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- Local slam teams vie at nationals - Pioneer Press
Local slam teams vie at nationalsPioneer Press, MN - 15 hours agoTwo Twin Cities slam teams made strong showings at this year's National Poetry Slam in Madison, Wis., but neither made it to the final round. ...
- Hadrian, British Museum, London (Independent)
A few words of scene-setting might be handy, especially for those who spent the periods devoted to post-Augustan Rome staring out of the classroom window. The Emperor Hadrian – more formally, Publius Aelius Hadrianus (born AD76; ruled from 117 until his death in AD138) – has had a pretty good press across the centuries, except from historians of the Jews, who remember his savage crushing of a ...
- Authors in the area (The Charlotte Observer)
Renowned poet Galway Kinnell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, speaks at Hickory's Lenoir-Rhyne University, 8 p.m. Thursday in the Belk Centrum. Kinnell's 2006 poetry collection, “Strong Is Your Hold,” includes his celebrated long poem about the collapse of the World Trade Center, “When the Towers Fell.” His talk is free and open to the public.
- Blessing of the pets - Alpine Sun
Blessing of the petsAlpine Sun, CA - 56 minutes agoALPINE - A $1000 grand prize is being offered in a special poetry contest sponsored by Christian Poets Guild, free to everyone. There are 50 prizes in all ...
- Requires RSVP to jckamp@aol.com or 703-538-5874 - HometownAnnapolis.com
Join Anne Arundel County Recreation and Parks October 11 for a bus trip to New York City to see "Wicked"! "Wicked" tells the story of how two unlikely friends grew to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch. Get your seats today ...
- Sana’a University celebrates Sana’a’s culture title - Yemen Times
Sana’a University celebrates Sana’a’s culture titleYemen Times, Yemen - 3 hours agoThe festivities included several theatrical displays and acts plus many lectures and poetry sessions. The activities were mostly carried out by the ...
- Entertainment Calendar: 08/29/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Items for this calendar must be received by the Record-Eagle at least two weeks in advance. All calendars are published on a space available basis. Information may be mailed to Entertainment Calendar, Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632; faxed to 946-8632; or e-mail sbeach@record-eagle.com .
- Andrew Davidson's $2.5-million voyage - Globe and Mail
WINNIPEG — Andrew Davidson's fantastic journey to a literary payday some estimate to be more than $2-million began in Japan almost a decade ago with a vision, an image, a fantasy, if you will. It was a vision, unbidden and fully formed, of a woman ...
- Mr. Wedge Issue - Slate
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints , written and directed by Dito Montiel from his 2003 memoir about growing up in Astoria, Queens, in the 1980s, prowls and struts through some familiar movie territory: the ill-advised shenanigans of white ethnic ...
- The long return home - Sophia Echo
Kapka Kassabova’s novel Street without a Name examines a childhood under communism, and an ever-present sense of being of elsewhere Photo: PROVIDED It would be more exact, though, to say that while Street without a Name is something of a return to ...
- Palestinian saga personified (Arab News)
MAHMUD Darwish, the renowned Palestinian poet ho died in Houston on Saturday after an unsuccessful heart operation, aged 67, often joked about his close brush with death. In 1998 he underwent a major heart surgery in Paris, more than 14 years after his first coronary, which nearly cost him his life.
- Life lessons in song - Wicked Local Dennis
Life lessons in songWicked Local Dennis, MA - 3 hours agoStowe still works part-time and is a popular weekly entertainer at Child’s Wonderland in East Harwich. “I use a lot of poetry and stories, and everything ...
- Community CalendarCommunity Calendar - Worcester Telegram
Community CalendarCommunity CalendarWorcester Telegram, MA - 2 minutes agoPoetry Featuring poet and humorist Joe Fusco Jr., 8 pm Free. Worcester Storytellers at Vasa Hall, 1 Ekman St. Ballroom Dance Class Beginner and intermediate ...
- Ellie Levenson: British men and the art of seduction - The Independent
Macmillan are going to publish Love Letters of Great Men, an invention by the makers of the film version of Sex and the City which, until now, didn't exist. The book, which Carrie reads while in bed with her lover Mr Big, and which he copies and ...
- Shakespeare's Bootlegger, Dylan's Biographer, Nabokov, and Me - Slate
I believe I've discovered a previously unrecognized genre of contemporary writing that deserves commendation for its distinctiveness and frequent excellence. It's practiced mainly by contemporary poets, but it's not poetry. In fact—at least for me ...
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