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- The Calendar - MiamiHerald.com
The CalendarMiamiHerald.com, FL - 1 hour ago... a new publishing organization, Editorial Ultramar, with the first book by Cuban-born poet Rodrigo de la Luz, Poesia Viva. Poetry reading is in Spanish. ...
- Thomas comments reflect Obama's bias - The Washington Times
As I sit here in Denver, reporting from a Democratic convention that is turning out to be anything but conventional, I am reminded of the struggle that black conservatives have had to endure by going against the grain. In many ways, Sen. Barack Obama ...
- Jessica Price of 'America's Got Talent' returns to Freeport ... - MLive.com
Wow, it's been a crazy couple of days. The return of "Dancing with the Stars" has kept me hopping, but Monday I was able to get out of Grand Rapids and spend the afternoon with Jessica Price, of "America's Got Talent," in her hometown of Freeport. I ...
- Sharp Teeth, By Toby Barlow - Independent
Sharp Teeth, By Toby BarlowIndependent, UK - 6 hours agoBut leaving allegory aside, this novel also works as a tough, fast-moving crime thriller, combining the grit of Elmore Leonard with the poetry of Raymond ...
- Hear This Hammer Ring - Common Dreams
Stand by my side. - Langston Hughes When we first began organizing the Split This Rock Poetry Festival about a year and a half ago, I told people that we'd chosen the date to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I can't ...
- Mitchell’s Cahnah party will raise money for Nahant Education Foundation Aug. 31 (The Daily Item)
NAHANT - It’s an adults-only party, but it’s all about the kids. The fifth annual “Mitchell’s Cahnah†Block Party will raise money for the Nahant Education Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that raises money for the schools.
- Flap over arts cuts is a 'niche' issue: Harper (CTV.ca)
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper defended slashing $45 million from the arts budget and dismissed mounting criticism by calling it a "niche" issue that doesn't resonate with "ordinary" Canadians.
- South Pasadenan pens revenge tale - Pasadena Star-News
South Pasadenan pens revenge talePasadena Star-News, CA - 55 minutes agoThe poetry here, modernistic with a downhome bent, takes on topics ranging from relationships to reveling in the rain, evoking a mix of emotions. ...
- Sikaman Palava: Political bulldog-ism and December 7 - Joy Online
Sikaman Palava: Political bulldog-ism and December 7Joy Online, Ghana - 3 hours agoThe poetry that couched Ghana's political independence and the lyrics with which it was celebrated was none Ghanaians have seen again since Dr Kwame Nkrumah ...
- Meet the Mughals - Detroit News
"The Private World of India's Mughal Emperors," which opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts on Saturday, offers a visually stunning show of miniature paintings and exquisite calligraphy that illuminate royal life in a Muslim-ruled, ethnically ...
- Potato madness has gripped at least one man - Anchorage Daily News
The phone rang rather late the other night. “Did you know this is the Year of the Potato?†the guy on the other end wanted to know. That voice. … That vegetable. … This had to be Palmer potato guru Bill Campbell, a guy with a head stuffed ...
- Writing workshops offered - Asheville Citizen-Times
Writing workshops offeredAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 1 hour agoPoet Gary Lilley will teach “Merging the Imagined Experience with the Lived Experience: A Poetry Workshop†at YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St., ...
- Recalling Solzhenitsyn, the genius of socialist realism - International Herald Tribune
Most of the recent tributes to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died earlier this month, have concentrated on his titanic struggle against the Soviet regime, and rightly so. But what seems to have gotten lost is the reason he was listened to in the first ...
- Will a poet read at the next inauguration? - Examiner.com
Will a poet read at the next inauguration?Examiner.com - 11 hours agoObviously, it should be about literature: about writing, about poetry, fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, Slam or “spoken word†poetry, perhaps even ...
- Music Review: Enrique Morente - Pablo de Malaga (Blogcritics.org)
Flamenco legend Enrique Morente returns with a recording based on Picasso's writings about his childhood in Malaga, Spain. Enrique Morente, flamenco’s rebel genius, has forged ahead with his experimental style injecting jazz, pop and other flavors into his music since the 1960s. Known for adapting Federico GarcÃa Lorca’s poetry into a popular flamenco CD with 1999’s Lorca, he’s also paid ...
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