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- Minority Scholars Program Changes Lives for Local Middle Schoolers - KSPR
Minority Scholars Program Changes Lives for Local Middle SchoolersKSPR, MO - 2 hours agoBut this week, middle school's just a memory; they are extracting DNA from onions and learning about their roots by reading African-American poetry. ...
- Spoken in slam: Poet brings swagger to SHS (Stamford Advocate)
STAMFORD - The students had the words, but Mahogany Browne helped them find their voices. Browne, slam curator from the New York City-based Nuyorican Poets Cafe, worked with Stamford High School students during a two-hour poetry slam workshop after school Thursday.
- HS Student's Documentary Brings Teen Homelessness Into National Focus - Newsblaze.com
In New York City, there are more than 8,200 homeless families with more than 16,500 children living in shelters, with numerous uncounted others with no place to call home. Nineteen-year old Clevins Browne has distinctive memories of being homeless in ...
- Why Change Is Just A Breath Away - Huffingtonpost.com
I just returned from a holiday in Europe where I spent my time relaxing in the sun in Italy and France. This trip was a bit different from most because for the first time in over 22 years, our children are no longer 'at home' needing us - the last ...
- Published Jefferson Hills poet also was longtime piano teacher - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Published Jefferson Hills poet also was longtime piano teacherPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 3 hours agoBy Jerry Vondas For more than 40 years, she read her poetry to schoolchildren and various organizations, and had seven books of poetry published. ...
- HERE'S TO THE CRAZY ONES / THEY OFTEN CHANGE THE WORLD - OpEdNews
HERE'S TO THE CRAZY ONES / THEY OFTEN CHANGE THE WORLDOpEdNews, PA - 1 hour ago... and I do that every day as a therapist and Online columnist and blogger. I've always wanted to write from my heart , whether poetry or prose, ...
- Kid Stuff - Los Angeles Times
Kid StuffLos Angeles Times, CA - 11 minutes agoMrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop, 1030 Bonita Ave., La Verne. 6 pm Free. (909) 599-4558. Art Odyssey for Families Guided tours through galleries and art ...
- NC State Commencement Takes Place Saturday (NBC 17 Raleigh)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina State University will confer more than 4,000 degrees on graduating students during its spring commencement exercises, beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday.
- Book celebrates gifts of Bangalow's reluctant poet - Byron Shire News
Book celebrates gifts of Bangalow's reluctant poetByron Shire News, Australia - 13 minutes ago"When I was growing up it was a great relief to write poetry," said Jean, "because it got things off your chest." But although Jean's life in poetry began ...
- Court strikes down King County land use ordinance - Seattle Post Intelligencer
A state appelate court has overturned King County's controversial land use ordinance that had ordered some rural property owners to leave at least half of their property untouched. The decision, handed down in Division 1 of the state's Court of ...
- FBI captures fugitive wanted for molesting boy - Texas Cable News
FBI captures fugitive wanted for molesting boyTexas Cable News, TX - 5 hours agoThe boy’s parents knew Schillaci was a pedophile. They became pen pals with him after responding to a classified ad in a poetry magazine.
- Calendar: This week in Davidson, May 7-14 - Nashville Tennessean
Belle Meade Plantation Golf Tournament: The day will feature four-person teams, a modified scramble format, a hole-in-one contest and a putting contest. Zach Johnson, winner of the 2007 Masters Golf Tournament, will be on hand to demonstrate the ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse - Miami Herald
PHILADELPHIA - "Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the ...
- Literary awards tonight - Timmins Daily Press
Literary awards tonightTimmins Daily Press, Canada - 3 hours agoSince then she has had several of her works of poetry published, including a book reimagining a classic Greek mythology, called Remembering Medusa ...
- Bookmarks: The Amnesiac - Wall Street Journal
Ditched by his girlfriend and holed up in Holland with a busted leg, James Purfew -- the hero of "The Amnesiac" -- broods on the kinds of big questions that plague the post-college, pre-marriage set: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going ...
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