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- Poet uses hip-hop to connect with kids - Cincinnati.com
Nikki Giovanni's hip-hop project carries her own parental advisory: Rap music is good for your kids. The world-renowned poet edited "Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat," an illustrated book and accompanying CD with the ...
- A poet speaks and inspires (The Republican)
SPRINGFIELD - World-renowned poet and activist Nikki Giovanni stressed the importance of education and character during one of her several talks Friday at Springfield Technical Community College.
- The taste of ink - Manila Times
From vivid tattoos to flashy cars, from rocking bands to urban flavored graffiti and to the jaw-dropping girls in skimpy bikinis strutting their stuff onstage, Dutdutan 2008 had it all under one roof. The biggest tattoo convention in the Philippines ...
- Black on Black Rhyme poetry event to promote healthy gender roles (Tallahassee Democrat)
The Refuge House and the Black on Black Rhyme troupe are hosting a poetry event tonight designed to prevent domestic violence by promoting healthy gender roles.
- Review: ‘Stevie’ nails complex character (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
“Stevie,” Hugh Whitemore’s 1978 film about British poet Stevie Smith, finally made it to New York in 1981 — as part of a double bill scheduled for two days — and to Milwaukee in 1983. Whitemore’s 1977 play of the same name is now rarely perform...
- The Iliad and The Odyssey remain awesomely true - The Chronicle Herald
IN ITS BOOKS THAT SHOOK the World series, Vancouver publisher Douglas & McIntyre properly includes the Greek poet Homer’s epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, and enlists the consummate belle-lettriste Alberta Manguel to give us the "biography ...
- Arrested American woman felt the tug of Iran (Los Angeles Times)
Esha Momeni was playing with fire when she returned to Tehran from Southern California to work on a project about women's rights. She escaped an unhappy marriage and the restraints of a traditional society, finding solace in poetry and a calling in women's rights activism in the West.
- Retired Air Force nurse turns to verse - Gallup Independent
Retired Air Force nurse turns to verseGallup Independent, NM - 2 hours ago... for “Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq,” a first-ever collection of prose and poetry by women who have served in the military. ...
- Literary Buffalo, Event Listings - Artvoice
Literary Buffalo, Event ListingsArtvoice, NY - 7 hours agoWorkshopwith poet/author Michael Sparling EM Tea Coffee Cup Open Mic Poetry Series. Meets every Tuesday, 7-9:30pm. EM Tea Coffee Cup Café, ...
- Voices of Inexperience, Relating War’s Horrors - New York Times
New York TimesVoices of Inexperience, Relating War’s HorrorsNew York Times, United States - 40 minutes agoThis one, in which an Iraqi baby is run over by military trucks, acquires the repetitive, stuttering poetry of a brutally unrelenting film loop. ...
- Book Review: Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul edited by Judith Valente and Charles Reynard (Blogcritics.org)
The nourishment one takes from this volume of paired poems and essays, perhaps depends upon how one prefers to dine. Twenty poems seem easy enough to find - but ones which nourish the soul? Nourishment of any type is difficult to find. To nourish is to enrich, to sustain. The soul is a much debated article, tangible to some, elusive to others, its very existence a sore topic to many. So, poems ...
- Sun City senior recognized for her poetry by Mensa (The Press-Enterprise)
Versatility is a word that describes Edie Schmoll. She is an accomplished musician who plays piano, organ and accordion and writes music and lyrics for her Music Songs custom song company.
- Poem reveals secret pain of daughter who battled against drink ... - Derby Evening Telegraph
Poem reveals secret pain of daughter who battled against drink ...Derby Evening Telegraph, UK - 12 hours agoDespite beating the disease and finding love with boyfriend Andy Cummings, now 34, Angie became depressed after the couple's attempts at trying for a baby ...
- Holiday fun at Hill-Stead Museum - Stamford Plus Magazine
Holiday fun at Hill-Stead MuseumStamford Plus Magazine, CT - 4 hours agoA centerpiece of the property is the c. 1920 sunken garden designed by Beatrix Farrand, today the site of the renowned Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival.
- School of rock: A decent lyric is not just about what you say but ... - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukSchool of rock: A decent lyric is not just about what you say but ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 5 minutes agoPresented as poetry, even the most celebrated wordsmiths can seem awkward and graceless, but music can do wondrous things. In this respect songwriters with ...
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