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- Gambian 9th Roots Festival Commemorates Enslaved Africans (PRWeb)
Today descendants of enslaved Africans begin a week-long pilgramage through The Gambia in memory of their enslaved ancestors. The journey is part of the "9th International Roots Festival" which opened in the Gambia on Saturday May 31, 2008 with a carnival of jubilant ethnic groups sharing their cultural heritage through song and dance. The festival ends on June 7, 2008. (PRWeb Jun 2, 2008) ...
- Jasper native named Indiana poet laureate - WTHR
Jasper - An author who writes about his youth in the southern Indiana city of Jasper and his German heritage has been named the state's second poet laureate. Norbert Krapf, 64, was selected from among 19 nominees to the post by the Indiana Arts ...
- Battle for the soul of a nation in Emi Oba - Punch
If a filmmaker can take the contemporary Nigerian political a situation, with all the shenaniganism it harbours, write a good story out of it and ambitiously set the story in a pre-colonial era, then such deserves some commendation. Emi Oba is a film ...
- AHS students have poetry slam - Texarkana Gazette
AHS students have poetry slamTexarkana Gazette, TX - 7 hours agoHe spent several days working with classes on incorporating all the required Arkansas Frameworks in writing, school officials said. ...
- 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.
- China's 'ultimate place to relax' (BBC News)
As part of a series of features following the route of the Olympic torch around China, the BBC looks at the mountainous Huangshan.
- Epilogue: Dad loved wartime stories, music - Athens Banner-Herald
Growing up, the Thrasher children loved to hear their father tell stories. Warren Thrasher didn't regale the four kids with standard fairy tales about knights and their castles, but rather tales of tanks and the tough-as-nails generals of World War ...
- Breakfast at Mona's worth the wait (Rocky Mountain News)
It's breakfast time at Mona's, and the dining room is a blur of bodies. Even if the coffee isn't always warm and the weekend waits incite near-hysteria, people are happy here.
- Basque writer Kirmen Uribe receives Pen Club award in New York - EiTB
EiTBBasque writer Kirmen Uribe receives Pen Club award in New YorkEiTB, Spain - 1 hour agoThe translation of the book was made by Elizabeth Macklin and was among the finalists in the category of poetry, an acknowledgement which culminates a year ...
- How Islam Came to Germany - Der Spiegel
The sun sets behind the Yanidze complex in Dresden, the mosque-inspired former home to a tobacco factory. The history of Islam in Germany is believed to date back to the Caliph Harun al-Rashid. In the fabled tales of "1001 Nights," al-Rashid is said ...
- Poet laureate brings poets, poetry lovers together - TriVallyCentral
West Hartford's poet laureate, Maria Sassi, made it her mission to bring West Hartford poets together, and for the most part, she feels as though she has accomplished this goal during her tenure. West Hartford's poet laureate, Maria Sassi, made it ...
- Channeling Shakespeare (The Phoenix)
Cardenio  at the ART; King John at ASP Cardenio , an early-17th-century play in which Shakespeare may well have had a hand, has been MIA since its debut and will doubtless remain so.
- Students learn through recording (The News & Observer)
The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion for making school fun.
- Ancaster native Art Moore's Just Another School shooting... - Ancaster News
Dawson College, Columbine High School and Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique are notable examples. The names of each school are synonymous with violence, thanks to deranged gunmen and overwhelming media exposure. The gunmen captured headlines, but what ...
- Raw poetry: Patti Smith at 61 (The Standard-Times)
What happens when rockers grow old? The short answer is, they become ridiculous. Or that is how they are usually cast — trapped in reruns of VH1's "Behind the Music," or endless reunion tours, all the sex and rebellion and talent spent, like...
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