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- Poetry slam features noted SD author - Sioux City Journal
Poetry slam features noted SD authorSioux City Journal, IA - 34 minutes agoShe has also written a novella, "This Is What Women Know of Love," and she was a semifinalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. ...
- Bethany Pickens stands out at fest - Chicago Tribune
She wasn't billed as the main attraction, but she deserved to be, judging by her breakthrough performance over the weekend during JazzFest 2008 at the South Shore Cultural Center. Chicagoans may know pianist Bethany Pickens best for her illustrious ...
- New book from very old, dead, dull poet - Monsters and Critics
“Heine (1797-1856) was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German Romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for his lyric poems, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by Germanic composers, including ...
- Driven to excel - Deccan Herald
Driven to excelDeccan Herald, India - 5 hours agoAn avid traveller, music lover and reader, she also writes 'Urdu' poetry. And what is her advice to young women who are about to start their career? ...
- Intercourse’ tales aim beyond erotic - Tacoma News Tribune
No serious writer in America works with a lighter touch than Robert Olen Butler. That sure hand, guided by a potent creative intelligence, saves books like “Tabloid Dreams” (1996), inspired by supermarket weekly headlines, from mere whimsy ...
- Composer Pays Hotchkiss Visit - Litchfield County Times
Composer Pays Hotchkiss VisitLitchfield County Times, CT - 4 hours ago"I write a great deal of choral music but I like to use American poetry for the words when I can get permission. When I do write the words, ...
- Palestinians Bury 'National Poet' Mahmoud Darwish - Voice of America
Voice of AmericaPalestinians Bury 'National Poet' Mahmoud DarwishVoice of America - Aug 13, 2008Darwish's poetry dealt with the themes of exile and the hope of return, both of which he experienced personally. His village was destroyed during Israel's ...
- Gypsy Lou Webb: A story of love and books in Bohemian New Orleans - Jam! Showbiz
The bingo hall is an unlikely place to find a woman who spent years painting and selling watercolours on the streets of the French Quarter and who represents one of the last people alive from the generation of artists and writers in the mid-1900s ...
- Region's authors make a date to appear at Yorkshire Day festival - Yorkshire Post
Region's authors make a date to appear at Yorkshire Day festivalYorkshire Post, UK - 1 hour ago... the books Whitby 199, North Yorkshire Naturally, North Yorkshire 199 and Teesway 199, which all depict parts of Yorkshire though a mixture of poetry and ...
- City receives $1 million in art for its birthday - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteCity receives $1 million in art for its birthdayPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 49 minutes agoIt was written by poet Wendy Walters of the African-American poetry collective Cave Canem. Another project, modeled on President Franklin Roosevelt's 1930s ...
- A Few Words About Religion - NewsBlaze
A Few Words About ReligionNewsBlaze, CA - 5 hours agoAmerica is on the verge of electing the first African American to the White House, but it may be generations before we have our first atheist or agnostic ...
- Focus on tests 'limits learning' - Croydon Guardian
Placing too much emphasis on preparing for tests means some children are not receiving a well-rounded education, the chief inspector of schools said. In a letter to the Commons schools select committee, Ofsted warned pupils were being limited in what ...
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- GCSE poem dropped over knife fear (BBC News)
An exam board asks schools to destroy a GCSE poetry anthology because one poem refers to knife violence.
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