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- Cultural Olympiad bursts into life with launch party - This is Dorset
ARTS events exploded into life as a Cultural Olympiad lifted off in Weymouth and Portland. Open air productions, art installations, poetry, films, dance shows and concerts kick started the free extravaganza today and yesterday. And the excitement is ...
- Book Review - Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat edited by Nikki Giovanni (Blogcritics.org)
A marvelous book and CD set. Stories in Rhythm. Operatic vernacular. Poetry with a beat. Call and Response. One part story and one part rhythm. These are some of the terms the poet Nikki Giovanni uses to describe Hip Hop in her marvelous introduction to this astounding and beautiful book, Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Really? Opera? Read on, because Giovanni enlightens,...
- For sale: a better life - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentFor sale: a better lifeIrish Independent, Ireland - 3 hours agoThe Romantic poet Shelley, one of the main surfers on this incoming tide, has been mocked ever since he asserted that "Poets are the unacknowledged ...
- "GI Joe DVD Battle Packs:" Return of the Real American Heroes - Toon Zone
"GI Joe DVD Battle Packs:" Return of the Real American HeroesToon Zone, NY - 41 minutes agoThe giant machine-gunner Roadblock nearly falls into the same trap, but thankfully the writers drop his Muhammad Ali poetry and pseudo-street dialogue ...
- Lesbian Activist Del Martin Dies at 87 (Time Magazine)
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died
- Fall Preview: Books - Salt Lake Tribune
Fall Preview: BooksSalt Lake Tribune, United States - 2 hours agoSalt Lake City Public Library, 210 E. 400 S. Salt Lake City; 801- 524-8200; www.slcpl.lib.ut.us Oct.11: Utah State Poetry Society Book Concert; ...
- Eleanor O'Leary - prolific writer since her early days at Vassar - San Francisco Chronicle
Eleanor O'Leary - prolific writer since her early days at VassarSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 41 minutes agoThe voice itself, heard, with great poetry and feeling, yet with no straining to affect, and I suddenly understood the ecstatic, nostalgic praises of the ...
- Bedford songwriter finds inspiration in a homeless girl's poem - Boston Globe
POETIC INSPIRATION: For pianist Andrea Surova of Bedford, songwriting developed as a natural extension of the poetry she began writing at age 10. As a result, she has an even more special appreciation for the poem written by a 12-year-old homeless ...
- Getting remaindered is not the end of the line - Guardian Unlimited
Clive James' poetry has just been published in the US for the first time and this weekend the New York Times was paying particular attention to his piece of literary schadenfreude The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered. The first stanza was ...
- DC Women's Examiner - Examiner.com
Examiner.comDC Women's ExaminerExaminer.com - 6 hours agoFourth Annual DC Poetry Festival. The 4th Annual DC Poetry Festival will take place on Saturday, August 23, at 7:25pm at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre ...
- Easton author offers two new books (Connecticut Post)
EASTON -- With musical words like whizz, zoom and rumble, and illustrations to match, books created by a local author capture the attention of beginning readers.
- Creating a Mosaic: Personal Histories from the Middle Eastern Diaspora - Payvand
PayvandCreating a Mosaic: Personal Histories from the Middle Eastern DiasporaPayvand, Iran - 7 hours agoShe has been a featured reader at KGB and at the Persian Arts Festival's Shab-e Sher at Bowery Poetry Club. Her current project is a collection of personal ...
- Acres of Books a Long Beach institution for nearly 75 years (Los Angeles Times)
The family-run store had an inventory that topped 1 million volumes, but the owners have sold the building, which will soon contain housing and art galleries. In an era of Amazon.com and chain bookstores, where a good read is a click or neighborhood mall away, Melody Peck drove more than 100 miles from San Diego to downtown Long Beach to walk Friday among the dusty stacks at Acres of Books, ...
- Arts update (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
AT THE LIBRARY: •Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza, will feature “Art Out of the Box: Art Cars†at 2 p.m. today. Children can paint a car on the library plaza and create a model car to take home; call 421-1220.
- The Gold Medal Chase - New York Times Blogs
The Gold Medal ChaseNew York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
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