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- Night and the Poets - Oregonian
Photo via the Harlem Nights MySpace. The show starts late at Ohm tonight; past 10 p.m., and a musician is missing. The room is still mostly empty, the tables with their flickering candles mostly uninhabited. The slender man at the mic is named ...
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- Three popular North Pinellas principals say goodbye - St. Petersburg Times
Donna Gehringer, left, assistant principal of Brooker Creek Elementary School, and Nell Chapman, principal of the school, celebrate at a retirement party for Chapman in Dunedin last month. Chapman’s last day at the school was Friday.  Forest ...
- Obama holds big lead in poll - Buffalo News
Sen. Barack Obama, shown addressing an event Tuesday in Las Vegas, rejects allegations of distorting the Bible. WASHINGTON — Buoyed by Democrats’ enthusiasm and public concern over the economy, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has captured a sizable ...
- Pedophile's journey to FBI's list began in Houston in 1989 (Houston Chronicle)
When U.S. federal agents and Mexican cyberpolice recently captured an American pedophile on the FBI's most-wanted list, they snared a predator whose criminal deviance quietly began 19 years earlier in Houston.
- Nick Laid on merging science with poetry - guardian.co.uk
Nick Laid on merging science with poetryguardian.co.uk, UK - 26 minutes agoPaul discovered a black hole in Cygnus X-1, and is the author of many popular books on the universe. For my part, I've been reading up on all things cosmic. ...
- Girls strike back at pop culture's beauty ideal - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Olivia Nofzinger, 11, has a friend who likes to ride horses and a friend who likes to protest. She has lots of friends who draw and one who hopes to become a fashion designer. So Olivia, a fifth-grader at St. Anthony Park Elementary School in ...
- Food again big part of Somali festival (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
LEWISTON - Food from all across the western horn of Africa will be central to Saturday's Somali Independence Day celebration at the Multi-Purpose Center.
- Poet to give reading at SUNY Brockport event (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Poet A. Van Jordan will speak at State University College at Brockport's Writers Forum on May 7.
- The Three Of Us: A Family Story, by Julia Blackburn - Independent
The Three Of Us: A Family Story, by Julia BlackburnIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoHer father, so contemptuous of the women to whom he was attracted, was invariably kind to her, teaching her poetry and answering the barrage of questions ...
- Literary post for S.J. native - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose native Kay Ryan thought she might someday be a stand-up comedian, or a funny card writer for Hallmark, but the nation's next poet laureate? Never. That is, until Monday, when Librarian of Congress James H. Billington left a message for her ...
- Blogger shocked at winning $67K literary award (WTOP Radio Network)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A 22-year-old English major at Washington College who has used new media to reflect on her experiences with old-fashioned printing won one of the nation's largest undergraduate literary awards on Sunday.
- Thanks mate, now I really feel inspired to emigrate - The Times
Thanks mate, now I really feel inspired to emigrateThe Times, South Africa - 41 minutes ago... up and get a life or piss off and go find another job,” rants Berger. He then encourages people to make South Africa a better place by writing poetry, ...
- Counting the Dead - New York Times
New York TimesCounting the DeadNew York Times, United States - 42 minutes agoBut the fragmentary forms and skittering attention of her poems suggest that 21st-century activist poetry may face some novel challenges, ...
- Kiya, 18, crowned as Miss Northampton - Northampton Chronicle & Echo
Kiya, 18, crowned as Miss NorthamptonNorthampton Chronicle & Echo, UK - 16 minutes agoHer other achievements include winning a Stars in their Eyes-style contest in 2006 and she has also had poetry published and is a singer and dancer. ...
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