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- Election inspires Angelou poem (The Charlotte Observer)
Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton – affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president – asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance. “I'm sure Mr. Obama, president-elect, will have them bring his own poet,” the ...
- Positively 'Wicked': On her way to meet the Wizard, the green girl ... - MLive.com
Courtesy photo Katie Rose Clarke co-stars as Glinda, the self-centered goodie-two-shoes who complicates roommate Elphaba's life. Vivino For Donna Vivino, the biggest challenge in portraying Elphaba (a.k.a. the Wicked Witch of the West) in the popular ...
- Reveling in Santa - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Reveling in SantaMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Dec 23, 2008It doesn't mean, "I'm a Christian and you're not, so go to ..." Many people who celebrate Christmas also celebrate the season by giving to those less ...
- Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process - Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative ProcessJournal of American Medical Association (subscription), IL - 1 hour agoOne essayist likens poetic form to anorexia: "Literally, poetry is the thinnest form of writing." Another defines a sestina (a tightly structured poem ...
- New boutique hotel opens in South Austin - Austin Business Journal
The owners of Hotel San Jose opened the doors this week to Hotel Saint Cecilia, a 14-room boutique hotel in South Austin. The luxury hotel, named after the patron saint of music and poetry, is comprised of a Victorian mansion and modern bungalows ...
- Learn to be an author at Book Fair seminars (Miami Herald)
So we know that Miami Book Fair International, which is sneaking up on us at an alarming rate, is all about reading. But the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College, which oversees the fair, is offering some shockingly good writing seminars on Nov. 14 (the Friday the street fair opens) featuring two of the fair's authors: memoirist Honor Moore and poet, novelist and essayist ...
- Michelangelo book world's most costly (Erie Times-News)
It's billed as the world's most expensive, most beautiful new book.
- Diary of a kak year - Mail & Guardian Online
Diary of a kak yearMail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 1 hour agoHis house is filled with books on poetry, philosophy, politics and novels. Serious novels. None of the sunset-love-songs-farmgirl stuff. ...
- #44: Thoughts From Around The ‘Sphere - Feministe
#44: Thoughts From Around The ‘SphereFeministe - 46 minutes agoFinally, because I’ma former English major and believe in the True Power of Poetry, I must point to JJP’s poetic plea from Tuesday morning via Langston ...
- When Christmas hurts - Anglican Diocese of New Westminster
Anglican Diocese of New WestminsterWhen Christmas hurtsAnglican Diocese of New Westminster, Canada - 3 hours agoBecause I find the biblical recollections of the incarnation so unhelpful I have turned to poetry, of which much of my knowledge comes from texts from songs ...
- Stalin Lives! Chris Matthews Interviewed Him! - OpEdNews
Stalin Lives! Chris Matthews Interviewed Him!OpEdNews, PA - 3 minutes agoThat was a valuable information which helped us to save American (to hell with others- MS) lives.' That's when I recognized Him. In 1930s Pravda explained ...
- Bosnian Transits - TOL (subscription)
Bosnian TransitsTOL (subscription), Czech Republic - 3 hours agoHe writes in a wide variety of genres, including novels, short stories, poetry, and essays; he is also active as a journalist and a translator. ...
- Madrid hotel puts books left behind by guests to good use - Sify
SifyMadrid hotel puts books left behind by guests to good useSify, India - 11 hours agoOne such individual is an employee of a hotel in Galicia who donated a book of poetry. But others forget to return the books they have borrowed, ...
- Former ADW City Editor George Coleman Passes - Atlanta Daily World
Former ADW City Editor George Coleman PassesAtlanta Daily World, GA - 30 minutes agoIn 1961 after many years of work on sketches to accompany each verse, his epic poem, "The Black Swan" was exhibited at Morris Brown College When George ...
- Love of the land (Anchorage Daily News)
Few people have had as big an impact on Alaska as William "Willie" Hensley, whose college paper on land ownership led to the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act, the creation of the Alaska Federation of Natives and the Native corporations so prominent in today's state economy.
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