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- TRIUMPHS: Mentoring program let her escape life of drugs, abuse (Detroit Free Press)
Janese Shurn was molested as a child. She was beaten by boyfriends. A dropout from Detroit Northern High School, she eventually resorted to using ecstasy and drinking alcohol. "When I think about what I have gone through, life feels surreal," Shurn said.
- Midlife Crisis, Averted - New York Times
Midlife Crisis, AvertedNew York Times, United States - 31 minutes ago“Yes, we still make the girls memorize poetry,†she said. But that wasn’t, of course, what I meant. I would have liked, that night in Georgetown, ...
- William Shakespeare a woman in disguise, claims expert (Chennai Online)
Jerusalem, May 28 Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman who had disguised to get her work published in Elizabethan London where original literature from women was not acceptable, an expert has contended.
- Stratford: Cool theatre for summer's parching heat - Rabble.ca
Stratford: Cool theatre for summer's parching heatRabble.ca, Canada - 4 hours agoTheir love scenes are passionate and believable and their ability to articulate the poetry of the piece was rewarded with shouts of bravo from an audience ...
- The 2nd Bi-Annual Urban Theatre & Entertainment Festival and Awards (BlackNews.com)
Miami-Dade County, FL (BlackNews.com) - The 2nd Bi-Annual Urban Theatre & Entertainment Festival/Awards (UTEF) will kick-off a Celebrity Gala hosted by Singer and Actresses Melba Moore and JoMarie Payton.
- Ringing the praises of choir - Ledbury Reporter
Ringing the praises of choirLedbury Reporter, UK - 4 hours ago... the World' and Peter Thiman's Madonna and Child'. The choir will be in action again on Sunday July 6 at 8pm, during this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival. ...
- Blogger: Rap's all-time best MCs (AM New York)
- This ‘Mother’ Makes Up for Lost Time - PopMatters
PopMattersThis ‘Mother’ Makes Up for Lost TimePopMatters, IL - 7 hours agoAvoiding most of the slow burn visual splendor that made Suspiria a classic, and shunning all of Inferno‘s incomprehensible tone poetry, the 68 year old ...
- Edwin Morgan wins £25,000 arts council award - Herald
Scotland's greatest living poet, Edwin Morgan, yesterday won one of the most prestigious prizes in Scottish literature. The nation's Makar, or national poet, won the £25,000 Scottish Arts Council (SAC) book of the year award for his latest ...
- Our cultural heritage - Online Journal
As Palestinians all over the world commemorate the Nakba and 60 years of ongoing Zionist ethnic cleansing, murder and apartheid, there is one aspect of our Palestinian identity that survived despite all Zionist attempts of elimination: our cultural ...
- Gleanings (Orangeville Citizen)
Angles 'n' Attitudes William Bothwell The verb 'to glean' means to gather or to pick up in small quantities. It has an agricultural use in the compassionate biblical law, "Do not reap the edges of a grain field. Leave them to be gleaned by the poor and the wayfarer".
- Fairfax Woman Named Nation's Poet Laureate - BayInsider
FAIRFAX, Calif. -- Kay Ryan, a 62-year-old Fairfax resident, was appointed today by the Library of Congress as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09. Ryan will assume her duties as the nation's poet laureate in the fall, opening the ...
- Nigeria: Multi-Talented Muhibbat - Sliding Into Islamic Poetry (AllAfrica.com)
Muhibbat Abdussalam is a famous Hausa film actress, producer and story writer in the popular Hausa film industry otherwise known as Kannywood. The actress is reinventing herself as an Islamic poet. Weekend Magazines takes a look at the artiste, who tied the nuptial knot exactly seven days ago.
- Reviews roundup: Afterlife - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukReviews roundup: Afterlifeguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours ago... funny and intellectually stimulating, though rarely, like Stoppard, at the same time." That, though, is after he destroys the play with his own poetry ...Afterlife: The rhyme of a slow, spirit-sapping death Telegraph.co.ukall 6 news articles
- You write the reviews: Roger Lloyd Pack, The Maltings, Wells-Next-The-Sea (Independent)
This was a good choice for the opening night of the 11th Poetry-next-the-Sea festival in Norfolk. Roger Lloyd Pack, best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, commands a good audience even when poetry is the main topic. He was talking to Dame Gillian Beer, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in a Desert Island Discs-style format about his 10 favourite poems.
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