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- Poets show 'verse-atility' onstage - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerPoets show 'verse-atility' onstageJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 5 hours agoWhen Nobel laureate Derek Walcott pointed out the natural relationship between film and poetry at the 2008 Calabash International Literary Festival, ...
- Hip hop hits Old Town Hall May 9 - Andover Townsman
Rappers, beat-boxers and dancers from Lawrence and Dorchester will join forces with Andover High School's spoken-word poets for a night of entertainment May 9 at Old Town Hall. Organized by Andover Youth Services and its spoken-word poetry group ...
- CD review: "Wild & Free," The Radiators - Greenwich Time
Trying to the synthesize the 30 years of New Orleans road dogs The Radiators into a two-disc set is nearly impossible. The group has a catalog of more than 1,000 songs, has allowed its concerts to be taped from the beginning and hasn't played the ...
- Never Before Seen Ohr History Unveiled (WLOX-TV Biloxi)
OCEAN SPRINGS (WLOX) - Photos, pottery and family documents are the pieces of George Ohr's life frozen in time. "It's been in safety deposit boxes all over the country," says John Morykwas, Ohr's great-grandson.
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search (AP via Yahoo! News)
Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment.
- In the Arts (Independent)
"Plein Air 3 Ways" is on exhibit at the Middletown Library through July 31. Favorite scenes through the eyes and art of three plein air artists: Manny Jomok, watercolors; Marge Levine, pastels; and Jim Ferrier, oils. Plein Air artists paint from life and work out of doors to capture the light and movement of an actual scene.
- Pop Montreal launches literary contest - Quill & Quire
Pop Montreal launches literary contestQuill & Quire, Canada - 4 hours agoBoushel says she and Fiorentino couldn’t decide whether the contest should focus on poetry or prose, so decided to include both. ...
- Writers recommend the perfect literary travelling companions (Guardian Unlimited)
Take Alexandre Dumas to Paris, read Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil, pack Michael Dibdin for Sicily - wherever you are going on holiday this summer, writers recommend the perfect literary travelling companions
- Pensioners connect with peers online - Courier Mail
Pensioners connect with peers onlineCourier Mail, Australia - 2 hours agoThe site has a forum where members can play word and online games, write poetry and chat with each other. It's been credited with advocating current medical ...
- Factoryville poet to read, sign books (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
Factoryville area poet Patrick Walker will be reading from his recently published book, “Pegasus at the Plow,†Saturday from 1 to 3 p.
- Workshop gives students tools to use power of words - The Olympian
Workshop gives students tools to use power of wordsThe Olympian, WA - 5 hours agoThe weeklong workshop uses poetry to teach students to be leaders. Students didn't let one another get away with a quick recitation of their poems. ...
- Fiona MacCarthy on Edward Burne-Jones's The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon - Guardian Unlimited
'Something that can never go out of the heart' ... detail from The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones Central to Arthurian legend is the notion that King Arthur never died, but slept on in Avalon awaiting the moment when the nation most ...
- A tortured Victorian and his art, reimagined (Toronto Star)
Many years ago, I decided to take a university course in poetry to pick up an extra credit during the summer. The class was modern poetry, a subject I assumed would be within my skill set to cinch.
- Words kept her going (Toronto Sun)
A new life, long after that day in '84
- A Poetry Slam dunk: From the halls of Pittsburgh Sterrett (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Hey, here's an idea. Take a bunch of eighth-graders desperately consumed with what's cool, what's not, what their friends think of what they wear, what they do and what they say -- and have them deliver their hopes, dreams, fears into words on a page called a poem.
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