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- Cameroon: Tributes to Bate Besong - the Day the Sun Set in the Morning (AllAfrica.com)
There is a Bafut joke about an angry man who went to the village and shouted - Ngwa! And how 800 young men answered the call in unison. My bosom friend, departed Dr. Hilarious Ngwa Ambe, answered to that call when an angry god called that name last year, March 8.
- Washing line, not the noose, worried Saddam - News.com.au
FORMER Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or a venereal disease during his US-supervised captivity, according to his prison writings. London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat published excerpts of what it described as Saddam's prison ...
- Performing Arts Calendar – April 17-24 - Kansas City Star
Performing Arts Calendar – April 17-24Kansas City Star, MO - 3 hours agoFree. www.umkc.edu/conservatory (816-235-2799) GERMAN LIEDER CONCERT: German poetry and music; presented by Thilde Beuing and Hannover Committee of Sister ...
- NPHS is district speech runner-up (North Platte Telegraph)
North Platte High School was the runner-up in the NSAA A-4 District Speech Championship on Monday. NPHS, which hosted this year’s districts, was edged out by Kearney High School by one point, 117 to 116. North Platte qualified 11 students in eight events for the NSAA State Speech Contest at the University of Nebraska at Kearney on March 18. In Class A, the top four finalists in each event ...
- Love is the glue: Deer Isle woman wins sonnet contest - Bangor Daily News
Love is the glue: Deer Isle woman wins sonnet contestBangor Daily News, ME - 35 minutes agoHer poem had been posted on the Prairie Home Companion Web site, so Rosenfield knew she was a finalist. "They called us about noontime [on Saturday] just to ...
- Gloria Freedman, 92
Peoples Weekly World - Freedman loved music, poetry and all aspects of working-class culture. She also loved Scrabble and often played with friends ... Gloria was a fearless organizer and mass leader, a stalwart communist, a dedicated mother and friend.
- Washington diary: Trench warfare - BBC News
BBC NewsWashington diary: Trench warfareBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoThis is not the stuff of poetry - Hillary has forced Obama to do prose. Her hope is that as the campaign drags on he will look more and more like a ...
- Celebrated poet Barbara Ras is coming to McMurry (Abilene Reporter-News)
Nationally-acclaimed poet Barbara Ras will grace the halls of McMurry University Thursday and Friday, providing students and the public an opportunity to hear Ras read her own work and ruminate on poetry-writing as part of the Knox-Bennett Writers Series.
- Chitra Divakaruni - Sorceress of storytelling - IndiaPost.com
Chitra Divakaruni - Sorceress of storytellingIndiaPost.com, CA - 52 minutes agoIs what Panchaali believes about romantic love an illusion?" The book is a brilliant classic and I hope one day Chitra Divakaruni would write about Sita, ...
- Tales of the Old West riding into Alamo Friday
Tribune-Chronicle - YOU DON'T often think of cowpokes as poets, but there are some Shakespeares of the saddle who will be bringing their art to Alamo this week. The San Ramon Valley Horsemen's second annual Old West Cowboy Poetry event will take place Friday in Alamo ...
- Poet-turned-novelist settles into spotlight (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
WILMINGTON - Unlike J.K. Rowling, she's not richer than the Queen of England. Unlike Lisa Scottoline, she doesn't own a farm with horses (yet).
- MUSIC: Ice, Ice, Big Nay - Staten Island Advance
Outspoken St. George teen Shaneay 'Queen' Sharpton joins the family business MC Big Nay, aka The Ice Queen, aka Curtis High School sophomore Shaneay Sharpton, is not amused with female rappers currently in the spotlight.
- Visitor thrilled by welcome in Grange - North West Evening Mail
ST PAUL’S CHURCH, GRANGE OVER SANDS: The Rector, the Reverend Ian Coomber, encouraged members to take a spiritual journey starting on Palm Sunday, through Holy Week to Easter Sunday, remembering the events of The Passion at various services. A ...
- NEWS: Williams launches new online e-media journal (The Dartmouth)
The memoirs of Emmy award-winning screenwriter Stanley Rubin and an analysis of computer-generated poetry are featured in the first issue of the new online Journal of Media Studies, founded by Mark Williams, the chair of Dartmouth's film and television studies department. The journal, which debuted this month, will make peer-reviewed articles about electronic media available to the public free ...
- The World's Northernmost Jazz Festival: Polarjazz 2008 in ... - All About Jazz
All About JazzThe World's Northernmost Jazz Festival: Polarjazz 2008 in ...All About Jazz, PA - 8 hours agoAarum's three albums explore everything from spare acoustic poetry to electric funk and none of it smacks of artistic compromise. ...
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