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- Announcing the teams competing at the National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison (Isthmus)
Hundreds of spoken work performers from around the United States, along with a handful from Canada and Europe, are in the midst of preparations for this year's National Poetry Slam, which be held in Madison over the first week of August. Competing in teams of four or five members apiece, each will take the stage and give their best through a series of bouts at the competition. Altogether they ...
- A prize worth cracking a beer over (Toronto Star)
An Ottawa artist who uses beer caps, auto parts and old toys to create works has won a Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Ron Noganosh will receive $35,000 and be asked to identify an emerging artist of the year, who will get $15,000. Publishing house Coach House Books gets $50,000 as the winner in the arts organization category.
- Bold English: Anglo-Saxon Poetry - New York Sun
Bold English: Anglo-Saxon PoetryNew York Sun, United States - 11 minutes agoAll creation wept, / kenned the King's death. Christ was on the Cross." This gradual twining of values was part of the broader reconciliation of Latin texts ...
- Edison teen learns lesson in standing up for herself (Miami Herald)
Never had Jeislee Alvarez imagined something so cold and humiliating as jail. There she was, all of 18 with her whole life ahead of her except for the grimy cell holding her back. Poet, pacificist and now jail bird No. 08-18621. Despite her tough-girl shell, the 5-foot-4 Miami Edison Senior High student feared using the toilet with other inmates and guards watching. Disgusted by the smell of the ...
- Amy Winehouse lyrics are academic - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukAmy Winehouse lyrics are academicTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoIt also quotes Ruskin's maxim 'lyric poetry is the expression by the poet of his own feelings'." Tackling a question like this with the critical rigour ...
- Solzhenitsyn: A tortured patriot (BBC News)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn tackled the big themes of Russian literature, writes Oxford lecturer Michael Nicholson.
- 16 (cool) things to do this weekend (Daily Dispatch)
AYEYE! What a fab weekend I had with rappers in PE last week. I’m still hung over from isiXhosa hip-hop. Anyway, East London is on fire this weekend with DJ Fresh making his way to our shores tonight and there’s a couple of fun charity events you can check out with your family.
- The future lies ahead (Obama at Wesleyan) - Atlantic Online
The future lies ahead (Obama at Wesleyan)Atlantic Online - 6 hours agoThat speech was good, but based on this latest transcript he has gotten better at the necessary poetry of ceremonial speaking since then. ...
- Our Daily Bleg: Is Modern Literature Out of Compelling Quotations? - New York Times Blogs
Our Daily Bleg: Is Modern Literature Out of Compelling Quotations?New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- RELATED CONTENT (Park Rapids Enterprise)
06/03/2008 During Itasca State Park’s picnic and music event Sunday (above) children participated in gunnysack races, bubble gum blowing contests and a loon calling contest. The Park Rapids Area Community Band performed music.
- Author Ha Jin still waiting for the right time to visit his native China (The Kansas City Star)
On a trip that has put him the closest he has been to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books.
- Pop and Rock Listings (New York Times)
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- Adult Poetry Workshop - indy.com
Adult Poetry Workshopindy.com, IN - 7 hours agoby JL Kato Requisite texts: Contemporary American Poetry, 8th ed., edited by A. Poulin & Michael Waters and In the Palm of Your Hand, by Steve Kowit. ...
- Controlled Chaos ; Artists Plunge into the Infringement Festival ... - RedOrbit
Controlled Chaos ; Artists Plunge into the Infringement Festival ...RedOrbit, TX - Jul 19, 2008The poetry scene in Buffalo is on a very slippery slope, and the music scene is so oversaturated that we pay homage to the banal and we forget the ...
- Wedding Customs in Socotra include circumcision - Yemen Times
Wedding Customs in Socotra include circumcisionYemen Times, Yemen - 1 hour agoAfter lunch, the guests start reciting poetry until the afternoon prayers. After prayers, they resume showing off the rich heritage of their poems, ...
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