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- Kudos: Library seeks names for its bronze lions (The San Francisco Examiner)
The bronze lions outside the Burlingame Public Library are in need of names.
- The Evasive Poetry of Barack Obama: What Should We Expect in Denver? (Accuracy In Media)
This week, Senator Barack Obama will officially accept the Democratic nomination at his convention in Denver.
- We Love Everyday People (Chicagoist)
Kevin Coval ’s Everyday People book release makes for cerebral entertainment so nice you can see it twice. Tonight and tomorrow night you can witness the locally born, bred, and based HBO Def Poet in the flesh, performing various selections from his latest poetry collection. Also in on the gig: participants from Louder Than a Bomb , the annual Chicago spoken-word smackdown Coval put ...
- Sister to the Sioux (The New Straits Times)
Anna Paquin highlights the plight of the Sioux tribe during the latter half of the 19th century in her role in Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.
- Enrique Diemecke marks two decades leading the Flint Symphony ... - Grand Rapids Press
Courtesy photo Enrique Diemecke, a native of Mexico City, directs music in Flint recently. In his charming and scholarly way, conductor Enrique Diemecke has hit all the right notes during his 20-year tenure with the Flint Symphony Orchestra. He's a ...
- Lariat Laureate - Independent Record
Helena’s Mike Logan paints images of the West with words. Like Charlie Russell before him, cowboy poet Mike Logan seeks to paint the Western way of life he loves before it’s gone. Logan’s “pictures” flow from stories, words and rhythms ...
- Deport VFD hosts fellowship event - Paris News
The Deport Volunteer Fire Department is hosting an evening of music, fellowship and food at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Deport Fire Station. The event is free, but donations to the fire department are welcome. Free hot dogs, beans and chips will be ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - NWI.com
HONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Music with a view brings free music to McVicker Park - Press-Enterprise
Music with a view brings free music to McVicker ParkPress-Enterprise, CA - Aug 5, 2008The group also sponsors a poetry reading the second Tuesday of each month, from 5 to 7 pm held at Flour Fusion on Main Street. They support performing arts ...
- International Russian-Georgian Poetry Festival opens in Tbilisi - ITAR-TASS
International Russian-Georgian Poetry Festival opens in TbilisiITAR-TASS, Russia - 32 minutes agoTBILISI, July 17 (Itar-Tass) - The second International Russian-Georgian Poetry Festival with the participation of Russian poets from more than 20 countries ...
- Labor Day weekend events (The Columbus Dispatch)
Labor Day weekend events Delaware County Labor Day Flea Market on the Square, Monday 7 a.m.-5 p.m. at Sunbury Square, Rt. 37 and Columbus Street. Admission is $1 for adults and teens; free for children 10 or under.
- Hoping to inpsire - Beatrice Daily Sun
Whether it’s the vast prairie, descriptive poetry or even life, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Ted Kooser hopes Nebraska youth find the inspiration and encouragement they need to continue to write. “I think if we ...
- UL poets to read at Casa Azul - The Daily Advertiser
GRAND COTEAU — A group of UL Lafayette poets will perform readings at Casa Azul at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 24. The group includes Lana Maht Wiggins, Marthe Reed, Rhonda D. Robison, Nate Pritts, Joseph Bienvenu and Clay Matthews. All of the ...
- Memo stressed inmate rights as grievance languished - Telegraph-Journal
Memo stressed inmate rights as grievance languishedTelegraph-Journal, Canada - 4 hours agoShe was allowed no personal effects, including the crayons or pen inserts and other materials she had previously been allowed so she could write poetry. ...
- Write lines - This is Sentinel
WRITE LINES: Budding wordsmith Rhiannon Rhodes beat off hundreds of entrants to win a Young Writers poetry competition. The teenager, who wrote the poem last year, aged 16, will now have her work published in an anthology called Away With Words ...
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