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- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - San Diego Union-Tribune
HONOLULU – At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Different way to listen: UVSC professor explores how, why sound ... - Deseret News
Different way to listen: UVSC professor explores how, why sound ...Deseret News, UT - 19 minutes agoThe humanities, ethics and values professor at Utah Valley State College also calls himself a "word shaker" by the way he uses words in his poetry and ...
- Newark Muslim gathering to feature qawwali music performance - Inside Bay Area
NEWARK — Although qawwali music can inspire devotees to enter an ecstatic trance, the point isn't to succumb to sensual abandon but to explore the depths of the soul. One highlight of Sunday's "Respecting Cultural Values: A Criterion for World ...
- AP Top News at 5:23 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House. Vanquished rival Hillary Rodham Clinton swiftly signaled an interest in joining the ticket as his running mate. Obama arranged a victory celebration in St. Paul, Minn., at the site of this summer's Republican ...
- The Note: Poets and Justice - ABC News
For a campaign that's short on poetry of late, we've sure got a fair dose of poetic justice. First, some data points as we try to figure out why really rich folks need to squeeze an extra quarter of a percentage point on their mortgages: - Jim ...
- Library Lines - Livingston Daily
Library LinesLivingston Daily, MI - 8 hours agoCatch the Reading Bug: Poetry, puppetry, music, and more takes place at 10 am Thursday. Advance registration is required. Metroparks Planetarium: Learn ...
- Notre Dame professor/poet to be honored in N.Y. (South Bend Tribune)
SOUTH BEND -- Cornelius Eady and Toi Derricotte will receive the 2008 Elizabeth Kray Award for service to the field of poetry. The prize, presented by Poets House, will be awarded Monday at the 13th annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge.
- Steppenwolf Presents 'Teacher Tales' on June 1 - Broadway World
Steppenwolf Presents 'Teacher Tales' on June 1Broadway World, NY - 16 hours agoDr. Robert Boone is the founder of Young Chicago Authors, publishers of Say What Magazine and home of the highly acclaimed teen poetry festival "Louder Than ...
- Larks in the park (The Star-Ledger)
NEW YORK -- In a leafy corner of Lincoln Center, the popular summer arts festival Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors returns tonight, launching three weeks of free dance, music and poetry events.
- Why we love Phil and Paul - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Why we love Phil and PaulSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 18 hours agoImagine the poetry from the mountains!First, Phil’s gems. Commenting on sprinter Robbie McEwen, who does not have teammates as fast he to set him up: “In ...
- P.E.I. book award shortlist announced (The Guardian)
The jury for the 2008 P.E.I. Book Award has released the shortlist of titles for the prestigious award.
- A poet dwelling in the shadows - Daily Telegraph
The narrator of Robert Edric's In Zodiac Light is a young psychiatrist at Dartford Asylum, in south-east London, in 1923. The novel opens as he takes a party of inmates to see a beached whale in the Thames estuary. The corpse is disappointing: "There ...
- Downturns spur an abundance of riches in arts (Chicago Tribune)
Economic slump spurs riches in the arts J ob insecurity, high gas prices, intimations of scarcity in the American land of plenty.
- Discovering Bukowski - Egypt Today
A few years back, 1987 to be precise, at the Cannes Film Festival — where my film Awdat Mowatin (Return of a Citizen) was selected as one of five international films in a special ‘out of competition’ section created in celebration of the 40th ...
- Studying with the master still resonates with Knoxville guitarist (Knoxville News Sentinel)
There was a point in Ben Bolt's life that felt unreal.
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