Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Killers' actions degrade humanity - judge - Guardian Unlimited
Two teenagers were jailed for life yesterday for the murder of a young woman who was kicked and stamped to death for being a goth after she begged them to stop beating her boyfriend. The judge described the attack as "feral thuggery". Gap-year ...
- Route 19 Student News
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Students given first place medals were: Sebastian Cencich , Miranda Koenig and Andrew Sigg in Poetry; Sarah Wray in Prose; and Aubrey Lubin in Drama.
- Group emboldens gang members to leave life of crime - Newsday
Group emboldens gang members to leave life of crimeNewsday, NY - 56 minutes ago... and writing poetry. Bobby Marchesi hung out with a tough group of Italian boys who clashed violently with black kids at his Brooklyn high school. ...
- BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS PIONEER AIME CESAIRE DIES AT 94 (The Tocqueville Connection)
PARIS, April 11, 2008 (AFP) - Aime Cesaire, who died Thursday aged 94, was a founder of a pioneer black consciousness movement in the 1930s who became a leading poet and writer as well as an outspoken critic of French colonialism.
- Filmmakers keep Portland weird, wild and wired with PDX Fest - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Filmmakers keep Portland weird, wild and wired with PDX FestThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 4 hours agoLike some alterna-world Rose Festival, the PDX Fest -- as it's known for short -- blooms with upstart visions, muckraking manifestos and renegade poetry. ...
- Posted -44 sec ago - Timmins Daily Press
Posted -44 sec agoTimmins Daily Press, Canada - 9 hours agoIn 1302, Pope Boniface VIII sentenced Italian poet and politician Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy, to be burned to death for political reasons. ...
- David Paterson has climbed hurdle after hurdle with grace and humor
New York Daily News - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Sunday, March 16th 2008, 4:00 AM ... one-story, red brick schoolhouse, Clarice Broderick , said Paterson was "the brightest kid in the class" and wrote her poetry.
- Katine: six months on - Guardian Unlimited
Harriet Achen stands in front of an expectant crowd, betraying no sign of nerves. The 14-year-old's portrayal of a rural Ugandan mother of five is convincing. She busies herself setting children tasks to help prepare a family meal and her fellow ...
- Finnish film enthusiasts rejoice! Äideist - Egypt Today
Anew president, new tributes and a new venue for its opening ceremony — the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) is certainly celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in style. Over 125 films will be shown across the capital city this November 28 ...
- Young male leadership summit spells out reality - San Diego Union Tribune
Young male leadership summit spells out realitySan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 11 hours agoMesa College hosted its second annual African American Latino Male Leadership Summit in response to alarming dropout rates among blacks and Latinos. ...
- Vindu's View: Algae startups chase green slime dreams - San Jose Mercury News
Vindu's View: Algae startups chase green slime dreamsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 5 hours ago(Pauline Lubens/Mercury News) There's a certain poetry in the notion of jet planes shooting across the sky, powered by pond scum. Throw in the prospect that ...
- Baritone Hampson gives masterful performance with symphony - Honolulu Advertiser
Baritone Hampson gives masterful performance with symphonyHonolulu Advertiser, HI - 4 hours agoThere is only the whole, the poetry's layers of meaning spun out through music. Those attending might want to bring along a copy of the text and its ...
- Counting One's Blessings, And Misfortunes - New York Sun
Counting One's Blessings, And MisfortunesNew York Sun, NY - 1 hour agoYet he soon returned to verse with "Song and Dance" (2002), and in an interview that same year, he explained why: "I needed poetry then. I didn't need prose ...
- Blanche Ely High School student wins ESOL competition - Westside Gazette
Blanche Ely High School student wins ESOL competitionWestside Gazette - 4 hours agoHe also is the recipient for first place in the Original Oratory Poetry Contest where he was awarded ratings of excellence, outstanding and a medallion for ...
- Why British Asians don't get the arts and don't want to either (Independent)
What Good Are the Arts? was the title of a book by John Carey, whose iconoclastic lectures captivated me long ago when I was struggling to adapt to the peculiarly musky atmosphere of Oxford. Grandiloquent claims that the arts fill a God-shaped hole, rouse rapture, or set down ultimate moral templates are, Carey writes, assumptions or exaggerations: "The notion of artworks as sacred implies that ...
|
|
Looking into a Refinance?
Get your Online Degrees today!
November 2007 Mortgage News
|