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- Youth media campaign targets city violence - Boston Globe
City youths armed with digital cameras and audio recorders will capture images and words and use them to try to persuade their peers to shun violence, under a new city program announced yesterday. The youths will work on developing this new media ...
- NRI poetess Sujata Bhatt short-listed for poetry prize - Hindu
NRI poetess Sujata Bhatt short-listed for poetry prizeHindu, India - 5 hours agoBhatt is the recipient of various awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and has published six collection of poems, including Monkey Shadows ...
- In praise of the north - Guardian Unlimited
Tennyson wrote that "bright and fierce and fickle is the South/And dark and true and tender is the North". I'm not sure whether the rightwing wonks at the Policy Exchange thinktank are any brighter or fiercer than we northerners but they are ...
- Rural Romeos Ride on the Wild Side (Scoop.co.nz)
The Fieldays Rural Bachelor of the Year finalists faced a day of physical challenges today at Fieldays in their second day of competition for the Golden Gumboot trophy and title of Fieldays Rural Bachelor of the Year.
- Who Writes This Crap? lives up to its name - Metro
MetroWho Writes This Crap? lives up to its nameMetro, UK - 2 hours agoFringe staple Luke Wright and poetry cohort Joel Stickley must have a masochistic streak, electing not only to ingest such verbiage but to write their own ...
- Uganda: What Are Kampala's Posh Hotels Selling? (AllAfrica.com)
IF you build it, they will come. The quote is credited to the 26th US president, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. at the time of the building of the Panama Canal in 1904. I thought about this quote as I strolled along Speke Road in Kampala last Thursday afternoon.
- Author's memory was overlooked - Morning Call
I was disappointed on July 22 that there was no mention in the paper that it was the 110th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Vincent Benét, who was born in Fountain Hill on that date in 1898. Benét wrote classics such as ''The Devil ...
- Sweet stanzas about cowboy culture the reward for long ride to Elko (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Next January is a turning point for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. This Nevada treasure is celebrating its 25th anniversary, the silver anniversary in the Silver State. And its goal is to try to get more 25-year-olds to attend, or at least to get a younger crowd.
- Night Life - New Yorker
New YorkerNight LifeNew Yorker, United States - 1 hour agoJuly 18: Brazzaville is led by the guitarist and singer David Brown, an old friend and sideman of Beck’s. The group started out in the Los Angeles ...
- Nigeria: First Local Private Schools Show Holds in Lagos (AllAfrica.com)
It was an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and fun, as parents, students and private school owners across the country, converged at the City Mall Lagos, last week, for the first Nigerian Private Schools fair, a forum that presented parents opportunity to know the services offered by various schools present.
- From poetry assignment to national finalist West Valley sophomore BreAnna Jones just wanted to get a good grade; she ... (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Sitting in the computer lab last winter, 16-year-old BreAnna Jones, a sophomore at West Valley High School, indifferently searched through hundreds of poems -- from William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" to Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Recuerdo."
- Local connections are abundant in this year's festival lineup - Phoenixville News
Local connections are abundant in this year's festival lineupPhoenixville News, PA - 4 hours agoBeat poetry is not dead. Nor is the voice of human and civil rights. Here is the voice of introspection and the voice of action. Her name is Ursula Rucker. ...
- The power of Poetry - MyNews.in
The power of PoetryMyNews.in, India - 1 hour ago... express themselves in the form of poetryâ€, said Phomelelo Moshapo a well developed poet from Limpopo . The session for sharing of poems was well awaited ...
- The resurrection of hope - Guardian Unlimited
"Approaching Ivor Gurney in fictional form . . . is a clever way of sidestepping the complex problems that await his biographers," observed Ruth Scurr in the Daily Telegraph, reviewing Robert Edric's In Zodiac Light. "He has been variously diagnosed ...
- Buzz: News from the local arts world - Nashua Telegraph
Buzz: News from the local arts worldNashua Telegraph, NH - 4 hours agoPhase I of the project involves these student writers in a journey of discovery that will eventually lead their poetry to be sung by their own high school ...
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