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- Nelson Mandela uses 90th birthday to warn South Africans not to forget ... - Times Online
Nelson Mandela, a global icon for his long struggle against apartheid, marked his 90th birthday today with an appeal to the wealthy of the country he led to democracy to remember the less fortunate. Speaking at his birthplace in the rural Eastern ...
- The write stuff - Danbury News Times
The write stuffDanbury News Times, CT - 58 minutes ago... the top writing prizes for students from Fairfield County in the 11th annual IMPAC/Connecticut State University System prose and poetry competition. ...
- X's music is letter-perfect - The Washington Times
The seminal Los Angeles punk band X doesn't rehearse anymore — and no, says founding member Exene Cervenka, it has nothing to do with laziness or unforgiving schedules. She, John Doe, Billy Zoom and D.J. Bonebrake have scrapped practice time ...
- THIS WEEK: Readings and events on LI - Newsday
THIS WEEK: Readings and events on LINewsday, NY - 2 hours agoCalling all poets: It's Open Mic Poetry Night, sponsored by the Performance Poet's Association. Bring your own rhymes. At 7:30 pm, Barnes & Noble, ...
- Fiction crafted in a new ambience - The Daily Star
The Daily StarFiction crafted in a new ambienceThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 21 minutes agoSerious lovers of poetry and literature respect him and know him very well. It is a very significant fact that he was a commander of the Mukti Bahini in ...
- Nothing's Shocking: An Interview With Lydia Lunch - Popmatters.com
As Lydia Lunch -- No Wave pioneer, Teenage Jesus frontwoman, and life-long provocateur -- sees her landmark tell-all book Paradoxia get re-published for the first time in over a decade, she sits down to talk to PopMatters about breaking taboos ...
- Talented texters with an artistic ear - Ledbury Reporter
Talented texters with an artistic earLedbury Reporter, UK - 4 hours agoThe Ledbury Poetry Festival has launched a text poem contest, and two free tickets to the Eastnor music celebration are being offered as prizes. ...
- 'Lazarus' rises from 1908 death - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
'Lazarus' rises from 1908 deathMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - 3 hours agoI wrote poetry." In Chicago, he realized he would have to write in English. He gave himself five years to learn to speak and write the language perfectly. ...Writer Aleksandar Hemon resists labels Los Angeles Timesall 4 news articles
- David Chelsea's "24 x 2" - Comic Book Bin
David Chelsea's "24 x 2"Comic Book Bin, Canada - 7 hours agoThe story beautifully mimics the poetry of slumber: one moment we're looking at Dan Quayle's forehead and the next, a banjo. The main character, who, ...
- Liza Lim rediscovers her creativity with The Navigator - News.com.au
'I FELL out of love with music," says Liza Lim as we chat in the uncluttered, white-walled interior of her West End, Brisbane, home. These are surprising words for such an accomplished composer, one who has served a two-year stint as resident ...
- We're not number one - Capitol Hill Blue
Capitol Hill BlueWe're not number oneCapitol Hill Blue, VA - May 22, 2008It takes the death of a Princess Di or a scandal with a White House intern to release inspirational moonbeams to play on the foreheads of America's ...
- Leacock Summer Festival 2008 - Canada NewsWire (press release)
Leacock Summer Festival 2008Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - 2 hours agoPoetry is the focus of Sunday's early afternoon program with readings by George Elliott Clarke and Christopher Doda. This session will also include readings ...
- Media Excuse Obama's False Advertising - Post Chronicle
Media Excuse Obama's False AdvertisingPost Chronicle - 1 hour agoHis "poetry" is viciously anti-American and pro-Soviet. And yet Obama listened to it growing up. All of this has been well-documented in numerous articles ...
- Don't disparage a politician for having a way with words - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Don't disparage a politician for having a way with wordsMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoMario Cuomo) "you campaign in poetry and govern in prose." Obviously, a lot of governing is, to put it simply, boring. If it weren't, the media wouldn't be ...
- Tributes to Margaret's long life caring for others - Hampstead and Highgate Express
Tributes to Margaret's long life caring for othersHampstead and Highgate Express, UK - 7 hours agoShe was also involved in the exchange's drama group as an actress and producer, and wrote poetry into her 90s. During the Second World War Miss Bingham ...
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