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- Pledged to Obama - Wall Street Journal
Amid months of fervent campaigning on behalf of Barack Obama, Jody Rodgers of Seattle ran a side campaign -- stringing up banners and passing out buttons, making stump speeches at the neighborhood elementary school and courting constituents at the ...
- Griffin rewards elder statesmen (Toronto Star)
It was a night for honouring octogenarian legends at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Awards. Jointly, John Ashbery and Robin Blaser have spent more than a century publishing poetry.
- Review: Portman Peps Up Sluggish My Blueberry Nights - Wired News
Review: Portman Peps Up Sluggish My Blueberry NightsWired News - 7 hours agoIn his first English-language movie, Wai, highly regarded in arthouse circles for lush melodramas like In the Mood for Love, captures America the Lonely ...
- Celebrate the Beginning of Dreams -- New Book is a Beautiful ... - Primenewswire (press release)
Celebrate the Beginning of Dreams -- New Book is a Beautiful ...Primenewswire (press release), CA - 2 hours agoShe started writing poetry and short stories when she was fourteen years old and in the eighth grade. Kiyana's early writing included short series stories ...
- Things to do this weekend: May 30 - Jun 1 - Time Out Chicago
Time Out ChicagoThings to do this weekend: May 30 - Jun 1Time Out Chicago, IL - 2 hours agoThe slam poetry here is some of the finest in the city. 7pm. Green Mill, 4802 N Broadway at Lawrence Ave (773-878-5552). El: Red to Lawrence. ...
- Hendrix Photographer Captures Diversity Of Islamic Culture - PRLog.Org (press release)
Hendrix Photographer Captures Diversity Of Islamic CulturePRLog.Org (press release), Romania - 3 hours agoThe photography is interspersed with world poetry and verses from the Holy Scriptures of different religions. The book gives the reader an opportunity to ...
- The music man (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
If live, improvised music is happening in Philadelphia, there's a good chance Elliott Levin is involved. At 54, the West Philadelphia native has a long and accomplished record in the jazz avant-garde. He's been involved with pianist Cecil Taylor's large ensembles since the early 1970s. He's worked extensively with Marshall Allen, the late Tyrone Hill and other members of the Sun Ra Arkestra.
- Novel approach to music-making - Portsmouth News
Novel approach to music-makingPortsmouth News, UK - 21 minutes agoClearly a gifted mimic, he recited a poem he'd written about the people he grew up with, and another about falling in love late in life. ...
- Mother's Day messages - Poughkeepsie Journal
I love you. You are a good mom to me. You're the best! You deserve a special day for yourself and on Mommy's Day I'm giving you a special gift. Because you already got me. Mommy you are so special to me and always will be. So when Mommy's Day gets ...
- Afghan journalist appeals death sentence - Hampton Roads Daily Press
PUL-E CHARKHI, Afghanistan - The prison uniform Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh wears is emblazoned with crudely painted black scales of justice, but the young journalist insists on the eve of his appeal that he has yet to see justice done. A court in January ...
- Rare woman in sumo wrestling made Bulgaria's Kotooshu into superstar - AFP
AFPRare woman in sumo wrestling made Bulgaria's Kotooshu into superstarAFP - 2 hours agoKaneva, who studied French philology and writes haikus, a form of Japanese poetry, in her free time, is still luring plump boys into her "sumoland" as she ...
- Exhibit traces the nation's culinary history (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Food is about more than chewing and swallowing. It's about cooking and culture, mom and memories. This has all been said many times, of course, in everything from cookbooks to poetry, but now the idea takes physical form with the imprimatur of the Smithsonian Institution.
- The conundrum of Slessor's sixth bell - Sydney Morning Herald
FIVE BELLS , Kenneth Slessor's elegy for his friend Joe Lynch, who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927, is arguably the most famous poem written about Sydney. But Slessor's own rarely seen notebook, meticulously written in his neat handwriting and ...
- The Sisters' Story - Jewish Exponent
The story behind A Wall of Two , a stirring collection of poems by two gifted sisters, is quite moving, filled as it is with heroism and deep sorrow. The American poet Fanny Howe, who has done what are called "adaptations" of the poetry gathered here ...
- The Green Fairy Strikes Former Skid Row: Bohemian Decadence at Bowery Hotel (New York Press)
I think I was hallucinating at the Bohemian Decadence party in The Bowery Hotel Monday night.
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