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- New Milford auto repairman feels urge to compete in poetry slams - Danbury News Times
New Milford auto repairman feels urge to compete in poetry slamsDanbury News Times, CT - 1 hour agoBy John Pirro Staff Writer DANBURY--There isn't a lot of money to be made on the competitive poetry circuit. Occasionally, you might win a small cash prize. ...
- Children - We Can Make a Difference - Desicritics.org
Children - We Can Make a DifferenceDesicritics.org, India - 1 hour agoWhether it was singing, dancing, poetry recital, drumming, recitation of multiplication tables or the 3 R’s, they were pretty good. ...
- Text size (Malaysia Today)
The political system has become very corrupt; the crime rate has increased and environmental degradation has continued. Political dynasties proliferate. Few families are controlling the nation's economy – for their own political gains.
- The Company Senator Obama Keeps (CBS News)
If you take a close look at the crowd Barack Obama runs with, it appears he has a whole lot of crazy relatives to disinvite from dinner, argues National Review .
- No votes yet - International Falls Daily Journal
No votes yetInternational Falls Daily Journal, MN - 5 hours ago“Dust & Fire” features the poetry, prose and art of Minnesota women and is the product of BSU’s Women’s Studies. “Within this anthology, female poets bring ...Helgeson included in publication East Grand Forks Exponentall 2 news articles
- Oakland nonprofit provides safe place from the streets - San Jose Mercury News
Oakland nonprofit provides safe place from the streetsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 49 minutes agoAt the safe place, the girls have their own space and are encouraged to express their emotions through art, including poetry, drawing and painting. ...
- Maya Angelou captivates Cleveland audience - Cleveland Plain Dealer
In an age besotted with vacuous adolescent celebrity, 80-year-old Maya Angelou held a packed audience rapt at the Allen Theater in downtown Cleveland Monday night with nothing more than her voice. Frail knees kept her off her feet for much of her 75 ...
- Ledbury tops table for "Culture vultures" - Ledbury Reporter
Ledbury tops table for "Culture vultures"Ledbury Reporter, UK - 22 hours agoLedbury is also home to the Ledbury Poetry Festival, which takes place over ten days in July. The present Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has hailed it as the ...
- Paperback: Tennis Whites and Teacakes, by John Betjeman (Independent)
How delightful that a statue of the man who wrote "It is useless to pretend that I enjoy myself abroad" adorns the refurbished St Pancras. Equally dubious about the expat life ("Our savings gone, we climb the stony path/ Back to the house with scorpions in the bath"), Betjeman extolled the delights of the Northern Line's City Branch ("a strong smell of wet feet"). What he wrote of Waugh – "he ...
- Fiction's Authentic Alien Voice - Gay City News
Fiction's Authentic Alien VoiceGay City News - 3 hours agoIt would be great if politicians read more poetry - indeed any poetry, because poetry and politics should not be separate spheres of life; they are, ...
- Bards of New Brighton poetry group finds a new home - Liverpool Daily Post
Bards of New Brighton poetry group finds a new homeLiverpool Daily Post, UK - 12 hours agoA WIRRAL-BASED poetry group has found a new home – and is urging more poets to join them. The Bards of New Brighton had met monthly for the past year in the ...
- PBS series 'Secrets of the Dead' studies East German doping scandal - Cleveland Plain Dealer
They came out of oblivion to dominate the Olympics and international athletic competitions. But the success of the East German women was fueled by a secret doping program that the PBS series "Secrets of the Dead" examines in a documentary, "Doping ...
- Jazz Singer Johnny Hartman: An Underappreciated but Brilliant Vocalist - Blogcritics.org
Jazz Singer Johnny Hartman: An Underappreciated but Brilliant VocalistBlogcritics.org, OH - Apr 16, 2008Listening to his material provides a new appreciation for the beauty of jazz and the virtual poetry of the “Great American Songbook. ...
- HERBIE HANCOCK - New York Post
June 22, 2008 -- Piano man speaks of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and how winning that Grammy really was all that jazz. Your impression of Herbie Hancock probably stems from when you grew up. If you're a child of the baby boomer generation, then you ...
- Partners in music - The Australian
The AustralianPartners in musicThe Australian, Australia - 1 hour agoAnd I love poetry and words and languages, so song accompaniment indulges that passion in the nicest possible way." Melbourne pianist Stephen McIntyre is ...
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