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- Gracing the City - Philadelphia Inquirer
Gracing the CityPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 1 hour ago"He would give me plays and poetry written during the WPA." She may have inherited her social conscience from her parents, but the intensity with which she ...
- Angelou, Lear named for 2008 Marian Anderson Award (USA Today)
TV producer Norman Lear and author Maya Angelou will be the 2008 recipients of the Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership benefits humanity.
- Power To The Poets - Rocktown Weekly
Rocktown WeeklyPower To The PoetsRocktown Weekly, VA - 4 minutes agoBy Heather Bowser HARRISONBURG - Not all finger-snapping poetry slams are the kind held in the dimly lit bars of the big city. Nope. Poetry, it seems ...
- America Back on Track... for Tuesday, July 29th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Tuesday, July 29thOpEdNews, PA - 44 minutes agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Patrons and pies at the Cat and Fiddle - Guardian Unlimited
At some point in the late 1690s (the precise date is not known) a shrewd and literary-minded publisher called Jacob Tonson struck up a meal-deal with a group of aspiring authors who included his own Fleet Street housemate, William Congreve. The ...
- Poster poems: The rhythm of the falling rain - guardian.co.uk
Poster poems: The rhythm of the falling rainguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoI suppose it's only to be expected that rain should play an important role in poetry. After all, a good supply of fresh water is vital to life, ...
- Harry Ransom Center Hosts Diverse Public Programs During September - News from the University of Texas at Austin
Harry Ransom Center Hosts Diverse Public Programs During SeptemberNews from the University of Texas at Austin, TX - 1 hour agoThe Ransom Center kicks off the 2008-09 Poetry on the Plaza season with "The Mystique of the Draft." This event features works by poets whose drafts can be ...
- Nutria NN - Brooklyn protest rock (New York Daily News)
Few sights are stranger in the hipster haven neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, than a performance by Latin American protest-rockers Nutria N.N.
- Student station allows radio host to wax poetic - The Capital Times
Student station allows radio host to wax poeticThe Capital Times, WI - 1 hour ago"I just became interested in contemporary writing, and poetry and prose that's really beyond the pale and out of the box that kind of plays with your head ...
- Equine therapy: Creative Growth Center uses horses to help children - Dekalb Daily Chronicle
Equine therapy: Creative Growth Center uses horses to help childrenDekalb Daily Chronicle, IL - 26 minutes agoSkeptical at first that the animals could teach him such valuable lessons, Riccardo found it true through a six-session “Cowboy Poetry†program at the ...
- Ostler: Ungodly results from Bolt put him up there with Phelps - San Francisco Chronicle
Ostler: Ungodly results from Bolt put him up there with PhelpsSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour ago"It is poetry in motion. He's not like a beast running; he's a gazelle." Bay Area fans may remember Nehemiah from his brief career as a wide receiver with ...
- Search Scoop (Scoop.co.nz)
Scoop TV interviews Up The Yangtze's director Yung Chang. Up The Yangtze takes us on the surreal journey of China’s unfaltering drive towards modernity with two teenagers affected in different ways by their nation’s ambition.
- On history's naughty step - Guardian Unlimited
Used clumsily, historical hindsight can be a blunt and savage thing. Just last week, the birth control pioneer Marie Stopes was denounced as an evil eugenicist. Far from being a "woman of distinction" who deserves her face on a commemorative stamp ...
- Last Poets preach against racism, hatred - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Last Poets preach against racism, hatredPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 4 hours agoThe works also deal with radical, some would say anti-American, statements about issues in the country. But pieces such as "This is Madness" and "Scared of ...
- Paxman outrages Scots by calling Burns' poetry 'sentimental doggerel' - Daily Mail
Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has sparked fury after he dismissed Scotland's national bard Robert Burns as 'no more than a king of sentimental doggerel'. Paxman's slur on the poet, in an introduction to the new edition of Chambers Dictionary, has ...
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