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- Advocates gather to promote change in marijuana laws - Daily Texan Online
High above the Pecan Street Festival, Texans for the legalization of marijuana showed their support Saturday night at the Third Annual Sixth Street Smokeout and 2008 Global Marijuana Music Awards at Momo’s. The Texas branch of NORML, the National ...
- Godseys, Givens in Circle of Honor - Plainview Daily Herald
Godseys, Givens in Circle of HonorPlainview Daily Herald, TX - 4 hours agoAs president of the World Congress of Poetry, she hosted poets and writers from 35 foreign countries in Plainview for a week in 2002. ...
- Tech professor Nikki Giovanni dispels some myths in 'Rosa' - Inrich.com
Rosa Parks . . . Award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni knew the iconic figure for 20 years. Giovanni is perhaps best known as an English professor and writer at Virginia Tech who brought the Hokie Nation to its feet in April last year with the reading of ...
- Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic timeline - Daily Telegraph
— 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 ...
- The Lure of Namibia - Rocky Mount Telegram
The Lure of NamibiaRocky Mount Telegram, NC - 6 hours agoEven beside the main highway, there are enough elephants, giraffes and springbok to satisfy those who can’t imagine a southern African trip without big game ...
- 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' at Theatricum Botanicum - Los Angeles Times
Fame, addiction, fatality: "Long Day's Journey Into Night," now on view at the Theatricum Botanicum , posits the American family as crime scene, echoing back to the Greeks but as modern as Britney's latest rehab lapse. A half-century since its ...
- Quantum poetics (Guardian Unlimited)
A friend emailed months ago and asked me to contribute to an anthology of "space poems". He was pairing up poets with astronomers in the hopes that new poetry would result, and my counterpart was Paul Murdin, the treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Love is not the enemy - Detroit Metro Times
Detroit Metro TimesLove is not the enemyDetroit Metro Times, MI - 1 hour agoThis is where moore spends her days writing poetry and running Moore Black Press, the publishing company she founded in 1997 in order to release her first ...
- On the outside - Age
TIMES change. It's difficult to remember this, when you're waiting at the interminable lights on the corner of Hoddle and Brunton, gazing at the slowly revolving men's club billboard featuring airbrushed slappers draped over each other like the all ...
- FREE EVENT: Slammin' poetry - Idaho Statesman
If you want to see and hear something hilarious, clever and gut-bustingly funny -- for free -- get yourself to the Student Union Building at Boise State University for a free poetry workshop with the Mighty Mike McGee at 5 p.m. Monday. It’s part of ...
- Charlotte Kohler dies; had edited literary magazine - Richmond Times Dispatch
Charlotte Kohler dies; had edited literary magazineRichmond Times Dispatch, VA - 46 minutes agoMs. Kohler, who was known to recite Greek poetry and then provide the translation, was the first American editor to publish South African writer Nadine ...
- I'm not one to crow, but my pet's a rook... - Daily Mail
Daily MailI'm not one to crow, but my pet's a rook...Daily Mail, UK - Aug 8, 2008Perhaps wild rooks depend too much upon one another to adjust well to human friendship. However, the Scottish writer Esther Woolfson has proved that the ...
- Hendrix to stage reading of alum's work - Log Cabin Democrat
Hendrix to stage reading of alum's workLog Cabin Democrat, AR - 1 hour agowritten by Jason Burke Murphy, is part of the college's annual Hendrix-Murphy Alumni Playwriting Contest. "The play is very crude and silly but also deals ...
- 'Bird's Nest' Ballads: Olympic National Anthems - NPR News
Morning Edition , August 7, 2008 - As the Summer Olympics get under way in Beijing, a song called "The March of the Volunteers" is likely to be heard a time or two. It's China's national anthem. As winning athletes mount victory podiums in the new ...
- Day two scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison - Isthmus Daily Page
Day two scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in MadisonIsthmus Daily Page, WI - Aug 7, 2008The second night of preliminary competition in the National Poetry Slam kept downtown Madison stages and clubs busy as the first round of bouts wrapped up ...
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