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- $100,000 prize for sports artist (Sydney Morning Herald)
Digital video of athlete on treadmill beats field of 54 works by 16 artists.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston.
- Move over, Beijing! Chicago's ready for our Olympic close-up - Examiner.com
Examiner.comMove over, Beijing! Chicago's ready for our Olympic close-upExaminer.com - 8 hours agoThe video then turns the topic over to athletics, referencing how much Chicagoans love sports and how on any given day you'll find us "running, ...
- Teamwork enables greater success - Albany Times Union
Teamwork enables greater successAlbany Times Union, NY - 24 minutes agoPhil Jackson, the highly successful coach of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, frequently reads poetry to his players. To inspire his players on the subject of ...
- National HIV Testing Day held (Mid-Hudson News)
NEWBURGH – To mark National HIV Testing Day, the Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center Thursday conducted a free testing clinic, distributed literature and held an annual day of entertainment, music, food, and poetry readings.
- Mahmoud Darwish: "We sow hope" - Socialist Worker Online
Mahmoud Darwish: "We sow hope"Socialist Worker Online, IL - 4 hours agoMAHMOUD DARWISH--a Palestinian poet who could consistently sell out football stadiums for his poetry recitals--passed away on August 9, 2008, in a hospital ...
- Robert Frost imagined - Times-Argus
There has hardly been a shortage of words about the great American poet Robert Frost, whose (dark? tortured? dissembling?) life and words have been chronicled extensively and examined under a microscope by a covey of biographers. So it takes a ...
- Open to books - Business Line
Business LineOpen to booksBusiness Line, India - 1 hour agoApart from stories, novels and classics, there are picture books, poetry and songs. Activity-related books offer an amazing range of options for the young. ...
- PC's award winning faculty - Buccaneer (subscription)
PC's award winning facultyBuccaneer (subscription), WA - 10 hours agoDerry plans to use the money to support professional writing during the summer quarter through researching, writing and revising poetry, two essay projects ...
- Upcoming Cherry Hill Library events (Courier-Post)
Check out these upcoming Cherry Hill Library events. Contact wrhodes@gannett.com if you'd like your library's events featured on the Courier-Post website.
- An early look at what’s ahead in ’09 - Buffalo News
Without a crystal ball or a magic wand or even a Ouija board, we have gotten a sneak peek into the schedule of the U. S. Postal Service stamp program for 2009. The Postal Service did not reveal a detailed description of all the ’09 releases, but I ...
- Regent Square poet favors words that allow for evolution (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Leslie Anne Mcilroy, of Regent Square, wanted to do more than an ordinary poetry reading at the launch party for "Liquid Like This" on Saturday at the Thunderbird Cafe in Lawrenceville.
- THE MAKING OF A MONSTER - New York Post
He was the world's most-wanted war-crimes fugitive - the mastermind of an inhuman "ethnic cleansing" policy that ravaged Serbia in the '90s. Ruthless politician, poet and psychologist, former Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic was born in 1945 in a ...
- "A Love Song for New Orleans" is poetry set to music (Louisiana Weekly)
When people think of a poet, they might imagine a solitary figure with pen in hand bent over a tablet at a coffee shop or in a corner of a quiet room. These days, it's also easy to picture a man or woman of verse contemplating their next stanza in front of a computer.
- Marissa Gough drawn to the flame - The Coast.ca
The Coast.caMarissa Gough drawn to the flameThe Coast.ca, Canada - 11 hours agoby Sarah Greene Marissa Gough has done comedy, slam poetry and burlesque, but she'd never thought of performing with fire until Ash Circle's Ivan Bellari ...
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