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- Senegal: Festival Celebrates Global Hip Hop (AllAfrica.com)
The organizers of Festa 2H, a Senegalese hip hop festival running in Dakar this week, want to make the West African capital city the capital of the hip hop empire.
- Africa: Futampaf 2008 A Living Cultural Experience (AllAfrica.com)
The world-famous Gambian cultural extravaganza known as the Futampaf (initiation) took place on Thursday at President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh's home village of Kanilai.
- Zimbabwe: Mugabe Held at Gunpoint, Says Exiled Writer - AllAfrica.com
In Chenjerai Hove ’s novels and poetry one finds deep passion for ordinary people under the lash of oppression and struggling against poverty. That very passion has forced him into exile from Zimbabwe, where as both newspaper columnist and novelist ...
- Fantasy novel turns dreams into reality (Leader-Telegram)
Inspiration struck Cayla Kluver while helming the joystick of a Nintendo 64. "I was playing a video game, and I got sick of the video game's plot," Cayla said. "So I decided to write my own."
- Five-figure deal for Finn - The Bookseller (subscription)
Five-figure deal for FinnThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 16 minutes ago... a "high five-figure" deal struck between Rebecca McNally, the newly-appointed publishing director of fiction and poetry, and Finn's agent, Laura Cecil. ...
- Tattoos Are Like Heart On Chest - The Ledger
Tattoos Are Like Heart On ChestThe Ledger, FL - 5 hours agoI really like this poem by Sharmila Voorakkara of Ohio. across your chest, a flare of indelible script. up the braid of your backbone, cuff your wrists. ...
- ...and your score is 71 points too - Bromley Times
...and your score is 71 points tooBromley Times, UK - 2 hours ago"Graduates from the course have already gone on to win poetry competitions and to publish novels and travel writing.
- Jonathan Leigh Solomon: Tapping Barack Obama's Phone (HuffingtonPost)
When Obama eschewed the pundit's red-blue-purple state preoccupation during his '04 Democratic Convention speech, he was choosing poetry over polls.
- ENTERTAINMENT: Table-talk, dining out - Morning Journal
Mother's Day is coming up next weekend, and two special premium Sunday-brunch destinations command attention (and reservations) in advance. Both at gardens, one in the east, one in the west, but very different. In Milan, south of Sandusky, the Chef's ...
- Gowdy, Lee up for Trillium prize - CBC News
Barbara Gowdy and Dennis Lee are among the finalists for this year's Trillium Book Award, Ontario's premier literary prize. The winners will be announced on June 12. Gowdy, winner of the Marian Engel Award in 1996, which recognizes the complete body ...
- Irving’s new Lively Pointe Youth Center offers programs for teens - Pegasus News
Irving’s new Lively Pointe Youth Center offers programs for teensPegasus News, TX - 5 minutes agoSuch programs include creative writing and poetry, jewelry, beads, T-shirt design, geocaching, scrapbooking, Guitar Hero, intramural basketball leagues, ...
- Inmate's death ruled a homicide - WTOP Radio
The math is easy whether you like it or not. Kill a cop and your chances of living decrease significantly. I have no problem with this death. Of course...I am a nihilist and not much really bothers me about the human drama. 19 years old... Alone in ...
- Dissecting Nas’ Untitled - Part 2 - PopMatters
PopMattersDissecting Nas’ Untitled - Part 2PopMatters, IL - 2 hours agoHis first verse is an exploration of African American history in a series of poetic, internally-rhymed individual statements which are able to stand ...
- HJ student heads to state for poetry - Hardin County Index
HJ student heads to state for poetryHardin County Index, TX - 1 hour agoThe solo poem is "The Ballad of Pearl May Lee," by Gwendolyn Brooks and the interwoven piece consists of Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again," ...
- MUSIC SCENE - Morning Journal
When two potent writing, recording and performing inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame get together for a concert, it should be no surprise that the concert will be soon sold out. Indeed, such is the case of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ...
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