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- NEA grants $2.8 million for 'The Big Read' - San Francisco Gate
The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host "The Big Read," an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture. In 2004, the NEA ...
- Letter to the editor: Council action shamefully soured laureate ... - Gloucester Daily Times
As a former member and vice chairperson and current Advisory Committee member of the Gloucester Committee for the Arts, and as an artist and sometime curator and juror, I am dismayed at the City Council's recent poet laureate appointment process. I ...
- Ex-convict's spoken-word style helps inmates share feelings - Waukegan News Sun
Ex-convict's spoken-word style helps inmates share feelingsWaukegan News Sun, IL - 7 minutes agoCOM Jail, it turns out, is a fertile place for poetry -- an art defined by Wordsworth as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. ...
- The Big Question: Why is Stalin still popular in Russia, despite ... - Independent
The Big Question: Why is Stalin still popular in Russia, despite ...Independent, UK - 6 hours agoEvery Russian schoolchild can recite at least a few verses of his poetry, and as the popular Russian saying goes: "Pushkin is our everything."
- The One True Political Party – But You Still Believe, Don't You? - OpEdNews.com
We are not seeing politics, we are seeing theatrics. These are not candidates, these are the “plasticine porters with looking glass ties” about which Lennon once penned. The mirrors, no doubt, are invaluable tools by which the thespians can be ...
- University of Minnesota study uncovers the educational benefits of ... - PhysOrg
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study found that low-income students are in many ways just as ...
- Calendar Event Listings 5-21-08 - City Pulse
City PulseCalendar Event Listings 5-21-08City Pulse, MI - 7 minutes agoPoetry reading. Second graders from Fairview Elementary will read from their own chapbooks. 6:30 pm FREE. Schuler Books & Music, 2820 Towne Centre Blvd., ...
- Arts & Entertainment: THEATER REVIEW - Chicago Tribune
Director Nic Dimond describes himself in a program note as "a reluctant Shakespeare fan." Maybe that's why a pervading aura of ambivalence hangs over his production of "Richard III" at Strawdog Theatre Company. It's not a terrible show by any means ...
- Cowboy poet Fred G. Ellis to appear at fairgrounds - Delta County Independent
Mark your calendar for a unique time at the Delta County Fairgrounds, Saturday, May 31, 7 p.m. It will be a time of family fun, cowboy poetry, cowboy humor and Christian cowboy church. The Valley Christian Men’s Club is sponsoring the event with ...
- Quake books sold for victims - CCTV
CCTVQuake books sold for victimsCCTV, China - 5 hours agoBook lovers in Shanghai thronged to a bookstore Saturday morning, buying a collection of poetry commemorating the Wenchuan Earthquake. ...
- Leonardo Padura's revolution in crime - The Independent
With his Havana Quartet of mysteries, Padura turned Cuba's history into gripping and atmospheric fiction. Jane Jakeman meets the boy from the barrio Leonardo Padura's prize-winning series of novels about Cuban detective Inspector Mario Conde has ...
- Remember When: Jersey City in the 1940s were good times, bad times (Stuart News)
These were the good times. Our high school was a parochial school, academically challenging. We were very much into the "Big Bands" and the dances of the times.
- M. Catherine Honemann, 88 (Baltimore Sun)
Senior accountant M. Catherine Honemann, retired senior accountant who was active in her church, died of heart failure May 16 at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Stella Maris resident was 88.
- News Celebration of life (Haleakala Times)
On the island of Maui, there are many vibrant, independent women living life to its fullest. When given a diagnosis of breast cancer, these amazing women will face challenges – from basic needs like transportation to more complex and emotional upheavals like choosing a wig or prosthesis.
- Scotland: A Changing Nation - The List
The ListScotland: A Changing NationThe List, UK - 3 hours agoAnd we’re using everything we can to explore those themes; poetry, paintings, personal individual stories, projections, historic artefacts, Irn Bru adverts, ...
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