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- Venue hosts poetry contest (The Daily Texan)
"Ideas are money," Akeem Lawrence said Wednesday night as he waited for his turn to compete for $1,000 at the American-Idol-style spoken word and vocal competition at the Parish Room. Sponsored by BTG Records, "Expressions of the Mind" and "The Showcase" have local talents competing for a $1,000 spoken word prize and a $5,000 vocal performance prize.
- Clarendon Senior Citizens Participate in Cultural Day - Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
Clarendon Senior Citizens Participate in Cultural DayGovernment of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service, Jamaica - 18 hours ago... adorned in the colours of the various senior citizens' clubs, entertained the audience with several cultural renditions in the form of poetry, prose, ...
- Why the Expats Left Paris - Wall Street Journal
In a picture taken in 1954 in front of the Café Tournon in Paris's chic sixth arrondissement, the writers and editors of the recently founded Paris Review are arranged in a human pyramid, with a row of casually dressed women sitting in chairs at the ...
- Lost and found - Calgary Herald
Lost and foundCalgary Herald, Canada - 4 hours ago"It started off as poetry. Poetry serves as a way to express grief. Poetry is really good for those strong, strong emotions. Then I took those and wrote ...
- Flying SoloNova (Backstage.com)
Five-year-old fest restores the art of storytelling. For as long as humanity has had language, it has had stories. Before the written word or the printing press, storytellers used myths, legends, history, and imagination to entertain and to explain life.
- Weekly Webb: Poet McRae captures the essence of Western life in verse - Billings Gazette
Colorful characters are like boulders tumbling down a mountain - unpredictable, sharp-edged and volatile. But Wally McRae said the West is running out of these rough-hewn subjects, which have been fodder for his poetry for more than 40 years. McRae ...
- Many groups work together as AIDS takes center stage - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
With the AIDS-themed More Life Festival, the Fort Worth Opera and its partners have organized the largest citywide arts collaboration since the biennial decade-centric RetroFest events in the 1990s. The common idea for 50-plus events of More Life (co ...
- A pilgrim's progress - Haaretz.com
Ilana Blumberg must have felt a moment of bittersweet satisfaction when her autobiographical "Houses of Study" was shortlisted for the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature earlier this year. Bittersweet, because although the nomination ...
- Bernardine Evaristo - guardian.co.uk
Bernardine Evaristoguardian.co.uk, UK - 11 minutes ago... passionate and probing poetry could be. He set the standard for me. What advice would you give to new writers? Do it because you love it not because you ...
- Mixing poetry and business - Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin
Mixing poetry and businessOld Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin, MA - 1 hour agoSchwiesow, who runs an online poetry forum, said her poetry comes from a spiritual well, from a place inside, and she’s willing to share that with her ...
- By Geraldine Lloyd Special to the News-Post (The Frederick News-Post)
In January of 1994, four months after radiation for a squamous cell carcinoma to the right true vocal chord, I was a twig -- whittled down to a mere 102 pounds from a burned esophagus and scar tissue that barely allowed for normal swallowing.
- Program unites K-Central, K-College writers (The Kalamazoo Gazette)
KALAMAZOO -- Eight months ago, Kalamazoo Central High School freshman Eric Heady, 16, had bookcases at home packed with original poems that he'd never shown to anyone.
- Baker to speak at Pawlet Library - Manchester Journal
Baker to speak at Pawlet LibraryManchester Journal, VT - 1 hour ago... took in setting up their farms and towns. In his poetry, you will see memories of growing up on the farm, helping folks where he could and raising a family.
- Local writer, singer spreads Christian message - Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
I worked in sales for 12 years and I saw so many people hurting. It's a hurting world out there and I want to help," Kehres said. During the last 12 to 15 years, Kehres began writing melodies, songs and poems.
- Controversial abortion doctor faced a lifetime of persecution - Globe and Mail
Henry Morgentaler, the Holocaust survivor and medical doctor who won a Supreme Court decision making abortion legally available in Canada in 1988, has attracted admiration from pro-choice groups and condemnation from anti-abortion activists. That ...
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