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- Kay Ryan named poet laureate (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to that of Emily Dickinson, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate, starting in the fall. The ...
- Nas, untitled - My Tennessean.com
Nas, untitledMy Tennessean.com, TN - 2 hours agoOver a haunting string sample, Nas spits intellectual poetry, rooted in vivid sketches of a post-9/11 inner-city life that isn’t all that different from the ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search - Forbes
Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is sure to be ...
- Britain's Postwar Blues Shine Through Modest Musical: Review - Bloomberg
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters on the Upper East Side of Manhattan has imported its first musical, ``The Hired Man.'' A vest-pocket affair, it features a unit set, an omnipresent piano and occasional trumpet ...
- Contrasting Mushroom Hunting & the Hillary Campaign - American Chronicle
American ChronicleContrasting Mushroom Hunting & the Hillary CampaignAmerican Chronicle, CA - 53 minutes agoDale Netherton was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa December 30, 1938 and has lived most of his life in Iowa. He spent two years in the Marine Corps ,worked as a ...
- Online film fest puts focus on Boston natives - Boston Globe
Online film fest puts focus on Boston nativesBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour agoThe links for "The Countdown" point to the American Immigration Law Foundation, www.outreachworld.org, and an international directory of poetry slams. ...
- Review: 'Sing Me Back Home' strikes personal notes - Tampabay.com
Review: 'Sing Me Back Home' strikes personal notesTampabay.com, FL - 3 hours agoThe tortured poetry of Cash and Haggard, for example, deftly chronicled the lives of those behind bars. America's love-hate relationship with the bottle and ...
- After Dark: ‘Shout It Out’ strongest in musical numbers - BurlingtonFreePress.com
After Dark: ‘Shout It Out’ strongest in musical numbersBurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - 1 hour ago(It’s the tired farmer who takes time to recite poetry with his son, one of the few moments of good old-fashioned parent-child interaction in the movie. ...
- Nelson Algren Photos on Exhibit At MCA - Broadway World
Nelson Algren Photos on Exhibit At MCABroadway World, NY - 1 hour agoNelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day, an intimate multimedia portrait, sets Algren's backstreet poetry to the pulse of a live, on-stage jazz combo, ...
- BHS showcases students’ talents - Boonville Daily News
BHS showcases students’ talentsBoonville Daily News, USA - 8 hours ago... poetry readings, art displays and the sale of “Sideburn Fury,” the spring literary magazine. The magazine is put together by the Creative Writing class ...
- Rafe Scobey-Thal (The Ann Arbor News)
Age: He'll be 18 on Thursday. Parents: David Scobey and Denise Thal. School: Senior at Community High School.
- Love in this Club - Hartford Advocate
Hartford AdvocateLove in this ClubHartford Advocate, CT - 9 hours agoIt's grown into something of a downtown cultural institution with nights during the week devoted to jazz, poetry, and international styles of dancing. ...
- Residents provide paid venue for local high school poets - Independent Florida Alligator
Residents provide paid venue for local high school poetsIndependent Florida Alligator, FL - 1 hour agoNagy said she wanted to create the event to reward students who had given up their free time and worked so hard on their poetry. ...
- 'Lesbian' not restricted to Greek island - Globe and Mail
ATHENS — A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of ...
- New kid on the block - Star-ecentral.com
Seattle Grace’s newest intern is happy to be in the company of such an accommodating cast on Grey’s Anatomy . INSIDE the elaborate set of Grey’s Anatomy in Los Angeles, where the cosy Emerald City Bar has been built, Chyler Leigh is having a ...
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