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- With Obama's election, Angelou feels a poem coming on (Winston-Salem Journal)
Upon his election as president 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 now feels a new poem welling up inside her after Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
- Those wild and crazy ‘SNL' gals! (The Kansas City Star)
It's good to be Tina Fey.
- Poet turns to prose to assess his life (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
NONFICTION We tend to revere poets in visible ways: More than writers, they are our secular priests who evoke in brilliant brevity our joys, our sorrows and our soaring aspirations. That's perhaps why we have a national poet laureate, not a national novelist or essayist. Now, recent laureate Donald Hall, in "Unpacking the Boxes," affectingly evokes his life as a poet.
- In the city of talent, Ladner is a winner - Vancouver Sun
In the city of talent, Ladner is a winnerVancouver Sun, Canada - 5 hours ago... Leon Kaplan presented a comedy routine (at least I think that's what it was) leading to silence so profound that he commented, "My mom thinks I'm funny. ...
- Dipping Into a Buried Past - Washington Post
If you want to understand how different Marilynne Robinson is from other contemporary novelists -- how different, in fact, from most contemporary human beings -- all you need to do is walk into her dining room. "These are my favorite books in here ...
- James May - Daily Telegraph
Perhaps best known as a presenter of BBC Top Gear and a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph's Saturday Motoring section since October 2003, James May has been broadcasting and writing about cars, bikes, pies, American hard gums, poetry, hats ...
- Bukowski: What Lies Beneath - Popmatters.com
During the rare moments when Charles Bukowski's vulnerable side are shown, they manage to break through the "dirty old man" parody of himself that he had become. As an avid reader who doesn’t know that much about Charles Bukowski, apart from the ...
- Black Literary Bigs And Aspirants - Black Star News
Black Literary Bigs And AspirantsBlack Star News, NY - 54 minutes agoBy Mitch Ligon The 4th Annual African American Literary Award Show was held September 25th in Harlem at the Gatehouse on 135th, attracting authors, actors, ...
- (U.S. Army photo by By Pfc. Terence Ewings) - KWTX
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq – Sounds of music and merriment could be heard by the Soldiers stationed here, as they stepped into Memorial Hall for the 2008 Gospel Explosion Oct. 31. The event included singing, dancing and poetry performed ...
- Local musician bags Thomasian awards - Sun.Star
Local musician bags Thomasian awardsSun.Star, Philippines - Oct 14, 2008Also awarded in the event were Antonio Galang (Poetry), Diomari Ivan Tayag (Sports), and Councilor Nelson Santos (Public Service). ...
- Gnome brings cheer to U. Houston library - U-Wire.com
In an attempt to honor a donor, University of Houston's M.D. Anderson Library staffers acquired a friendly-faced gnome to safeguard the library and attend student-related events. In his first year on campus, Dewey the library gnome has acquainted ...
- What Are They Reading for Fun? - School Library Journal
This column features some poetry titles, with more to come next time. Let us know what’s moving in your bailiwick. Cynthia R. Millman, The Town School, New York City : Every assembly starts with a poem that is selected and read by a student, and ...
- South Africans Support Cuban Five - La Prensa Latina
8 Havana, Oct 15 (Prensa Latina) The South Africa-Cuba Friendship Association ratified its support in the case of five Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in the United States for over a decade. Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon ...
- Where Did The Media Go Wrong in The 2008 Electoral Coverage? - NewsBlaze
Where Did The Media Go Wrong in The 2008 Electoral Coverage?NewsBlaze, CA - Sep 7, 2008His poetry appeared in Solstice (UK) and Beyond Baroque (California) in the 1960s but he stopped writing poems until Sept. 11, 2001, when he began walking ...
- NAFEST takes search for national dress sense to Coal City - Punch
Based on the multilingual essence of Nigeria, the long search for an indigenous national language has not been conclusive. While that laborious exercise lasted, however, no one really bothered to hazard a national dress policy for the country famed ...
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