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- SFA grad to release his first book of slam-poetry - SFA The Pine Log Online
SFA grad to release his first book of slam-poetrySFA The Pine Log Online, TX - 34 minutes ago"It was then when I decided I liked the art of poetry." It was seven years later when Moore found himself writing once again. With a pen and pad in hand he ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (AP via Yahoo! News)
At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white.
- Sentenced to a lifetime of stress - guardian.co.uk
Sentenced to a lifetime of stressguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 minutes agoportraying an institution as a microcosm of British life, replete with its howling hypocrisies and air of post-imperial doom. Derek Jarman predicted the ...
- Penchant allows women to speak in poems (Post-Bulletin)
To simply label them as a group of writers would be an injustice. To describe their latest work as simply a book of poetry would be an understatement
- Stone me! - Guardian Unlimited
Julian Cope arrives on my doorstep looking exactly like he does in all his photos. He is wearing leather trousers, heavy boots (it is midsummer) a flowing camo jacket and The Hat. He politely takes his boots off when asked, but The Hat stays on ...
- Art unfiltered - Glendale News-Press
Art Day, the dream of Glendale short-story author Becky Mate, is gaining momentum in its 10th year. The celebration pays homage to all disciplines including fine art, music, live theater and poetry. It kicks off Friday with a party at Mate’s home ...
- Valley start-ups Meebo, TokBox offer new ways to link people online - Silicon Valley
Once upon a technology, Western Union was a communications start-up that became a household name. Today, Meebo and TokBox are two allied Silicon Valley communications start-ups bidding to become household names of the 21st century. Three-year-old ...
- Random Acts of Poetry - Kingston Whig
R.D. Roy, Kingston poet, will be performing "Random Acts of Poetry" in our downtown area from oct 1st to 5th. Everyone who gets "poemed" will recieve a copy of Roy's book Three Cities. 25 poets were selected by the League of Canadian Poets to read ...
- Comic who wouldn't let writing cramp her style - Morgan Murphy - Scotsman
Comic who wouldn't let writing cramp her style - Morgan MurphyScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoRobin Williams plays a failed writer teaching poetry at a high school. When his teenage son dies during a freak masturbation accident, he tries to cover up ...
- The edge of madness (Guardian Unlimited)
Ed Vulliamy on why Radovan Karadzic will still be dangerous in the dock
- Valley-based organization discusses reading and brain power - Avon Post
Valley-based organization discusses reading and brain powerAvon Post, CT - 30 minutes agoThe first programs will be a poetry writing workshop offered on Sept. 18, 15 and 22 by teacher Pit Pinegar and a playwriting program offered by playwright ...
- How `Genius' Walsh Added Smarts to Brutal Gridiron: Book Review - Bloomberg
How `Genius' Walsh Added Smarts to Brutal Gridiron: Book ReviewBloomberg - 2 hours agoIt wasn't that Walsh saw poetry in the gridiron game that had gone unnoticed for 12 decades or so. This smart book about a smart man demonstrates how Walsh ...
- Books: "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba" (The New Yorker)
Facundo Bacardi, who founded the eponymous rum company in 1862, came to Cuba from Spain as a teen-ager. By the turn of the century, as Gjelten lucidly recounts, the distilling operation that Facundo had begun in a shed was among the brands most closely identified with Cuba, and the . . .
- Contra Costa planning chief ending 30-year career - Contra Costa Times
Contra Costa planning chief ending 30-year careerContra Costa Times, CA - 7 hours ago"The rhythm and lyrics and poetry is amazing." "It was a foggy day and I just laid back and closed my eyes and listened to it and I was hooked," he said. ...
- Cut wedding costs, for better or worse - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Josh Dilworth and Liz Jones eat ice cream sandwiches during their wedding reception at Gull Point State Park in Milford, Iowa. SIOUX RAPIDS, Iowa -- It wasn't your typical rehearsal dinner, but it was everything Liz Jones and Josh Dilworth hoped it ...
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