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- Native Guard’s poems elemental, moving, lyrical - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Native Guard’s poems elemental, moving, lyricalTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 48 minutes agoAfrican-American poet Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book, Native Guard (Mariner, $18.95). Her work requires our attention ...
- Ameris Shepard debuts at Battle of the Bands - Camp Verde Bugle
Ameris Shepard debuts at Battle of the BandsCamp Verde Bugle, AZ - 7 hours agoShe began writing poetry at 7. She has been taking voice lessons from her friend and coach Leah Greene. Tonight she will perform live outside the confines ...
- Swapping Knowledge Across Generations - Feministe
Swapping Knowledge Across GenerationsFeministe - 1 hour agoAlida has written poetry since childhood, and is editing a collection of her work, entitled Songs From An Unsheltered Place. In real life, Alida is charming ...
- Mayo celebrates Poetry Ireland’s birthday - Mayo Advertiser
Mayo celebrates Poetry Ireland’s birthdayMayo Advertiser, Ireland - 46 minutes agoHe has published four collections of poetry; a play, a book of letters, a novel and a book of poetry for children. His work has been translated into ...
- Cuomo says More Internet Providers are Blocking Child Porn - WNED
Cuomo says More Internet Providers are Blocking Child PornWNED, NY - 4 hours ago"Child pornography is not protected speech. It's not art, it's not poetry, it's not copyrighted material. Child pornography is a crime...it is a felony," ...
- Double trouble - Bay Area Reporter
Bay Area ReporterDouble troubleBay Area Reporter, CA - Aug 13, 2008Yet everything here isn't dark. "Preludes" is a parody of Bach's keyboard preludes, with harmonies the German master would never have dreamed of using, ...
- Book fair, parade highlight Dominican Independence Day - Eagle-Tribune
LAWRENCE — It's going to be a bittersweet Independence Day celebration for Dominicans after Jose Balbuena, who they were going to honor, died last week after battling cancer. "We don't want this to be a sad posthumous moment because we were going ...
- Saratoga Springs High School teacher fired for misconduct - WRGB
Saratoga Springs High School teacher fired for misconductWRGB, NY - 3 hours ago(August 17, 2007) - "I'd be hard pressed to explain to other adults (my wife included) the nature of our friendship." (August 26, 2007) District officials ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
HONOLULU | At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white.
- Film: Don Cheadle Saves America! - Hartford Advocate
Written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. With Jason Satham, Tyrese Gibson, Joan Allen and Ian McShane. (R) Back in the '70s, exploitation films knew their place: The drive-in. Even so, Roger Corman's "Death Race 2000," directed by Paul Bartel ...
- Nutter Announces New BenePhilly Program - The Bulletin
Philadelphia - Mayor Michael A. Nutter's signature will appear at the bottom of more than 60,000 letters mailed out to local senior citizens, urging them to enroll in a new program announced from City Hall yesterday. A partnership with city and state ...
- Stoppard's 'Rock 'n' Roll' is splendid (The Sacramento Bee)
Hearts and minds take center stage in Tom Stoppard's epic drama "Rock 'n' Roll." The playwright so well known for dense literary and historically based material ("The Coast of Utopia," "The Invention of Love" and "Arcadia"), and also occasionally criticized for lacking feeling, subtly shifts a tender humanity into his latest work.
- Jay-Z/Mark Ronson, SECC, Glasgow - The Herald
Jay-Z/Mark Ronson, SECC, GlasgowThe Herald, UK - 3 hours agoThe sheer poetry of the rap in Excuse Me Miss (intended and perhaps destined for the home boys to sing to their ladies) was followed by Girls, American Boy, ...
- Construction innovator Iragorri, 78, was generous (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
He built hydroelectric dams in the Amazon and renovated the Navy Pier in Chicago. Closer to home, his precast cement slabs bolster H-E-B stores that dot the city.
- Best bets for the weekend (Seattle Times)
Our summer keeps bouncing all over the weather map. So don't stop listening to the forecast, if you care. Otherwise, just kick back and...
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