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- War of words at library - Owen Sound Sun Times
An enthusiastic crowd gathered to watch competitive poetry at the library on the weekend at an event that saw poetic performances from the raw and vulnerable to the knee-slapping. There was even a gross-out exposee about nose picking. As part of the ...
- Who is Rashid Khalidi and why is he a factor in the presidential ... - Arabisto.com
Who is Rashid Khalidi and why is he a factor in the presidential ...Arabisto.com, FL - 4 hours agoWorse – there’s always something worse in situations like this – some people got up at the dinner and read some poetry that included some strident attacks ...
- Words from the past, insights for today - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesWords from the past, insights for todayLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoHe also put poetry into the mouths of the morally conflicted leader of the top-secret Manhattan Project hidden away in the Southwestern desert, ...
- No Shame Theatre to kick off in Lincoln (Daily Nebraskan)
As a high school student in Waterloo, Iowa, Gail Gallagher was a regular attendee of No Shame Theatre at the nearby University of Northern Iowa. No Shame is an independent, somewhat underground series of performances whose first show was performed out of the back of a pick-up truck in 1986.
- the descent of man - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukthe descent of manTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 34 minutes agoOne of the great heavyweights of American literature, John Updike is as famous for his graphic approach to sex as his elegantly crafted dissections of the ...
- Popular business directory searches (The Weatherford Democrat)
If Weatherford senior Russell Hale knew he had knack for writing, he never expected others to recognize it.
- UMass Boston Professor Publishes New Book (The Mass Media)
The Mass Media was lucky enough to catch up with professor an esteemed author Jill McDonough to chat about her latest publication, her accomplishments and what you can do to follow in her literary footsteps. Mass Media: What courses do you teach here at UMB? Jill McDonough: I teach Reading and Writing Poetry at the undergrad and graduate levels this term; next term I'm teaching ...
- Iran's Mr Nice - satire on a tightrope - Yahoo News
TEHRAN (AFP) - In Iran , satirising the establishment can mean being slapped with a publication ban or even jail for an editor. Making fun of the president and senior leaders is not a task to be undertaken lightly. Tightrope-walking, as the publisher ...
- The new war against TB - Guardian Unlimited
In one photograph a young boy, his arms spread as if in supplication, gazes listlessly at the ceiling as a woman - his mother, we presume - cradles him tenderly in her arms. In another, a grey-haired man attached to an oxygen cylinder sits cross ...
- Three Sang of Love Together - The Edinburgh Journal
Three Sang of Love TogetherThe Edinburgh Journal, UK - 2 hours ago... poem ‘Infantry Columns’ startles and disrupts the production and detracts from an otherwise pleasant and contemplative exploration of the poetry of love ...
- Richards: Off The Fence - ZNet
Richards: Off The FenceZNet, MA - 13 minutes agoShe explained that she had heard a song written by a local artist titled "Why Are We Here" at a veteran's poetry event over the weekend. ...
- Loft's EQ series produces CD (Pioneer Press)
When Bao Phi launched the Loft's Equilibrium series in 2002, spoken word was still a noisy newcomer crashing the local poetry scene. The Twin Cities had few established venues for spoken-word performers and none focused on artists of color.
- Ned Temko: Gordon, you're no Obama (Guardian Unlimited)
It has become the cliché of the day, but it is no less true the more often it's said: America has a rock star as president. And in Gordon Brown's message of congratulations this morning, a new and related phenomenon has been born: world leaders as groupies. "I know Barack Obama," the prime minister gushed. And surely his aides must have feared that in so gushing he risked inviting the ...
- Mom's game to learn football - Toronto Sun
There are certain things about life which I have actively chosen to ignore. I have no interest in learning how to change the oil in my car, program my universal remote or understand sports. And since I always turn the channel on any sporting event ...
- WORKSHOP 5:50 p.m. — Poetry and performance workshops available for teens (Pacific Daily News)
5:50 p.m., Oct. 23 — "Spoken Word: The New Generation of Native Tongues" after-school spoken word poetry/writing workshops program will run through February 2009. The program is free and open to all teens.
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