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- The antidote to universal troubles - Times Online
The antidote to universal troublesTimes Online, UK - 9 hours agoThe most concise distillation of why poetry matters is in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. When one of the boys complains that most poetry is about ...
- THEATRE: NOW PLAYING - Globe and Mail
THEATRE: NOW PLAYINGGlobe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours agoAthena (Colleen Wheeler) and Apollo (Frank Zotter) materialize and launch into a two-hour (often very funny) discussion of art, antiquity and the influence ...
- Art notes: From German films to poetry - Lynchburg News and Advance
Lynchburg College will host a German Film Festival next week. The festival, which runs from Oct. 22-25, will feature four films, a lecture and a music recital. “I wanted to do something cultural for the German community here. There are quite a few ...
- At Lincoln, a Rare Schooling in Social Justice - Voiceof San Diego
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 | In the dimly lit classroom a television newscast flickered before dozens of Lincoln High students and their teacher. They watched as the reporter explained that Lincoln's test scores had failed to pass muster under No Child ...
- Delving Into the Black Experience, Generation by Generation (New York Times)
?Resurrection? will most likely resonate with those who know next to nothing of the black world Daniel Beaty writes about and with those who actually live in it.
- Farmingdale Resident Coordinating Committee for Poetry Contest - Farmingdale Observer
Farmingdale Resident Coordinating Committee for Poetry ContestFarmingdale Observer, NY - 17 minutes agoWheat said "We think this publication will be a first in American culture -- a book of literature, being poems by students in all grade levels. ...
- Winchester Out Loud - Hampshire Chronicle
Winchester Out LoudHampshire Chronicle, UK - 8 hours agoChildren will have the chance to devise their own beastly poetry at a Grimm and Grotty workshop, linked to Jewry Street based Winchester Discovery Centre's ...
- Angelou writing a poem about Obama (AP via Yahoo! News)
Upon his election 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 feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
- Messages from the conflict zone - Guardian Unlimited
The arrest of Radovan Karadżic has refocused attention on the under-acknowledged part played by poetry in the Bosnian war. In an opinion piece for the London Review of Books, Slavoj Žižek placed the blame squarely on Karadzic's trollish verse for ...
- Petal teacher motion denied - Hattiesburg American
Petal teacher motion deniedHattiesburg American, MS - 37 minutes agoPetal Sgt. Gavin Guy testified Thursday that William Folks brought to police his wife's daily planner, the love poem and box of condoms. ...
- Tears without end: the terrible price of true love - Independent
Tears without end: the terrible price of true loveIndependent, UK - 7 minutes agoAnd a broken heart is not just poetry, or so the doctors say. The old folks are together 50 years then one of them goes, and the other can't stand it. ...
- Hoberman Named Children's Poet Laureate for Joyous Word Play - Greenwich Citizen
Hoberman Named Children's Poet Laureate for Joyous Word PlayGreenwich Citizen, CT - 1 hour agoBy Anne W. Semmes Mary Ann Hoberman has a purpose in life. She wants to read her children's poetry out loud, "to show how much fun it is," she says, ...
- Win for party piece@Normal:Poetry in motion ... Brunswick resident ... - Footscray, Yarraville, Braybrook Star
Win for party piece@Normal:Poetry in motion ... Brunswick resident ...Footscray, Yarraville, Braybrook Star, Australia - 17 minutes agoA POETIC birthday present has earned Brunswick resident Geoff Lemon a place in the state finals of the Australian Poetry Slam. ...
- Former Los Gatos mayor remembered as caring person, good friend - San Jose Mercury News
Former Los Gatos mayor remembered as caring person, good friendSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 45 minutes agoO'Laughlin was passionate about literature and poetry. After leaving the town council and retiring from his law practice, he received a master's degree in ...
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