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SLAM! An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry
Posted by mamta on Saturday, October 24, 2009 (04:32:17)
SLAM! An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry
Saturday, October 24
9:00 pm | Hillyer Art Space, 9 Hillyer Court NW
Tickets: $10, Discounted Members/Seniors/Under 25 $8
Purchase tickets at washingtondcjcc.org/litfest or at the door
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Eco-artist supports charity
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (16:50:34)
"During the exhibition we asked people to show their appreciation by making a small donation and raised an amazing £186.48." Jo's husband, builder Nick Allen, pledged to match the amount collected and was with Jo when together they presented the cheque for £372.96 to Seaford Lifeguards...
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Agile and alluring
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (16:47:13)
As an established Solo artist, she has traveled extensively in India, the United Kingdom, Canada, USA and Europe performing at prestigious dance festivals; working with dance companies and has won her critical acclaim from across the world. Some of her performances include those at the Birmingham Arts Festival, the Metamorphosis Festival at Toronto, Canada, BarnsDall Theatre, Hollywood and Youth Festival in Berlin. ...
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Saturday Cinema Summary
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (16:44:52)
You may have heard that Jennifer's Body has been the subject of an enormous backlash against writer Diablo Cody after her phenomenal success with Juno. But the reviews we've seen happily focus on the film, about a high school bitch (Megan Fox) turned into a literal man-eater....
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Young bards pick up a host of prizes
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (16:41:10)
Poetry News: THERE must be something in the water at a Canvey school following unprecedented success in a county-wide poetry competition.
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Private Health Insurance the "Worst Product in American History": Former Industr
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (16:33:39)
In the Traditional News: He's not the first former health insurance company ex-employee to speak of the extent to which the health insurance industry will go to ensure its profits, but he's the latest. Andy Cobb, a former Blue Cross spokesman, is fed up and has teamed with Brave New Films for a new ad.
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The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick hosts its 2010 Literary Competition
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (16:29:58)
The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick welcomes entries for several writing contests within its 2010 Literary Competition. The competition is open to writers from across Canada....
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REMEMBRANCE: Mark Chapman with his poem about Afghanistan through the eyes of a
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (16:24:51)
AN ASPIRING poet from Plymouth has written a touching poem, gaining inspiration from friends who are servicemen. Mark Chapman, a business sales executive from Mannamead, has written 'My Daddy Is A Hero' in the run-up to Remembrance Day on Wednesday, November 11....
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Birther Site Is Already Lying About Ft. Hood Shooter and Obama
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (16:20:44)
In the Traditional News: Conspiracy-theorist Website WorldNetDaily posts the inevitable "connection" between Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and President Obama, and it possesses the same level of rigor and responsibility we've come to expect from the leading source of disinformation that the president wasn't born an American.
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Way with words - " Charles Penfold, 11, Bethany French, seven, and Callum Sims,
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:57:54)
Poetry News: THERE must be something in the water at a Canvey school following unprecedented success in a county-wide poetry competition.
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Poets wring out rhymes
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:52:42)
Poetry News: Cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell, who also served as host for the event, performs his poetry Friday at Heber City's 15th annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair.
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Counselor gets poetic at night
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:51:58)
Maybe they'll question his priorities when they find out he spends weekends performing poetry under the stage name "Se7en" at bars and cafes across the country. Come Monday morning, Howard always returns to his ...
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117 more music events today
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:48:30)
Pieces of You. She then penned a collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor, which became a New... More >> There aren't many places inside the Houston city limits where you can ...
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Morning of Poetry
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:44:25)
Poetry News: Lithgow Public Library, 45 Winthrop St., Augusta. Susan Parks, Sally Joy and Gaylord Weston, members of the Winthrop-based Pondtown Poets, will read selections from their poetry.
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Diyala poetry festival shows signs of peace in Iraq
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:43:24)
Poetry News: Basim al-Dafaie, an Iraqi poet, was optimistic when he saw the restoration of art and poetry festival in his province of Diyala after four years of turbulence and violence.
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A Model of Order : Concrete Poetry
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (06:55:32)
Poetry News: ... Dom Sylvester HouA dard Robert Lax Edwin Morgan Mary Ellen Solt and many others. Jointly curated by the Scottish Poetry Library and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
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Scandal Sheet: Chris Brown's confused
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (06:48:10)
I don't know who came up with the idea to get actors to read from other actors' memoirs/poetry collection, but it's always a good time. The latest: Kristen Wiig reads Suzanne Somers' poetry. Awesome!...
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Then Again, Perhaps Shea d Be Offended by that a oeCowrin, Tima rousa Business
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (06:46:04)
The esteemed and sleek-whiskered Mouse Chairwoman is quoting from “Ballad Upon a Wedding” by Sir John Suckling, one of the English “Cavalier poets,” those dashing, witty, and sensitive 17th-century Carpe Diem fellows who came out in support of King Charles I against Parliament and the Puritans....
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A New Web Guide from The Library of Congress: Poetry of September 11
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:27:02)
Poetry News: This guide was compiled by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist at LC. Poetry of September 11 is a guide to print and online poetry about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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The Poetry Show
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:24:42)
Poetry News: Last month I listened with special attention to Dona Stein's excellent "The Poetry Show" on KFRC-FM in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Short short fiction explained: Lydia Davis at Portland Arts & Lectures
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:23:06)
Davis is the author of eight books, most recently "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis," which contains almost 200 stories. Many of them are extremely short -- a sentence or two, a paragraph, a page -- and Davis' talk was about how she became a writer of short short fiction....
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Quieting the child within
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:21:00)
Poetry News: Some nights I enjoy putting on my reading glasses, slumping into a big overstuffed chair and plopping open my old 1885 edition of "The Library of Religious Poetry." It makes me feel like a character from Dickens.
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Pixies, Peforming Doolittle, Hollywood Palladium, November 4, 2009
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:14:51)
After a pixelated projection of Bunuel and Dali's Un chien andalou , famously source material for the poetry of Debaser, they take the stage, three of the four of them clad in slimming all black, David the lone hold out in a white ...
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