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- A VILLAGE RULED BY THE WORD - Newark Star-Ledger
There were walks in the woods, gift shopping and food, hacky sack games and flirting, but the day was, ultimately, about words. Speaking words. Choosing the right word. The power of words, particularly the spoken word. That was the gift that many of ...
- Restaurant to host poetry readings (Portsmouth Daily Times)
PDT Staff Report Ye Olde Lantern Restaurant, 601 Second St., Portsmouth will host a new season of poetry on the third Monday of each month beginning Aug. 18, featuring Kentucky poet Angela Barker Thomas.
- Authors grieve over Wallace's death (MSNBC)
The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, a writer who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest" and the essay collection "Consider the Lobster."
- Rochester poets show poetry is not for sissies - Democrat and Chronicle
Forget Stephen King. You want bone-chilling violence, blood-curdling revenge, read a poem. That's one lesson I learned from going though the 180 or so poems submitted to the first-ever Connections Contrition poetry contest. As announced last week ...
- Taking Names (The Washington Times)
There will be no wedding bells for "Desperate Housewives" star Nicollette Sheridan and singer Michael Bolton, Zap2it.com reports.
- Klingon as a Second Language (Washington City Paper)
Vavoy! Vavoy!” The wild cries echo through the nearly empty Burger King, as 2-year-old Alec Speers calls out to his father, d’Armond, who sits wolfing down a Whopper at a table across the room.
- ART SHOWS - Grand Rapids Press
``Perspectives on Place: Artists' Vision of Michigan's Land and Lakes'' -- Through Sept. 7, KIA, 314 S. Park St. 349-7775, or www.kiarts.org. ``Renew/React'' -- Biennial sculpture invitational focusing on the environment, through Sept. 7, Krasl Art ...
- 'Trail of Crumbs' not your usual memoir (The Tuscaloosa News)
Trail of Crumbs' is a memoir, but it is certainly different from most I read. The typical memoir, especially the Southern female variety, involves being abused or neglected as a child, often having an alcoholic parent or two, and descending into rehab of some kind, finishing up in the survivor mode.
- Youth attend Outdoors Natural Resource Camp - Prairie Star
The 2nd Annual Marias Natural Resource Camp was held at the Whitlash Campground in the Sweet Grass Hills. Eleven youth from the Blackfeet Reservation, Pondera and Toole County attended. Youth attending the camp were Calle Monroe, Skylar Stenson ...
- Shortlist for Glen Dimplex writers award announced - Irish Times
Shortlist for Glen Dimplex writers award announcedIrish Times, Ireland - 9 hours agoThe awards, now in their third year and organised in association with the Irish Writers' Centre, have five different categories: fiction, poetry, ...
- Group is spreading music - Coastal Courier
Group is spreading musicCoastal Courier, GA - 24 minutes agoWright said he figured his group could help those less fortunate learn the value of music and the power of poetry and the spoken word. ...
- Charities get star power - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
NEW YORK - Bono battles the AIDS epidemic. Leonardo tries to make the world a greener place, and Martha has a soft spot for animals. For today's celebs, charity work is almost as much a part of the job as walking the red carpet. Famous names have ...
- Jeff VanderMeer: Political Fiction on Economic Crisis, 9-11: Slattery's Liberation and DeLillo's Falling Man (HuffingtonPost)
"The collapse was a tsunami, and all of us and the American dream had been on the beach, eyes closed, chairs angled at the sun, too close to the water to get away."
- Champion Singer Unleashes Beast - ChartAttack
ChartAttackChampion Singer Unleashes BeastChartAttack, Canada - 11 hours agoGoncalves, who also played drums with Montreal afrobeat group Afrodizz, describes the music as dark and influenced primarily by cinematic imagery. ...
- Books address racism as it affects daily lives of Indians (Billings Gazette)
MISSOULA - It ain't easy being Indian. So says one of America's premier American Indian writers of contemporary Indian life. To help explain the racial complexities that permeate Sherman Alexie's work, a textbook for teachers, "Sherman Alexie in the Classroom," was recently published to help educators explore Native Americana in modern times, stories often told by Alexie with an acerbic twist.
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