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- A 'slam' dunk for poetry (The Equinox)
The first annual Poetry Slam at Keene State College started late due to a "tardy" arriving crowd. At 7:07 p.m., Katherine St. Martin, the president of Sigma Tau Delta, stepped up to the microphone to announce the first poet of nine finalists, and the night began.
- Celebrating creativity: Skyview students share their love of writing - Billings Gazette
A handful of Skyview High students worked diligently this semester to compile the literary works of their fellow students into the annual literary magazine. The work is tedious. Each student had to read and decide, based on a set of guidelines, if ...
- Kids exercise their creativity at writing camp - Orlando Sentinel
Kids exercise their creativity at writing campOrlando Sentinel, FL - 11 hours agoThere, she and 60 other public-school students are unleashing their creative minds for a weeklong adventure in storytelling, drawing, songwriting and poetry.
- Sending messages into the future - Marion Star
Sending messages into the futureMarion Star, OH - 3 hours ago"They can write what their parents were like, write their own poetry or just be artistic. From pictures to personal letters to grandchildren, ...
- Toronto List: July 18–20, 2008 - Torontoist
TorontoistToronto List: July 18–20, 2008Torontoist, Canada - 56 minutes agoWORDS: The new season of the Toronto Poetry Slam kicks off Friday. Amateurs sign up half an hour before the show, and are given a chance to showcase their ...
- 'In the Solitude of Cotton Fields' - AccessAtlanta
In Albert Camus’ existentialist novel “The Stranger,” a Frenchman kills an Arab man he sees on the beach for no apparent reason. In Bernard-Marie Koltés’ “In the Solitude of Cotton Fields,” a momentary glance between a white “client ...
- Science books in Urdu soon - Howrah News Service
Science books in Urdu soonHowrah News Service, India - 3 hours ago"Urdu has already made a remarkable contribution in poetry and literature and now we want to promote the language as a medium of instruction in subjects ...
- Washington diary: Trench warfare - BBC News
BBC NewsWashington diary: Trench warfareBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoThis is not the stuff of poetry - Hillary has forced Obama to do prose. Her hope is that as the campaign drags on he will look more and more like a ...
- Students' national contest could revive poetry-reading tradition - USA Today
WASHINGTON — Allison Strong had long ago memorized poet Sylvia Plath's visceral Fever 103 and was reciting it to enthusiastic reception at a state competition in New Jersey. In fact, the poem ("I am a pure acetylene/Virgin/Attended by roses ...
- ‘The Once and Future Celt’ - Twin Cities Planet
‘The Once and Future Celt’Twin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 1 hour agoThrough all three books, Watkins’ excellent prose conveys his remarkable memory and creativity, with colorful characters and dialogue, well-timed wit and ...
- The Lovely Bones: Poems of the Late T'ang (The New York Sun)
In the year 755 common era, when the T'ang dynasty was shaken by violent rebellion, many of its leading citizens — courtiers as well as poets — took to the roads. The dynasty was weakened but would endure for another century and a half, until it would be overthrown in 907. For the exiles, no return seemed possible. One of these was the poet Tu Fu (or Du Fu, as his name is now romanized), ...
- Watering the the Indus Valley - Daily Telegraph
The River Indus rises in Tibet and flows west through northern India before turning south through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. Like many rivers, it has often acted as a border, marking off Baluchistan from Sindh and the North West Frontier Province ...
- Parting gifts for Martin's mate - BBC News
What's the power of poetry? As a parting gift, Martin McGuinness presented Ian Paisley with a couple of hand-written poems. Mr McGuinness wrote one of the poems himself One was a passage from Seamus Heaney's The Cure At Troy in the laureate's own ...
- Novel About Devil-Girl both Frightening and Inspirational (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Devil-Girl has no name. She is raised to believe the devil is inside her. Her experiences with other people only verify that she is evil, that her life is of no value, and she can contribute nothing positive to the world. Yet Devil-Girl has inner strength, and other Devil-Girls need her help.
- AP Top News at 2:05 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) _ A family spokeswoman says Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is out of surgery at Duke Medical Center. His doctor says brain surgery was successful and "accomplished our goals." Kennedy had surgery for his cancerous brain tumor, and faces chemotherapy and radiation treatment following the procedure. The 76-year-old senator was diagnosed last month with a malignant glioma, a lethal type ...
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