Award Winning Spoken Word Poet Hosts Workshop and Performs at Pit Stop Saturday - Patch.com

Award Winning Spoken Word Poet Hosts Workshop and Performs at Pit Stop Saturday Patch.com By Mathea Morais Martha's Vineyard is home to many wonderful and talented poets. However, not many of them are of the Nuyorican Poet's Café school of spoken word poets. This weekend, the Pit Stop Workshop will host Ceez Liive for both a performance and ... and more »

Conversation: Poet Natalie Diaz - PBS (blog)

Conversation: Poet Natalie Diaz PBS (blog) While she was in college, she also began to write poetry. Her first collection of poems, "When My Brother Was an Aztec," has just been published. Many of Diaz's poems deal with the harsh realities of reservation life: poverty, teen pregnancy and ...

Go! Stage & Screen calendar: May 18-24 - Times Herald-Record

Go! Stage & Screen calendar: May 18-24 Times Herald-Record "Louder Than a Bomb" — 2010 documentary by directors Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel about four Chicago-area high school poetry teams preparing for and competing in the world's largest youth slam. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 12 Vassar St., Poughkeepsie, ...

IkamvaYouth - Giving Tembisa matrics a fighting chance - Daily Maverick

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IkamvaYouth - Giving Tembisa matrics a fighting chance Daily Maverick She loves small stories and human narratives, and dislikes persistent evangelists, bad poetry and the insane logic that currently passes for political rhetoric. Back in journalism after spending time in the corridors of corporate greed, ...

The case for cleansing before pregnancy - Washington Times

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The case for cleansing before pregnancy Washington Times Like tattoos and poetry and deciding which bars to try out my new fake ID. After Marc and I got married in our mid-twenties, he talked about the idea of having children. I managed to hold him off a few years so we could begin our careers and travel.