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- Palin's candidacy is no joke - Seattle Post Intelligencer
At the Seattle Poetry Slam last week, a poet got up to the microphone and said, "This poem is from the perspective of Sarah Palin." Before the poet even started the poem, everyone laughed. It's become possible to make a Sarah Palin joke without even ...
- Hopes for a happy ending: Literary voices on the American Election (Independent)
Presidents and novelists are storytellers both, but it is a rare day in America when their narratives collide. It nearly happened in 1963, the year Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy hired (at the recommendation of William Styron) 37-year-old novelist Richard Yates as a speechwriter. The hard-drinking, chain-smoking author of Revolutionary Road did well in his first weeks, so well he was given ...
- Savion Glover stretches the boundaries of tap - Isthmus
Savion Glover stretches the boundaries of tapIsthmus, WI - 2 hours agoGlover danced with an all-male crew of new-generation hoofers to song lyrics by poetry slam champ reg e. gaines. Noise/Funk ripped across the entire canvas ...
- Focus on small findings each day (The Oklahoman)
The Museum of Small Findings is just a shed attached to a larger museum in Pammukkale,Turkey, an ancient Roman bath. I read of it in "Rumi, the Book of Love,†by Coleman Barks, renowned translator of Rumi poetry.Barks and a friend discovered it when visiting the bath, and just as the sign indicated, the shed held shards of pottery, coins and fingers and toes of statuary. What interested me was ...
- Rap and Bullshit - SF Weekly
Rap and BullshitSF Weekly, CA - 49 minutes agoMeanwhile, DeVaughn's offer to "appetize ya or main course ya" on "Customer" is less poetry than soundtrack to a porno flick filmed at Carl's Jr. I make no ...
- Second Man To Serve 30 Years For Homeless Man's Fatal Beating (Local 10 Miami)
A man is sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison for his involvement in the fatal beating of a homeless man, one day after the other man accused in the crime received a life sentence. "I never acted out of malice or hatred. I just didn't think," Brian Hooks says.
- CONSP!RE Magazine Seeking Submissions - Beliefnet.com
Beliefnet.comCONSP!RE Magazine Seeking SubmissionsBeliefnet.com, NY - 3 hours agoPoetry: Do you weave words that yield the shock of beauty, the jolt of insight, the opening of new awareness? Send something our way - no long epics, ...
- World will have to reciprocate when Obama offers to partner - Livemint
World will have to reciprocate when Obama offers to partnerLivemint, India - 2 hours ago... Mario Cuomo, who said, and something I have often used, this phrase exemplifying what politics is like: You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose.
- Irondequoit Accident Knocks out Power (R News)
Hundreds of Irondequoit residents were without power Tuesday night after a car struck a utility pole. Irondequoit Police say Press Wilcox was driving on North Goodman Street when he lost control of his car near the Route 104 overpass.
- In Iraq, Seeing by Feeling (New York Times)
At the Al Noor Institute for the Blind, in a troubled neighborhood in Baghdad, children come to know their world ?feelingly.?
- Janet Maslin?s 10 Favorite Books of 2008 (New York Times)
Favorite books of the year from one of The Times?s book critics.
- We just started poetry. How do you analyze the lyrics of a song ... - eNotes
We just started poetry. How do you analyze the lyrics of a song ...eNotes, WA - 6 hours agoPosted by crysylove82 on Sunday November 2, 2008 at 10:34 AM and tagged with lyrics, music, poetry. You can now ask questions directly from Facebook, ...
- Love affairs: student love that turned sour - Times Online
Love affairs: student love that turned sourTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoI'd always imagined that when I left home to become a student I'd meet a Morrissey type who could write poetry and wear a grey cardi. ...
- Star of NPR to read area man's poems - Nashua Telegraph
Star of NPR to read area man's poemsNashua Telegraph, NH - 36 minutes ago... the famous radio voice will be reading two poems by Brookline's Sidney Hall, Jr. This won't be the first time that Keillor has read Hall's poetry, ...
- Creative writing gives youngsters a different kind of recital (Gazette.net)
Mariam Coker reads her poem Nov. 13 during the first round of Hyattsville Middle School’s fall poetry slam. Loading...
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