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Results 1 - 20 of 18,158 in Poetry

  1. Sarojini NaiduRead the original story

    22 min ago | BIO

    ... Indian National Congress and in 1947, she became the Governor of Uttar Pradesh state. She also wrote and published poetry. (born Feb. 13, 1879, Hyderabad, India-died March 2, 1949, Lucknow) political activist, feminist, poet-writer, and the first ...

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  2. A 'Journey' from slavery to presidencyRead the original story

    30 min ago | Reading Eagle/Reading Times

    ... personal and organizational development through coaching, improving presentation skills and training. Through music, poetry and drama, the pair portrayed a journey spanning the time from slavery to emancipation to nonviolent protest to having the ...

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  3. The Liars Bench hosts 2 showsRead the original story w/Photo

    45 min ago | The Asheville Citizen-Times

    Phil Mickelson went from a six-shot deficit to a two-shot lead in just six holes, closed with an... CULLOWHEE - The Liar's Bench will offer 'a live, authentic traditional Southern Appalachian storytelling, music, poetry, drama and folk arts presentation' at 7 p.m. Thursday and Feb.

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  4. This film sounds great, and the review is very clear as t...Read the original story w/Photo

    1 hr ago | Philadelphia Gay News

    ... a late-night bus, or in the high-school bathroom - testify to this; they expose her lack of self-confidence. Alike's poetry teacher suggests she "go deeper," and this advice extends to mean that she needs to investigate her sexual identity further. ...

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  5. Five Things You Need to Know Today: February 12Read the original story

    2 hrs ago | Patch.com

    ... poems to share to the second annual Valentine's Celebration Reading. This will be the first of six winter to spring poetry readings. Light Fare Served / Free Admission. 4 pm - 6 pm. 4. There is public skating this afternoon at the MV Arena . Rental ...

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  6. Geoff Lemon: Gina, your poetic licence is revokedRead the original story

    3 hrs ago | Crikey

    Thank you, Gina Rinehart. As the editor of a long-running poetry journal, I thank Rinehart for putting the noble art of verse in the media spotlight .

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  7. More on Word Pairs and HebraismsRead the original story

    3 hrs ago | Mormanity

    My previous post linked to a significant 1997 article by Kevin Barney that revealed the presence in the Book of Mormon of a recently recognized traditional element of ancient Hebrew poetry, word pairs.

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  8. 'Ophelia' marks Black History MonthRead the original story

    3 hrs ago | Roanoke Times

    ... "Bellocq's Ophelia," appeared in 2002. Five years later her collection "Native Guard" won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It delves into both the tragic story of the first Union army regiment of black soldiers and her own past as the daughter of a ...

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  9. Poetry Out Loud Competition Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at CPLRead the original story

    3 hrs ago | Examiner.com

    At 10 a.m. in the Friends Room of Columbia Public Library on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, come out to support your local area high school poets! High school students of this Poetry Out Loud Competition will be competing for the Missouri State Championship, as coordinated by the City of Columbia Office of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the ... (more)

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  10. Slum kids steal ISM showRead the original story w/Photo

    4 hrs ago | The Telegraph

    Dances, songs, skits, fashion show, poetry recitation, science exhibition and quiz - variety was the other name of Prakash 2012, the annual day of ISM students society Kartavya.

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  11. Lessons of a very sexy pirate costumeRead the original story w/Photo

    5 hrs ago | Salon

    ... they'd have great hair, and I double-conditioned accordingly. I was in love with my own incongruity - being a poetry-spouting college graduate in a pleather miniskirt. And I loved this notion of doing something at which I was entirely unsuited, and ...

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  12. Collaborations mix poetry, artRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday Feb 10 | News Press

    Musicians, dancers, videographers and sculptors spark each other's work in event that started on Sanibel and spread into Southwest Florida.

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  13. Shakespeare Open Stages project comes to St Albans Abbey TheatreRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday Feb 9 | Crow

    ... was the one of the first of Shakespeare's plays to be put on at the new Globe Theatre in 1598 and mixed prose and poetry in a way that seemed designed to appeal to the widest possible audience in the new playhouse. The second production, Shakespeare ...

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  14. EducationRead the original story

    Monday Feb 6 | Times-Union

    ... Tuesday, February 07, 2012 Students in Mrs. Underhill's third-grade class at Pierceton Elementary recently had a poetry reading for their relatives and friends. They spent four weeks writing poems. They wrote a snapshot poem using a magazine picture ...

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  15. 'Hour of The Wolf' at The JQ Studio March 3-20Read the original story

    Feb 27, 2011 | Examiner.com

    ... for the last decade. It will incorporate the melancholic sounds of a live cellist, Joseph Valbrun, the profane poetry of Charles Bukowski and the delicate imagery of poet/lyricist Silvio Rodriguez . Using elements of ritualism, movement, and song, ...

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  16. Maithili on the rock stageRead the original story

    4 hrs ago | The Indian Express

    The oeuvre of popular poet Nagarjuna's poetry has always been known for its revolutionary philosophy, apart from forming the bedrock for Hindi poetry's literary tradition.

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  17. Love isn't merely a folly for the youngRead the original story

    5 hrs ago | Albert Lea Tribune

    ... illness. Days after she passed, he began to write for the first time in his life. He poured out his feelings in poetry and prose. I had no idea they were still so much in love or that he could express that love in words so tender. I hate to admit ...

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  18. The Russian satirical poet, his billionaire backer and a tour that Putin won't find funnyRead the original story

    5 hrs ago | The Independent

    ... Russian businessman living in exile in the British capital. Citizen Poet features actor Mikhail Yefremov reading out poetry inspired by Russian classics, but given a cutting contemporary twist by the writer and journalist Dmitry Bykov. It was first ...

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  19. Gonsalves: Proof of a poetRead the original story

    5 hrs ago | Cape Cod Times

    ... was all you need/A singular/Relentless soul/In every word/And deed ..." It's a ballad, he explains. But he also pens poetry in iambic pentameter, or sometimes writes free verse, where "the rhythm doesn't necessarily rhyme." One of his employees ...

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  20. 'Occupy My Life': Deb Szczepkowski And Brian Douglas, The Viral Couple Of Occupy Wall StreetRead the original story

    6 hrs ago | The Huffington Post

    ... say this about mic checks: if you're writing a mic check that's a good one that can be done well, it's like writing poetry, like writing a poem on a page that I was going to use everyone else to recite," he recently told HuffPost in a Skype ...

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