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- Houston teens to compete at Washington poetry slam (w/video) (Houston Chronicle)
Their inspirations come from all over — observations made while busing tables at an Outback Steakhouse, a family nightmare in Indonesia, a poster from the Vans Warped Tour.
- The Ghost Soldiers by James Tate - Bookslut
The Ghost Soldiers by James TateBookslut, IL - 35 minutes agoCharlie Parker and Bix Bierderbecke showed him how improvisation in prose poetry could be structured like a sax chorus -- note clusters multiplying from one ...
- Writer Ha Jin says he wants to visit native China but is frustrated by censorship (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Award-winning author Ha Jin says he wants to visit his native China after being away for 23 years but is discouraged by the Communist government's censorship of his books.
- High school students get taste of college life - Kane County Chronicle
AURORA – Waubonsie Valley student Brea Sims didn’t know what to expect as she gingerly touched the liver of the dissected fetal pig. “It feels so fake,” Sims said. Sims was among 24 students from several high schools, including Waubonsie ...
- Contemporary Ceramic Art from Sweden on View at The Design Museum ... - Art Daily
Art DailyContemporary Ceramic Art from Sweden on View at The Design Museum ...Art Daily - 3 hours agoIt wants to be sculpture, poetry, happening, installations, communication, revolution. And there is basically nothing that can restrain these urges. ...
- Establish a goal, follow the dream - Indianapolis Star
Establish a goal, follow the dreamIndianapolis Star, United States - 15 minutes agoBy Andy Gammill Nisshay Brocks wishes she had the chance to read the now-lost poetry and autobiographical sketches her dad wrote before he died of cancer in ...
- From Germany, an opera engulfed by shadows of war - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - In Theodor Adorno's famous dictum, writing poetry "after Auschwitz" was a barbaric notion, but what about opera after the war? The genre was pronounced dead by modernists who wanted a clean break from the past. Pierre Boulez called for the ...
- Kingsolver to speak at festival (Salina Journal)
Barbara Kingsolver, whose ability to deliver penetrating insights with a poet's grace has made her an internationally acclaimed writer, will be one of the featured speakers at The Land Institute's 30th annual Prairie Festival.
- Cameroon: Bate Besong And the Apparent Death of Critical Thought At the University (AllAfrica.com)
Indeed, these are trying times. But what are the men and women in our university and intellectual circles doing to conscientize, energize, create awareness, proffer solutions and chart a course of action? The answer is not far-fetched.
- Scholarly, sweet work peels the Anne onion - London Free Press
Scholarly, sweet work peels the Anne onionLondon Free Press, Canada - 1 hour agoAnd overriding all is Anne's love for the Prince Edward Island landscapes to which Maud Montgomery herself always returned. Gammel's richly detailed ...
- Civil War talk at B&O museum - Baltimore Sun
Civil War talk at B&O museumBaltimore Sun, United States - 6 minutes agowill have an opportunity to experiment with creating a free verse poem from a prose paragraph. 410-313-1400. Audition workshop // The Miller branch library, ...
- Volunteers gear up for Book Bonanza - Reading Eagle
Volunteers gear up for Book BonanzaReading Eagle, PA - Jul 12, 2008Customers can browse varied categories of donated books - children's, romance, sci-fi, poetry, health and this year's featured category: sports books. ...
- This Day In History: May 22 Claude McKay and Langston Hughes - OUPblog
This Day In History: May 22 Claude McKay and Langston HughesOUPblog, New York - 12 minutes ago... several volumes of poetry, novels, plays, essays and a dozen children’s books. His work celebrated black life and culture infusing them with a strong ...
- Citizens, alliance support Boston's at-risk youth - Boston Globe
Citizens Bank and the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston said they are teaming up again to bring a summer enrichment program to Boston neighborhoods. The program, funded by a $100,000 grant from the Citizens Bank Foundation, focuses on ...
- 'I Shot the Sheriff' mystery unraveled - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Ever since Bob Marley released "I Shot the Sheriff" in 1973, I've been puzzling over the lyric, "I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot no deputy." Here's what certain notables might have to say: Tom Cruise: Because the shooter was not -- whoo! -- a ...
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