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- Mother's memory fuels music producer - Augusta Chronicle (subscription)
Mother's memory fuels music producerAugusta Chronicle (subscription), GA - 8 hours agoThe shy teen lacked the outgoing nature of his mother, who taught history at Hephzibah High School for more than 20 years. At one point, he refused to share ...
- Art Talk: How good is the Capitol Theater in Overture Center? - The Capital Times
The Capital TimesArt Talk: How good is the Capitol Theater in Overture Center?The Capital Times, WI - 8 hours ago... of the composer's death. Under UW conductor Beverly Taylor, the sound was appropriately big to match Walt Whitman's moving poetry about the ocean. ...
- Screen Gems (Good Times)
(movies/screen-gems-1) San Francisco’s LGBT film fest ready to roll
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute, - WPI News
Worcester Polytechnic Institute,WPI News - 12 hours agoOver the past two decades, WPI has cosponsored with the Worcester County Poetry Association at least one poetry reading or other literary event per year. ...
- Michel Houellebecq - guardian.co.uk
Michel Houellebecqguardian.co.uk, UK - 59 minutes agoWhatever (L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte) was made into a film in 2000. Houellebecq has recorded a CD of his poetry, Presence Humaine (Tricatel ...
- Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize - Forbes
Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago-based Poetry ...
- A Mom-umental Failure - Washington Post
Daisy Calhoun, shown in 1923, spearheaded the ill-fated drive for a monument "to proclaim the debt each mortal owes to the woman who risked her own life to give life." (Library of Congress) A circa 1928 drawing by architect Joseph Geddes of a Gothic ...
- Book Review: All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by John McWhorter (Blogcritics.org)
The author argues that hip-hop is metaphysical at best, mystical at the least, but a political tour de force? Not yet, and maybe never. On one side I hear John McWhorter, and on the other side I hear Michael Eric Dyson. In this book their voices come together because McWhorter has put forth his hip-hop apolitical argument in sharp contrast to the many political ones. In fact, Dyson provided the ...
- In your town - Press of Atlantic City
In your townPress of Atlantic City, NJ - 18 hours agoThe event is free and will include student-manned teaching stations on composting, land species, environmental poetry, an owl presentation and activities. ...
- Norman author to read poetry - NewsOK.com (subscription)
Norman author to read poetryNewsOK.com (subscription), OK - 5 hours agoNORMAN — "Antidotes and Home Remedies,†a new poetry book by Norman author Jim Chastain, will be launched Sunday at the Performing Arts Studio's Second ...
- Granite City High School student wins essay contest - Granite City Press Record
Granite City High School student wins essay contestGranite City Press Record, IL - 7 hours agoRoy said winning the her first essay contest "was a confidence booster." "I don't write stories, I write poetry," she said. "I might have found something ...
- Revered songwriter Tom Waits picks El Paso for rare concert (El Paso Times)
News that Tom Waits was bringing his "Glitter and Doom" tour to the Plaza Theatre on June 20 was met with surprised glee by some, head-scratching indifference by others.
- She sets the scene for poetry (Sakonnet Times)
In a hospital emergency waiting room two years ago on a night before Thanksgiving, Shari Alvanas watches as a woman hobbles in on a broken ankle that's bent at such an extreme angle "she looks like a Barbie doll," and then later, as people carry in a man with a knife stuck in his head; Shari knows she'll use some of this in her poems one day.
- Perugia Murder: What Defense Lawyers Are Planning (Newsweek)
Seattle student Amanda Knox and two others have finally been charged with the Perugia murder of a British student. How their lawyers plan to defend them.
- Sixty years of good reading - Brattleboro Reformer
Sixty years of good readingBrattleboro Reformer, United States - 3 hours agoIt also hosts two to four literary events every month, featuring poetry readings, author signings and even the sharing of recipes from cookbooks. ...
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