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- Hometown team gets 2nd in National Poetry Slam first bout - The Capital Times
Hometown team gets 2nd in National Poetry Slam first boutThe Capital Times, WI - 16 hours ago"[The poem] had kind of the recurring theme of 'he's not my father, he's not yours either,'" Mata noted. Unlike other teams throughout the competition, ...
- COLUMN: Leyde: Murphey follows way of the West (The Salinas Californian)
Michael Martin Murphey isn't shy about sharing what his priorities are: The cowboy way, restoring the American prairie, longhorn cattle and preserving our Western heritage.
- How interrogation by CIA made al-Qaeda's plotter turn to poetry - Scotsman
IN A makeshift prison in the north of Poland, al-Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It was 18 months after the 9/11 attacks, and the invasion of Iraq was giving Muslim extremists new ...
- 'Paradise' dreaming of a better future - New Straits Times
DARFUR'S biggest city and historic trade hub, Nyala, is a gateway to Sudan with business prospects to entice the intrepid and a cinema keeping light entertainment alive in the dark days of war. One aid worker described it as "the Manhattan of Darfur ...
- Arguing the World: Standpoint, A New British Periodical - New York Sun
Arguing the World: Standpoint, A New British PeriodicalNew York Sun, United States - 3 hours agoEnlisting the poetry of Robert Conquest is surely one way to fashion a rampart. So too is having an advisory board that attests to such heady cosmopolitan ...
- A Modern Mass With Notes of Messiaen (The New York Sun)
The Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's Church features an all-encompassing variety of mass settings, from High Renaissance polyphony to modern jazz. Hearing the same subject in the same words treated by composers of many countries, periods, and stylistic bents allows the regular attendee to develop a much clearer picture of the evolution of church music over time, and its ...
- Local author seeks to help others find purpose in life - North Channel Sun
Barnes' book, "Purposefully Purposed: A Christian's Viewpoint" draws on personal experiences to explain how to rediscover meaning in life in the face of devastating personal tragedies and misfortunes. Vanessa Barnes remembers many years ago when ...
- Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Big Range Dance Festival, Electile Dysfunction, La Sylphide and A Doll's House, Present ... (Houston Press)
bare Damon Intrabartolo (music and book) and Jon Hartmere (book and lyrics) call their vigorous and entertaining R-rated musical set at a co-ed Catholic boarding school a "pop opera," and that's all right by us, even though it's a long way from having an opera's thematic unity. Yes, everything's sun ...
- McCain Moves Right On Affirmative Action - The Bulletin
Democrats claim the McCain camp has engaged in what they are calling another flip-flop in an attempt to placate the right flank of the Republican Party. But the presumptive Republican nominee's people claim it derives from their candidate's lifelong ...
- My favorite cookbook - Christian Science Monitor
My favorite cookbookChristian Science Monitor, MA - 52 minutes agoI've worked through this book slowly, as I would a fine entrée, to fully savor the poetry of the author's writing style and the alchemy that belies a ...
- Writing Workshop Changes Students - Washington Post
Writing Workshop Changes StudentsWashington Post, United States - 16 minutes agoSchwalb calls the poetry "unbelievable. Stelita is a really good example [of a kid learning] to express angry feelings in writing instead of physically. ...
- Football, an independent India were his passions - Hindustan Times
Harkishan Singh Bassi changed his surname to ‘Surjeet’ while trying his hand writing poetry in his youth. Surjeet lived the simple life. He was his own secretary, attending phone calls and keeping a mental note of the visitors he expected over ...
- On the Floor: Phat heads up - Otago Daily Times
On the Floor: Phat heads upOtago Daily Times, New Zealand - 9 hours agoIn recent years he's been just as well known for his writing as for his music. He's reading next at the Octagon Poetry Collective get-together on August 20, ...
- REMEMBERING NORMAN CORWIN, THE POET LAUREATE OF RADIO (Asbury Park Press)
Recently, I agreed to be a guest lecturer at a friend's media class.
- Roger Hall; WWII spy who made it fun in his memoir; 89 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Roger Hall, 89, who wrote “You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger,†a wry memoir about World War II spycraft that became a cult classic in intelligence circles and appealed to a wide audience for its irreverence, died July 20 at his home in Wilmington, Del. He had congestive heart failure.
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