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- Clinton's Poet Now Inspired By Obama - AOL
RALEIGH, N.C. (Nov. 7) - 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 ...
- Paul Mccartney Borrowed Lines From Classic Poems For New Fireman Album - KBS Radio
Paul Mccartney Borrowed Lines From Classic Poems For New Fireman AlbumKBS Radio, Canada - 3 hours ago"I'd get out poetry books and just kind of scour them and find phrases, then stick them to a phrase from another book, so I wasn't nicking somebody's whole ...
- Deadline set for WC writing contest - Weatherford Democrat
Deadline set for WC writing contestWeatherford Democrat, TX - 1 hour agoPoetry, up to three pages; 2. Short Fiction, up to 5000 words; and 3. Creative Non-Fiction, up to 5000 words. The themes of this year’s contest should ...
- Author probes the ways we mistreat parrots (Tacoma News Tribune)
Mira Tweti heaps so much praise on parrots in “Of Parrots and People†that readers might want to bring one home. That’s exactly what she hopes to prevent.
- Dead souls - The National
Dead soulsThe National, United Arab Emirates - 5 minutes agoSince his untimely death in 2003 (at the age of 50), New Directions has rolled out translations of a short story collection, three novellas and a novel, ...
- WOUNDED: A look at the Civil War and Walt Whitman - Minneapolis Star Tribune
This is most definitely not the Walt Whitman you encountered in high school, or the "Good Gray Poet" you thought you understood in college. In fact, forget virtually everything you thought you knew about Whitman, because Robert Roper has some serious ...
- Citizen Kane’s Bay Ridge Beat - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Citizen Kane’s Bay Ridge BeatBrooklyn Daily Eagle, NY - 57 minutes agoBrooklynOne Theater, established March 19, 2006, is a community-based theater group focusing on original works, be they plays, poetry or music, ...
- Movie review: Miracle at St. Anna -- 2 out of 5 stars - Orlando Sentinel
Movie review: Miracle at St. Anna -- 2 out of 5 starsOrlando Sentinel, FL - 1 hour agoWhile Lee aimed to make this adaptation of James McBride's novel an epic of the African-American experience in the war, the flimsy material, ...
- Poet to lead Writers' Retreat (Leelanau Enterprise)
Michigan Writers Inc. will host a 3-day retreat to help poets jump-start their winter writing Oct. 31- Nov. 2 at the Homestead resort in Glen Arbor.
- Winger without limits - AZCentral.com
Debra Winger's life has enough stories to fill a dozen movies. Want to hear about overcoming adversity? When Winger was 17, a car accident put her in a coma for weeks and left her partially paralyzed and blind for 10 months, during which time she ...
- Blind cha pei singer passes on tradition - Phnom Penh Post
Kong Nai, who recently returned from Australia, is proud to be able to peform cha pei on the international stage. S ince discovering he was blind at the age of four, 63-year-old Kong Nai has found fame singing and playing the cha pei, a Khmer ...
- New albums from Ten Toes Up, Lust After Love, & Torture Town - Charleston City Paper
Charleston City PaperNew albums from Ten Toes Up, Lust After Love, & Torture TownCharleston City Paper, SC - 5 hours agoPoetry's always best with a funky bass line. (www.myspace.com/tentoesup) â€â€Stratton Lawrence Ten Toes Up performs at the downtown Wild Wing Café on Fri. Dec. ...
- Review: Radio Golf is a performance not to be missed - Houston Chronicle
Review: Radio Golf is a performance not to be missedHouston Chronicle, United States - 17 minutes agoRadio Golf may not boast as much poetry as other Wilson gems (say, Joe Turner's Come and Gone.) But it has every bit as much power and purpose. ...
- The Art of Translation - NPR
The Art of TranslationNPR - 1 hour agoSound also plays an integral part in transmitting meaning, especially when it comes to translating poetry. And regional linguistic differences can factor ...
- Local rights advocate, 103, dies (The Charlotte Observer)
Floretta Gunn would see wrong and prod for change through her pen – never bullying, but always with a touch of eloquence. Her letters to the editor regularly appeared in the Observer during the civil rights movement, expressing her dissatisfaction at the disparity between races. “Her pen was her sword,†said longtime friend Allegra Westbrook of Charlotte. “She had a diplomatic touch to it, ...
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