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- Teens ready for spoken word poetry 'olympics' - Business Gazette
Business GazetteTeens ready for spoken word poetry 'olympics'Business Gazette, MD - 1 hour agoby Andy Zieminski | Staff Writer Evelyn Kenner stood at the microphone, closed her eyes, and began to recite a poem about her father. ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' (The Courier News)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable. And it's only the ...
- Teenage poet sharing her work: Widdifield grad wins young authors ... - The North Bay Nugget
Teenage poet sharing her work: Widdifield grad wins young authors ...The North Bay Nugget, Canada - 29 minutes agoGooch tried a variety of writing styles but has kept up experimenting with poetry. Her free verse piece is about a person struggling. ...
- Inspiring speech has value - MiamiHerald.com
Inspiring speech has valueMiamiHerald.com, FL - 3 minutes agoBut there is a place for poetry. In fact, when Cuomo was himself considering a presidential run, it seemed to me that his eloquence was one of the stronger ...
- Love's labor’s lost in post-invasion Iraq - Middle East Online
As statistics go, at least 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the occupation, now in its fifth year. Every one of them has left behind once loved ones to mourn the loss and to think of what might have been. This is the land of the Arabian Nights ...
- Risk, reward? - Woodland Daily Democrat
49ers rookie Josh Morgan was the second-leading receiver all-time at Virginia Tech, but wasn't drafted until the No. 174 pick. (John Green/San Mateo County Times) The 49ers have had more that their share of high-maintenance wide receivers. Terrell ...
- For Jazz?s Avant-Garde, an Annual Gathering and a Little Competition (New York Times)
The Vision Festival, this country?s premier gathering for free jazz and improvised music, begins its 13th year.
- Where is the evidence? - La Crosse Tribune
In Thursday’s letters, R.M. Ciechanowski says it is obvious that God is punishing us with extreme weather, high gas and food prices, the war on terrorism, etc., because church attendance is meager throughout the country. Does he have facts and ...
- Address by Dr EG Pahad, Minister in The Presidency, on the occasion of ... - South African Government
Undeniably one of our most successful achievements as a country has been to replace a system reviled as a crime against humanity with one based on the ideals of non-racialism and non-sexism. Since 1994 we have endeavoured to build a socially ...
- Summer Activities for Family Promote Learning, Fun (Newswise)
School is out, but that doesn't mean learning should take a break for the summer - especially when studies show learning that takes place outside school has great influence on future academic achievement. The National Center for Family Literacy has created fun lessons to boost learning this summer.
- Southern Fried Poetry Slam - WCTV
Southern Fried Poetry SlamWCTV, FL - Jun 7, 2008Each year the uniquely named competition is held in a different city in the south to find the best poetry slammers around. And this is the first year in the ...
- Finding challenge in verse - Maroondah Leader
Maroondah LeaderFinding challenge in verseMaroondah Leader, Australia - Jul 18, 2008She will often find herself sitting in front of her laptop in her quiet Eltham study with a perfectly formed idea for the shape of a poem, but little idea ...
- WHS grad trades classroom for courtroom - York Weekly
WHS grad trades classroom for courtroomYork Weekly, NH - 2 hours agoRadial Nerve Palsy, the doctors told her, could leave her without the use of her right hand for the rest of her life. Doctors gave Dion a brace for her hand ...
- The art of storytelling - York Daily Record
The art of storytellingYork Daily Record, PA - 19 hours agoSeveral paintings on the wall are framed in wood carved with quotes and snippets of poetry that recall Neill's woodworking days. Oils in lifelike colors, ...
- Roses are Red for Defunct Portland Journal - Utne Reader Online
Utne Reader OnlineRoses are Red for Defunct Portland JournalUtne Reader Online - 39 minutes agoThere are healthy doses of poetry (both prose-poetry and verse) and a long interview with Walt Curtis, the “Unofficial Poet Laureate of Portland. ...
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