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- Chicago's Tony haul - Chicago Sun-Times
It was an all but foregone conclusion that the 62nd annual Tony Awards ceremony from New York’s Radio City Music Hall Sunday night was going to be a grand affirmation of Chicago theater. Only two questions loomed: First, how many of the seven ...
- Wanda's Picks (San Francisco Bay View)
Happy Birthday, Mama! Today is the birthday of my mother, Helen Isaac.
- Bards averse to top poetry job (Channel 4)
Every 10 years there is a new poet laureate - that strange job in which one of Britain's leading writers is nominated to produce verse on state occasions and to promote poetry in schools.
- Hofstra Team Returns to Lloyd Manor in June to Continue Slave ... - Media Newswire (press release)
Hofstra Team Returns to Lloyd Manor in June to Continue Slave ...Media Newswire (press release), NY - May 1, 2008Lloyd Manor is already well known as the residence of Jupiter Hammon, one of the first published African American poets, who was born a Lloyd family slave ...
- Historical anti-slavery speech the subject of July 4th celebration - Oakland Tribune
Oakland musicians and poets will offer an alternative celebration of Independence Day this week with a staged version of Frederick Douglass' famed 1852 speech decrying the hypocrisy of slavery in a supposedly free country. Poetry and jazz ensemble ...
- Main in Motion kicks off - Montrose Daily Press
Main in Motion kicks offMontrose Daily Press, CO - 57 minutes ago... the “Free Stage,” facilitated by the Boys and Girls Club and White Tie Productions. “We welcome all musicians and poetry readings,” Tyrrell said. ...
- Blue Heron Committee working to keep statues in public eye - Winona Daily News
Last summer, Winona went to the birds and decorated the city with 15 blue heron statues. Now, the people who helped the herons land on street corners and storefronts have formed the Blue Heron Committee and want to make sure art is still visible. On ...
- The Duke wows Sri Lanka - Daily Mirror
Daily MirrorThe Duke wows Sri LankaDaily Mirror, Sri Lanka - 7 hours agoThe winner , announced on the 28th of April, was Vivi Marie Van der Poorten for her collection of poetry titled 'Nothing Prepares You'. ...
- Book review: August Kleinzahler's new book of poems, "Sleeping It ... - International Herald Tribune
Book review: August Kleinzahler's new book of poems, "Sleeping It ...International Herald Tribune, France - 9 hours agoAcouple of years ago, writing in Poetry magazine, August Kleinzahler lighted a string of firecrackers under Garrison Keillor and his "Writer's Almanac" ...
- Who's Townshend slams iTunes as 'heartless' (Macworld UK)
The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has blasted Apple's iTunes Store as "brilliant, but heartless". "Artists can no longer sell the products of their genius because the internet supplies it virtually for free. What can be sold is that genius in the flesh," Jenkins thrills.
- Philadelphia teacher of year: Bodine's Hart (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
An English teacher who has her hand in many school activities beyond the classroom was named the Philadelphia School District's teacher of the year last night.
- New SF/F/H books : second week June 2008 - Locus Online
Locus OnlineNew SF/F/H books : second week June 2008Locus Online, CA - 1 hour agoAnthology of feminist poetry by Coleridge, Mew, and Warner along with commentary and poems by editor Goss, and a bibliography. ...
- It's Brecht-bashing season once again. Will this sorry bunch of ... - Guardian Unlimited
It's strange how forgiving we are of artists who were involved with Hitler's Third Reich. In 1933, Goebbels appointed the composer Richard Strauss - whose dreamily decadent operas Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier remain central to any ...
- Eminent scholar’s work on show at Bangor University - Daily Post
Eminent scholar’s work on show at Bangor UniversityDaily Post, UK - 1 hour agoSir Ifor Williams (1881-1965) from Tregarth near Bethesda’s main interest was early Welsh poetry, such as the work of Aneirin, Taliesin and Llywarch Hen. ...
- Want to take a city's pulse? Head for the graveyard - Guardian Unlimited
Anyone who has read of Pip's terrifying encounter with Magwitch in Great Expectations will be aware of the elemental power of graveyards. And anyone who has heard Hamlet contemplate Yorick's skull ('Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not ...
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