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- The House of Hunger Poetry slam is on this weekend, 2 August 2008 ... - SW Radio Africa
The House of Hunger Poetry slam is on this weekend, 2 August 2008 ...SW Radio Africa, Zimbabwe - 14 hours ago... respectful and possess untamed love for their people. The poetry slam event on Saturday 02 August 2008 will accommodate both veteran and upcoming poets. ...
- Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies - PR Inside
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Konstantin Pavlov, one of Bulgaria's most prominent poets and screenwriters known for its opposition during the country's totalitarian past, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75. Pavlov died Sunday after a long illness ...
- Obama's credibility gap is visible (The Australian)
THERE is a yawning gulf between the eloquent poetry of the Democratic candidate's rhetoric and the dull prose of his political record.
- rather whacky chat - Boston Globe
rather whacky chatBoston Globe, United States - 20 minutes agoOne language that we know for sure he speaks is jive, after he claimed the first thing he read to his daughter, when she was 2, was the poetry of Lord ...
- Give the laureate more cash - and more wine - Times Online
Give the laureate more cash - and more wineTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoIt might be the only way to get any great poetry from the post There may be worse jobs. Moose-skinner to the Governor of Alaska, perhaps. ...Motion in poetry Lakeland Todayall 2 news articles
- Book Review - Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by Herb Boyd (Blogcritics.org)
Boyd pulls at the Baldwin self-doubt scab -- born black, gay, poor and ugly, not the most auspicious start in life. James Baldwin fascinates and is fascinated with Harlem. The confluence of writer and city meet in Baldwin novels, but not in the majority of them, as most readers might expect. That is the subject of the new book by Herb Boyd. The author knows Baldwin, knows Harlem and knows ...
- Bay schools are buzzing with celebrations - Herald South Africa
BIRTHDAY fever is high, with several local schools celebrating Nelson Mandela‘s 90th birthday today. The Diaz Primary School in Algoa Park has invited residents of the Bethelsdorp, Zwide, Laubscher Park and Kabega Park old age homes, aged between ...
- 'Contrary' Literary Journal Celebrates Awards, Anniversary (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The literary journal Contrary wins four industry awards as it celebrates its fifth anniversary. Founded by University of Chicago alumni, Contrary is an independent journal of commentary, fiction, and poetry published indendently on the South Side of Chicago.
- Dance Recitals! Freakout Films! Music Crawl! (Free Times)
WEDNESDAY 1 Out with the old, in with the new!
- Our picks: The week's best stuff to do (Cape Cod Times)
See which films are the "reel" deal at a Video Party from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the Schoolhouse Gallery, 494 Commercial St., Provincetown.
- ETBU introduces new writing program (The Marshall News Messenger)
The Department of Languages and Literature at East Texas Baptist University announced the introduction of a new writing program this fall term, an official from the department said.
- Poet Kay Ryan named next laureate - Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will be the nation's 16th poet laureate. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry ...
- Something New: Couple comes home for wedding with local flavor (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
The one thing Sarah Jane Eichberger and Jacob Wheeler were certain of is that they wanted to begin their married life in northern Michigan. The Chicago couple rejected the notion of a glitzy, high-priced ceremony and elected to return to their roots to exchange their vows surrounded by family and the land they love.
- Movement guru Zuleikha coming to Sarasota soon (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Internationally renowned movement guru Zuleikha has taught children and women with cancer to promote healing through movement, led Muslim and Christian Israelis and Palestinians in free movement and rhythm games, and empowered Indian teenage girls with the self-esteem that comes from "holding ourselves upright even beneath the burkha."
- The Oregonian (The Oregonian)
Your tears came from farther away than long distance. I heard them keening from wells and mineshafts, deep inside a darkness I know but haven't seen. We all know it's there, know it waits in the closet beyond the closet and in those canyons of ink beneath our beds. But we don't go there.
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