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- OECTA's Young Authors Awards recognize excellence in student writing - CNW Group
TORONTO, June 9 /CNW/ - Fifty students from across Ontario have won creative writing awards from the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA). A complete list of the 2008 winners of Young Authors/Prix jeunes écrivains and their entries ...
- Reliquary is 'The People's Hall of Fame' - MiamiHerald.com
Reliquary is 'The People's Hall of Fame'MiamiHerald.com, FL - 2 hours ago''There probably won't be more than a handful of people at the ceremony who have ever been to a poetry slam or encountered a performance poet, so it's great ...
- 'Teen': The Sureness Of A Tiptop Novel - Hartford Courant
The documentary "American Teen" is the most realistic movie you will see all summer. Nonetheless, I'm convinced it was made by a sci-fi character. To go so deeply under the skin of a handful of high-schoolers in Warsaw, Ind., and to chronicle their ...
- Chicago Literary Scene Examiner - San Francisco Examiner
This Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 is one of those nights in Chicago when there is almost too much going on. We have two memorable Chicago literary events lined up right down the street from each other. 1. Texas-based literary journal, The First Line ...
- Berman ‘not a rational lad’ - Metro Boston
Berman ‘not a rational lad’Metro Boston, MA - 4 hours agoPoetry is castle art. Music is about sublime feelings and intuition. Poetry is freedom in language and thought. I love them both, but I am a child of the ...
- Students will benefit from what teachers learned about the arts - Macon Telegraph
Students will benefit from what teachers learned about the artsMacon Telegraph, GA - 4 hours agoOpening today at the Tubman African American Museum is "Bud Smith: The Atlanta Series, 1968-2008," featuring more than 80 images that capture the city's ...
- Pop songs banned from funerals - BBC News
BBC NewsPop songs banned from funeralsBBC News, UK - 53 minutes agoLeaflets handed out on its behalf at Saint Mary's Church in Castleblayney on Sunday said pop music and poetry had no place in funeral ceremonies. ...
- ‘Afrikadey!’ Brings Culture, Color, Education to Calgary - The Epoch Times
‘Afrikadey!’ Brings Culture, Color, Education to CalgaryThe Epoch Times, NY - 3 hours agoPut on by the Calgary African Festival and Exhibition Society, the festival featured several events throughout the week such as a poetry jam, drum and dance ...
- Spoken-word poet Jon Goode: A man of his word - CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- In a small independently owned coffee shop on the corner of one of Atlanta's urban pockets, a group of would-be poets come together at open mic night for an evening of poetry and rhymes. Emmy-nominated spoken-word poet Jon ...
- Review: 'Skins' (Los Angeles Times)
With its cool view of teendom, the satirically edged British series so wants to be bad. “Skins,†a new dramedy beginning Sunday on BBC America, starts disagreeably, with a surfeit of self-protective cool. But it becomes more likable over ensuing episodes, as the pace relaxes and the focus turns toward more sympathetic and interesting characters.
- Literary magazines: grotesque and Gaitskill - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesLiterary magazines: grotesque and GaitskillLos Angeles Times, CA - 5 hours agoThe audio of Shamim Azad reading poetry in Bengali is rather lovely, but otherwise, the website is a bit of a tease. Front Porch Journal, from the Texas ...
- Soetardji honored by Riau arts community - Jakarta Post
JAKARTA: Noted poet Soetardji Calzoum Bachri, who is known in art circles as "Indonesia's Poet President", received a gift from Riau art lovers on his 67th birthday Tuesday night. Riau's board of arts held an arts appreciation night titled Bulan ...
- Artist and musician woman on a mission (Lebanon Daily News)
PALMYRA — With a name identical to a legendary country singer, it should come as no surprise that much of Patsy Kline’s life revolves around music.
- Nam Le's long, literary journey - San Francisco Chronicle
Nam Le's long, literary journeySan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 2 hours agoBy then Le was reading voraciously - Auden, Tennyson, Rilke - and writing poetry. "That was the dream - to become a poet." Instead, feeling the pressure to ...
- Tusk Tunes | Clell's Banjo Parlor - Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
Tusk Tunes | Clell's Banjo ParlorTuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - 4 hours agoIt was almost like poetry to him. I, on the other hand, rushed home that night to look up Bill Monroe and Frank Zappa. What I heard, I liked. ...
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