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- Austin, Boston, Charlotte, and New York teams win semifinal bouts at National Poetry Slam 2008 (Isthmus)
Four finalist spots were up for grabs at the National Poetry Slam semifinals on Friday at the Overture Center, where 20 contenders battled with words after a week's worth of bouts and last-minute practicing throughout downtown Madison. One highlight bout pitted defending the 2007 champion team from Charlotte against those from Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland, and St. Paul, which brought the talents ...
- Footnote (New York Times)
Ralph Fiennes, Barry McGovern, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Cynthia Nixon will perform hourlong readings of Samuel Beckett?s poetry and prose.
- In Jersey City, literary lion was just their Bob - Bridgeton News
Had Robert Giroux died young, his wake and funeral would have been one of the literary events of the 20th century. He was the American editor of T.S. Eliot. He edited the novels of Virginia Woolf, the short stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the ...
- Philein Wang Debuts 'Stories From Home', Featuring ‘Tiger Hip Hop ... - openPR (press release)
openPR (press release)Philein Wang Debuts 'Stories From Home', Featuring ‘Tiger Hip Hop ...openPR (press release), Germany - 1 hour ago15, 2008 Philein/Zi-Ru Tiger Productions announced today that ‘Stories from Home’, a showcase of dance, music, video and poetry featuring the choreography ...
- Team Rivalry Sparks Scholarship Idea (East Aurora Advertiser)
Though the attention at Friday night's Iroquois vs. East Aurora football game will be on which team gets possession of the Cross Town Cup, some players will win in a different way. Along with the trophy itself, EAWireless and the East Aurora and Iroquois football booster clubs have supported the creation of a scholarship fund, raising money to go to two players from each of the teams.
- Authors, poets add depth to waterfront fest (The Standard-Times)
While books and water are not a good mix  the pages get soggy  books about water are.
- "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man ... - guardian.co.uk
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 47 minutes agoIt also helped to do for the novel what Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass did for poetry: namely, to create of it something identifiably American, ...
- Researcher To Study Osama Bin Laden Audio Tapes - RedOrbit
Researcher To Study Osama Bin Laden Audio TapesRedOrbit, TX - 6 minutes agoEdwards contacted Miller, a linguist and cultural anthropologist who studies the roles of language and poetry in contemporary Muslim reform in the Middle ...
- A Rakish Interview: Local Author Bill Meissner - Rake
A Rakish Interview: Local Author Bill MeissnerRake, MN - 1 hour ago... actually published two other books during that time period - The Road to Cosmos (a short story collection) and American Compass (a poetry collection). ...
- Poetry competition - Newindpress
Poetry competitionNewindpress, India - 18 minutes agoPALAKKAD: The Higher Secondary English Teachers’ Forum of Palakkad district proposed to conduct a competition for versification in English at the BEM HSS, ...
- Portland rose garden attracts international travelers (Greater Houston Weekly)
Portland, Oregon is known as the city of roses but it could also be known as the city of gardens. We visited the International Rose Test Garden, the oldest garden of its kind in the United States and it is free.
- Around Pasadena (Pasadena Star-News)
Armed man robs Arcadia bank ARCADIA - A man walked into a bank with a gun Friday morning and fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
- The Exiles - Village Voice
The ExilesVillage Voice, NY - 3 hours agoMacKenzie (who died in 1980 at age 50 after making just one other feature) had an ear for the poetry of ritualized interaction, and an eye for the glint of ...
- Methods and madness in baby naming - UNLV The Rebel Yell
Methods and madness in baby namingUNLV The Rebel Yell, NV - 13 hours ago... poetry, grabbed an Ouija board, cut up a few headlines from The Onion and started piecing together some possible names for my potential children. ...
- Notes on a small island: The things that really make Britain great - The Independent
The discarded condoms, the crushed cans of lager and the remains of a joint on the floor: nothing says relic of an age gone by quite like a bandstand Although originally an Australian import, the alcopop became very much a part of the British way of ...
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