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- Danbury Candlelight event set for Wednesday (The News-Times)
A candlelight remembrance event, "Many Lights in the Darkness," will be held Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Danbury Green Band Shell on Ives Street.Two local groups, the Greater Danbury Mental Health Authority and New Heights, are putting on the event to commemorate May as Mental Health Month.
- Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen Play the Iridium - Broadway World
Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen Play the IridiumBroadway World, NY - 1 hour agoHer CD The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, on which she reads and discusses her poetry, was nominated for a Grammy Award. She is the recipient of some ...
- Radio 4 poet criticises BBC soaps and aggressive interviewers - Guardian Unlimited
Radio 4 has commissioned poet Wendy Cope to write a series of verses about the BBC to examine how public attitudes to its services have changed since a similar volume was published 80 years ago. Cope's verses, called The ABC of the BBC, will be aired ...
- Poetry comes to the street in Howick (Scoop.co.nz)
Howick Library is bringing poetry to the street in celebration of Montana New Zealand Poetry Week this month.
- For Jazz’s Avant-Garde, an Annual Gathering and a Little Competition - New York Times
New York TimesFor Jazz’s Avant-Garde, an Annual Gathering and a Little CompetitionNew York Times, United States - 34 minutes ago... a background in modern dance, the Vision Festival also presents related arts, including dance, poetry and, this year, two site-specific installations. ...
- Critics' best bets for Sunday - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Annual Annie Malone May Day Parade 1 p.m. Sunday on Market Street between 20th and Seventh streets. Free. www.anniemalone.com or 314-531-0120. An annual tradition for 120 years, the Annie Malone Day Parade attracts some of the regions best drill ...
- Famous Faces of European Collection Showcased in Installation at ... - Art Daily
Famous Faces of European Collection Showcased in Installation at ...Art Daily - 1 hour agoAlthough Byron rejected the idea of a bust crowned with a wreath of laurel leaves—sacred to Apollo and symbols of poetry—Thorvaldsen kept to the truncated ...
- Bonnaroo 2008: Attendees endured show delays, hot weather and rain ... - Independent Florida Alligator
One after another, cars poured out of the Wal–Mart parking lot in the quaint town of Manchester, Tenn. Thursday morning. Some of their inhabitants had been sleeping there all night while others stayed awake with anticipation playing the tunes of ...
- Eminent critic Kashfi dead - Pakistan Dawn
Pakistan DawnEminent critic Kashfi deadPakistan Dawn, Pakistan - 12 hours agoBorn in 1932 into a family that had a tradition of scholarship and literary tastes, Kashfi had a chance early in his life to meet the subcontinent’s ...
- Writing contest encourages storytelling - Williams Lake Tribune
Williams Lake TribuneWriting contest encourages storytellingWilliams Lake Tribune, Canada - 5 hours agoOne of his stories was recently selected for publication in the Poetry Institute of Canada’s latest book for young writers called Clouds. ...
- News & Notes | May 7 - Daily Princetonian
Professors Emily Carter and Jose Scheinkman, along with senior research biologist Rosemary Grant, were chosen to join the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on April 29. Carter is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 professor of mechanical and aerospace ...
- Thanks for the Poetry - Slate
This abortion ruling strikes me as a lot like the religious culture-war debates, where we spend a lot of time fighting about symbolics and very little about things that matter (a creche vs. faith based funding, abortion language vs. actual access ...
- Sorted for rhymes and lines: the secret of great lyrics (Independent)
On a recent trip to Brazil, I commented to the bossa nova-era songwriter Carlos Lyra that so many of the great Brazilian songs contain the word coracao – heart – in them. "It's so romantic," I said to Lyra. "It seems that Brazilians can't help but sing of the pain and the joy in their hearts." "Actually," Lyra replied, "there's another reason. Coracao is the easiest word in the Portuguese ...
- Wednesday Happenings - Bostonist
BostonistWednesday HappeningsBostonist, MA - 1 hour agoJames Tate's poetry is simple but strange; affecting but alien. Hear him read from his latest collection, The Ghost Soldiers, tonight at Brookline Booksmith ...
- Katy Guest: What, no quick snifter on the Circle Line? - The Independent
Saturday, 9pm, Liverpool Street station, the penultimate carriage on the Circle Line – this will be the venue for my kind of political protest. Between 10.30 and 10.45pm a small bunch of outlaws will drink a toast to former Mayor Ken. From Sunday ...
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