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- Call for Entries - Listen & Be Heard
Call for EntriesListen & Be Heard, CA - 17 minutes agoCall for E-Literature, Digital Fiction, Hypertext Fiction, Sequential Text Video, Digital Poetry, E-Poetry, and other forms of Electronic Writing. ...
- Umm Kulthum: The Voice of Egypt - NPR News
Several of the singer's famous dresses are on display at the Umm Kulthum Museum in Cairo. Weekend Edition Sunday , May 11, 2008 - "All Arabs agree," reads The Rough Guide to World Music . "Umm Kulthum is indisputably the Arab world's greatest singer ...
- Lucille Clifton: An Evening of Poetry - PW-Philadelphia Weekly
PW-Philadelphia WeeklyLucille Clifton: An Evening of PoetryPW-Philadelphia Weekly, PA - 3 hours agoNo contest. (Steven Wells) Thurs., May 1, 8pm. $20. Bridge: Cinema de Lux, 40th and Walnut sts. 215.386.3300; Riverview Plaza, 1400 S. Columbus Blvd. ...
- This Weekends Events (My Village Southwark)
Until 07 Aug 2008 A ferociously dark play by Thomas Middleton, set in an avaricious world that seethes with vice and retribution. Following his Olivier award-winning performance in The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear...
- The trail of political Islam - Open Democracy
Gilles Kepel, one of the world’s foremost experts on the modern Middle East, has written “Jihad: the Trail of Political Islam”, the first comprehensive attempt to follow the history and spread of Islamist political movements. In a talk given at ...
- Fort Valley State camp nurtures young talent - Macon Telegraph
Fort Valley State camp nurtures young talentMacon Telegraph, GA - 2 hours agoThe young people's two weeks of intense work will culminate Friday with a free program, open to the public, at the school's Pettigrew Center. ...
- This Day In History: May 22 Claude McKay and Langston Hughes - OUPblog
This Day In History: May 22 Claude McKay and Langston HughesOUPblog, New York - 12 minutes ago... several volumes of poetry, novels, plays, essays and a dozen children’s books. His work celebrated black life and culture infusing them with a strong ...
- Poet staves off poverty in exotic Edmonton - National Post
Poet staves off poverty in exotic EdmontonNational Post, Canada - 1 hour agoThough he's written three novels and a memoir (last fall's The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture), Bowling's first love is poetry. ...
- Tou Saiko Lee: Courage under fire - Twin Cities Planet
Tou Saiko Lee: Courage under fireTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 3 hours agoIn it, he explicitly links his own rapping to Hmong spoken oral poetry, kwv txhiaj, which he’s also performed with his grandmother Youa Chang, ...
- Sunshine vibes - Plymouth Evening Herald
Sunshine vibesPlymouth Evening Herald, UK - 2 hours ago... regional and national performers from a variety of genres including comedy, circus, dance, burlesque, beat boxing, poetry, story-telling and, of course, ...
- Can science explain why ABBA is so catchy? - Boston Globe
It only takes a single exposure, and in an instant, your whole day can change. The infection is rapid and feels potentially unending. One minute you're minding your own business and the next you find that you can't stop thinking, humming, or singing ...
- Nas's Untitled (The Village Voice)
Controversy is clearly Nas's best friend. The lively debate stirred up by 2006's Hip Hop Is Dead was trumped many times over by his year-long proclamation that his next offering would be named Nigger . Wal-Mart, unsurprisingly, didn't love that idea. So what hits shelves this week is si...
- Basque author-in-residence wins prestigious literary prizes - UNR NevadaNews
UNR NevadaNewsBasque author-in-residence wins prestigious literary prizesUNR NevadaNews, NV - 1 hour agoAtxaga has also written short stories, children’s literature, poetry and essays. Atxaga’s work has sold more than 200000 copies, making him the most ...
- Love in a Tsunami's Aftermath: Assarat's 'Wonderful Town' (The New York Sun)
'Wonderful Town," directed by Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat, takes place in a seaside town in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. Though tourism has tanked, some rebuilding is in progress, and yet a certain malaise seems to have settled after the storm. This potent setting and mood is the backdrop for a fragile love story, but the stillness and vaguely drawn characters doom the movie to ...
- Life's still a riot - Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER -- It has been 25 years since Billy Bragg topped the British indie chart with his debut mini-LP Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy - an album that included the classic A New England . He was an angry young man, schooled in the Clash. By the time ...
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