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- Newly released "House of Dance" Takes Readers for a Spin on the ... - PR Web (press release)
Newly released "House of Dance" Takes Readers for a Spin on the ...PR Web (press release), WA - 1 hour agoBeth Kephart is the award-winning author of nine books and the winner of a Pew Fellowships in the Arts grant as well as the 2005 Speakeasy Poetry Prize. ...
- Umm Kulthum: The Voice of Egypt - NPR News
Several of the singer's famous dresses are on display at the Umm Kulthum Museum in Cairo. Weekend Edition Sunday , May 11, 2008 - "All Arabs agree," reads The Rough Guide to World Music . "Umm Kulthum is indisputably the Arab world's greatest singer ...
- Slammers take the stage in poetry competition (The Farmington Daily Times)
FARMINGTON — Anything goes in competitive poetry. Also called slam, the fast-paced, emotion-charged art form welcomes almost any kind of verse or performance, as long as it comes from the heart, said Damian Davies, a member of Silver City Slam.
- The "It" List: A trendier guide to living (The News-Press)
• Rent it: "Persepolis" on DVD. Marjane Satrapi's animated adaptation of her graphic memoir was nominated for an Oscar and won a slew of other awards.
- Favoured mainstays, young talent dazzle - Toronto Star
Favoured mainstays, young talent dazzleToronto Star, Canada - Jun 29, 2008People were snapping up his CD after the show, which is mostly originals and includes poetry. Trane Studio owner Frank Francis is planning to bring him back ...
- Rutgers-Camden holds summer writers’ conference - Philadelphia Inquirer
Rutgers-Camden holds summer writers’ conferencePhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 1 hour agoOn Monday, June 23, poet JT Barbarese, author of four collections of poetry and a translation of Euripides' "Children of Herakles," will read with Lisa ...
- Poetry session spotlights humorous verse pioneer (Gulf Times)
AN URDU forum has hosted a poetry session dedicated to Akbar Allahabadi, a pioneer of humorous and satirical verse. The forum, Anjuman Muhibban-e-Urdu Hind Qatar (AMUHQ), is affiliated to the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC).
- Ian Nagy: Six reasons why Jonathan Kay shouldn't be writing columns on ... - Nationalpost.com
Jonathan Kay's June 11 post Six reasons why Stephen Harper's government shouldn't deliver an apology " is deserving of a response. Not knowing Mr. Kay, nor being familiar with any of his writing, I can only presume his intentions in writing about ...
- Mohammad Bin Rashid orders the setting up of a House of Poetry in ... - Gulf News
Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday directed the establishment of the ‘House of Poetry’, a centre for researching and documenting Arabic poetry and ...
- British Surrealists: Minor league, but major players - The Independent
A new exhibition of British Surrealists in Middlesbrough may not be crammed with big names, but all of these artists deserve a second look, argues Tom Lubbock They've been gradually dying off. ELT Mesens went in 1971, so did John Tunnard, and John ...
- Gaining hope - Citizen Online
David Wilcox, a musician and songwriter, brings the best of both pop and modern folk appeal to his work. “For me, it feels like when I look out at the world there's just a need for people to be talking about where they get their hope now,†he ...
- Eppler, a Lubbock original, planning spoken-word project - LubbockOnline.com
Eppler, a Lubbock original, planning spoken-word projectLubbockOnline.com, TX - 23 minutes agoEppler owns poetry volumes by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Frost and Robert Browning. He hasn't written that much private poetry but had enough already on ...
- The great debater - Paris News
North Lamar High School senior Matthew Corley took the gold medal in Class 4A UIL Lincoln-Douglas debate competition in Austin in early May. “That is pretty amazing,†debate coach Kristi Hodgkiss said of her student’s accomplishment. “There ...
- Secrets and lives - Salon
SalonSecrets and livesSalon - 2 hours agoBarry has shown a dazzling facility with poetry, drama and fiction -- his works form a mosaic-like whole, though each stands on its own. ...
- Young and expressionable: Youth Speak poetry slams give a voice to teens (Seattle Times)
A spotlight shines down onto a crumpled piece of notebook paper, as a faltering voice utters words that couple into phrases and run into...
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