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- Election inspires Angelou poem (The Charlotte Observer)
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. “I'm sure Mr. Obama, president-elect, will have them bring his own poet,” the ...
- LA Litscape: celebrating with Dougla Kearney and Skylight Books - LA Observed
LA Litscape: celebrating with Dougla Kearney and Skylight BooksLA Observed, CA - 1 hour agoKearney is on a roll this year: he's also one of the five poets in the country named a 2008 National Poetry Series winner for his upcoming book, The Black ...
- Tickets available for Sunday brunches - Port Huron Times-Herald
Tickets are available for the Friends of the Arts organization’s annual Sunday brunch fund-raiser in November to benefit the arts at St. Clair County Community College. You can buy a ticket for a gourmet buffet brunch at the River Crab restaurant ...
- Online (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
This site, founded by 12-year-old Mimi Ausland, of Bend, Ore., donates pet food to animal shelters based on trivia questions.
- Nonfiction review: 'Beauty in a Broken World' - San Francisco Chronicle
Nonfiction review: 'Beauty in a Broken World'San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 53 minutes agoThe account of legal battles between environmental groups and ranchers is the stuff of newspapers, not works of art, but it is poetry compared with two ...
- Religion Calendar: 10/11/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Religion Calendar: 10/11/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 1 hour agoMothers of Preschoolers group (MOPS), 9:15-11:15 am second and fourth Friday of each month, child care and registration are free; Zion Lutheran Church, ...
- Moj Of The Antarctic (RainbowNetwork.com)
In 1848 African-American slave Ellen Craft escaped to freedom by disguising herself as a white man. Moj of The Antarctic extends this amazing story of race and gender cross-dressing into a flight of theatrical fantasy; she enlists as a sailor set for a snowbound wilderness and Moj becomes the first Black woman to step foot in Antarctica!
- Beats and bad rhymes at Bloody Awful Poetry - Evening Standard
Poetry recitals rarely make for wild nights out. I've only been to two in my life, both by mistake. There was a lot of poetry-speak - words like "alas" and "thrice" - and impenetrable jokes about iambs and trochees. I swore I'd never go to another ...
- When opposites attract - Financial Times
When opposites attractFinancial Times, UK - 2 hours agoThe Roman poet Horace saw it as his task to bring the metres and music of Greek lyric poetry into the Latin language, a task he accomplished with awesome ...
- Coffeehouse spotlights musicians, poets at Demarest Hall - Daily Targum
The lights dimmed down and music turned up Thursday in the basement lounge of Demarest Hall. The residence hall, located on the College Avenue campus, was host to the first monthly coffeehouse. The Rutgers University Musicians Guild co-sponsored the ...
- Winter quarter classes worth getting out of bed for - The Santa Clara
Winter quarter classes worth getting out of bed forThe Santa Clara, USA - 17 minutes agoProfessor Claudia McIsaac said, "Students will read and write creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry about important social issues such as child labor, ...
- Become a child's mentor by giving books as gifts - Asheville Citizen-Times
Become a child's mentor by giving books as giftsAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 1 hour agoAli was a poet, and, for those who wish to nurture a love of poetry, they might still go to Jack Prelutsky's “The Dragons Are Singing Tonight,” with ...
- Obama's Mentor - ireport
Obama's Mentorireport - 2 hours agoIn his biography of Barack Obama, David Mendell writes about Obama's life as a "secret smoker" and how he "went to great lengths to conceal the habit. ...
- Jim Dine: Poet Singing - HULIQ
Jim Dine: Poet SingingHULIQ, NC - 32 minutes agoDine’s newly created installation of sculpture and poetry will be on view through February 9, 2009 at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Jim ...
- Tuned into Tinseltown - Irish Independent
Tuned into TinseltownIrish Independent, Ireland - 8 hours agoFor secondary school I went to the Christian Brothers in Ennis 15 miles away. I would have to get up really early for the bus, which I hated. ...
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