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- Dandy Yankee doodles: When did American painting escape the shadow of Europe? (Independent)
In 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson was looking forward to the great American poem. "We have yet had no genius in America... Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boats and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. ...
- Antioch University plans to close Coretta Scott King Center - Yellow Springs News
Antioch University plans to close Coretta Scott King CenterYellow Springs News, OH - 7 minutes agoThe center’s first program was a Native American symposium focused on the issues and activism of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, which occurred prior to the ...
- Two jazz operas premier in Oakland - Oakland Tribune
Two new jazz operas are coming to town beginning Thursday. The first piece, "The Sisyphus Syndrome," by Black Power poet-playwright Amiri Baraka and sax man David Murray, opens Thursday. The Baraka-Murray duo combines poetry, live music and mixed ...
- Making the Band 4 stars talk about their future plans and musical ... - Vanguard Online (subscription)
Making the Band 4 stars talk about their future plans and musical ...Vanguard Online (subscription), MA - 3 hours ago"Poetry, a very big, emotional ballad" along with "Striptease, very sexy … a little of a tease without going all the way." Production of the album occurred ...
- Faith in Action - On Faith
On FaithFaith in ActionOn Faith, DC - 56 minutes agoThe Festival of Sufi Culture is an eight-day event, now in its second year, that combines musical performances with poetry recitations, discussions on ...
- New week-long arts celebration to begin in April
Greensboro News & Record - ... May 4, the celebration will include a variety of professional performances of classical music, jazz, blues, bluegrass, poetry ... The event will be free and will include music, a chess tournament and other games.
- Ranch rodeo featuring 48 bronc-riding 'working cowboys' set for Andrews' ACE Arena on May 24-25 (Midland Reporter-Telegram)
By Ed Todd MRT Correspondent ANDREWS -- A ranch rodeo featuring "working cowboys" riding wild broncs will be staged in Andrews this weekend in an event that is designed to accentuate the "ranch heritage" of the Old West and today.
- Posted -54 sec ago - Sarnia Observer
Posted -54 sec agoSarnia Observer, Canada - 1 hour agoTo celebrate National Poetry Month, Peggy Fletcher will read from her collection "From the Reserves" and Norma West Linder will present work from "Days of ...
- Urdu Rubaiyat now in Polish - Thaindian.com
Urdu Rubaiyat now in PolishThaindian.com, Thailand - 15 minutes agoWarsaw, April 18 (IANS) Urdu poetry, which has made inroads in Polish literary circles in the last few years with the publications of Mir, Ghalib, ...
- Blue Ridge Middle School Student Wins First in State - Greenville News
Blue Ridge Middle School Student Wins First in StateGreenville News, SC - 32 minutes ago... was awarded first place in the state of South Carolina for her poster entered in the National Career Development Association Poster and Poetry contest. ...
- Heat is on for annual Pichakaaree competition - Trinidad & Tobago Express
Heat is on for annual Pichakaaree competitionTrinidad & Tobago Express, Trinidad and Tobago - 8 hours agoPoonwassie said he began writing poetry at the age of 11 and also did story telling before entering Pichakaaree in 1994. Other finalists in the competition ...
- Finding poetry in music (The Jackson Sun)
In the last weeks before school is out for the summer, Northeast Middle School eighth grade English teacher Margo Martindale covers poetry with her students.
- 'The Willow Tree' offers cautions about what we see - Minneapolis Star Tribune
'The Willow Tree' offers cautions about what we seeMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 54 minutes agoYoussef (Parvis Parastui, pictured), the 45-year-old protagonist, reads and types in Braille, and teaches the poetry of Rumi at a university in Tehran. ...
- Ethnic Cleansing of Art by Turks, A Speech Written by Diamanda Galas - Assyria Times
Ethnic Cleansing of Art by Turks, A Speech Written by Diamanda GalasAssyria Times, CA - 1 hour agoAs the daughter of a Maniate Spartan and an Anatolian hailing from Smryna/Izmir, the Black Sea, and Alexandria, I find the ethnic cleansing of art to be ...
- 2008 Philadelphia Book Festival Blends Books, Music, High-Tech ... - PR Newswire (press release)
2008 Philadelphia Book Festival Blends Books, Music, High-Tech ...PR Newswire (press release), NY - 39 minutes ago"From big-name bestsellers to debut novelists, from poetry to memoirs and children's authors -- the Book Festival gives readers a unique opportunity to hear ...
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