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- Community Calendar for June 11 - MetroWest Daily News
Community Calendar for June 11MetroWest Daily News, MA - 27 minutes agoCONCORD - POETRY EVENT: Poets from the Concord Poetry Center will read Sunday, June 15, from 2 to 4 pm, at the Concord Riverfest celebration, ...
- Obama venturing onto Clinton territory - International Herald Tribune
Here are two web sites that Barack Hussein Obama, Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan don’t want you to see. Keep them for future reference and share them so everyone knows who Obama really is. I understand why you wrote this. I am an American and ...
- Grads to be honored at kente cloth event (Fremont News-Messenger)
FREMONT -- The African-American College Club will honor graduating students in the Kente Cloth Draping Ceremony at 6 p.m., Friday at Warren Chapel A.M.E. Church in Fremont.
- Christina Patterson: The more sex we get, the more we want (Independent)
"Sex," says the 17-year-old narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, "is something I really don't understand." Well, mate, nor do I. I only know (yes, I'm afraid I do know) that the arms of someone you don't even like – who your head, and your friends, tell you is a total shit – can feel like your natural home on this planet.
- Two jazz operas premier in Oakland - Inside Bay Area
Two new jazz operas are coming to town beginning today. The first piece, "The Sisyphus Syndrome," by Black Power poet-playwright Amiri Baraka and sax man David Murray, opens today. The Baraka-Murray duo combines poetry, live music and mixed media to ...
- Short Stories (Colorado Springs Independent)
Gossip of the Starlings Nina de Gramont Algonquin Books, $22.95/hardcover The cover of Gossip of the Starlings quotes Jacquelyn Mitchard: "I inhaled this novel in one breath." Impressive words from an equally impressive writer. And in some ways, Nina de Gramont's debut novel is hard to put down.
- Speaking Volumes: Fathers and sons (The Star-Ledger)
In his second poetry collection, "Boy" (University of Georgia Press, $17), Drew University English professor Patrick Phillips explores the life-changing experience of fatherhood and the corresponding feeling of mortality as his father successfully battles cancer and his father-in-law dies at home, surrounded by loved ones.
- Commencement Ceremony Moved Indoors - University of Vermont
The University of Vermont will celebrate its 204th commencement on Sunday, May 18 at 9 a.m. Due to an unfavorable weather forecast, the ceremony will be held in the Multipurpose Facility in the Athletic Complex, with overflow seating available in the ...
- GOOD NEWS DIGEST (The Doings La Grange)
ILLINOIS POET LAUREATE KEVIN STEIN announced this year's Illinois Association of Teachers of English best poetry and prose in the state. Poetry and prose students at Lyons Township High School were recognized. Winners in the prose contest were Anna Krueger and Katrina Palak. Winners in the poetry contest were Krueger, Rosy Phinick and Sarah Boots.
- 'A wolf in sheep's clothing' (Radio Netherlands)
The first Muslim district council head in the Netherlands is regarded by many as 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' because of his calls for religious instruction in public schools.
- Chuck Wagon Gathering & Children’s Cowboy Festival at the National ... - Daily Ardmoreite
One of the nation’s greatest family friendly festivals is back at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The museum will celebrate the 18th Annual Chuck Wagon Gathering & Children’s Cowboy Festival presented by Delta Air ...
- KhaledPhilharmonic Hall - Liverpool Echo
KhaledPhilharmonic HallLiverpool Echo, UK - 57 minutes agoRai music developed in Western Algeria, its origins a mixture of Arabic love poetry and Bedouin folk songs. Khaled brings his own unique interpretation to ...
- British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's house - guardian.co.uk
British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's houseguardian.co.uk, UK - 11 hours ago... Sherwin and his wife, a professional pianist, were publishing Alter Ego & Doppleganger, the radical manifesto of Toni del Renzio, whose wartime poetry ...
- Correspondence: On Slim Gaillard - All About Jazz
Correspondence: On Slim GaillardAll About Jazz, PA - 18 minutes ago... ranking scat singing and the African-American oral tradition thru hipster “jazz poetry" in the 50's, to the Last Poets and Gil Scot Heron in the 60's, ...
- Raised in cane (The Columbus Dispatch)
L OS ANGELES -- When Americans think of 1950s Cuba, they tend to picture Fidel Castro ranting in tattered fatigues about the revolution.
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