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- juneteenth events What’s happening - Youngstown Vindicator
juneteenth events What’s happeningYoungstown Vindicator, OH - 3 hours agoThe 20-member troupe involves inner-city men, ages 8-18, who will perform prose and poetry selections in a hip-hop approach. They have garnered national ...
- Still Smiling ... - Claremore Progress
Harvey Diem knows a thing or two about law enforcement. And he should, after 37 years with the Rogers County Sheriff’s Office. Diem has faced tough criminals, “gang bangers,” and received several thank-yous from former criminals who have ...
- Smears, Scribbles, and Scratches: Twombly at the Tate Modern (The New York Sun)
The magnificent retrospective of veteran American artist Cy Twombly at London's Tate Modern is a reminder that, above all else, painting is smearing and drawing is scribble. In his handling, with its extremes of slightness and scatter, informality can border on the infantile. This show, which is curated by the Tate's director, Sir Nicholas Serota, travels to the Bilbao Guggenheim in the fall, ...
- Hogan students celebrate Latino culture - Vallejo Times-Herald
Erick Lainez performed his poem, titled 'Soy Esclavo- I'm A Slave,' during Thursday afternoon's cultural heritage celebration at Hogan High School. Lainez also won the top scholarship prize, presented at the end of the event, for his essay about his ...
- Vidal takes aim and why the web makes us dumb (Canberra Times)
Welcome, to a hopefully weekly blog which will take a wide global view of the books and information worlds.
- Poetic punishment is just for teen vandals - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Here's some poetic justice: Recently 25 teens in Ripton, Vt. -- who had desecrated the hallowed ground of Robert Frost's summer home in the nearby woods last December -- were sentenced to hard poetry by a frosted judge. Their punishment took the form ...
- Top Ten Cannes Festival films - Times Online
Times OnlineTop Ten Cannes Festival filmsTimes Online, UK - 41 minutes agoIn fact it’s poetry. (James Christopher) Pablo Trapero’s powerful blast about jails in Argentina is actually a great and gritty Cell Block H soap about ...
- Write on! (Erie Times-News)
Is it time to make your writing a higher priority? Time you got out the novel/poems/essays/memoir you've been crafting for years, and finally revise the way you've promised yourself you'd do?
- Goodison, Gowdy shortlisted for Trillium award (Toronto Star)
Lorna Goodison’s family memoir From Harvey River, which was in the running for this year’s Charles Taylor Prize, and Barbara Gowdy’s novel Helpless, a Governor General’s Award nominee from last year, have been shortlisted for Ontario’s $20,000 Trillium Book Award.
- Borders Books Launches New e-Commerce Site (Michigan Technology News)
ANN ARBOR - Borders Books on Tuesday launched an e-Commerce web site, after a seven year online partnership with Amazon.Com. One of the big changes is a new service called Magic Shelf, which allows customers to view online book, music and movie titles, much the way they browse book tables, displays and shelves at Borders stores.
- In the footsteps of a trailblazer: First woman to scale Pikes Peak (Colorado Springs Gazette)
When Julia Archibald Holmes stepped onto the summit of Pikes Peak 150 years ago, she not only became the first woman to scale the 14,115-foot mountain in recorded history, she also became the first person to do it with panache.
- Renowned poet/activist says she's accomplished a lot, but there's ... - Toronto Star
Two months after her 80th birthday, grace is foremost in Maya Angelou's mind. "How blessed I am and how blessed I've been," she says, on the phone from her home in North Carolina. The celebrations have been magnificent for this woman, revered for her ...
- Writing a haiku in German - often a tight squeeze - Feature - Earthtimes
Cologne,Germany - The ladies who meet regularly in a museum cafe in Cologne skip the gossip and get straight down to haiku, an ultra-brief poetry style that has spread from Japan around the globe. Cologne's haiku workshop, held at the Museum of East ...
- Related Links (The Canton Repository)
You could find trouble in the Deep South growing up young and black in the 1960s. Busy hands helped Fred Dean keep evil at bay in Ruston, La. "I hauled wood, hauled hay ... moved 500-pound roofing tar bales," Dean recalled. "The split logs were 24-foot long. I was 12, 13 years old."
- Cannes market - Deals or no deals - Screendaily
It is difficult to judge the success of the business done at the Cannes marketplace outside the context of the weight of hope, even expectation, that preceded it. After relatively flat markets at Toronto, AFM and Berlin, there was some hope Cannes ...
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