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- Are You San Francisco's Next Poet Laureate? (SFist)
Do you have a way with the written word? More to the point, can you write cloying prose about minorities and the disenfranchised that the City is slowly eradicating? You can? Well, maybe you are San Francisco's next poet laureate! Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Poet Laureate Nominating Committee need someone to succeed housing "social activist" and poet Jack Hirschman . And if you win the sash and ...
- Reuters World News Highlights 1000 GMT Aug 13 - Forbes
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday Moscow had no objections to changes in the text of a ceasefire deal clinched in Tbilisi by French President Nicolas Sarkozy but agreed earlier in Moscow. "The clarification of the text ...
- Literary festival to feature Ohio books, authors, publishers - Coshocton Tribune
Literary festival to feature Ohio books, authors, publishersCoshocton Tribune, OH - 39 minutes agoMOUNT VERNON — From children's books to history, from memoirs to poetry, a Bicentennial Literary Festival will steam into the B & O Depot in Mount Vernon on ...
- Sign up for the Gamasutra Daily Newsletter! - Gamasutra
Midway To Combine California Studios [07.22.08] Midway has announced that it will be combining the operations of its Los Angeles and San Diego studios, with the Los Angeles offices housing the TNA iMPACT! team effectively being shuttered. Few job ...
- Music Review: Nas' still has attitude on new CD - Times Record News
Music Review: Nas' still has attitude on new CDTimes Record News, TX - Jul 14, 2008On the former, a cocky Nas spits: "I'm Alex Pushkin/ The black poetry-writing Russian." That epic hip-hop trifecta precedes the album's polemical core. ...
- Court strikes down King County land use ordinance - Seattle Post Intelligencer
A state appelate court has overturned King County's controversial land use ordinance that had ordered some rural property owners to leave at least half of their property untouched. The decision, handed down in Division 1 of the state's Court of ...
- A Woman Who Broke Poetry's Glass Ceiling - Huffingtonpost.com
Hillary Clinton's eloquent endorsement of Barack Obama last Saturday included some reflection on what her campaign, which had achieved so much success, meant for women: "Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this ...
- The Gift of Prose to Soothe the Traveler - New York Times
The Gift of Prose to Soothe the TravelerNew York Times, United States - 20 minutes agoBy JIM DWYER As of this spring, poetry is no longer making nothing happen in the subways, buses and rail lines. Poetry in Motion, the public project that ...
- 'Voice of my ancestors' guided N. Scott Momaday, keynote speaker at ... - QuickDFW.com
books@dallasnews.com Karen Thomas is a freelance writer in Arlington. N. Scott Momaday, considered the dean of American Indian writers, grew up steeped in language. As a young Kiowa boy, the stories of his family and tribe flowed richly from ...
- Things to do today - Akron Beacon Journal
To have an event listed, send a fax to 330-996-3033 or an e-mail to newsroomemail@thebeaconjournal.com at least a week in advance. TODAY Friends of the Library Summer Book Sale — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m ...
- An Afternoon With Don Mattera - Moneyweb
An Afternoon With Don MatteraMoneyweb, South Africa - 10 hours agoMiller is the author of the poetry anthology Hintsa's Ghost and will be releasing a book of essays - Getting Up: Thoughts on Falling - in October 2008. ...
- A Sea of Tranquillity? - bbc
President Sarkozy has greeted the 43 world leaders for a summit that at least looks more successful than many of us expected. He welcomed Mrs Merkel with a hug, Gordon Brown with what could have been a joke and the Turkish leader very quickly ...
- New children's book captures sisters' special bond - Business Gazette
New children's book captures sisters' special bondBusiness Gazette, MD - 18 hours agoBoth women say they have long written poetry and kept journals. The two do have plans to collaborate on books in the future, but for now, says Jackson, ...
- Millions mark World Refugee Day with theme of "Protection" (AlertNet)
Source: UNHCR As millions marked World Refugee Day, UNHCR's chief says he is concerned about the rise in refugee numbers in 2007 and the suffering in Somalia.
- We just don't get it - OpEdNews.com
If you've been paying attention to the world news lately, you know that Pervez Musharaff is about to either be impeached or will resign in a few days. Yes, you heard the “I†word; the word nobody in America wants to say. In order to impeach ...
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