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- Grads honored at kente cloth event - Fremont News-Messenger
FREMONT -- The African-American College Club will honor graduating students in the Kente Cloth Draping Ceremony at 6 p.m., Friday at Warren Chapel A.M.E. Church in Fremont. The public is invited. The ceremony will begin with a procession of clergy ...
- CALL FOR WORK: REPUGNO SELECTS NO.1 - Listen&Be Heard
CALL FOR WORK: REPUGNO SELECTS NO.1Listen&Be Heard, CA - 22 hours ago... all else visual poetry placed in the world somehow, work that shows the effort of the hand more than the computer screen, poem objects and found work. ...
- Mystery deepens over German poet Schiller's skull - Boston Globe
BERLIN (Reuters) - A painstaking two-year investigation to determine which of two skulls belonged to Friedrich Schiller has found neither is a match, prolonging a 180-year-old mystery over the celebrated German poet's remains. A team of international ...
- Butt it's my boyfriend's fault, Sienna Miller says - New York Daily News
Sienna Miller says her boyfriend is making her butt big. Call it the "comfort zone," but love-drunk Sienna Miller claims her boyfriend Rhys Evans is making her butt big. The couple's favorite pastimes, other than proclaiming their love to the media ...
- US Rep. Sam Farr Hosts NEA Chairman Dana Gioia - 7thSpace Interactive (press release)
US Rep. Sam Farr Hosts NEA Chairman Dana Gioia7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY - 18 hours agoFarr and NEA Chairman Dana Gioia announced grants to three California organizations as part of the NEA's Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, ...
- Verses by a Scot dubbed the world's worst poet sell for £6K - Mirror.co.uk
Verses by a Scot dubbed the world's worst poet sell for £6KMirror.co.uk, UK - May 17, 2008William McGonagall had food thrown at him during public readings and was mocked for his awful verse including a poem about the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster. ...
- The Power of Music in the Ancient World - Newsblaze.com
Music has power. The power to move us to the heroic as in battle, to comfort in grief, to communicate with children too young for words, and to reach out in almost every religion to that which is sacred in us. This power was once in our history ...
- To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser - Salon
May. 22, 2008 | Has the role of the professional critic become obsolete in an age of book clubs, celebrity endorsements and blogs? A new book, "The Death of the Critic," says no, and argues that there are still reasons to regard some opinions as ...
- New Frame story published in The New Yorker - Radio New Zealand
New Frame story published in The New YorkerRadio New Zealand, New Zealand - 1 hour agoShe says proceeds from the sale of rights to the literary works will fund grants for New Zealand writers of poetry and imaginative fiction.
- Langston Hughes - Baltimore Sun
The "American Masters" biographies on PBS can be a little tame at times — too much respect and too little incisive insight can make for turgid TV. Last year, for example, an "American Masters" documentary on legendary record executive Ahmet... The ...
- French great Zidane to play Sydney exhibition match - ninemsn
French football legend Zinedine Zidane will play an exhibition match in Sydney next month alongside a number of teammates from his 1998 World Cup winning side, the promoter said Friday. The three-time world footballer of the year will line up with ...
- Cinco de Mayo awash in weekend celebrations - El Paso Times
Cinco de Mayo awash in weekend celebrationsEl Paso Times, TX - 15 minutes agoThe staff of Mayfield's "Inkslinger" school magazine joins the MHS Theatre Department to sponsor "Art Bash '08, Saturday including poetry readings, music, ...
- Ex-convict's spoken word helps inmates (Lake County News Sun)
Jail, it turns out, is a fertile place for poetry -- an art defined by Wordsworth as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." After the city rejected his funding proposal for an after-school poetry program for south side Waukegan teens, Chris Blanks took his passion to a place where many of those teens end up -- the Lake County Jail.
- Literary award goes to Internet blogger (The Washington Times)
BALTIMORE (AP) — A 22-year-old English major at Washington College who has used new media to reflect on her experiences with old-fashioned printing yesterday won one of the county's largest undergraduate literary awards.
- Fashion show proves that sexual assault is never in style - Michigan Journal (subscription)
Fashion show proves that sexual assault is never in styleMichigan Journal (subscription), MI - 3 hours agoportion, in which students were invited to present poetry relating to sexual assault. Emotions that a victim feels after experiencing some sort of sexual ...
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