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- "Chocolate News" is a hoot - The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
"Chocolate News" is a hootThe Post-Standard - Syracuse.com, NY - 1 hour agoWhile Grier's Angelou christens Obama a pharaoh, the only poetry she can muster for McCain is "ain't this a b----!" This episode's best skit was the "N-Word ...
- This brave little heart beats thanks to celeb link - Daily Pioneer
The route to little eight-year-old Mita Mondal's ailing heart has been rather a roundabout one. It began from a tea-stall, moved through a medical college, an NGO, TV channels, a superstar and finally reached its destination at the Narayana ...
- Writers welcome a literary president-elect (Seattle Times)
For Toni Morrison and other writers, the election of Barack Obama matters not because he will be the first black president or because the vast majority of writers usually vote for Democrats. Writers welcome Obama as a peer, a thinker, a man of words — his own words.
- Anne Sexton and Kasia Krawczyk - British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription)
Anne Sexton and Kasia KrawczykBritish Journal of Psychiatry (subscription), UK - 35 minutes agoShe began writing poetry while recovering after a suicide attempt in 1956, as suggested by her therapist, Dr Martin Orne, and almost instantly won great ...
- Slam poetry, rowdy and growing (City Pages)
The poet takes the stage with a roll- ing swagger and flashes a grin to a friend in the front row. He's got the brazen look of a boxer entering the ring, and he cracks his neck before grabbing the microphone to speak. But what comes out of his mouth isn't a poem drenched in testosterone; it's not...
- Spotlight on Youth: Teens offer poetry, music and more at open mic (The Buffalo News)
Walking into an open mic poetry reading sponsored by Just Buffalo, a visitor might have expected to find a nearly empty room, and a pretentious hipster on a bar stool delivering a sonnet on the metaphorical importance of changing cat litter.
- West Richland teen memorizes the Quran - Tri-City Herald
WEST RICHLAND -- It took Reshad Jalalyar three years to memorize the Quran. He started with a single page, reading the Arabic words over and over again. Then he moved on to the next page, then the next, until he knew all 30 sections and 77,701 words ...
- The Fire Down Below - Planet Jackson Hole
The Fire Down BelowPlanet Jackson Hole, WY - 1 hour agoBut I shrugged it off: I’d been dealing with a failing relationship and anxiety over impending graduation with a degree in poetry, class of 1998. ...
- Poetic reflections on politicians' verse-atility - Times Colonist
Times ColonistPoetic reflections on politicians' verse-atilityTimes Colonist, Canada - 2 hours ago... poetry, sort of, in the words of politicians, such as US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, above, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, writes books ...
- Bergren Forum to explore practice of Zen meditation in everyday life - AU News
Bergren Forum to explore practice of Zen meditation in everyday lifeAU News, NY - 15 minutes agoHe is also the author of six books, most recently “Dark Pool” (Salmon Publishing, 2004) and the verse novella “Midcentury (Salmon, 1997). ...
- Unfolding beautiful parks of London - Economic Times
Unfolding beautiful parks of LondonEconomic Times, India - 5 hours agoRegular literary talks and poetry readings are held at the house, but unfortunately it was closed to the public when we arrived for a visit. ...
- Unveiling the Neo-Akali agenda - World Sikh News
World Sikh NewsUnveiling the Neo-Akali agendaWorld Sikh News, CA - 6 hours agoHans has had a mixed repertoire, dancing and singing with semi-clad girls on the stage, dabbling with sufi poetry, courting an image of a pop-age darvesh ...
- Cros-Lex grad reaches out to Christian gays - Port Huron Times Herald
Cros-Lex grad reaches out to Christian gaysPort Huron Times Herald, MI - 2 hours agoHe recently edited and published an anthology of poetry devoted to works by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Christians. ...
- Richard Gere and Diane Lane in "Nights in Rodanthe." - Salon
Sept. 26, 2008 | It's easy to make fun of "Nights in Rodanthe," a romantic melodrama based on the novel by megawatt best-selling author Nicholas Sparks. The feature-film debut of theater director George C. Wolfe, "Nights" is so florid that it almost ...
- DiScover: Lykke Li - Drowned In Sound
It’s a chilly February afternoon at Oslo’s riverside, and Norway’s by:Larm festival is in full flow. Last night DiS stood on as Swedish chanteuse Lykke Li played a barnstorming set in a nearby warehouse, and after emerging bleary-eyed from ...
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