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3 hrs ago | The China Post

Mandarin speech competition comes to historical conclusion

Radio Taiwan International held its ninth annual Mandarin Speech Contest for Foreign Nationals' finale in Taipei yesterday, with Cleisha-Bernise Springer, an exchange student from Saint Lucia, taking away two prizes including overall champion.

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Related Topix: Travel, Asia Travel, Taiwan Travel, World News, Taiwan, Arts

7 hrs ago | Patch.com

Wescott Library Hosting Poetry Open Mic and Contest

Poet Katrina Vandenbarg will discuss the "Alphabet Not Unlike the World: Poems" and her other works at an adult poetry contest event at the Wescott Library .

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9 hrs ago | Newkerala.com

Chinese musician seeks enduring India-China ties

By Biswajit Choudhury, New Delhi, May 19 : She started liking the poetry of India's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore while in school, and now China's noted dulcimer player Liu Yuening has made the first Chinese transcription of Tagore's songs with the aim of creating an enduring basis for India-China ties as the two countries embark on ... (more)

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13 hrs ago | The Wichita Eagle

In poetry and faith, life matters

Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and until recently the editor of Poetry magazine, has written what may become a spiritual classic.

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Related Topix: Arts, West, TX, Medicine, Cancer, Health, Entertainment

13 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Bisexual Book Awards and Bi Lines VI combine for a stunning multi-arts evening

On June 2nd, the Bi Writers Association will present Bi Lines VI, a spectacular multi-arts event celebrating bisexual writing, which includes the first Bisexual Book Awards in the world.

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Related Topix: East Village (New York, NY), Arts, Photography

14 hrs ago | The Papillion Times

Kooser: 'American Life in Poetry'

If we haven't done it ourselves, we've known people who have, it seems: taken a vacation mostly to photograph a vacation, not really looking at what's there, but seeing everything through the viewfinder with the idea of looking at it when they get home.

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18 hrs ago | BroadwayWorld.com

Public Theatre Presents Haiku, Hip Hop and Hotdogs, Now thru 5/22

Well known children's poems spring to life when The Crabgrass Puppet theatre brings their delightful show, Haiku, HipHop and Hotdogs to The Public Theatre today, . Perfect for families and children pre-K through fifth grade, this production is a fun way to introduce a child to the magic of theatre, at the affordable price of only $5 a ticket for ... (more)

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22 hrs ago | Vallejo News

Poetry finally joining e-book revolution Over the past two years...

Inc., W.W. Norton and several other publishers now routinely release new books in both print and digital versions, including last month's Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Sharon "In the spring of 2010, we actually formed a team to focus on books that were complicated to make into e-books, like poetry and illustrated nonfiction," says Liisa ... (more)

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Yesterday | Bronte Blog

Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee

Some time ago we reported that the Dutch artist Nion was working in a musical version of a poem by Emily BrontA«. Finally, the work has been released : Thy Delightful Shade is a project in which I intend to set poetry by famous English poets to music.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Chronicle Live

Creative Tyneside youngsters get reward

They are from the Children in Care Council and the Virtual School who have been working with local artists exploring different styles of writing - from traditional written verse to rap and free style poems.

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Related Topix: Arts, Tyne and Wear County, England, United Kingdom,

Cybercast News Service

Prison Poetry Website Locks Down $75,000 NEA Grant

A new website on prison poetry was launched this week with assistance from a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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BroadwayWorld.com

Photo Flash: First Look at Joseph Graves in Syracuse Stage's an Iliad

An Iliad, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peters on and Denis O'Hare , with translation by Robert Fagles , is directed by Penny Metropulos at Syracuse Stage , running now through June 9. BroadwayWorld has a first look at Joseph Graves as The Poet onstage below! This remarkable adaptation of Homer's account of the Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic ... (more)

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New Yorker

Book News: Viral Poetry, Birthday Bridge

The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum will reopen in October, after being closed for over a year due to lack of funding.

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The Gleaner

'Hatta Sketches' video launch in Portmore tonight

Oku Onuora, barefooted and all, gives his audience at Kingston Pon Di River a taste of his legendary poetry last April.- File In 1984, Sketches - a riveting, rhyme-and-rhythm depiction of urban crime and violence, that was first published by pioneer performance poetry artist Oku Onuora in his 1978 book Ech o - re-emerged as a poignant and powerful ... (more)

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Pike Press

Art, poetry coming to PHS May 24 and 25

The show will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 24 and May 25, in the media center at Pittsfield High School.

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Fri May 17, 2013

Examiner.com

Los Angeles Poetry Examiner's Friday Pick: Suzanne Lummis knows the perfect man

Behind the podium, onstage and off, she is easy and full of the lighter take on most things.

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The Stranger

Trolololol

I saw the weakest minds of my occupation destroyed by blog comments, hate-eating hysterical shivering, dragging themselves through message boards at dawn looking for a troll to fight.

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Daily Echo

City names children's poet laureate

Ex-city dock worker Matt West was plucked from scores of entrants in a Daily Echobacked campaign to find Southampton's first children's poet laureate.

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CBS Local

Toucher & Rich: Rick Reilly Is At It Again

His jokes often lack jokes and the guys have grabbed Reilly's most recent article about the New York Jets in which Reilly takes a stab at poetry.

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Times-Standard

Peace poetry and art

This year's Redwood Coast Peace Poetry & Art contest, sponsored by Veterans For Peace, will culminate in a celebration from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Fellowship Hall, 23 Fellowship Way in Bayside.

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