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- Sometimes the n-word just says it all - Chicago Sun-Times
Sometimes the n-word just says it allChicago Sun-Times, United States - 12 minutes agoBut if I use it and my niece, cousin or friend overhears it, thinks it's poetry and makes a hit song with it, what have I done? ...
- Liner Notes: Word to the 23rd (The Source Weekly)
Spoken word is hard to pull off. Sometimes this genre, or subgenre, if you will, brings to mind beret-intensive poetry slams where ideological rhetoric tends to trump skill. There are some heavy spoken word elements at play with Alfred Howard and the K23 Orchestra, but it’s not the sort of aforementioned dimly lit coffee house nonsense. AHK23 is a San Diego-based four-piece band that serves as ...
- Rhyme with reason - Boston Globe
Rhyme with reasonBoston Globe, United States - 15 minutes agoThoroughly filthy now, the pigs are herded by grown-up supervisors through a series of showers, baths, brushings, until finally, cleaned up and free of soap ...
- Millions mark World Refugee Day with theme of "Protection" (AlertNet)
Source: UNHCR As millions marked World Refugee Day, UNHCR's chief says he is concerned about the rise in refugee numbers in 2007 and the suffering in Somalia.
- 2008 Philadelphia Book Festival Blends Books, Music, High-Tech Games, Barbara Walters Tops List of Celebrity Authors (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
More than 60 of the nation's top writers, including celebrity author Barbara Walters, will gather in Philadelphia for the second Philadelphia Book Festival, the Free Library's annual celebration of reading and literacy.
- Travelling with Norman Lewis - Daily Telegraph
Norman Lewis, who died in 2003 at the age of 94, was, in Graham Greene's estimation, 'one of the best writers not of any particular decade, but of our century'. His 12 glittering travel books (and as many novels) are distinguished by the lyrical ...
- Their News - Yemen Times
Their NewsYemen Times, Yemen - 2 hours agoStudents can write fact or fiction; poetry or prose, but they must write exactly 50 words on the theme of ‘Our memories, dreams and futures’ relating to ...
- Kloefkorn's roots reach deep into his native soil (Kearney Hub)
LINCOLN -- For a quartercentury, Bill has represented Nebraska as its official state poet.
- Reno celebration marks belated end of slavery (Reno Gazette-Journal)
James Barnett, a Reno resident, visited Wingfield Park on Sunday to enjoy some music and good times.
- Weekender - A&E - Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Filmed in Plattsburgh and the surrounding area, “Frozen River†opens with a riveting shot of actress Melissa Leo, playing Ray Eddy, an obviously depressed trailer mom with two sons. Ray wants to buy a double-wide for her family, but her husband ...
- Honoring Two Masters - Newsweek
Honoring Two MastersNewsweek - 42 minutes agoBoth these great filmmakers, in their radically different way, made art out of despair, poetry out of pessimism. But where Bergman, the lapsed Protestant, ...
- COMING UP (The Wichita Eagle)
Poetry Aloud , read your own poetry or that of a poet you admire, 7 p.m. Tue., Zoomdweebie's Tea Bar, 3010 E. Central. Free. Information, 316-440-4202. Sedgwick County Fair , 5-10 p.m. Wed., 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Thu., 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri., 7 a.m.-midnight Sat., Cheney Fairgrounds, 383rd Street West, between MacArthur Road and South Street. Bull Blowout, carnival, demolition derby, parade, ...
- Post-punk Rollins serves it straight - The Dominion Post
Post-punk Rollins serves it straightThe Dominion Post, New Zealand - 15 minutes agoEditing comes second, it is the work that matters – whether that work takes the form of a Rollins Band album, a volume of poetry, a cameo film role or a ...
- Only question about D-Rose: Will suit match red Bulls cap? - Chicago Sun-Times
As the media crowds were shooed from the locker room, Derrick Rose didn’t move from his chair. He still had something important to say to the columnist from Chicago. Did it involve crushing UCLA? Being the best player on the court in the most ...
- Local Playwright Wins NYC Competition (WCAV Charlottesville)
A Charlottesville resident takes first place at a Slam Theatre Festival in New York, and his words will now be brought to life.
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