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- Read This Before the Market Crashes - MSNBC
I just watched Maria Bartiromo slap around one of those monster screamers on CNBC. I won't call the fellow out by name ( eventually he going to be right, right?), but I just had to pile on with this: "You go, girl!" It's about time somebody stood up ...
- Cheapflights.com Celebrates Gay Pride Month With Tips for Visiting ... - Forbes
It's time to kick up your heels and be "Mary!" The month of June not only marks the official start of summer, but also commemorates the anniversary of the modern gay rights movement. Cities across the globe take this opportunity to celebrate freedom ...
- Scott Griffin, the founder of the influential Griffin Poetry Prize ... - CBC News
This year’s Griffin Poetry Prize winners will be announced on June 4, with a Canadian and an international poet each receiving $50,000. The other day I was asked why I like poetry, as if liking poetry was some strange aberration that required ...
- Poet's collection explores the 'exuberant fallibility of being (Post-Bulletin)
Alex Lemon is a poet interested in white space. His poems don't follow the traditional, rigid lines many would associate with poetry. They jump across the page, seem to form lines, then break out unc
- The Vietnamese Flag in Living Colors (New America Media)
The latest controversy regarding the Vietnamese yellow flag with three stripes appearing in a foot bath, published by Nguoi Viet daily newspaper in their 2008 Tet magazine has drawn international attention, yet no one has been able to adequately explain the phenomenal outrage that have not just engulfed Little Saigon, but polarized the overseas Vietnamese.
- Old Town’s Creole Gallery set to reopen on June 1 - Lansing State Journal
Starting June 1, the Creole Gallery in Old Town will start holding monthly art exhibitions again. Roxanne Frith, who teaches photography at Lansing Community College, plans to act as the exhibition coordinator and already has the gallery’s first ...
- Sacred Heart announces award winners - Waseca County News
Sacred Heart announces award winnersWaseca County News, MN - 24 minutes agoAt the adult level, Rosalie Grams won the poetry contest. Contest categories include essay, poetry, art, poster, computer art, music and photography. ...
- Pillbox among many for Red Cross benefit at Nathan P. Murphy's - News-Leader.com
Pillbox among many for Red Cross benefit at Nathan P. Murphy'sNews-Leader.com, MO - 5 hours agoThe Outland Ballroom, 326 South Ave., 863-9779: Flobots, Legion of Groove and Well Fed Head Poetry Slam, 9 pm today; Spookie Daly Pride, 9 pm Friday; ...
- Sausalito choreographer pushes the limit with social issues - Marin Independent-Journal
Sausalito choreographer pushes the limit with social issuesMarin Independent-Journal, CA - 10 hours agoThe title is taken from a line in a WS Merwin poem, "The River of Bees," and the work uses the poem and the beauty of land, water and animals to explore the ...
- Larry Wilson: Burden was poetry in motion - Whittier Daily News
Everyone - the traditional readers left among us, at least - laments the state of contemporary American poetry, yet few do anything about it. What is it that should be done? Well, how about writing better poetry. That's what Jean Burden did. Burden ...
- Poetry slam: Councilor to challenge Gloucester laureate nomination (Gloucester Daily Times)
Before the Committee for the Arts' choice for the city's next poet laureate, Ruthanne "Rufus" Collinson, starts penning any acceptance speeches, her appointment will have to survive a challenge by a city councilor on Tuesday.
- Poetry in emotion: For some kids, a safety valve - New York Daily News
Middle-school contest winners (including Robert John Hansen, back l.). While a lot of kids de-stress after school with a little Wii time, 14-year-old Robert John Hansen takes pen to paper and writes a few lines of verse. "Instead of me fighting other ...
- Singer credits Guthrie's influence (The Oklahoman)
When emerging singer-songwriter Samantha Crain lists her musical influences, they wind from her dad's favorites including the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan to the electronic experiments of Radiohead to fellow Oklahomans such as Student Film and Ali Harter. "I'd say a major part of my musical influence does come from Oklahoma, and ... the Flaming Lips and Woody Guthrie are probably two of my ...
- Anecdote answers the origins of a Richard Hugo poem (The Oregonian)
You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago. You walk these streets laid out by the insane, past hotels that didn't last, bars that did, the tortured try of local drivers to accelerate their lives. Only churches are kept up.
- Classical notes from a provocative pianist — Matthew Edwards plays ... - Pacifica Tribune
San Francisco Bay Area native Matthew Edwards will present a classical piano performance this Saturday at Pacifica Performances Sanchez Concert Hall. Many Pacificans know Edwards as the pianist for the San Francisco Symphony Chorus as well as pianist ...
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