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- Two Local Speech Geeks Win First Place Awards in National Tournament - Amplifier
Two Local Speech Geeks Win First Place Awards in National TournamentAmplifier, KY - 1 hour agoBy late Sunday afternoon, after three grueling days of competition, Antonio was awarded the National Championship in Poetry Interpretation. ...
- FESTIVA CD REVIEW: Shawn Elliot - 'Abstract Me' - Monitor
FESTIVA CD REVIEW: Shawn Elliot - 'Abstract Me'Monitor, TX - 7 hours agoIt opens with spoken word poet Will Da Real One, who has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry. Will Da Real One speaks of the state of hip hop and music. ...
- Indexed: A Geography Lesson - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsIndexed: A Geography LessonNew York Times Blogs, NY - 5 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Athens Boys Choir -- no boys, no choir, just offbeat hip-hop (The Capital Times)
Athens Boys Choir isn't a choir. It's just one guy from Athens, Ga., his microphone and some beats. It's part hip-hop, part spoken word, and part goofball aerobics dance music. Harvey Katz, the guy behind the mic, calls it "the poetry your mama warned you about." He raps about politics, living in the South, being Jewish and a being a transsexual. He writes more serious pieces as well as silly ...
- Inuk artist raises her voice - Northern News Services (subscription)
Northern News Services (subscription)Inuk artist raises her voiceNorthern News Services (subscription), Canada - 4 hours agoPartridge has played with poetry for a long time but she got into spoken word performance about four years ago. She had been living in the south for about ...
- Karaoke Nights (The Post and Courier)
There's a constant heartbeat in our city's nightlife. On any given evening, you can catch a free poetry show, a new art exhibit or a stage production — all to the backdrop of music, blaring from energetic bands. Karaoke is another event that always has had its finger on the pulse of Charleston. All across the Lowcountry, people are heading to bars and restaurants to lose their inhibitions and ...
- Mark Lawson on Leonard Cohen and other artists producing work in their 70s (Guardian Unlimited)
Mark Lawson: This year, a crop of artists in their 70s and beyond are shining more brightly than ever
- Hamell On Trial - as big as life and a little concerned about ... - Galway Advertiser
Galway AdvertiserHamell On Trial - as big as life and a little concerned about ...Galway Advertiser, Ireland - 9 hours agoThere’s not many comics like Hicks, but all kinds of art forms - film, poetry, literature, painting, etc, is all rock’n’roll to me...if it has that real ...
- 100 years on, poet Dinkar remains popular as ever (The Times of India)
The poetry of Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', whose 100th birth anniversary was celebrated on Tuesday, also had a softer side and could seamlessly unravel layers of human relationship in rhyme.
- Local students celebrated at Longfellow Poetry Awards Sunday - Abington Mariner
The Longfellow National Historic Site announces the winners of the Longfellow Student Poetry Awards, an annual contest recognizing original poetry from local students from the Greater Boston area. The award program and poetry reading will be held ...
- Conclave: A Journal of Character to Launch at The Book Cellar in ... - WebWire (press release)
Conclave: A Journal of Character to Launch at The Book Cellar in ...WebWire (press release), GA - 23 minutes agoThe editorial staff then set out to find strong character-driven poetry, fiction, nonfiction, dramatic excerpts, flash fiction, and photography. ...
- Recalling Solzhenitsyn, the genius of socialist realism (International Herald Tribune)
What seems to have gotten lost in all the tributes to Alexander Solzhenitsyn is the reason he was listened to in the first place - namely, his virtues as a writer.
- The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And ... - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (July 31, 2008) — From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that ...
- Cellist Robert deMaine to perform Schumann concerto at Orchestra Hall - MLive.com
Robert deMaine , the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's principal cellist, performs one of Schumann's boldest works, the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in A Minor, at 10:45 a.m. Sept. 19; 8:30 p.m. Sept. 20 and 3 p.m. Sept. 21 at Orchestra Hall, 3711 ...
- Hidden Betjeman - Times Online
Times OnlineHidden BetjemanTimes Online, UK - 20 hours ago... by something uplifting in one of the advertising slots above passengers' heads that are usually reserved for interest-free transfers on credit cards. ...
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