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- Prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize goes to Blaser and Ashbery (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO - Robin Blaser, poet and professor emeritus from Simon Fraser University, was handed the prestigious Griffin Prize for Canadian poetry on Wednesday night.
- Ode to Recovery - New Haven Register (subscription)
Ode to RecoveryNew Haven Register (subscription), CT - 1 hour agoTheirs is a story that begins with pain and ends with poetry. They divorced when he was a little boy and his dad received legal custody of him. ...
- Tutu fights for Tibet in freedom march - Independent Online
Tutu fights for Tibet in freedom marchIndependent Online, South Africa - 5 hours agoIt ended at the waterfront, where there was live music, poetry, yoga and a guest appearance by Tutu. The Nobel Laureate spoke of Tibet's spiritual leader, ...
- 2008 City High Art Show - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
2008 City High Art ShowPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 20 hours agoAn evening of music, poetry and spoken word will be held on June 19, including performances by City High’s chorus and World Music Drumming Ensemble. ...
- Poetry reading at Martell Thursday - Pierce County Herald
Poetry reading at Martell ThursdayPierce County Herald, WI - 17 hours agoTOWN OF MARTELL — A poetry reading will be held at 6:30 pm this Thursday at the new Martell Town Hall at the intersection of CTH Y and Hwy. 63. ...
- Shelton students get chance to read, write their poetry - TriVallyCentral
SHELTON - English teacher Marie Zampano's students at Shelton High School have learned the value of self-expression through poetry writing. Recently, Zampano's students in her English to Speakers of Other Languages class took turns reading several of ...
- LD Brodsky poems celebrate Diaspora - St.Louis Jewishlight.com
St.Louis Jewishlight.comLD Brodsky poems celebrate DiasporaSt.Louis Jewishlight.com, MO - 1 hour agoBy 1989, he had already published 14 volumes of poetry and nine volumes of scholarship on the Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner. ...
- Mahogany Urban Poetry Series says “speak poet, speak†(California Aggie)
Ethiopian art and portraits lined the walls of Queen Sheba restaurant. Red, yellow and green cloth bordered the ceiling, and a tiny platform was marked off with a straw overhang. A DJ played music in the corner and a lone microphone was set up in the middle of the platform.
- Upheaval shakes up Jewish family (Denver Post)
Nothing like watching "Falsettos," the love story of a divorced Jewish dad and his dying lover, set to fiery, percussive African drumbeats. OK, so they haven't quite worked out all the kinks at the Aurora Fox's new 75-seat studio theater. Rating: ***
- So how many ways to love an MP? One backbencher's raunchy Shakespeare ... - Daily Mail
Watching Gordon Brown's ratings tumble ever lower is enough to depress any Labour MP. But veteran backbencher Harry Cohen has found a novel way to restore his spirits: penning raunchy poetry. Mr Cohen started composing sonnets when he went for ...
- Love is a battlefield - Time Out New York
Time Out New YorkLove is a battlefieldTime Out New York, NY - 58 minutes agoEnsiferum draws inspiration from Finland’s epic poetry and mythology, while Turisas dug deep to make 2007’s The Varangian Way, a wildly imaginative concept ...
- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy sings of love for Nicolas - Daily Telegraph
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy refers to the couple's foreign trips in her cover of Bob Dylan's 'You Belong to Me' The Italian-born model-turned-singer’s third album contains her own rendition of Bob Dylan’s dewy-eyed ballad You Belong To Me, with blatant ...
- Nassau poet's work targets Trump on the Ocean - Newsday
Going into his second year as Nassau County 's unofficial poet laureate, it is clear from his recent poem, "TRUMP on the OCEAN," that Maxwell Corydon Wheat is not shying away from the kind of hard-hitting words that stopped some lawmakers from ...
- Get ready for the first annual Rappahannock Independent Film Festival - The Free Lance-Star
Get ready for the first annual Rappahannock Independent Film FestivalThe Free Lance-Star, VA - 1 hour agoThis latest initiative by the Fredericksburg Athenaeum complements its ongoing efforts in the literary and live-performance arenas, from poetry readings to ...
- UC Santa Cruz creating 'Dead Central' room for Grateful Dead ... - Alameda Times-Star
The Grateful Dead's long strange trip through American popular culture is ending in a library at the University of California at Santa Cruz, preserved for future generations of study by scholars and stoners. Three decades worth of archival materials ...
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