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- This Day In History: May 22 Claude McKay and Langston Hughes - OUPblog
This Day In History: May 22 Claude McKay and Langston HughesOUPblog, New York - 12 minutes ago... several volumes of poetry, novels, plays, essays and a dozen children’s books. His work celebrated black life and culture infusing them with a strong ...
- Sports writer George Kimball: My close-up view of boxing's golden age - The Independent
How many times has a drunk put you in a steely grip and told you that the world wouldn't believe his story, and that, boy, did he have a book to write, and maybe one day he would get round to writing it? George Kimball, a leading American sports ...
- COMING OF AGE - Inside Bay Area
COMING OF AGEInside Bay Area, CA - 3 hours agoAfter I got hooked on Lebanese music, I began to pay more attention to the Lebanese language, really taking time to listen to the poetry in the guttural, ...
- Mike Myers: Man of Mystery - Entertainment Weekly
Mike Myers: Man of MysteryEntertainment Weekly - 4 hours agoHe talks about Eastern poetry, Deepak Chopra, and Seat of the Soul author Gary Zukav. He goes on, discussing Carl Sagan, Lenny Bruce, George Harrison, ...
- Second Saturday: Neglect drives hard lesson home (The Burlington Free Press)
Columnist calls on TechAngel in hour of need
- Jackson's Infinity group plans for more than just a restaurant (The Marion Star)
Stanley Jackson is not only looking to give all he has on the indoor field, but he is looking to give back to the community with his new downtown restaurant called the Infinity Restaurant.
- Thinking outside the box - Bangkok Post
Thinking outside the boxBangkok Post, Thailand - 49 minutes ago... a script reading (modelled after poetry readings); something called Seatless Cinema; a live punk band performing during the screening of a silent movie ...
- County library - Charleston Post & Courier
Catch the Reading Bug: Children's Summer Reading Program (ages 11 and younger). Through July 31. Children are awarded prizes for reading or being read to at levels of 5, 10 and 30 hours. Prizes include the S.C. reading medal, passes to community ...
- Romeo and Juliet, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, London (Independent)
The night before the premiere of Timothy Sheader's Romeo and Juliet, I was watching I Vitelloni, the Fifties movie about spoilt, feckless young men in a grim northern Italian town. The next night, I thought I still was. Here again were the eager girls in circle skirts, the sulky boys combing their DAs, the carnival masqueraders doing the mambo. Here, too, was lots of background music – though ...
- Born of a spiritual urge - Tonight
Born of a spiritual urgeTonight, South Africa - 1 hour agoPraise poetry is an aspect of African culture and often recited at special occasions such as weddings or funerals. Traditionally, only men can do this. ...
- The Diving Bell and the Melting Paraiso: Two Reviews and a Bridge - Raise the Hammer
Raise the HammerThe Diving Bell and the Melting Paraiso: Two Reviews and a BridgeRaise the Hammer, Canada - 16 minutes agoThe Troubadours blended a renewed interest of Latin and Greek poetry with indigenous Christian/love poetry and musical innovations from Islam via Spain. ...
- Kay Ryan To Be Named Poet Laureate (The New York Sun)
Kay Ryan will be named the nation's next poet laureate today by the librarian of Congress, James Billington, the New York Times reported tonight. A Californian, Ms. Ryan, 62, is known for her short, playful poems, for which she has won the 2004 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2001 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and three Pushcart Prizes. Her work ...
- Social Crusader - NY Arts Magazine
Social CrusaderNY Arts Magazine, NY - 3 hours agoZhu depicts a world in the future with bold brushstrokes and daring color choices, which creates a flow of poetry in the composition. ...
- RedEye picks what’s hot and what’s cool at Chicago’s 31 beaches - Chicago Tribune
RedEye picks what’s hot and what’s cool at Chicago’s 31 beachesChicago Tribune, United States - 17 hours agoEnjoy readings by award-winning poets, or bring your own prose to the weekly poetry readings held at Greenleaf Avenue at Lake Michigan. ...
- MSU libraries host dessert theatre event - Starkville Daily News
MSU libraries host dessert theatre eventStarkville Daily News, MS - 2 hours agoOn Thursday, the Mississippi State University Libraries will host an evening honoring the Cotton District Literary Festival Poetry Contest Award winners and ...
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