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- Summer Guide 2008 - It's Alive! (City Pulse)
So you think there’s nothing fun to do in Greater Lansing? That’s the question the folks at the Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau are asking, with the hope you’ll answer “no.”
- Generation Kill - Variety
VarietyGeneration KillVariety, CA - 39 minutes agoFaithfully drawing from Wright's book, Simon and Burns create crude poetry out of the Marines' expletive-laden banter -- filled as it is with homoerotic ...
- Someone You Should Know: Sean G - WCTV
Someone You Should Know: Sean GWCTV, FL - 1 hour agoI used to have to go to poetry readings to get an open mike. I had to beg for stage time." Whether it's the Second City or Saturday Night Live, ...
- Entertainment Calendar: 5/15-5/21 The Free Press - Mankato Free Press
Entertainment Calendar: 5/15-5/21 The Free PressMankato Free Press, MN - 6 hours ago“Image and the Word” Opening reception and Poetry Reading — 7 pm to 9 pm, Emy Frentz Arts Guild, Mankato. Exhibit runs through June 3. ...
- Langhorne Slim loves those love songs - Asheville Citizen-Times
Decked out in a fedora and a thrift store suit, Langhorne Slim delivers an edgy mix of alt-folk and urban new school blues as he croons through witty heart-on-the-sleeve love songs. Slim originally hails from rural Pennsylvania, but he eventually ...
- Reading About Reading: Harvard Kids Don't Have Hearts - Gawker
In her latest review of the New York Times Book Review, Intern Alexis is faced with the reality that Harvard students were not in tears while reading Madame Bovary . After accepting that crimson can be so cruel, Alexis notices a lot of "nah-nahs ...
- PALMER'S ALMANAC: Memorial Day's roots in Civil War - Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
PALMER'S ALMANAC: Memorial Day's roots in Civil WarTuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - May 24, 2008But instead of bullets and cannon balls, this was a war of words — a poetry war. In 1867 New York attorney Francis Miles Finch read an article in the New ...
- Book Review: Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti (Blogcritics.org)
Elias Canetti's Nobel Prize winning, life changing book. I have read a few horror stories in my life. When I was young, it was R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps series, and when I got older, it was Stephen King and Jonathan Carroll. However the book that sent a shiver down my spine from the very first sentence came from none of these authors. It came from a Nobel Prize winning book written by Elias ...
- Sufism and politics have the same goals — Sabir Zafar - DAWN Group
Although his fame hinges on his geets, or lyrics, noted poet Sabir Zafar is trying to shake off his image as a lyricist. He has as many as 22 collections of ghazals (lyric poems) to his credit and wants his name to be recognized with that genre. With ...
- Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc. and Other Top Black Book Publishers to Receive The Wheatley ... (BlackNews.com)
National (BlackNews.com) - Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc. and Executive Director/Co-Founder of the African American Pavilion at BookExpo America has been selected to receive the prestigious Wheatley Book Award.
- Poetry column: Father muses over couple to be (The Evening Sun)
This Friday evening I will be walking our only daughter, April, down the aisle. I am happy to tears as I recall her journey from birth through childhood, from girlhood through her teens, and from college through her first years as a teacher.
- Nikki Giovanni Speaks Poetry in NYC July 8-9; Broadway's Jenkins ... - Playbill.com
Playbill.comNikki Giovanni Speaks Poetry in NYC July 8-9; Broadway's Jenkins ...Playbill.com, NY - 4 hours ago... alternately delicate and exultant, and always highly melodic — in exploring those most universal of human experiences: friendship, lust, love and loss. ...
- All Events for 20 May 2008 (My Village Tooting)
Until 22 May 2008 Delightful comedy of manners which follows the life of five women working in a Lebanese beauty salon where love, laughter and tears all fight for attention....
- 'Freedom Rings' at Diamond Park Thursday (The Meadville Tribune)
June 19, 1865: A Union general delivered news to Texas that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were to be freed — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Eman-cipation Proclamation.
- Ann Levison (Hollis Brookline Journal)
Ann Levison, 78, the guiding force at the old Harvard (Mass.) Post for more than two decades, died peacefully on April 15, 2008, at home on East Bare Hill Road, Harvard, Mass. A creative and prolific writer, she compiled a book of her poetry in the last weeks of her life.
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