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- Nikki Giovanni rhymes with kids (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
A new book by Nikki Giovanni, "Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat," features rhymes by Queen Latifah and Tupac Shakur and a accompanying CD with musical performances.
- Peterborough's Poet laureate is named - Peterborough Evening Telegraph
This year's final saw 14 competitors reading their poems about remembrance on stage at the John Clare Theatre in Central Library – but topics ranged from war poetry to looking at the future of Peterborough. The winner, taking over from English ...
- WSU staff shares stories of 'The Invisible People' - Winona Daily News
WSU staff shares stories of 'The Invisible People'Winona Daily News, MN - 6 hours agoBy Nolan Rosenkrans | Winona Daily News Cathy Jo Faruque knows the resiliency of Bangladesh’s poorest. She’s seen it herself. The Winona State University ...
- Here's your guide to weekend fun - Hannibal.net
Here's your guide to weekend funHannibal.net, MO - 6 hours agoIn the early 1900s, a cantankerous cowboy named Curly and a stubborn farm girl named Laurey are having trouble admitting they love each other. ...
- Writing through the pain - Marshall Independent
Writing through the painMarshall Independent, MN - 46 minutes agoYost said his poems are in free verse so that he is not confined to the limits of a rhyming style - "although there are internal rhymes" in his poems, ...
- Writers welcome a literary president-elect (WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison received a phone call from Sen. Barack Obama.
- Credo offers ‘a theater of creative possibilities’ in ‘Daddy’s ... - Providence Journal
Providence JournalCredo offers ‘a theater of creative possibilities’ in ‘Daddy’s ...Providence Journal, RI - 4 hours agoWe love to discover the poetry in very simple things.†Batting can become animals, or anything Credo decides. “Any object in normal life has some ...
- Arts around the Mid-coast; Sept. 25, 2008 (The Times Record)
Services for noted poet held this weekend ALNA — A memorial service for poet David Walker will be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 28 at the Old Alna Meeting House.
- December activities offer creative fun at Children's Museum in Flint - MLive.com
Flint Journal file photo The Flint Children's Museum in Flint near Kettering University. FLINT, Michigan -- Everything from building with blocks to making insect snacks to visiting with Santa is available at the Flint Children's Museum in December ...
- Creating The Mood For The Beatles' Music - The Bulletin
Rick Belzer, a native Philadelphian, was a stage-struck kid-but not in the usual way. Even as a child, he didn't want to perform on stage - he wanted to work backstage, behind the scene. "I can't explain it - it just was always a curiosity and a ...
- Photo exhibition reveals challenges, dreams of teen immigrants - Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Arsim Mustafa, a 14-year-old boy who immigrated with his parents from Kosovo to the United States, is leaning against a paint-spattered wall, arms loosely crossed as they rest on the oversized T-shirt he is wearing. He looks like any American teen ...
- Guru Granth Sahib-The World Teacher - World Sikh News
World Sikh NewsGuru Granth Sahib-The World TeacherWorld Sikh News, CA - 14 hours agoNanak Singh “Nishter†is a Hyderabad based orator, writer and Urdu poet, whose poetry collection on the genocide of Panjab has been published under the ...
- Physicians 'prescribe' reading for their colleagues (EurekAlert!)
( American College of Physicians ) "The Last Half Hour of the Day" shares writings that express medical ideals and realities, the devastation of death and illness, the miracle of healing, and the netherworld of remission. Reflections of the physician's role in society and as an observer of the human body and spirit are seen throughout the book.
- Read the Metre - Delhi Newsline
Read the MetreDelhi Newsline, India - 5 hours agoJeet Thayil mentions this Macaulay moment in poetry when WB Yeats, after praising Rabindranath Tagore much, revised his opinion and wrote to friend William ...
- 'Anathem' - Neal Stephenson takes lofty aim - San Francisco Gate
With the 900-some page philosophical adventure epic "Anathem" now in stores and "Rock 'n' Roll," a chronicle of the Prague Spring and its aftermath currently playing at the American Conservatory Theater, the following analogy is worth serious ...
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