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- Throwdown! Teens to take on grown-ups in poetry slam - Seattle Times
Watch the best of the young and adult Seattle Poetry Slam teams duke it out at the BATTLE OF THE AGES: Seattle's First Annual Youth vs. Adult Team Poetry Slam. It all goes down 8 p.m. next Wednesday, August 20, at Neumo's, on 925 E. Pike St., in ...
- Teaching my girl the very best - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, June 16 -- Liu Hongqing is a special father. After his daughter graduated from elementary school in Beijing last year, he did not send her to a middle school. Instead, he lets her study classic Chinese literature, Kunqu Opera and painting at ...
- How interrogation by CIA made al-Qaeda's plotter turn to poetry - Scotsman
IN A makeshift prison in the north of Poland, al-Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It was 18 months after the 9/11 attacks, and the invasion of Iraq was giving Muslim extremists new ...
- Funds from Saturday's Triple A Festival to help build community center (West Orange Times)
Oakland is holding this event for a 2nd year to highlight African-American artists. Gospel music, a Florida Highwaymen artist and a collard-green cook-off are a few of the many highlights of this weekend's Triple A (African-American Arts) Festival in Oakland.
- Pulitzer Prize winner named Va.'s poet laureate (WTOP Radio Network)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Tim Kaine appoints University of Mary Washington professor Claudia Emerson as Virginia 's new poet laureate. Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called "Late Wife." The book uses a collection of handwritten letters to reflect on her failed marriage of 19 years and her blossoming relationship with her second husband.
- News in brief: SF center hosts queer prom - Bay Area Reporter
News in brief: SF center hosts queer promBay Area Reporter, CA - 5 hours agoThe evening will include fun, camaraderie, poetry, story-telling, music, and song led by Andrew Ramer and Andrea Guerra. Wine and juice will be provided. ...
- The "It" List: A trendier guide to living - The News-Press
The "It" List: A trendier guide to livingThe News-Press, FL - 1 hour ago"Cinematic poetry," raved USA Today. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the world-famous glass jar with the screw-on metal lid. ...
- Some advice for Bill Gates from a semi-retired, orgy-loving cokehead - CNET News
CNET NewsSome advice for Bill Gates from a semi-retired, orgy-loving cokeheadCNET News, CA - 8 hours agoThese days, poetry being an energy-sapping exercise, Mr. Dennis attends only four to six senior management or board meetings a year. ...
- Palestinian poet dies in Texas - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. A hospital spokeswoman in Houston said the 67-year-old poet had died after ...
- Life at the Buxton Festival (with audio) - This is Derbyshire
IT'S Friday morning and perched on pouffes in the Moroccan Corner of the Project X cafe a pair of goatee-bearded musos are musing on the merits of a new comic opera over mugs of detox tea. A Chair in Love charts the bizarre love triangle between a ...
- Nature has lost a friend (The Peterborough Examiner)
"He made a difference in the world, and that's what he wanted," said Heather Watson of her late father, Douglas "Doug" Sadler. Mr. Sadler, 92, died yestserday with his family at his side at St. Joseph's at Fleming due to complications related to cancer. Mr. Sadler was [...]
- Ex-nurse quits job to become stand up - BirminghamMail.net
Ex-nurse quits job to become stand upBirminghamMail.net, UK - 4 hours ago“I had been writing poetry which I performed at some spoken word nights a couple of years ago and somebody suggested I gave stand-up a try. ...
- Take a peek on how it all began... - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Take a peek on how it all began...The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 13 minutes agoMarie Louise writes lovely poetry that will touch your heart, and her beautiful photography is in her books as well. Saw lots of old friends in Houston ...
- In Town: Flor y Canto, Actors, Mankin, Peters (San Francisco Chronicle)
Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry A free festival featuring young, unpublished poets alongside renowned authors such as Alejandro Murguia and Jack Hirschman. Featured poets include Lorna Dee Cervantes, Tomás Riley, Leticia Hernandez,...
- Blood and belonging (Toronto Star)
Certain gifts are afforded a playwright in a quest to complete and deliver a profound drama that is uniquely his. In the case of Where the Blood Mixes , Kevin Loring heard an elder's story about how Lytton, or Kumsheen as his Nlaka'pmux nation called it, came by its name.
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