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- Angelou writing a poem about Obama (AP via Yahoo! News)
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 her following Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
- Prime Time Calendar the week Oct. 1, 2008 - Independent Press
Prime Time Calendar the week Oct. 1, 2008Independent Press, NJ - 5 hours agoMs. Ryan has won poetry prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. ...
- A proud achievement - Liverpool Echo
A proud achievementLiverpool Echo, UK - Sep 17, 2008But the sailor-town is yet the one human part of London and I hope I shall find happiness, if no ballad poetry in wandering about among the crimps, ...
- Holiday Calendar - Asheville Citizen-Times
Holiday CalendarAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 1 hour agoCaroling, live music, live nativity, pictures with Santa, wagon rides, storytelling, poetry, luminaries and more. Shops open until 9 pm French Broad Food ...
- How Rwanda and 9/11 moved me to write for Leonard Bernstein - Jewish Theatre
How Rwanda and 9/11 moved me to write for Leonard BernsteinJewish Theatre, Israel - 1 hour agoBut Pisar resisted, saying that he "could not write poetry at the level of your music". Though Bernstein died in 1990, Pisar's wife, Judith, and others, ...
- Halloween with Hill; pictures of pirates - Wire
Halloween with Hill; pictures of piratesWire, NH - 5 hours agoThe book is named for the title story about the sad ghost of a young girl who haunts an old movie theater. “In the Rundown†tells the tale of a troubled ...
- Hispanic culture celebrated (Courier-Post)
The aroma of frying, taco-bound steak drifted over Von Neida Park in Cramer Hill while live music ranging from snappy salsa to bolero love songs blared over the loudspeaker.
- Event combines stories, music for youngsters - Daily Gazette
ALBANY — Duncan Cumming’s greatest inspiration is children, especially his own. When his daughter Lucy Rose was born five years ago, he composed a song for her. Two years later, he did the same for his daughter Mairi Skye. But Cumming, who is in ...
- U.S. Navy veteran took pride in family and community service - Detroit News
From joining local boards in hopes of improving services to imparting wisdom to his children, Albert "Joe" Allen regularly proved himself. "He liked to improve things ... getting people aligned and making changes for the better," said his daughter ...
- An Arts Sampler on Guantanamo (Miami Herald)
It's in books, films and poetry -- on the stage and in art installations
- A lost art found (The Greenville News)
The Queen Anne highboy that sits in Bo Hurley's living room is exquisite. At 93 1/2 inches tall, it has a commanding presence. Its curved lines draw you in, and the gentle striations of its old-growth walnut make it at once regal and subtle. The highboy has been at Hurley's house just over a month, but already the Greenville Woodworkers Guild member and instructor says it feels like an old friend.
- A new breed of tourist for a very different Paris hotel - New Zealand Herald
A new breed of tourist for a very different Paris hotelNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 4 hours ago... the gritty street and cafe life, of pre-war Paris. The hotel is a swirl of black, grey and brown, metal, glass, wood and concrete. Poetry, aphorisms and ...
- Wood School to enjoy Norwegian Folk dancing - Advocate
Wood School to enjoy Norwegian Folk dancingAdvocate, MA - Sep 26, 2008Fishermen who write poetry, prose and original songs about their lives will perform for students at New Bedford's Global Learning Charter Public School. ...
- Stage Review 'Rock' of ages, at the Huntington - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeStage Review 'Rock' of ages, at the HuntingtonBoston Globe, United States - 5 hours agoThat said, it's also nearly three hours of prickly political arguments, ruminations on Greek poetry, and lessons in Czech history. ...
- Browsing Books Editors’ Choice - New York Times
Browsing Books Editors’ ChoiceNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoUNPACKING THE BOXES: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry, by Donald Hall. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) Hall, born into darkness and privilege, touches on the loss of ...
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