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- Wanted: Slam poets to compete for cash at MLK event - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Wanted: Slam poets to compete for cash at MLK eventFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - Nov 13, 2008Hawthorne said he proposed adding a slam poetry night in 2007, when Police Chief Theron Bowman was chairman of the MLK Celebration committee and asked him ...
- Writer, activist to address leadership conference (The Post-Standard)
Author and political activist Sonia Sanchez will speak at 8 p.m. Sept. 18 at Hewitt Union on the campus of the State University College at Oswego.
- The Name Game: From Adam & Evil to The Dorkestra, bands in tune with ... - MLive.com
A year ago, I wrote a little something on bands with unusual names, like The Avant-Gardeners or Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. The story was just for fun as summer simmered down. Surprise - the opus made the national news wire and brought ...
- Hopes and hurdles (Busselton-Dunsborough Mail)
The famously witty Adlai Stevenson, a Democratic candidate for the US presidency in the 1950s, once cracked that "in America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes".
- 20 questions for … singer-songwriter Nellie McKay (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
Singer, songwriter, actor and activist Nellie McKay calls her music "schizophrenic voodoo." Schizophrenic because she jumps genres - from Tin Pan Alley pop and cabaret to reggae, rap and jazz - voodoo because these elements mysteriously gel with her evocative, playful, and bold lyrics. The fictional character most like her? A mix of Lassie, Scarlett O'Hara, Godzilla and Nancy Drew. These and ...
- Event: The Harry Ransom Center hosts free public programs - News from the University of Texas at Austin
Event: The Harry Ransom Center hosts free public programsNews from the University of Texas at Austin, TX - 7 hours agoThe Ransom Center presents the free Poetry on the Plaza event "Ballads and Balladeers." Popularized by the Romantics, the ballad is a unique narrative form ...
- UA to 'Stop the Hate' with election event (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
Campus groups will celebrate this year's historic election on the UA Mall Wednesday at 1 p.m. with "Stop The Hate And Celebrate: Yes We Did!" The event will bring student groups together to celebrate campus diversity along with a new president.
- Othello, Lyric Hammersmith, London: Rank, Tricycle Theatre, London (Independent)
When my cue comes, call me; Bottom's injunction has been adopted as a production note by Frantic Assembly for this blustery, bashed-about Othello set in a West Yorkshire pub with a pool table.
- City asked to add trolley stops - Gadsden Times
A citizen asked the Gadsden City Council today to add stops to the city’s trolley service. Wanda Lindsey asked for stops to be made at Hobby Lobby and the Dollar Tree in Riverview Plaza. She also made a request for a restroom to be located on ...
- Poetry showcase part of First Friday - Canton Repository (subscription)
Poetry showcase part of First FridayCanton Repository (subscription), OH - 8 hours agoYou must be a registered user to post comments. Your comment will be published at the bottom of the story. Once a comment is submitted, you will not be able ...
- Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poet - International Herald Tribune
Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poetInternational Herald Tribune, France - 3 hours agoBy Haresh Pandya The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. ...
- 'More better' - the poetry of patois - Jamaica Observer
Bad English is good, argued poets at Poetry Society of Jamaica's monthly fellowship in Kingston. It formed the latest informal discussion on the correct usage of the language in Jamaica. Most of the over 20 poets at the fellowship refused to be ...
- The Blood Brothers Present... The Master of Horror - Broadway World
The Blood Brothers Present... The Master of HorrorBroadway World, NY - 15 hours agoRichard Morrison (Michael Criscuolo) meets an old friend Jimmy (Christian Toth) who's looking fantastic and prosperous and says he owes it all to Quitters, ...
- Education Commissioner to Leave Post in Albany (New York Times)
The state education commissioner, Richard P. Mills, will be stepping down in June after 14 years of overseeing 700 school districts and 3 million students.
- Dan Lechay's "Ghost Villanelle" (Seattle Times)
I thought that we'd celebrate Halloween with an appropriate poem, and Iowa poet Dan Lechay's seems just right. The drifting veils of rhyme...
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