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- Young orators display speaking skills (Miami Herald)
Courtney Toombs stepped up to the stage and, without hesitation, began to loudly recite: 'I'm not giving my black back! I'm not giving up my greens or my grits or saying `Girl' and putting my hands on my hips.''
- Area children learn writing through art (Spring Observer)
A round of applause rose from the row of camera-toting proud parents when Ellen Crawford finished reading her story called “How the Elephant got his Tusks.â€...
- Amazing Earthfest in Kane County - Main Street Business Journal
Amazing Earthfest in Kane CountyMain Street Business Journal, UT - 1 hour agoEvents include wilderness expeditions and lectures, botanical and astronomical discoveries, cowboy songs and poetry, art exhibitions, prehistoric culture ...
- Religious retreats: Head to the Catskills (AP via Yahoo! News)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- The place to go, when you feel there is nowhere to go - News Guardian
The place to go, when you feel there is nowhere to goNews Guardian, UK - 3 hours agoPerhaps this says something to us about the relative values this country puts on poetry and sex. Back to the briny; authors have not written much about ...
- Burns’s legacy to be given £17m revamp - The Herald
Burns’s legacy to be given £17m revampThe Herald, UK - 2 hours agoI think this can help Scots find a love for their own language, traditions and poetry, and also for their country, with its landscapes and people. ...
- On 'Viva La Vida,' Coldplay's new sound leaves listeners adrift - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools Every time the heart-sleeved Brits in Coldplay release a new album of earnestly overwrought anthems, chief 'Play boy Chris Martin swears they've changed their sound. He thinks he's telling the truth. He's not. Detractors dig at Martin ...
- Author Paula Gunn Allen dies at 68 - United Press International
FORT BRAGG, Calif., June 7 (UPI) -- Breakthrough Native American author, feminist and top scholar Paula Gunn Allen died of lung cancer at her California home at the age of 68. The one-time University of California-Los Angeles professor paved the way ...
- Don Guy will be missed - Harnesslink
Don Guy will be missedHarnesslink, New Zealand - 3 hours ago... Gilgamesh, Glenaldon, Monetecito, Poetry Man, Rathillet, Shy Dene, 1983 Wedderburn Pacing Cup winner Tarhill, Tonka Apollo, Transit Earl and Ubleis. ...
- Miles Kington: How I learnt to write poetry on a computer called Otto - Independent
Miles Kington: How I learnt to write poetry on a computer called OttoIndependent, UK - 5 hours ago(Nobody ever mentions the name of this poem, by the way. That is because it does not have a name, unless you count "XII" as a name – the poem is actually ...
- Longtime poet George Keithley keeps his work fresh - Chico News & Review
Longtime poet George Keithley keeps his work freshChico News & Review, CA - 2 hours agoWhen Heather Lyon put out the word that the store would like to host regular poetry readings, he was all too happy to step up to the mic. ...
- Office Drones, Without the Buzz - New York Observer
I VOLUNTEERED TO REVIEW THIS novel by my former Village Voice co-worker Ed Park because I assumed the conflicts of interest would be so blatant they’d implode—a roman à clef, in which I myself might play a minor role, about the alt-weekly where ...
- Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame - Times Online
Towards Another Summer by Janet FrameTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoShe explores the meaning of “home†through memories, poetry, snatches of song. There are glimpses of her childhood - a father who worked on the railways, ...
- Wednesday, May 7th - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Wednesday, May 7thSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 49 minutes agoGöknar translated Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red (Knopf, 2001), and Sidney Wade is the author of five volumes of poetry including ...
- Anthologies, from the familiar to the feminine (Austin American-Statesman)
For former English majors, the word "anthology" might bring to mind some weighty tome — the unconquerable "Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry," for example, with its tissue-weight pages and impossible range of voice and style.
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