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- Sent Home: The suspension gap (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Black students are far more likely to be suspended from school than are their white classmates -- and Minnesota's disparity in suspensions is twice the national average. Why? What are the consequences?
- Mark Stryker's Playlist - Detroit Free Press
Nostalgia has a funny way of turning everything into a "classic," from lowbrow sitcoms to mildly successful pop tunes. Even questionable jazz of a certain vintage can re-emerge decades later to a chorus of huzzahs from press and fans. To put it ...
- BHHS SENIOR, SOBERON, TAKES SECOND AT NATIONAL POETRY OUT LOUD CONTEST (Curry Coastal Pilot)
For the first time ever, an Oregon student won first-runner-up in the national Poetry Out Loud contest in Washington D.C. Brookings-Harbor High School senior Sophia Soberon is the proud recipient of a $10,000 scholarship and the confidence that comes from winning such a prestigious competition.
- Wanted: A few good columnists - Greeley Tribune
We know you are out there. We even hear from you occasionally. But we need a commitment. The Tribune is looking for readers who are writers; those who are willing to stand up and let their views be published on our Weld Voices pages. It is time once ...
- new britain New Britain Workshop Planners Not Deterred By Turnout - Hartford Courant
new britain New Britain Workshop Planners Not Deterred By TurnoutHartford Courant, United States - 7 minutes agoBy MONICA POLANCO | Courant Staff Writer NEW BRITAIN — - Elizabeth Thomas arrived at Walnut Hill Park this week with plans to guide teens through a poetry ...
- [ELD] Presiding Bishop calls for Day of Prayer for Lambeth ... - Worldwide Faith News (press release)
[ELD] Presiding Bishop calls for Day of Prayer for Lambeth ...Worldwide Faith News (press release), NY - 1 hour ago"It will feature Fr. Paul and Fr. Logan's favorite songs, a dance presentation by Philadanco/D2 Company, and poetry by UBE youth. ...
- Author, poet to speak at women's business dinner (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
A self-published poet and author will be the keynote speaker tomorrow at a dinner celebrating the 37th anniversary of the Richmond chapter of the American Business Women's Association.
- Ryan Adams, King of All Media? - Aversion
Ryan Adams, King of All Media?Aversion - 52 minutes agoA post on his website from his management revealed he has his fingers in more than one pie: He's also working on a book of poetry and a gallery show of his ...
- The Soviet Patient: “My Heart is Black without a Grease-Paint” - ArmeniaNow.com
ArmeniaNow.comThe Soviet Patient: “My Heart is Black without a Grease-Paint”ArmeniaNow.com, Armenia - 17 hours agoMaybe fate had prepared a destiny of a poet for him, but poetry became the shadow that just accompanied him, during the days tasting of medicines, ...
- Yeats meets the digital age, full of passionate intensity - International Herald Tribune
DUBLIN : So here, under airtight, light-shielding glass, is a notebook given to William Butler Yeats in 1908 by Maud Gonne, the beautiful, brainy feminist Irish revolutionary and object of Yeats's infatuation across five decades, the muse — well ...
- SRB: Marx the Poet - Scoop.co.nz
SRB: Marx the PoetScoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 5 minutes agoNo doubt there are a few die-hard Marxists who can find poetry in Marx's theory of surplus value, but the ABC Book Show seems to think the world was spared ...
- The lives of the Dalai Lamas - Telegraph.co.uk
The lives of the Dalai LamasTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 8 hours agoThe 13th was an inspirational figure who in 1913, taking advantage of the collapse of the Manchu empire, declared independence from China, instituted a ...
- American Life in Poetry: Laughter - Morris Sun Tribune
American Life in Poetry: LaughterMorris Sun Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoBy Ted Kooser So often, reading a poem can in itself feel like a thing overheard. Here, Mary-Sherman Willis of Virginia describes the feeling of being ...
- Undaunted by her disorder - Hampton Roads Daily Press
WACO, Texas - The ulcers on her gums and lips were so painful that Sanya Richards stopped eating. But she kept running. She fashioned a mouthpiece from a cardboard tape roll, bit down on it like a bullet, sprinted around the track and tried to focus ...
- Anniversaries bring memories - Daily Oklahoman
But it didn't. It lingered throughout the day. In the late afternoon, I sat down to write my weekly column, and looked at the date. It registered. It was my wedding anniversary — 15 years ago. In the months and years following a death, it helps to ...
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