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- Heritage Festival: Cowboy poet Zeb Dennis to perform July 4 - Journal-Advocate
Heritage Festival: Cowboy poet Zeb Dennis to perform July 4Journal-Advocate, CO - 1 hour agoDennis, who is from Longmont, writes and performs his unique brand of cowboy poetry in the tradition of the old Western poets. As a cowboy, he has had the ...
- WOOD BOOK REVIEW: New book takes hard look at Martin Luther King ... - Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
WOOD BOOK REVIEW: New book takes hard look at Martin Luther King ...Coon Rapids ECM Publishers, MN - 1 hour agoHarvard prof Henry Louis Gates calls Rieder’s book “brilliant,†explaining that King’s command of both standard English and African American idioms made him ...
- Con Houlihan - Independent
No period of time and no tract of territory have been more chronicled in fiction and in history and on film than what is properly called The Old West. Of course it has been romanticised -- but underneath all the myth there was hard drama and poetry ...
- Martin on Gary V: Poetry in motion (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)
I just got the following e-mail from Martin Nievera who has some interesting stories to tell about his US concert tour with Gary Valenciano, considered to be his "arch rival" on the concert scene. The two are actually good friends.
- Burmese Writers Play Cat-and-Mouse Game with State Censors - NewsBlaze
Burmese Writers Play Cat-and-Mouse Game with State CensorsNewsBlaze, CA - 2 hours agoBy Stephen Kaufman It was a love poem, cleared by Burmese censors, in which a brokenhearted man rejected by a fashion model thanked her for teaching him the ...
- Supermodel’s death suspected suicide - TheCelebrityCafe.com
Supermodel’s death suspected suicideTheCelebrityCafe.com, NY - 3 hours agoThe New York Daily News reported that a lost love may have been the reason for Korshunova’s condition, and that she quoted poetry she had read on the ...
- Mariposa contest - Orillia Today
Mariposa contestOrillia Today, Canada - 3 hours agoThe Mariposa Writers’ Group is seeking submissions for its annual Lake Country Poetry and Short Story competitions, to be held in conjunction with the 2008 ...
- Paperback Row - New York Times
New York TimesPaperback RowNew York Times, United States - Aug 8, 2008Exploring the South Pacific’s fertile atolls, she goes on the “underwater equivalent of an African big-game safari,†but her real passion is for coral reefs ...
- Mahmoud Darwish, world's best-known Palestinian poet, dies at 67 after ... - Daily Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) _ Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more ...
- Mourning Becomes Her: "Electra," at Lincoln Park through July 13 - River Cities Reader
Mourning Becomes Her: "Electra," at Lincoln Park through July 13River Cities Reader, IA - 1 hour agoThis subtle modernizing, though, neither impedes nor diminishes the poetry. What it does do is provide Electra with a universality that audiences can latch ...
- Comedian Earthquake to shake up laughs in Cleveland - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host of the Laugh Track column (side effects are generally mild and include headache, sore throat, nose bleeds and coughing) ... Mike McIntyre. Thank you, Cleveland. The side effects are worth it. After all ...
- Small Black Stilt coffee house survives big competition (Victoria Times Colonist)
He started a coffee house in the shadows of Starbucks and Tim Hortons nearly three years ago across from Hillside Centre, but Dave Crothall has emerged with nary a scratch.
- Books Unbound: Artfully Altering Books - Westport News
Over time, books wear out. The pages begin to fade and yellow, and the information enclosed in the text becomes out of date. The book becomes useless. Useless, that is, except when it comes to creating art. This summer, the Westport Public Library is ...
- Fair-season fantasias - Toronto Star
Fair-season fantasiasToronto Star, Canada - 1 hour agoA vivacious mix of thoughtful, funny, wise and nonsensical poetry, it offers something for everyone. "Keep a poem in your pocket/and a picture in your ...
- Indian River County community connection: June 22 (Vero Press Journal)
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