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- John Lundberg: Highlights From the 2008 National Poetry Slam (HuffingtonPost)
The National Poetry Slam--or so-called "Superbowl of spoken word"-- took place in Madison, Wisconsin this past week. The event featured more than 75 teams that had won their way through preliminary slams and city championships around the country to reach the final.
- He is loud, he is proud . . . and he works up the crowd - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
He is loud, he is proud . . . and he works up the crowdThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 2 hours agoThen, as though he had merely been whetting the crowd, Nelson's fourth attempt was Pre poetry: a 72-foot, 7-inch throw that won the event and sparked a ...
- Serge Bennathan comes full circle - Georgia Straight
Serge Bennathan comes full circleGeorgia Straight, Canada - 7 hours agoDrawing on a text he wrote for Vancouver dance icon Grant Strate’s birthday last December, he is attempting to mimic the gut instincts of slam poetry—both ...
- 'Footprints' author tiff steps into court - DetNews.com
'Footprints' author tiff steps into courtDetNews.com, MI - 52 minutes agoLast fall, in an online article for the Poetry Foundation, a Brooklyn journalist and literary sleuth named Rachel Aviv traced elements of "Footprints" to a ...
- Lipizzaners to leap into Lincoln County - Newport News-Times
Call it poetry in motion, a horse-and-rider ballet, or a graceful display of harmony between man - or woman - and beast. Only these beasts are also majestic beauties. The “World Famous†Lipizzaner Stallions - former horses of battle who galloped ...
- Athens Music Scene - Athens News
I’ve been living in this town for 16 years. The summers used to be much like Ohio University’s winter breaks, with just us ghost-townies and the occasional Appalachian tumbleweed floating down the street and getting caught in a tree. Since those ...
- Poetry Gallery Got Published - Herald Journal
Poets Shel Silverstein, e.e. cummings and Maya Angelou started somewhere and started small. And now, their poetic match may be in a pile in the Logan office of a poetry and essay publishing company. Creative Communication is a Logan-based company ...
- The early years: An unhappy childhood - CNN
(CNN) -- Before he became the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II was Karol Jozef Wojtyla. Friends in Wadowice, a town of 8,000 Catholics and 2,000 Jews 35 miles southwest of Krakow, called Wojtyla "Lolek." He was born in 1920, the ...
- Grosvenor's music store - Evening Sun
Who remembers the days before mal*wart, or Amazon.com even? When if you lived in Norwich & wanted music, you couldn't simply download pirated tunes from the net. What'd we do you ask? --- We went to Grosvenor's music store in Norwich on Main St. I ...
- Identity in the East End - Guardian Unlimited
Sometime in the late 60s, the novelist and poet Emanuel Litvinoff took a trip back to Whitechapel in the East End of London, where he had grown up in the 1920s and 1930s. He expected to find some version of the Jewish neighbourhood that had formed ...
- 'The Invention of Scotland' by Hugh Trevor-Roper - Los Angeles Times
'The Invention of Scotland' by Hugh Trevor-RoperLos Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours agoFake history often supports unfortunate regimes, but Scottish fakery spread tragically bad poetry and made a bunch of rich people look like idiots. ...
- John Mayer & Jennifer Aniston are Shacking Up! - Star Magazine
Star MagazineJohn Mayer & Jennifer Aniston are Shacking Up!Star Magazine, NY - 14 hours agoAnd with his encouragement, she's trying her hand at poetry. "John," says the source, "is taking a lot of joy in shaping Jen into his fantasy woman. ...
- Vallejo retirement home fire claims 2nd life (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (12:57 p.m.) A fire at a Vallejo retirement home last week has claimed a second life. Officials say 74-year-old John Argente died Sunday from injuries suffered during the four-alarm fire at Casa de Vallejo.
- South Point woman's first book to hit stores in June - Huntington Herald Dispatch
South Point woman's first book to hit stores in JuneHuntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 36 minutes agoThrough it all, writing became Lesler's voice -- first in poetry and short stories, followed by the 2005 start of "The Magic Stone," her first book. ...
- R. S. Gwynn's "Fried Beauty" (Seattle Times)
Texas poet R. S. Gwynn is a master of the light touch. Here he picks up on Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnet "Pied Beauty," which many of you...
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