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- Speaking out for the people - Tonight South Africa
Richard Rodriquez Roodt, 23, commonly known as Quaz, is originally from Potchefstroom. He is part of the Likwid Tongue collective which hosts open mic poetry sessions at Kospotong, next to Sophiatown Restaurant in Newtown every Wednesday night. He ...
- Frost Home Vandals Take Poetry Classes - AOL
More than two dozen young people who broke into the former home of Robert Frost in Vermont and vandalized it while holding a party are being required to take classes on his poetry as part of their punishment. "I guess I was thinking that if these ...
- Why Korean Professors Stay Put - New York Times Blogs
In the U.S. many academic economists are constantly looking for jobs at other schools, hoping to get large salary increases either in the new job or at their current one, to move to a more desirable location, or have better students. And a lot of ...
- Carlin was as good as his words (Boston Globe)
It's 1972 in a bedroom somewhere in the endless flatness of suburbia. A phonograph needle drops on the last track of a much-played vinyl album, and a teenage boy cranes his ears once more, waiting for the voice to come through the crackle:
- Adults reading to adults - WBIR-TV
Adults reading to adultsWBIR-TV, TN - 10 hours agoBarbara reads poetry, sings songs and incorporates props into the program to encourage interaction from the group. "Basically, what I am trying to do is ...
- Apocalypse wow - Financial Times
S kies ashen with doom. Jagged, broken-topped skyscrapers like ruined wedding cakes. Lines of deserted, dust-gathering cars stuck in eternal gridlock. An empty pram pushed along by an uncaring wind. And of course a newspaper – every apocalypse film ...
- Venue hosts poetry contest (The Daily Texan)
"Ideas are money," Akeem Lawrence said Wednesday night as he waited for his turn to compete for $1,000 at the American-Idol-style spoken word and vocal competition at the Parish Room. Sponsored by BTG Records, "Expressions of the Mind" and "The Showcase" have local talents competing for a $1,000 spoken word prize and a $5,000 vocal performance prize.
- While You Were Out: Alexei Sayle's Liverpool (BBC2) - Liverpool Confidential
Liverpool ConfidentialWhile You Were Out: Alexei Sayle's Liverpool (BBC2)Liverpool Confidential, UK - 15 hours agoIt was also good that you fixed on Brian Patten and his chums who instigated the poetry boom that ran in tandem to the Mersey music scene, ...
- Giving up at 60 has enhanced life of former 4-pack-a-day man - Guadalajara Colony Reporter
Guadalajara Colony ReporterGiving up at 60 has enhanced life of former 4-pack-a-day manGuadalajara Colony Reporter, Mexico - 1 hour agoHe wasn’t ready to hear the pleas of family or friends and spent about 100 pesos a day on cigarettes. “When information came out on how terrible it is for ...
- Footprints on the stand: who wrote the poem? - National Post
Footprints on the stand: who wrote the poem?National Post, Canada - 7 hours agoBasil Zangare claims that his mother, a former nurse and showgirl, wrote the poem as a child in the 1930s. Inspired by a cat's footprint in the snow, ...
- Five questions for . . . John K Lawson - Metro
MetroFive questions for . . . John K LawsonMetro, UK - 48 minutes agoNo, I've been writing poetry since I was a kid; the poems have been evolving for a long time. The beauty of it is that Dylan Thomas was always my hero, ...
- club hoppin', June 13 - Rocky Mountain News
club hoppin', June 13Rocky Mountain News, CO - 52 minutes agoYou've probably attended a few open-mike nights - a little guitar noodling, maybe a spot of confessional poetry - but we can't imagine that will prepare you ...
- Kansas City Author Pledges Support to National Fibromyalgia ... - PR.com
Kansas City, KS, June 09, 2008 --( PR.com )-- Jody Summers, a Kansas City author, released his first novel in March, Dark Canvas. As a result of an unusual set of circumstances, Jody has been moved to pledge a portion of his revenues from this first ...
- Voices from the past (Business Standard India)
Less story, more memory: new fiction looks back to re-imagine the past. Memory is in. It's the renaissance of the memoir, the biography and autobiography. Even fiction these days is read, and possibly written, as real life-stories transposed to a fictional context.
- Kay Ryan Named US Poet Laureate (Arts Journal)
"Known for her sly, compact poems that revel in wordplay and internal rhymes, Ms. Ryan has won a carriage full of poetry prizes for her funny and philosophical work, including awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1994, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, worth $100,000."
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