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- Reno celebration marks belated end of slavery - Carson Times
Reno celebration marks belated end of slaveryCarson Times, NV - 48 minutes agoThe day was marked by a festive mix of music and spirituality and included singing and dancing, poetry reading and prayers. Juneteenth offers a chance for ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (Ararat Advertiser)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- Former boxing champ finds solace in writing, will speak at workshop - Democrat and Chronicle
He may be known for fighting, but former boxing champ Charles "The Natural" Murray turns to writing when life gives him a jab. Murray says he writes every day — in his journal, on scraps of paper or on his cell phone — whether it's poetry he ...
- Mrinal Sen, Pete Lacaba to be honoured at 10th Osian-Cinefan - Livemint
Mrinal Sen, Pete Lacaba to be honoured at 10th Osian-CinefanLivemint, India - 2 hours agoHe has edited numerous books, including ‘Films of Asean’ and Emmanuel Lacaba’s ‘Salvaged poems and salvaged prose’. He has written screenplays of ...
- Swan Songs - Willamette Week
Swan SongsWillamette Week, OR - 4 hours agoIn fact, Inca Ore’s latest LP, Birthday of Bless You, was mastered by Swanson. And it shows: Side A opens up with a haunted loop—huge sledges of menacing ...
- Young poet wins top prize - Oxfordshire News
A POEM inscribed on a tiny scrap of paper has won the regional round of a prestigious human rights poetry competition. Oxford schoolgirl Aditi Gaddam, a pupil at St Clare's, Banbury Road, was named the Midlands winner for Amnesty International's You ...
- A time to work, a time to play - The Chronicle Herald
IT’S VERY DIFFICULT to sit still and write when the sun is shining and the birds are singing. But that’s the punishment for watching the hockey game late at night instead of writing, sleeping an extra hour in the morning, and forgetting about a ...
- So many books, so little time to read - Press-Register - al.com
So many books, so little time to readPress-Register - al.com, AL - 10 hours agoAt present, I'm mulling seven novels, two short-story collections, three nonfiction narratives, three memoirs, and a volume of poetry. ...
- New reading garden brightens up Plumb Library - South Coast Today
New reading garden brightens up Plumb LibrarySouth Coast Today, MA - 1 hour agoReading gardens can provide fun activities and enhance a child's exposure to books, songs and poetry, as well as help children visually discriminate ...
- Boyd Tonkin: A Week in Books (Independent)
If rhyme doesn't pay, then – when it comes to authorial bank accounts – crime more often does. While picking his way through a tangled domestic life (which included, of course, the childhood of his Oscar-winning son, Daniel), the poet Cecil Day-Lewis needed more ample funds than even a Laureate's career in verse will ever supply. Under the pseudonym "Nicholas Blake", he published 20 popular ...
- Nehad Selaiha attends an unusual funeral at the Creativity Centre - Al-Ahram Weekly
Nehad Selaiha attends an unusual funeral at the Creativity CentreAl-Ahram Weekly, Egypt - 1 hour agoThe sketch is a television chat show in which a poet, surrounded by a covey of cheering females in weird wigs, reminisces about an old poetry recital held ...
- Winners named in African-American History Contest - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Winners named in African-American History ContestPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 32 minutes agoDozens of local students using a variety of media were named winners Tuesday in the 16th annual National City African-American History Contest. Using poetry ...
- Rucker defends her right to be a poet - Metro
MetroRucker defends her right to be a poetMetro, UK - 11 hours agoRussell Simmons of hip-hop label Def Jam launched his stateside Def Poetry Jam and highlighted the links between contemporary prose and rap. ...
- Women dominate fiction list for Montana NZ Book Awards - New Zealand Herald
Women dominate fiction list for Montana NZ Book AwardsNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 10 hours agoThe poetry category is also an all-female contest, with Janet Charman, Johanna Aitchison and Fiona Farrell the finalists. Ms Freeman says the judges were ...Attached: Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2008 finalists booklet Scoop.co.nz (press release)Debut novel shortlisted for Montana Stuff.co.nzBook award finalists announced Radio New ZealandNew Zealand Heraldall 10 news articles
- Ta-Nehisi Coates writes of father Paul in 'Beautiful Struggle' - Los Angeles Times
IT WAS brief. It was beautiful: that moment just after the smoke cleared and the air felt charged with possibility. Black people organized, overcame and began to bask in the promise, started constructing 3-D dreams out of what had been abstract ...
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