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- At last, Murdoch breaks his silence on Brown - guardian.co.uk
At last, Murdoch breaks his silence on Brownguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoAndrew Motion was extremely good at that end of it - at getting more funding and attention for poetry. It's nothing to do with being a good poet. ...
- Gangster rapper to perform with Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra - Hendricks County Flyer
Concert part of Langston Hughes Project world premiere The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has announced that Grammy Award-wining gangster rap artist and lecturer Ice-T will join the orchestra to provide narration as part of the world premiere of a ...
- Why is America ambivalent about Whitman? - Chadron Record
Why is America ambivalent about Whitman?Chadron Record, NE - 19 minutes agoBy June Jordan, POETRY FOUNDATION SYNDICATE Friday, June 06, 2008 At home as a child, I learned the poetry of the Bible and the poetry of Paul Laurence ...
- Summer writing camp planned next month (Muskogee Phoenix)
Enrollment is open for the annual Summer Writing Camp to be held at St. Joseph School from July 14-17. The camp serves students entering grades 5, 6, 7 and 8. Students will enjoy a variety of mental and physical challenges each day, along with writing and performing poetry, stories and plays.
- Poet C.D. Wright at Central Library (Seattle Times)
Poet C. D. Wright comes through town next week. Wright, a MacArthur "genius grant" award winner who has used her poetry to address topics...
- Key dates in Radovan Karadzic's life - Salon
— June 19, 1945: Born in Savnik, Yugoslavia, in what is now the Republic of Montenegro. — July 12, 1990: A founding member of the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia-Herzegovina. — March 27, 1992: Becomes president of Serbia's National Security ...
- N. SCOTT TRIMBLE/The Columbian - Columbian
Marilyn Moelhman was reading around midnight when she accidentally smushed a fly within the pages of her book. After killing it, a sense of dread and smallness consumed her. “I felt really bad about it,” Marilyn, 12, said. “Because in the grand ...
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty (The Alexandria Town Talk)
NEW YORK (AP) — My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a work day.
- Things to do Tuesday July 15 - St. Petersburg Times
Black on Black Rhyme It's a night of spoken-word poetry at Club 813 (formerly the Harbor Club) with host L.I.F.E. at 915 E Grant Ave. in Tampa. It starts at 9; $5. Forever Plaid The homage to '50s guy groups returns with catchy music and slick hair ...
- M83 looks back at teen years on 'Saturdays' - Boston Globe
Saturday is the day for cutting loose. Growing up in the coastal town of Antibes, on the beautiful CĂ´te d'Azur in the south of France, Anthony Gonzalez remembers Saturdays spent hanging out with friends and listening to music, and doing, well, all ...
- Requiem of the American Indian Holocaust - The NarcoSphere
Requiem of the American Indian HolocaustThe NarcoSphere, NY - 1 hour agoHere, four years later in the relentless rain of Illinois in May of 2008, Mandrell dipped into memory and poetry. “The hoop has come full circle," Mandrell ...
- Robert Frost imagined - Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Robert Frost imaginedBarre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 3 hours agoHall commingles Frost's poetry, the places he lived, the things he did, his difficult family life, his emotions and ties them all together to present a ...
- Fyodor Uglov - Daily Telegraph
Fyodor Uglov, who died on Monday aged 103, earned an entry in 1994 in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest practising surgeon, and laid down his scalpel only at the age of 102. Over his career, which began in the Soviet Union in the ...
- OCtech is site for arts festival - The Times and Democrat
OCtech is site for arts festivalThe Times and Democrat, SC - 3 hours agoIf you enjoy music, poetry and artwork, make plans to attend the Summer Arts Fest at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College June 5 and 6. ...
- Poetry gives look at prisoners' lives (The Lantern)
Local human rights activists will come together Wednesday for a reading of "Poems From Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak" at the Whetstone branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. The book contains the writings of 17 prisoners currently being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities in Cuba.
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