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- Poetry Out Loud competition open to students (Muskogee Phoenix)
OKLAHOMA CITY —The Oklahoma Humanities Council announced plans for the 2009 Poetry Out Loud competition, a national recitation contest sponsored in cooperation with the Oklahoma Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation.
- Ivy Echoes (The Junction Eagle)
Last Saturday was the London High School Homecoming and it was so much fun to be there and get to visit with everyone. I didn't go to school at London, but my mother did. My grandfather and two of his brothers taught school there, so I felt a definite connection.
- OPEN THE FLOOR - Bangkok Post
OPEN THE FLOORBangkok Post, Thailand - 3 hours agoIt might seem strange then that the performances often have little or no script - in fact they rely more on actions than words to create their visual poetry ...
- Varjak Paw opens up opera for all - Birmingham Post
Varjak Paw opens up opera for allBirmingham Post, UK - 9 hours ago“When I read the first one I thought there was something in it because it’s all magic and poetry. The characters are all cats except for one dog, ...
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal - Pak Watan
Pak WatanAllama Muhammad IqbalPak Watan, Pakistan - 14 minutes agoHis poetry in Urdu, Arabic and Persian is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era and whose vision of an independent state for the Muslims of ...
- IWP participant Pick to perform today - Iowa City Press Citizen
IWP participant Pick to perform todayIowa City Press Citizen, IA - 18 hours agoInternational Writing Program participant Anat Pick, sound-text performance artist from Israel, will perform selections from her Dada sound poetry ...
- Chinese creeps in on Korean language birthday - Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - As South Korea celebrated on Thursday the birth of its writing system, one of the country's leading school districts said it thinks its students should spend more time learning Chinese characters. The Korean writing system ...
- Teller wins German Book Prize (EARTHtimes.org)
Frankfurt - Author Uwe Teller won on Monday the German Book Prize, an annual, 25,000-euro (34,000-dollar) award for German-speaking novels, the judges announced in Frankfurt. He gained the award for The Tower, a monumental work describing the collaps...
- John Lundberg: Britain's Poet Laureate Has Writer's Block (HuffingtonPost)
British poet laureate Andrew Motion is planning to resign next year. And while he has long professed his desire to leave the lifetime appointment early,...
- CSU to Host "Cultural Crossings" Lecture - The Cauldron (subscription)
CSU to Host "Cultural Crossings" LectureThe Cauldron (subscription), OH - 4 hours ago... Are Happier When They Are Homosexual, or Adventures in the Poetry Trade". The lecture is free and open to CSU students as well as the general public. ...
- Winona group unveils 9/11 monument - Winona Daily News
Seven years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, a Winona group unveiled its tribute to the victims of the tragedy and to the solidarity that marked its aftermath. Twin towers of black granite emerged from a rain-soaked tarp in Lake Park on ...
- Poet Imlah wins £10000 prize - BBC News
BBC NewsPoet Imlah wins £10000 prizeBBC News, UK - 4 hours ago"I believe that good poetry finds ways to make us look differently at old things, and look at new things that we might otherwise have ignored," said Ms ...
- Sarah Palin In The News And In Poetry - The Moderate Voice
With tomorrow’s highly anticipated Vice Presidential debate between Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Gov. Sarah Palin generating all kinds of news stories, here are two must reads — breaking tidbits about Palin: 1. Palin did a GOTCHA ...
- Aussie Outback cattle trails under threat - Homes Worldwide
Homes WorldwideAussie Outback cattle trails under threatHomes Worldwide, UK - 7 hours agoFor generations of Australian ranchers the criss-crossing trails known as the Long Paddock have been at the heart of a frontier way of life which shaped a ...
- Letters reveal changes that life and death had on Ted Hughes’ words - Kansas City Star
Letters reveal changes that life and death had on Ted Hughes’ wordsKansas City Star, MO - Oct 18, 2008He refused to make his version public until he published the poems Birthday Letters in 1998, a few months before his death. The real letters, which the ...
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