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- Local Talent Wins Going West Poetry Slam (Scoop.co.nz)
Avondale’s Courtney Meredith won the Going West Poetry Slam on Saturday night – the first woman to ever win the event.
- Literary post for S.J. native - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose native Kay Ryan thought she might someday be a stand-up comedian, or a funny card writer for Hallmark, but the nation's next poet laureate? Never. That is, until Monday, when Librarian of Congress James H. Billington left a message for her ...
- The Week: August 4-7, 2008 (Isthmus)
Spoken word will echo in the streets and clubs of downtown Madison this week with the opening of the National Poetry Slam and its accompanying Lyrics on the Lake Festival. The late summer Jazz at Five series get started too, with plenty of more music ready to go from Habib Koite and Bamada, The Takebacks, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra at a Concert in the Park, We Are Scientists, Bodies of ...
- Betrayal of boys: A new report says white boys need father figures at ... - Daily Mail
Any parent will recognise Peter Smith's assessment of the boys he teaches at Hampton School in south-west London: 'Boys are like greyhounds. They love the chase and the race, and they don't care if the prize is a fake rabbit.' Mr Smith had invited me ...
- Forum tonight seeks views on arts downtown - Ithaca Journal
Forum tonight seeks views on arts downtownIthaca Journal, NY - 2 hours agoIn a related event, partcipants will have a chance to create chalk drawings, read poetry and attend workshops with Art in the Heart of the City sculptors ...
- From Russia with love of art and words - The Age
The AgeFrom Russia with love of art and wordsThe Age, Australia - 1 hour agoPetropolis, her rollicking tale of art and love, motherhood and immigration, follows chubby, mixed-raced Sasha Goldberg from dreary Siberia, ...
- Meet a living relic of bohemian New Orleans - SouthCoastToday.com
Meet a living relic of bohemian New OrleansSouthCoastToday.com, MA - Aug 9, 2008And what is most important, they gave the world Charles Bukowski, the king of boozy and sexually charged underground poetry, with the publication in 1963 of ...
- Case Closed? - Slate
The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times , and the Wall Street Journal 's world-wide newsbox lead with, and the rest of the papers front, federal investigators detailing the information collected during a seven-year investigation that has led the FBI ...
- Leonard Cohen - Somekind of a Story - Artline
Leonard Cohen - Somekind of a StoryArtline, Romania - 18 minutes agoAt the same time as being a musician, Cohen continued writing and publishing, both poetry and prose, with great succes, with volumes such as Flowers for ...
- The Letters of Allen Ginsberg - San Francisco Gate
Allen Ginsberg was a hawk. In an unpublished letter written to the New York Times in 1942, when he was a precocious 15-year-old, he defended American involvement in World War II, asserting: "We are not fighting, in the long run, because of Pearl ...
- Youth Activism: TAKE ACTION PACK - MediaRights
MediaRightsYouth Activism: TAKE ACTION PACKMediaRights - 41 minutes agoStart a slam-poetry club and encourage students to start one themselves. Check out sites for poets such as WelfarePoets.com who incorporate spoken word, ...
- Outstanding Denver Teen Named Boys & Girls Clubs of America's National Youth of the Year (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
NBC Icon Tim Russert Receives Humanitarian Award Posthumously
- Melbourne's Muslim music fest celebrates Ramadan - Jakarta Post
Melbourne's Muslim music fest celebrates RamadanJakarta Post, Indonesia - 17 hours agoThe festival was divided into three parts, the first two being, "Love is Divine: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2", focussing on music inspired by the poetry of ...
- Pollok Family Day (Socialist Worker)
A day long festival with four entertainment arenas showing live music as well as games, a craft fair and food stalls. Express yourself with workshops in poetry, street theatre and martial arts.
- The Death Rales of Democracy? - OpEdNews
The Death Rales of Democracy?OpEdNews, PA - 2 hours agoRafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running ...
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