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- Hip-hop praise (Savannah Morning News)
Carl and Lashawanda Gilliard used to come home to teenagers wandering aimlessly around their Savannah neighborhood. The kids seemed to have little to do other than talk about rap and hip-hop music. So Carl Gilliard, himself a rapper, decided to talk rap and hip-hop music with them. "When we would come home to our apartment and see these kids, we just kind of gave them what we had, what we ...
- Book extract: The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt (Independent)
A woman I didn't know was shutting the door to Inga's apartment just as I arrived. I saw her hunched body and rust-coloured hair on the landing as she turned and, with her head lowered, proceeded slowly down the stairs. When we neared each other, she abruptly looked up into my face for a fraction of a second. I backed off to allow her to pass, but she didn't move out of the way, and we brushed ...
- Vanessa Williams and Juliette Jeffers Expose Their Souls in Their One ... - BlackNews.com
Hollywood, CA (BlackNews.com) - Actresses Vanessa Williams and Juliette Jeffers perform their one-woman shows at The Elephant Theatre, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90038 for an one-month limited-run engagement -- Fridays and Saturdays ...
- Benicia selects new poet laureate - Vallejo Times-Herald
Robert Selby's selection as the incoming poet laureate in Benicia was, apparently, a simple process. "I was regarded as the best candidate of those available," said Selby. In grabbing the poetry baton from Joel Fallon, Selby graciously accepts the ...
- Local actors find out what's 'Happening' - Delaware Online
Acting is as much about hustle as it is about talent. At least, it seems that way when you're trying to find steady work. "It takes time and money to be able to survive," said Keith Bullard of Newark, one of several Delaware actors who briefly ...
- Welcome to Orland: Visiting authors and their books - Orland Park Prairie
Welcome to Orland: Visiting authors and their booksOrland Park Prairie, IL - 1 hour agoWhat child can resist that? Some of the poetry selections, such as "I Love to Do My Homework," may be best described as trite, silly, and predictable. "… ...
- Embracing maturity focus of conference - Daily Oklahoman
• WHAT: Salvation Army Day of Learning. Seniors can attend classes on tatting, line dancing, yoga, tai chi, beading, quilting and bridge. A free lunch will be served. • WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. • WHERE: Warr Acres Senior Center, 4301 N Ann Arbor ...
- Longtime poet George Keithley keeps his work fresh - Chico News & Review
Longtime poet George Keithley keeps his work freshChico News & Review, CA - 2 hours agoWhen Heather Lyon put out the word that the store would like to host regular poetry readings, he was all too happy to step up to the mic. ...
- 100 Candles - Slate
Just as fresh and exacting is Montgomery's understanding of the connection children feel to the subtleties of the natural world. Nature, as Montgomery portrays it, enables children to experience autonomy and mystery as they can nowhere else. Each ...
- Pianist Stephen Hough, in recital here Friday, also is a noted ... - Toledo Blade
Pianist Stephen Hough, in recital here Friday, also is a noted ...Toledo Blade, OH - 7 hours agoIn fact, the keyboard seems to have served Hough as a springboard for many creative endeavors such as musical composition, prose and poetry, philosophy, ...
- Reviving the vanishing voice of verse (Cape Cod Times)
WASHINGTON — The judges were primed and the audience expectant. Then 16-year-old Shawntay Henry walked onstage.
- Horse Latitudes - Nouse
Horse LatitudesNouse, UK - 11 hours ago“Hedge School†displays his emotional strength, as the poet navigates his family history after learning of his sister’s cancer: the poem lands on the ...
- Slim Pickings? Not on This Langhorne's List! - Jewish Exponent
Jewish ExponentSlim Pickings? Not on This Langhorne's List!Jewish Exponent, PA - 2 hours ago"I had been just writing little stories and poetry and stuff like that, like a lot of kids," he recalls on the phone from eastern Oregon. ...
- Forgotten photos capture idyllic past - DesMoinesRegister.com
Forgotten photos capture idyllic pastDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 13 minutes agoThey are poetry of a bygone era. "Maybe it's our gnawing discomfort, the unease the country is feeling right now, that make these photos resonate," said ...
- 'Kuwaiti Cultural Week' features poetry, film in Damascus - Kuwait Times
'Kuwaiti Cultural Week' features poetry, film in DamascusKuwait Times, Kuwait - 2 hours agoThe event featured the screening of a film titled Badiyat Al-Arab by the director Abdullah Al-Mikhyal, which focuses on life in the Arabian Gulf and which ...
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