL-CIO, DC - 34 minutes ago... the tree-lined campus of the National Labor College (NLC) in Silver Spring, Md., will reverberate with the sounds of music, poetry and creative chants ...
- Foolish Forecast: Rage, Nortel, Rage! - Motley Fool
Foolish Forecast: Rage, Nortel, Rage!Motley Fool - 2 hours agoThe National Poetry Month tribute above might be a clue, but do read on. The CAPS praise for Nortel is on the faint side: A couple of players rate the stock ...
- Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrors (The Evening Sun)
In part, most poets are chroniclers. They record truthfully, though maybe not realistically, the times in which they live. They couch their stories in metaphor and allusion. They compare and refer, rather than state directly.
- Music's literary side - Los Angeles Times
Music's literary sideLos Angeles Times, CA - 13 hours agoEzra Pound described literature as "news that stays news" and said that poetry lost its essential vitality when it was divorced from SONG (emphasis his). ...
- Magic transcends borders as Lincoln couple bring smiles to ... - Addison County Independent
Addison County IndependentMagic transcends borders as Lincoln couple bring smiles to ...Addison County Independent, VT - 7 hours ago“I’ve had a love of Persian poetry for these last 40 years,†Verner said, and the trip offered a chance to reconnect with that. ...
- Roslyn Zinn, 85; blended social activism with the arts - Boston Globe
The dunes overlooking Wellfleet's shore, a terrain Roslyn Zinn revered during summer visits, glow in one of her paintings with a singular warmth, as if she perceived the landscape more deeply than any seasonal pilgrim. "After years as a teacher and ...
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