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- Event Keyword (LA Weekly)
Consider this assortment of 11 short selections from the Jacqueline Wright sketchbook a fine introductory primer to the playwright’s signature dada-ist inversions of romantic love. The pieces play like prosodic postmortems of relationships gone horribly wrong.
- Quiz: What Kind of Traveler Are You? - Beliefnet.com
Quiz: What Kind of Traveler Are You?Beliefnet.com, NY - 8 hours agoLots of gifts for my friends and family 3. Photographs of all the cool things I did and new people I met 4. Poetry I wrote or a drawing I made, ...
- A week of red ribbons - Pawtucket Times
A week of red ribbonsPawtucket Times, ri - 1 hour agoUsing this year’s theme, “Underage Drinking--Not a Minor Problem,†the youngsters performed short skits, rap songs, dances, and poetry related to the issue ...
- Frankfurt Book Fair fetes Turkish-born authors (AFP via Yahoo! News)
After solemnly reading a German poem, Zafer Senocak jokes with two readers in Turkish, an example of writers at ease with double identities in a country seeking to refine policies of integration.
- But the music in Slatkin's 'Raven' fails to match Poe's - Baltimore Sun
But the music in Slatkin's 'Raven' fails to match Poe'sBaltimore Sun, United States - 35 minutes ago... when it would have seemed right at home in a spooky-theme concert, and a little too early for Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday (that's in January). ...
- Urban chickens ruffle feathers - Helena Independent Record
Urban chickens ruffle feathersHelena Independent Record, MT - 3 hours agoSo did at least one fellow in a chicken suit, clucking chicken poetry. And sanitation freaks complaining our droppings are odoriferous. ...
- Poets see no rhyme or reason for Listener's decision to drop odes - Sunday Star Times
Poets see no rhyme or reason for Listener's decision to drop odesSunday Star Times, New Zealand - 4 hours agoThe Listener pays $150 a poem. "We were mindful that poetry was not something readers had spoken of in any of our recent surveys," Somerset said. ...
- Ingognegro Author Frank Wilderson III Reads in NYC - The Indypendent
Ingognegro Author Frank Wilderson III Reads in NYCThe Indypendent, NY - 43 minutes agoOne story illustrates this point: in a trip back to the US with his South African wife, she leaves Wilderson in New York telling him that if she wanted ...
- Great talkers participate in Suffern HS speech tourney (The Journal News)
Drama queens, Shakespearean declaimers, beat poets, theatrical hams and earnest young teens will be vying for awards in glib talking next week during the annual Rockland County Forensic League's public speaking tournament.
- Adam Gopnik: The passions of John Stuart Mill. (The New Yorker)
It is a hard thing, being right about everything all the time. Nobody likes a know-it-all, and we wait for the moment when the know-it-all is wrong to insist that he never really knew anything in the first place. The know-it-all, far from living . . .
- The dining scene - The Birmingham News - al.com
The dining sceneThe Birmingham News - al.com, AL - 3 hours agoRogers, who is known as Bluz, is the slam master and coach of SlamCharlotte, a competitive team of poets whom he led to National Poetry Slam victories in ...
- Pencil It In - The Hour
Pencil It InThe Hour, CT - 22 minutes agoEnjoy an afternoon of classic poetry at The Ferguson Library's South End Branch at 2 pm The readings will be in English and Spanish. For teens and adults. ...
- Ahmed Faraz - A Symbol of Romance - Asian Tribune
Ahmed Faraz - A Symbol of RomanceAsian Tribune, Thailand - 6 minutes agoHe started expressing his feelings in the shape of poetry while studying in 10th class. He got an opportunity to meet literary people in his early age as ...
- Barack Obama: The Contender - Belfast Telegraph
Three years ago, David Usborne travelled to Illinois to check out the young senator who, even then, was regarded by many as a president-in-waiting. He found a humble but ambitious man, with his eyes firmly on the prize It wasn't very long ago when ...
- Trails and Vistas - Reno Gazette Journal
Trails and VistasReno Gazette Journal, NV - 16 minutes agoBy William Albright • Truckee Times Correspondent • September 12, 2008 Northern Nevada has Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert and the Truckee has Trails ...
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