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- With Obama's election, Angelou feels a poem coming on (Winston-Salem Journal)
Upon his election as president in 1992, Bill Clinton -- affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president -- asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou now feels a new poem welling up inside her after Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
- New benefits for writers - Banffshire Journal
New benefits for writersBanffshire Journal, UK - 2 hours ago'Work in Progress' is a critical assessment initiative for wordsmiths of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, stage plays and screen scripts. ...
- Local students to display art in rotunda - Great Falls Tribune
Local students to display art in rotundaGreat Falls Tribune, MT - 2 hours agoJohn Bohlinger and the Montana Arts Council invite people to celebrate National Arts and Humanities month by visiting the art, poetry and prose on display ...
- Genre Reviews: photography books - Daily Telegraph
Charles de Gaulle airport: scant promise, one might think, for creative rumination, yet JH Engström's book of photographs provides an eerily beautiful portrait of it. The airport was his first contact with the world outside his native Sweden and, he ...
- No "Doubt" -- new Shanley musical a mess (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "This is a train wreck," says a character in John Patrick Shanley's "Romantic Poetry," an astoundingly misjudged attempt at a new musical.
- Trip Planning (Washington Post)
If you only have 72 hours in Washington, like this article's family, planning is essential.
- The Bookworm: Willie Nelson is better at writing songs than novels - La Crosse Tribune
Let’s say someone wronged you. They cut you off in traffic. Stole from you. Backed into your car and didn’t leave a note. Hacked into your computer and left a virus. Things like that make you angry, and you probably plot all kinds of revenge ...
- Spoken-word artist leads green revolution - Inside Bay Area
Spoken-word artist leads green revolutionInside Bay Area, CA - 7 minutes agoThe program is a spoken word institute, sort of a theatrical think tank that uses a combination of poetry, dance, music, art and film, all with a hip-hop ...
- 'Hippest man on earth' - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver Sun'Hippest man on earth'Vancouver Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoVancouver poet Robin Blaser, 83, recently won the $50000 Griffin Prize for Canadian poetry. "He was the hippest guy in the room." The next day the "hippest ...
- What's in an apple name? - Minneapolis Star Tribune
What's in an apple name?Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 20 hours ago... flavor profile in mind -- half of me bought it for the pies I would make, and the other half bought it just because I love the poetry of those names. ...
- Digitization | ‘Open Yale’ sparks global interest (Yale Daily News)
About a month after his “Fundamentals of Physics” course was posted on the Open Yale Courses Web site in December 2007, physics professor Ramamurti Shankar received an e-mail from a high school teacher at Victoria Bilingual Christian Academy in Quito, Ecuador.
- Unlocking the Ransom Center's 'Mystique of the Archive' (Austin American-Statesman)
Rustling around in an archive sounds like a dreary task — the sort of thing you'd delegate to the unpaid summer intern. But if you've ever spent a stray hour plunging into the countless files held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, you know that there's nothing dreary about it at all.
- Getting Out - Daily Breeze
Getting OutDaily Breeze, CA - 2 hours agoPoetry Reading: Open mike reading and featured poet Michelle Bitting; free; sign-up at 7:50 pm, reading at 8:10 pm Tuesday; Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina ...
- Williams Students Encouraged to Do Something They Love - iBerkshires.com
iBerkshires.comWilliams Students Encouraged to Do Something They LoveiBerkshires.com, MA - 12 minutes agothe slam poetry champion said to the class of 2012 at Williams College on Saturday as she described her own experiences in trying to find her way through ...
- Jimmy D Robinson's "A Tiny Shoe" Hits The Billboard Dance Chart - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)Jimmy D Robinson's "A Tiny Shoe" Hits The Billboard Dance ChartPR Web (press release), WA - 56 minutes agoThe 'A Tiny Shoe' dance single emanates from Robinson's lead poetry track on his inspirational and uplifting MIND JUICE spoken word CD. ...
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