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- Critic's Choice for the week of February 9-15, 2005 (East Bay Express)
Hard to believe it's been almost five years since Jill Scott launched a soul revival that both validated and transcended the term "neo-soul." Her 2000 debut Who Is Jill Scott?
- Ways with Words festival at Dartington begins - Daily Telegraph Blogs
I'm back at Dartington Hall, Devon, for the Ways With Words festival. Has it come round so soon? The hall is as lovely as ever, the gardens as green. At a loss for something to say in my welcome speech I quote Marvell - "annihilating all that's made ...
- Complete List of Nominees for 2008 Emmys (E! Online via Yahoo! News)
The pedigreed HBO miniseries John Adams nabbed a leading 23 nominations this morning for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys, followed by 30 Rock with 17 nominations and Mad Men with 16.
- Collection by 'world's worst poet' William McGonagall sells for £6600 - Glasgow Daily Record
Collection by 'world's worst poet' William McGonagall sells for £6600Glasgow Daily Record, UK - May 17, 2008Dubbed the world's worst poet, his work is still prized more than 100 years after his death. Some of the 35 original broadsheet poems were signed and were ...
- Words sell - Lowell Sun
LOWELL -- Poetry in a pot. Poetry on towels. Poetry sandwiches. Words are selling like hotcakes at Onto Um, a house of creativity that's sprouted up in an unlikely place: the long-boarded-up Marston Building. Across from a workers' union and next to ...
- Something new brewing Downtown (5/08) - Commercial Dispatch
This afternoon I was in the same room with Bret Farve, Eudora Welty, Willie Morrison, Sela Ward, Jim Henson, Faith Hill, William Faulkner, Bo Diddley and a host of other Mississippians. Not only was I in good company, but I had a delicious iced ...
- Lesbian lit goes online - SX
Lesbian lit goes onlineSX, Australia - 1 hour agoLesbian literature will be available in PDF format for readers to enjoy, free of charge, online. Although the site is starting with short stories, poetry ...
- Obama links McCain to unpopular Bush economic policies in campaign preview (Times & Transcript)
After challenging John McCain on foreign policy, Democrat Barack Obama fired off a new broadside Sunday as he linked the likely Republican nominee with President George W. Bush's unpopular economic policies as he tested general election strategies.
- Glasgow University honours authors - The Herald
Glasgow University honours authorsThe Herald, UK - 1 hour agoShe won the Somerset Maugham Award for a poetry collection called Other Lovers, and the Guardian Fiction Prize for the novel Trumpet, before being awarded ...
- Chasing the truth in Chile - San Francisco Gate
When a former bishop was democratically elected president of Paraguay last month, it signaled the end of another "southern-cone" dictatorship in Latin America. Elizabeth Farnsworth, in her North Beach office, was exultant. "The priest won!" she said ...
- Poetry slam win gets cash or Spam - Arkansas Online
Poetry slam win gets cash or SpamArkansas Online, AR - Jun 1, 2008By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact) Poets and fans of poetry are invited to the Spa City Poetry Slam at 9 pm Friday at The Poet’s Loft, 514B Central ...
- Poet laureate of American hymns dies at 89 (West Salem Coulee News)
ST. LOUIS — It wasn’t until the Rev. Jaroslav Vajda was nearly 50 that he began to pursue the craft that would leave his name etched in history. Or at least the hymnal.
- Suttons Bay Sunset wins award - Leelanau Enterprise
Suttons Bay Sunset wins awardLeelanau Enterprise, MI - 1 hour agoA poem by a summer visitor entitled Suttons Bay Sunset took fourth place in a national poetry contest. The piece was written by Brad Bedacht, ...
- Most Recent Activity by Sunshinex=xGirl - Starpulse.com
"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." - Edgar Allan Poe. I love that quote. I think religions are very interesting, particularly older ones, like Pagan faiths. I love Ancient Egyptian stuff ...
- Cubicle politics, life of JM Hopkins, Julius Caesar's rise - Houston Chronicle
Cubicle politics, life of JM Hopkins, Julius Caesar's riseHouston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour ago... like the rest of his poetry, it would take decades to be fully appreciated; as a poet, Hopkins was almost half a century ahead of his time. ...
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