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- Write here, write now: Naropa writing program encourages young artists to push boundaries (Colorado Daily)
Since the summer of 1974, the Summer Writing Program (SWP) at Naropa University has embraces a unique heritage of fostering a conglomeration of artists on the cusp of breaking their own mold.
- Salalah Tourism Festival begins today - Times of Oman
SALALAH — Salalah Tourism Festival 2008 — the 45-day-long cultural extravaganza — under the banner ‘Family Gathering’ will commence today with a variety of cultural programmes aimed at promoting tourism. The opening ceremony will be held at ...
- 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 ...
- Glen Ellen news - Sonoma Index Tribune
Super Glen Ellen congratulations to local author and publisher, Arthur Dawson and the folks at Kulupi Press, one of several Glen Ellen publishing houses. Kulupi celebrates their 10th anniversary this year. We count some of Kulupi's publications among ...
- Jerry Zeller, priest, professor whose optimism inspired others - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Dr. Jerry Zeller's heart was revealed in passport stamps, a telltale reminder of the beauty he found in other worlds and other people. A professor, poet and priest, Dr. Zeller studied in Egypt as a Fulbright scholar and led students on field trips ...
- Law student-turned poet finds fulfilment in poetry - Punch
Approaching her mid 20s, Miss Kafayat Abdul-Quadri looks confident as a poet than a student lawyer. Such confidence, she says, is derivable from her passion for the literary genre, which, she regrets, does not command commendable patronage in this ...
- Several staff members to leave Paly - Paly Voice
Several staff members to leave PalyPaly Voice, CA - 4 hours ago"She was also able to make poetry interesting." Math teacher Colin Hawkins is leaving at the end of this year to spend a year in Hawaii with his three ...
- Meet your neighbor - Asheville Citizen-Times
Meet your neighborAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 37 minutes agoHobbies: Reading, writing poetry and songs, drawing, surfing the Internet, hanging with friends, tutoring and being with family. Quote: A friend wrote, ...
- Magic of a bygone era - Business Line
Business LineMagic of a bygone eraBusiness Line, India - 6 hours agoThrough prose that is more akin to poetry in several places, Urdu language’s greatest writer Qurratulain Hyder recreates the romance and turmoil of four ...
- Stories Behind The Hymns (Gaffney Ledger)
WE'RE MARCHING TO ZION Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Composer: Robert Lowry (1826-1899) Isaac Watts was born on July 17, 1674 in Southampton, England. He was a great student in school. He had a gift of writing poetry and verse at a very young age in grammar school. He was attending school in Southampton and had one of the best teachers available, Mr. Pinhorn.
- Spoken Word Comes to the Smithsonian - Smithsonian
Spoken Word Comes to the SmithsonianSmithsonian - 7 hours ago... International Youth Poetry Slam Festival, treated visitors to a strident production of Native American spoken word recently in the museum’s main hall. ...
- National Arts Centre 'Legend' dies (The Globe and Mail)
Hamilton Southam, diplomat, founding visionary of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and many other cultural and historical institutions, died quietly Tuesday in Ottawa
- Changing world of commencement speakers - San Francisco Gate
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of ...
- Book Briefs: Sunday, July 6, 2008 (The Oklahoman)
Mysteries • "Last Rituals†by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (William Morrow, $23.95). The mutilated body of a German student is discovered at the University of Reykjavik, and police quickly make an arrest. But the student's parents think the police have the wrong man. The parents send a representative to hire Thora Gudmundsdottir, an attorney and single mom who takes the case because she needs the ...
- Poetry gives look at prisoners' lives (The Lantern)
Local human rights activists will come together Wednesday for a reading of "Poems From Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak" at the Whetstone branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. The book contains the writings of 17 prisoners currently being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities in Cuba.
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