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- To 8/31: 'My Voice, My Life, My Future' - AZ Central.com
To 8/31: 'My Voice, My Life, My Future'AZ Central.com, AZ - 8 hours agoThe exhibit features more than two dozen works of art and poetry by children ranging in age from 10 to 16 who are living in foster care in Arizona. ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate (AP via Yahoo! News)
Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet.
- Freikeh Festival bears fruit for the first time in three years (The Daily Star Lebannon)
The public entered the festival grounds along a tree-lined path, its low hanging branches beautifully illuminated against the darkness. To the left, the black silhouette of the Nahr al-Kalb valley stretches beneath you toward the sea. The lights of villages crown the surrounding hilltops and, in the distance, the sprawl of Beirut can be discerned through the trees.
- On the bookcase - Baytown Sun
While sorting out books to donate to a library for its annual sale, I was struck by the number of “locals.” Books written by or about people in Baytown and the local area consume a considerable amount of space in my bookcase. Sorry, library fund ...
- Papers of acclaimed poet Anne Spencer moved from Lynchburg to UVA - WSLS.com
Papers of acclaimed poet Anne Spencer moved from Lynchburg to UVAWSLS.com, VA - 3 hours ago“That she is a Virginian, that she’sa writer, that she’s African-American, that she’s from Central Virginia, all those things make her even more interesting ...
- Fouad Riad - Egypt Today
Fouad RiadEgypt Today, Egypt - 9 hours agoAs a result American soldiers who commit crimes in Iraq or any place in the world are safe and no one can try them,” he asserts. “They even threatened that ...
- Improvisational Songs of Water Rises Above Adversity - RedOrbit
Improvisational Songs of Water Rises Above AdversityRedOrbit, TX - 2 hours agoIn addition to the music, the band's performances can incorporate poetry, film and performance art. Dancers have come to some shows and added their ...
- The bard of Belfast - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe bard of Belfastguardian.co.uk, UK - 23 minutes agoIt was as a poet, though, that he first came to wider attention: two of his poems were included in the celebrated 1970 anthology British Poetry Since 1945, ...
- MOLOCH Music & Poetry Showcase - Dublinks
DublinksMOLOCH Music & Poetry ShowcaseDublinks, Ireland - 1 hour agoOn 31st July, online music and writing journal Moloch presents a fantastic showcase of some of its finest contributors, in the intimate surrounds of the ...
- Street Scene, Young Vic, London (Independent)
Kurt Weill called Street Scene "a Broadway opera", but there aren't too many operas with a wild jitterbug that segues into a slutty blues or a children's chorus who chant, "My father's name is Rockefeller./He shovels diamonds in the cellar." Into his 1947 musical version of Elmer Rice's 1929 play, Weill emptied a cornucopia of influences – Wagner, Puccini, folk song, jazz, operetta, and his ...
- Sweet Joan - Louisville Courier-Journal
Sweet JoanLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 4 hours agoOsborne seems to like New York City way more than home, and two of the album's pivotal tracks are homages to NYC, inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman and ...
- 60th Highlands Festival set to begin in Abingdon - Johnson City Press
ABINGDON, Va. – Arts, crafts and live music are just a fraction of the fun of the 60th annual Virginia Highlands Festival, running Saturday through Aug. 10. Rock pioneer Chubby Checker & The Wildcats will perform Saturday at 8 p.m. on Main Street ...
- More on speechwriting and Obama's Wesleyan address - Atlantic Online
More on speechwriting and Obama's Wesleyan addressAtlantic Online - 2 hours agoBy himself, long before he had a staff for such help, he wrote one very good book, Dreams from My Father. By all accounts he has written other crucial ...
- Polk County Fair brings out talent (Salem Statesman Journal)
RICKREALL — Although she is not a Mid-Willamette Valley denizen, Sammy Rassi of Milwaukie offered a succinct, cogent description of the Polk County Fair late Friday afternoon.
- Channeling Tupac: Miami actor-playwright portrays human side of slain rapper (Miami Herald)
n the surface, slain rapper Tupac Shakur and the deeply alive actor Meshaun Labrone Arnold would seem to have little in common. Shakur's mother was a member of the Black Panthers when he was born in 1971, later becoming a crack addict and welfare mom as she struggled to raise her son. Arnold's father, Elder Frazier Arnold Jr., is pastor of Miami's Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist Church; his mother ...
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