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- Obama faces racism - Daily Press
Obama faces racismDaily Press, VA - 21 hours agoIn 1773, Phyllis Wheatley, the African-American poet, was subjected to an "examination" by a committee of prominent Boston citizens to determine if she was ...
- Group uses dance to celebrate classic Tamil poetry - Missisauga News Online
September 8, 2008 03:07 PM - The classical Indian dance form bharatanatyam will be on display when Sampradaya Dance Creations presents the Kavya Natyam show this weekend. The showcase, which takes place Saturday at Meadowvale Theatre, is billed as an ...
- Of Birds, Poets, and Architects - Green Options blog
Of Birds, Poets, and ArchitectsGreen Options blog, CA - 2 hours agoI missed writing my blog entry two weeks ago because I was at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers writing poetry with about 60 poets from around the ...
- Literary Festival at Centre Culturel Irlandais, France - European Irish News - Music, Sport, Culture & Business
Literary Festival at Centre Culturel Irlandais, FranceEuropean Irish News - Music, Sport, Culture & Business, Ireland - 10 hours ago... the national organization for poetry in Ireland. The talks vary in language from English to French and Irish. Admission to all talks is free of charge, ...
- MUSIC REVIEW: Cash 'Folsom' box set features new material (The Tuscaloosa News)
JOHNNY CASH'At Folsom Prison' (box set)(Columbia/Legacy)Talk about crossover: Johnny Cash virtually defined the term with his 1968 album, 'Live at Folsom Prison.' It sent country music to places it hadn't been before, selling right alongside Cream's 'Wheels of Fire' in hip record stores.
- Herring 'n' butterflies: Rick Jones remembers his tutor, WG Sebald - Independent
Herring 'n' butterflies: Rick Jones remembers his tutor, WG SebaldIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoThe Hungarian poet put him in poetry. Down on the seafront at Southwold, which is described in The Rings of Saturn and whither his colleague and oldest ...
- Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni reflects on tragedy - HamptonRoads.com
We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech. We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that ...
- Beats and bad rhymes at Bloody Awful Poetry - Evening Standard
Poetry recitals rarely make for wild nights out. I've only been to two in my life, both by mistake. There was a lot of poetry-speak - words like "alas" and "thrice" - and impenetrable jokes about iambs and trochees. I swore I'd never go to another ...
- Jamie Lee Curtis Recommends Books vs. Movies - Entertainment Tonight News
Entertainment Tonight NewsJamie Lee Curtis Recommends Books vs. MoviesEntertainment Tonight News - 7 hours agoShe calls the book version of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient "a stunning world of driving narrative and poetry and imagery. ...
- Eva Maddox wins poetry contest - Delaware Online
Eva Maddox, a local Delaware author, wins the contest for poetry in the published division of the 2008 Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference. The Conference draws writers, agents and editors from all over the country and offers clinics ...
- Easton calendar - Abington Mariner
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 Junior Duck Stamp Art Show exhibit opens. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Lawrence Newcomb Visitor Center, Borderland State Park, 259 Massapoag Ave., Easton. The exhibit is open to all, free of charge and no preregisitration is required. The ...
- Copenhagen: A seasonal guide (CNN.com)
Roskilde Festival (July) The Danes love the outdoors and they love rock music; the Roskilde Festival is where they combine these passions for a weekend of drunken revelry.
- Movie review: 'Strong' is bigger than its formula - Salt Lake Tribune
Rugby players in the scrum in the made-in-Utah drama "Forever Strong." There's no shame in following formula. Haiku and sonnets are formula poetry - and yet they still require craft and beauty. So it's no insult to call the made-in-Utah drama ...
- Nature has lost a friend (The Peterborough Examiner)
"He made a difference in the world, and that's what he wanted," said Heather Watson of her late father, Douglas "Doug" Sadler. Mr. Sadler, 92, died yestserday with his family at his side at St. Joseph's at Fleming due to complications related to cancer. Mr. Sadler was [...]
- The great seducers - Independent
The great seducersIndependent, UK - 13 minutes agoHe was a radical MP, journalist and later Lord Mayor of London who wrote pornographic poetry. And he was described as the ugliest man in England. ...
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