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- Qatar University music band puts on debut performance - Peninsula On-line
Qatar University music band puts on debut performancePeninsula On-line, Qatar - 14 hours agoThe Band emerged from the Audio Club, which was launched at the end of last semester to bring together students with interest in music, poetry, sound mixing ...
- York student tops poetry contest
Charlotte.com - A'Derrica Roseboro likes strong, bold poetry. She loves "Still I Rise," by Maya Angelou. "It's a powerful poem," said the York Comprehensive High sophomore. When she recites it for competition, Roseboro makes listeners love it, too. On Saturday ...
- Poet helps Gardens Elementary students prepare for TAKS
North Channel Sun - This wasn’t the first time Bucsanyi has utilized her father’s poetry in the classroom, but the TAKS test required something special. “My daughter asked me to write a poem spoofing the TAKS test and I came to mind to call it a monster,” said ...
- Makan’s “Iqbal and Ten Other Luminaries” translated into German - Tehran Times
Makan’s “Iqbal and Ten Other Luminaries” translated into GermanTehran Times, Iran - 3 hours agoTEHRAN -- The book “Iqbal and Ten Other Luminaries” by Iranian scholar Mohammad Baqaii Makan has recently been translated to German. ...
- 'Staying Alive' gives poetry as a catalyst in unreal times - North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
'Staying Alive' gives poetry as a catalyst in unreal timesNorth Lake Tahoe Bonanza, NV - 5 hours agoBut they have become subversive because they contest the way the word is being (and has been) manipulated and spoken about. They refuse the lies, ...
- Love in the desert (Khaleej Times)
O rider of a pure, unmixed, well-chosen mount, perfect of limb and with sires beyond count...Thus begins a Bedouin poem, believed to be written in 1971, describing a beautiful camel.
- Music Review: James McMurtry - Just Us Kids - Blogcritics.org
Music Review: James McMurtry - Just Us KidsBlogcritics.org, OH - 3 hours agoWith that talking/singing style he's long ago perfected, the son James spins the tale of the doomed lovers with sweet poetry:
- Don't Take Any Chances If You Can't Get Through (Wiscasset Newspaper)
How different the ends of almost any trip.
- A civil man in a crude world - Ottawa Citizen
A civil man in a crude worldOttawa Citizen, Canada - 8 hours agoIt was his usual appeal to find eloquence in earnings and poetry in profit. He desperately wanted writing to transcend cliché and move beyond the banality ...
- Class of 1968 Returns to Campus, Reminds Columbia to Get Busy Living ... - Columbia Spectator
This week’s events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1968 protests made for an interesting study in alumni relations. With 1968 protester Hilton Obenzinger’s new autobiographical novel Busy Dying in hand, I headed to Saturday night’s ...
- Getting in the spirit - Southtown Star
Getting in the spiritSouthtown Star, IL - 3 hours agoSome find value in meditating, painting, reading poetry, listening to music, playing sports, communing with nature or spending time with the people they ...
- Book News: British literary winner to speak - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteBook News: British literary winner to speakPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 1 hour agoApril 2 is also the date for a reading by Brian Turner at the International Poetry Forum at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, Oakland. ...
- Mike Doughty: Musician makes words sing - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Mike Doughty: Musician makes words singFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 2 hours agoHe DJ's at after-parties, writes poetry, recently started an independent record label, Snack Bar, and keeps a running commentary on his life via a blog ...
- Black consciousness pioneer dies - Independent Online
Black consciousness pioneer diesIndependent Online, South Africa - 8 hours agoDescribing himself as "negro, negro from the bottom of the sky immemorial", Cesaire fought colonialism through political activism and poetry which often ...
- Felix Dennis: Murder 'Confession' Was a Prank - Conde Nast Portfolio
Conde Nast PortfolioFelix Dennis: Murder 'Confession' Was a PrankConde Nast Portfolio, NY - 9 hours ago... develops and beats crack cocaine addiction; discovers love of poetry after near-death experience, and goes on to be come Britain's top poet; ...
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