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- Visions of Haiti - Canada.com
The truth can finally be told: Ottawa's high-profile performance poet and social activist, Oni The Haitian Sensation, is not all that Haitian. Actually, Oni was born in Montreal, and has never been to Haiti. She was named after Swedish film star ...
- The Answer: Wisdom in Washington - OpEdNews
The Answer: Wisdom in WashingtonOpEdNews, PA - 9 hours agoObama needs the vast experience of Clinton at his side daily if he is to step in as the wise leader we need now. And Clinton needs to acknowledge that she ...
- 'World's worst poems' at auction - BBC UK News
The ditties by "The Tayside Tragedian" have been valued in the same league as Harry Potter first editions signed by JK Rowling. McGonagall, who died in 1902, was often mocked and had food thrown at him during readings in Dundee. He was born in ...
- Religion Calendar: 05/24/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Religion Calendar: 05/24/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 26 minutes agoLois Beadsley, American Indian author and artist, will read poetry and share Ojibwa art forms. DivorceCare, 7-9 Mondays through July 28, New Hope Community ...
- Past/Present/Future for … Phill Jupitus - Whatsonstage.com
Comedian Phill Jupitus , resident panellist on BBC Two’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks , makes his London theatre debut this week in Nick Reed ’s Lifecoach at the Trafalgar Studios. After rising to prominence as a punk poet and stand-up, Jupitus has ...
- Your Calendar - East Lake County (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
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- Arts update - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Arts updateFort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - May 2, 2008Among the winners in the Friends of the Allen County Public Library’s third annual adult poetry contest were Louise Magoon, first place for “A Reason to ...
- Murder suspect has son, owned a business - AZCentral.com
The man Mesa police arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sexually assaulting four women and killing two others in Mesa and Phoenix has a 7-year-old son and recently opened a water and ice business. Trent Christopher Benson is being held without bond in ...
- Mark Stryker's Playlist - Detroit Free Press
Nostalgia has a funny way of turning everything into a "classic," from lowbrow sitcoms to mildly successful pop tunes. Even questionable jazz of a certain vintage can re-emerge decades later to a chorus of huzzahs from press and fans. To put it ...
- Book Review: Double Vision by Pat Barker (Blogcritics.org)
A tender, surprising novel where strong emotions are traded. Double Vision by Pat Barker is a novel that defies description. Within its pages there is war, crime, murder, rape, love, hate, sex, artistry, creativity, duplicity, anger, tenderness, inspiration: a dictionary might have enough words to list its subtleties. What it has aplenty is feeling and emotion, an ability to convey its ...
- Still Virginia Tech, One Year Later - OhmyNews International
Washington PostStill Virginia Tech, One Year LaterOhmyNews International, South Korea - 2 hours agoWhether it has been through poetry, counseling, or candle lighting, the Virginia Tech community has found edifying ways to channel their pain and sorrow ...One Year Later: Virginia Tech remembers Opelika Auburn NewsVT community gathers to remember lives lost one year ago WSLS.comall 683 news articles
- Troilus and Cressida - Times Online
Only a great and adventurous director such as Declan Donnellan could suddenly come up with such a crude, muddled, overdirected production. The key to it is a passionately simple-minded loathing and mockery of war and warriors. Greeks and Trojans are ...
- A tour of the gods - guardian.co.uk
A tour of the godsguardian.co.uk, UK - 36 minutes ago"We drag the everyday into prose for the sake of the poetry of it," he says. No prosewriter would say that. A poet's eyes can sometimes be a hindrance. ...
- Laurie Anderson at the Barbican - Times Online
Laurie Anderson at the BarbicanTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoTogether they make music that melds with Anderson's poetry in a soundscape that is by turns folksy, percussive, alien and melodious. ...
- Who We Are - Slate
David Plotz is editor of Slate . Before joining the magazine in 1996, Plotz was a senior editor and staff writer for the Washington City Paper . Plotz has written for the New York Times Magazine , Harper's , Rolling Stone , GQ, the New Republic , and ...
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