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- You’re Gonna Love Me!: Pryslezz - Six Shot
While many rappers claim to come from violent neighborhoods, few can state that they are from the actual murder capital in the U.S. which happens to be Youngstown, Ohio. Growing up in this environment has made, Pryslezz, who he is today; a man of ...
- Doo Dah ditty - Columbus Dispatch
Columbus DispatchDoo Dah dittyColumbus Dispatch, OH - 2 hours agoWith ComFest just a hazy memory, return to Goodale Park in Victorian Village for Poetry in the Park. The latest entry in the summer-long series, ...
- Keeping Brunei's Traditional Literature Alive (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan- The finals of the 11th national-level traditional poetry recital competition or the Syair, for secondary schools, colleges and private education institutions in conjunction with Teacher's Day was held yesterday at the Dewan Serrnayuda of the Language and Literature Bureau in Berakas.
- History As Bunk (Extract) - Jerusalem Post
Some wag once observed that American universities lost their way when they stopped teaching King Lear and started teaching King Kong. I know whereof the wag speaks. I teach in the English department of just such an institution. The department offers ...
- Takács Quartet opens Lakewood performance season - YourHub.com
Takács Quartet opens Lakewood performance seasonYourHub.com, CO - 1 hour agoThe Takács has performed a music and poetry program on a fourteen city US tour with the poet Robert Pinsky. Current commissions include works by Wolfgang ...
- The presidency: 'Monkey god' in the middle? (WorldNet Daily)
You can be sure presidential candidate Barack Obama is not the only one in America with a Hanuman monkey-god keychain bouncing around in his back pocket. So why condemn him for idol worship or worse? How narrow-minded, insular and jingoistic have some of us become? Don't answer that!
- Tales from the pens of pupils - Scarborough Today
Tales from the pens of pupilsScarborough Today, UK - 4 hours agoThere are a variety of stories featured included ones about dragons, scarecrows, fantasy and poetry. Mrs Durrant, of Filey Road, said: “I have been coaching ...
- Oh it's truly a crime that women are reluctant to rhyme - guardian.co.uk
Oh it's truly a crime that women are reluctant to rhymeguardian.co.uk, UK - 37 minutes agoWhen I was a student, nobody ever said: 'Poetry! That'll be a piece of piss that reaps millions.' Ruth Padel says that she wouldn't take the job either, ...
- Wrongs and rights - New Statesman
New StatesmanWrongs and rightsNew Statesman, UK - 1 hour agoBut this book goes out of its way to eschew poetry or, indeed, much colour at all. It might have been better to try for, if not "The Prelude", ...
- Who will wear the Miss Crookston crown? (Crookston Daily Times)
Under the theme "What a Wonderful World," this year's Miss Crookston Scholarship Pageant will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, in the Crookston High School Auditorium. Thirteen young women are vying for the Miss Crookston 2008 title.
- John D McHugh/AP - Egypt Today
I WAS SLIGHTLY ANNOYED as I walked down a pitch-black stairwell at St. John’s Church in Maadi with only my cell phone backlight to illuminate my way through an unexpected power outage that had interrupted my interview with Terry Waite. It’s ...
- A Meeting with Che Guevara - Center for Research on Globalization
A Meeting with Che GuevaraCenter for Research on Globalization, Canada - 13 hours agoDuring adolescence and later he remained passionate about poetry, especially that of Neruda, Keats, Machado, Lorca, Mistral, Vallejo and Whitman, ...
- Palestinians mourn passing of Mahmud Darwish - Al Arab Online
Palestinians mourned the passing of Mahmud Darwish, who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets. In a televised address after Darwish died on Saturday in a US hospital from ...
- Slingshot Hip Hop invades Lebanon - Menassat
Slingshot Hip Hop invades LebanonMenassat, Lebanon - 1 hour ago"You saw in the film how that one kid called himself an Arab and not a Palestinian. This is what my [Palestinian] friends are taught in Israeli schools," ...
- I'll Take the Manhattan - Las Cruces Sun-News
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme ...
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