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- Jeffrey Ross: Rules the roast - Punchline Magazine
Punchline MagazineJeffrey Ross: Rules the roastPunchline Magazine, NJ - 22 hours agoThere’s one thing that happens - and you’ll know this from my Lounge Lizards show - at the end of my show I do love poems and I do a whole bunch of them for ...
- Journey of friendship - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunJourney of friendshipVancouver Sun, Canada - 4 hours ago... acrostic poetry, reading about and discussing the Great Vancouver Fire, creating watercolour paintings of spring landscapes, and making friendship pins. ...
- Clubs, concerts, comedy and more (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
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- African-American series character is a role model for black girls her age (The Kansas City Star)
In his mind, Derrick Barnes is already casting the film version of his new children’s books.
- 'Lesbian' not restricted to Greek island - Globe and Mail
ATHENS — A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of ...
- A haiku contest (Contra Costa Times)
An ancient poetic form gets a political twist in a new haiku contest. Can you haiku?
- Magic Potion Miraculously Makes Sylvia Prolific - SmallTownPapers News Service
Magic Potion Miraculously Makes Sylvia ProlificSmallTownPapers News Service, WA - 21 minutes ago“Don’t forget my collection of poetry. I’m almost finished with it. I should be able to send it to the publishers next week.” “Do you have a publisher? ...
- Foundations pick up slack for Modesto-area schools (Modesto Bee)
Ruth Ramsay transformed her third-grade classroom into a hip and trendy cafe for just one evening. Her students at La Rosa Elementary School in Ceres shared the spotlight, reading poetry they wrote for friends and family at an open-microphone coffeehouse.
- Former teacher wins Montana poetry - ONE News
A 54-year-old former schoolteacher has won the poetry category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Janet Charman has beaten strong competition from Johanna Aitchison and Fiona Farrell, with her sixth poetry collection Cold Snack. The West ...
- Water Music - Seattle Weekly
Water MusicSeattle Weekly, WA - 3 hours agoWater is both the theme of the poetry and the percussionists' basic sound source. They create musical effects both dramatic and delicate by manipulating it ...
- What the public wants - Ha'aretz
What the public wantsHa'aretz, Israel - 57 minutes agoIn his poetry book "Lament for Katif," Yaniv Cohen cites the Book of Lamentations: "Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are upon her cheeks. ...
- The Hakawati, by Rabih Alameddine (Independent)
Despite Naguib Mahfouz's Nobel Prize, there has been much discussion as to whether the novel is an appropriate form of Arab expression. While love and adventure abound in Middle Eastern storytelling and poetry, few portrayals of hothouse family life exist. The tour de force of Rabih Alameddine's novel The Hakawati ("storyteller" in Arabic) is that it moves effortlessly between the classic ...
- Chamber Music Northwest ends on a French note - Oregonian
Maurice Ravel's music is beautiful, captivating and as transient as twilight. That's French Impressionism for you, a mosaic of passing moments, woven into continuous strand. It's also an apt image of Chamber Music Northwest, which wrapped up its 38th ...
- Andrew Motion - Eastern Daily Press
King's Lynn Arts Centre (King's Lynn Festival) A festival audience shared an intimate and delightful evening in the company of Andrew Motion, who has been the country's Poet Laureate since 1999. As well as reading from his previously published poems ...
- Padma Lakshmi: The anti-Martha Stewart (Los Angeles Times)
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