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- Young South Florida poets compete for national spoken word title - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Through their poetry, the 10 teens standing in the auditorium of the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center have learned to transfer their rage from the page to the stage. They rant about the war in Iraq and the response to Hurricane ...
- Columbia Student Rebellion 1968 - 40 Years Later - OpEdNews
Columbia Student Rebellion 1968 - 40 Years LaterOpEdNews, PA - 7 minutes agoAt the same time, Ray Brown, one of the leaders of the black students in Hamilton Hall, also objected to considering what the African American students had ...
- More than 100 readers share their love for their fathers Dad: You da man! (The Morning Call)
The concept is simple enough. Even Dear Abby tells her readers every year that the best gift they can give their dads for Father's Day is to write them a letter and tell them how they feel about them -- before it's too late.
- On far too many issues, Obama's poetry doesn't rhyme - Seattle Times
Barack Obama is such a stand-up guy that he'll stand up twice — once for each side of an issue. The poetry reading on change and hope is over. Now that he has to talk about real policy, there's little rhyme in the rhythm. Take James Johnson, who ...
- Local musician releases second album of poetry - The Daily Toreador (subscription)
Local musician releases second album of poetryThe Daily Toreador (subscription), TX - 2 hours agoWhile writing and compiling the poetry and prose for the album, he drew from personal experience. "Like anything I do, there's probably a piece of me in ...
- Garden City Resident A Keynote Speaker - Garden City News
Garden City Resident A Keynote SpeakerGarden City News, USA - 4 hours agoHe as author of 30 acclaimed books, including Fearful Symmetry (1947), a highly original study of the poetry of poet William Blake and Anatomy of Criticism ...
- Marking Caribbean American Ties - Washington Post
Marking Caribbean American TiesWashington Post, United States - 16 hours agoThe Capital Caribbean-American Literary Festival, June 10-13, will include storytelling, poetry and lectures. The DC Caribbean Film Festival runs June 17-21 ...
- Writing is a labour of love for Ron Butlin - Edinburgh Evening News
Writing is a labour of love for Ron ButlinEdinburgh Evening News, UK - 27 minutes agoThe three-year post entails promoting poetry and writing a yearly poem on the Capital or aspects of life here. The 58-year-old has big plans to shake up the ...
- What Islam did for Europe (The New Statesman)
The conflict between Islam and the west can be traced back to a myth that inaccurately painted Muslims as the killers of a Christian hero. Now, scholars are beginning to reassess the fundamental role that Muslims played in shaping western civilisation.
- Canadian novelist, poet Margaret Atwood wins Spanish literary award (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
MADRID, Spain - Canadian author Margaret Atwood has won Spain's Prince of Asturias literary prize. The jury praised the 68-year-old writer for work that covers several genres "with sharpness and irony."
- Keates' success is sheer poetry - Sunday Mirror
Keates' success is sheer poetrySunday Mirror, UK - 4 hours agoIt was Peterborough's first win at Edgar Road in 18 years and Keates, who won promotion last year with Walsall, made it an impressive personal achievement. ...
- Now Miami's hotels cater for every vice - guardian.co.uk
Now Miami's hotels cater for every viceguardian.co.uk, UK - 14 minutes agoMiami is like no other American city: here the outrageously wealthy and a sizable homeless population co-exist on the same stretch of golden sand. ...
- Reflect during solstic, shaman tells 30 at event - Daily Item
SUNBURY — Red and blue streamers fastened to wooden stakes snapped in the breeze 360 feet above the Susquehanna River Saturday as a shaman and his audience welcomed summer at the Shikellamy State Park overlook. The daylong event, which also ...
- The Big Question: Why is Stalin still popular in Russia, despite the ... - The Independent
A competition has been launched to find the "Name of Russia" – one Russian from history who should go down as a national symbol and the nation's biggest hero. Joseph Stalin, despite being one of the most vicious tyrants of the 20th century (and an ...
- Good Morning Cedar Valley! It's Monday, April 14. - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
Good Morning Cedar Valley! It's Monday, April 14.Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, IA - 48 minutes agoSpeak Out -- a day of poetry and spoken word will be 4-8 pm at the Waterloo Public Library. At 4 pm, the movie SlamNation will be shown. at 6 pm there will ...
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