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- Grand slam (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
The Worcester Poets Asylum has been sending teams of bards to the National Poetry Slam Finals every year for more than a decade, and this year's no exception, with eight of the area's finest competing for four spots in the competition, at Madison, Wis. Stylistically varied, the poets range from vivacious and funny to political to literary, sometimes with the same poet exchanging one hat for ...
- Muldoon and Rodgers receive Behrman Award - Princeton University
Muldoon and Rodgers receive Behrman AwardPrinceton University, NJ - 1 hour ago... a professor of creative writing. He also is director of the Princeton Atelier and chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. In addition, he serves as poetry ...
- Showcasing new talent - Newark Star-Ledger
For every talent contest on TV, there are open mikes around the Garden State where amateur performers can take the stage without the stress of competing. Eclectic forms of expression can be found in Jersey coffeehouses, progressive venues that offer ...
- Rooms without a view - Financial Times
T he drama of “The Scream” and the poetry of silence: Edvard Munch, born in 1863, and Vilhelm Hammershoi, born 1864, are the only Nordic painters in history who outgrew their native countries to become a presence in European art. In 2005, the ...
- Retired principal hits the books (Belleville News-Democrat)
Retired Highland High School Principal Andy Carmitchel closed the book on a 34-year career in education last year.
- Writing his own story (The Salem News)
"Please, no doom and gloom," Christopher Reardon asks. "This isn't another kid in a wheelchair crying about his life." This is a kid in a wheelchair who says he's trying to tell the truth about his life. A kid, a man, really, who just turned 22 and wants his writings to challenge the way people think about cancer survivors, wheelchair drivers and maybe even the world.
- Misunderstood Masterpieces 4.29.08: Bulworth - 411mania.com
Misunderstood Masterpieces 4.29.08: Bulworth411mania.com, TX - 2 hours agoBulworth largely ignores the remarkably wise homeless guy – because I guess poetry really can't pay the bills after all, and he, with Halle Berry by his ...
- Inniswood event to plant seeds of understanding - Columbus Dispatch
They aren't apt to cuddle a tomato seedling, but many children are surprised to hear that such a plant -- or any other living thing in the garden -- requires similar attention. Plants flourish only with warmth, air, water and nutrients, said Jan ...
- Staging of Clifford Odets' classic play is golden - San Diego Union-Tribune
This moody piece about pugs and palookas and a fiddle-playing champ has been through more than a few rounds (it was first produced more than 70 years ago), but it still fills a stage with its bracing wit and rough-and-ready sense of poetry. Speaking ...
- What To Do With This Great Poem I Just Wrote? - American Chronicle
American ChronicleWhat To Do With This Great Poem I Just Wrote?American Chronicle, CA - 1 hour agoLet me mildly warn you, you doubtfully will get rich selling poetry, unless you're a young Robert Frost or Ezra Pound. Writing poetry is not a way of making ...
- Restaurant chat - Boston Globe
Boston Globe restaurant critic Devra First was online March 7 to field your questions and comments about dining out in the Boston area. Miss the chat? Catch up here. The transcript follows. chatguest1: Greetings. It's that chat time again. Send your ...
- The Messenger of Athens, By Anne Zouroudi - Independent
The Messenger of Athens, By Anne ZouroudiIndependent, UK - 40 minutes agoIn the 1920s FantĂ´mas novels a "battered" body would be likely to be served up with chips; in any of Chandler's stories the plot rests on poetry. ...
- Arman: Nouveau RĂ©alisme - Malibu Arts Journal
Arman: Nouveau RĂ©alismeMalibu Arts Journal, CA - 2 hours agoThis influential movement started as a miniscule group but became the precursor to New Realism, abstract art, sound poetry, performance art, postmodernism, ...
- The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 - Washington Post
The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877Washington Post, United States - 26 minutes agoBoth sides lied to each other and to themselves about the iniquities of their opponents and the glories of their own way of life. ...
- War on the Boy Scouts - Atlanta Journal Constitution
The war on the Boy Scouts continues. It’ll either accept gays or be driven from existence. The long struggle, now going on 20 years, strikes up again, this time in Philadelphia where the city is imposing a $200,000 per year fine on the Boy Scouts ...
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