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- Wrongs and rights - New Statesman
New StatesmanWrongs and rightsNew Statesman, UK - 1 hour agoBut this book goes out of its way to eschew poetry or, indeed, much colour at all. It might have been better to try for, if not "The Prelude", ...
- Spoken word poet Jon Goode: A man of his word - CNN
Spoken word poet Jon Goode: A man of his wordCNN - 54 minutes ago... performed on Def Poetry Jam, says spoken word has given an intellectual voice to urban culture and poetry a new accessibility to an American audience. ...Commentary: Me and my brother and black America CNNall 2 news articles
- Why in Chicago - Chicago Daily Observer
Why in ChicagoChicago Daily Observer, IL - 43 minutes agoC. A deeply original and creative American city that has disdained many of the blandishments of an East Coast culture that was borrowed from and is ...
- Community Datebook (7/14/08) (Anchorage Daily News)
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- Have the last word at poetry slam - Central Western Daily
CENTRAL West Libraries is calling all poets, hip-hop artists and other outspoken wordsmiths to polish their rhymes and lyrics for the Australian Poetry Slam 08, an annual slam contest offering more than $10,000 in cash and prizes. At 6.30pm on ...
- Obituaries in the news - The Associated Press
Obituaries in the newsThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoDarwish first gained prominence in the 1960s with the publication of his first poetry collection, "Bird without Wings." It included the poem "Identity Card ...
- Brought stage magic to city - Herald News
The theater bug bit Georgiann Goodson of Joliet when she was just 13 years old, during a touring performance of "You Can't Take it With You" at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet said her good friend, actor John Lordan of Evanston. Until she retired ...
- 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 ...
- Taking the measure of a Valley giant - Silicon Valley
Les Hogan spent plenty of time navigating the power plays, the ego trips and the obstacles to making the quarterly number that come with the territory in Silicon Valley. Now comes his time to rest. The man who was simultaneously praised for rescuing ...
- The revival in Britain's stately homes - Times Online
The revival in Britain's stately homesTimes Online, UK - 6 minutes ago“It’s very nice for us to have events here – the church fete, Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Guides and Scouts. But we’re now prepared to charge, ...
- Maori work wins award - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nzMaori work wins awardStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 6 hours agoRichmond poet Jessica Le Bas won the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay prize for the best first book of poetry. Nelson bookshop Page and ...
- Valley native has small but huge role in Shepard play (The Morning Call)
The biggest role of Elissa Piszel's theater career is one of the smallest. The Bethlehem native stands silent for four to five minutes in nothing but a slip and a cowboy hat. Her only act is to hand the hat to the man who tossed it into a self-dug grave, a former dealer of expensive Western paintings stranded in the Badlands with a dead horse that symbolizes his -- and America's -- dead dreams.
- Alanis Morissette and Emmylou Harris deliver discs that look despair in the face (The Buffalo News)
There are two ways to deal with the inevitable emotional and existential crises that become a common part of life once you've left your twenties.
- Fixtures and Forces and Friends - Wiscasset Newspaper
Fixtures and Forces and FriendsWiscasset Newspaper, ME - 30 minutes agoYou pour everything you have into them, all the knowledge and conscience and poetry you've accumulated, together with just enough of your lonely fears and ...
- Umthwakazi Arts Festival starts - Chronicle
Umthwakazi Arts Festival startsChronicle, Zimbabwe - 2 hours agoThere will also be slam poetry in the afternoon. Tomorrow evening, there will be a choral competition at the Large City Hall and on Friday, there will be a ...
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