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- Poet keeps win close to chest - Taranaki Daily News
Taranaki Daily NewsPoet keeps win close to chestTaranaki Daily News, New Zealand - 19 minutes agoFormerly from New Plymouth, Charman has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards poetry category for her collection, Cold Snack. ...
- Writing 5 at Dartmouth, a closer look - Power Line
Writing 5 at Dartmouth, a closer lookPower Line, MN - 7 hours agoHer book project argues that "African American drama presents strategies to interpret historical evidence embedded in black performance (eg cakewalking, ...
- On the Shelf: Photos, prose pay homage (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Three recent coffee table books relating to northern Michigan are impressive in their scope.
- Partners in music (The Australian)
IN November 2002, the once great American soprano Kathleen Battle toured Australia. Eight years before shehad been fired by the Metropolitan Opera in New York for "unprofessional actions", but she continued to terrorise her piano accompanists in recital concerts. When the pianist for her Australian tour resigned, Sharolyn Kimmorley stepped in.
- Garden to host poetry events (Edinburgh Evening News)
POETRY is set to be celebrated in the new St Andrew Square Garden, it has been announced.
- Obama Visits Sderot - The Bulletin
Sderot, Israel - Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, accompanied by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, visited the shell-shocked Israeli city yesterday. He met with city Mayor Eli Moyal ...
- Feast for eyes & ears - Tonight South Africa
Alternative music fans are in for a treat this year, as the Durban International Film Festival has again chosen films about artists with creative depth. Lost Prophets is a South African documentary about SA's first hip-hop group, Prophets of Da City ...
- Web Extra: A Conversation with Rachel Eisler - Urbanite Baltimore
Web Extra: A Conversation with Rachel EislerUrbanite Baltimore, MD - 1 hour agoUrbanite’s June poetry contributor is Rachel Eisler. In 1991, Eisler earned a MA from Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars. She taught English in the ...
- A T20 story from Americas oldest cricket club (Express India)
There are no longer any Staten Islanders in the Staten Island Cricket Club, one of the country's oldest
- Where are the gun rights groups now? - OpEdNews.com
Imagine this. John White, a black man from Long Island, NY gets a jail term for defending his home when a white mob arrives to harm his son, yet Joe Horn, a white Texan, shoots two people dead on his neighbor’s lawn who weren’t even bothering him ...
- Shakespeare was a woman, claims expert (rediff.com)
Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman who had disguised to get her work published in Elizabethan London, where original literature from women was not acceptable, an expert has contended.
- Xplayground benefit for bone marrow guy - The Citizen.com
Xplayground benefit for bone marrow guyThe Citizen.com, GA - 14 hours ago“Open Mic Nite†takes place every Sunday at 6 pm and admission is free. The public is invited to see a showcase of stand-up, poetry, spoken word and ...
- Teen talents: Free festival showcases movies, music, art and more - Billings Gazette
Loosely quoting filmmaker Spike Lee, aspiring director Alex Miller noted that, with the availability of the Internet, young filmmakers have no excuse not to make their voices heard. That sums up the theme for tonight's Media Arts Festival, an event ...
- Iredell officials are hoping creative arts can keep at-risk youth out of gangs (Statesville Record & Landmark)
Instead of just warning kids about the evils of gang activity, organizers of a new program hope to channel at-risk youth in a different direction. The Iredell County Sheriff's Office is teaming up with Appropriate Placement Options and the Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont to offer a chance to explore arts and music. The program, Capt. Mike Phillips said, will be funded by a grant from the ...
- CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEW: ‘America At War’ offers poems inspired by ... - Asheville Citizen-Times
In the prologue of “America at War,†there is a quote from Carl Sandburg: “Some day they’ll give a war and nobody will come.†The wish seems vague as memory, yet replete with the real longing of innumerable victims of war. As it is though ...
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