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- Minneapolis' Rain Taxi keeps tabs on the literary scene - Los Angeles Times
Minneapolis' Rain Taxi keeps tabs on the literary sceneLos Angeles Times, CA - 38 minutes agoThere are reviews of poetry and audio and graphic novels, including a look at "Witness," a compilation of wordless graphic novels published between 1918 and ...
- Original 1960s Poetry Posters - Retro To Go
Original 1960s Poetry PostersRetro To Go, UK - 13 hours agoH is for Home currently has a small selection of original Sixties Poetry Posters for sale. Designed by Lucia Pearce, the posters were printed by Looart ...
- Past As Prologue - The Bulletin
President George W. Bush signed a proclamation that honors the 60th Anniversary of Armed Forces Integration Wednesday. On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order to end segregation in the armed forces. It stated that all in ...
- Who Wrote Dreams From My Father? - American Thinker
Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?American Thinker, WA - 35 minutes agoObama calls it some "very bad poetry," and he does not sell himself short. From "Underground": It would be another decade before Obama had anything in print ...
- Calligraphy teaches Chinese bankers strategy - Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Is managing a bank in China complicated? No more so than executing a fine work of calligraphy. That, at least, is the opinion of Tang Shuangning, president of Everbright Bank, a fast-growing lender that recently applied for a ...
- Young artist seeks social peace and awareness through painting - Today's Zaman
Today's ZamanYoung artist seeks social peace and awareness through paintingToday's Zaman, Turkey - 6 hours agoShe says even if her inclination to paint may stem from the fact that many members of her family paint as a hobby, none of them supported her when she ...
- The NPS begins, Ian's Pizza, Great Taste pre-parties, and more in Madison Miscellany (Isthmus)
The Madison Common Council passes an economic development plan, nearly $400K in grants for MATC, driver plows into Lake Mendota off Lake Street, Crane Your Swan Neck at the Terrace, an interview with Patchwork, Dane Dances DJ Laurie Mlatawou, opening day at the National Poetry Slam, The Rocky Horror Show at the Middleton Performing Arts Center, a "SOLVE" t-shirt series for an East High ...
- In defence of the Scottish bard - Guardian Unlimited
Reading Jeremy Paxman 's comments about Scotland's national bard on the train on the way to the Edinburgh book festival made my blood boil. It's interesting how personally one can take criticism of the bard. But then curiously, in the taxi, I asked ...
- Wanda’s Picks (San Francisco Bay View)
Yesterday I spent some time in Algiers with Common Ground Relief co-founder Malik Rahim, who announced his candidacy for Congress last week at the Green Party convention in Chicago.
- The Art Scene - East Hampton Star
The Art SceneEast Hampton Star, USA - 2 hours agoThe title of each piece is based on the first lines of poetry of Emily Dickinson. The works use limited color and pared-down forms, inviting a visual ...
- Write Stuff: Hershey Library Offers Adult Enrichment Classes - The Patriot-News - PennLive.com
Write Stuff: Hershey Library Offers Adult Enrichment ClassesThe Patriot-News - PennLive.com, PA - 2 hours agoPracticing with poetry, fiction and memoir, this workshop will focus on writing exercises for those who enjoy the challenge and feel motivated when forced ...
- Monday, August 11, 2008 - Democracy Now
Monday, August 11, 2008Democracy Now, NY - Aug 12, 2008The poetry of Mahmoud Darwish is well known and loved across the Arab world by people from all walks of life. [includes rush transcript]
- Beatniks and Hollywood Royalty Descend Upon Edmonton Edmonton Festivals Create International Flavour (Hospitality Net)
Edmonton Festivals bring life to the streets for poetry lovers. If to you poetry means the stuff you did in high school English, think again: this is combat in the form of "blink poetry," a yell-a-thon with megaphones, a funkified jazz soundtrack, and multiple battles to the (poetic) death. It's nicknamed "The Word Party in Downtown E-Town" for good reason: it's three days of manic, comic, ...
- Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says writing for the Royal Family is 'a ... - Daily Telegraph
After nine years in the post, he said that the job was "incredibly difficult", "entirely thankless" and had given him writer's block. Next year Motion, 55, relinquishes the post. It used to be the case that the holder would retain the post until his ...
- Adam Golaski publishes book of short stories (Holbrook Sun)
Adam Golaski recently had a book of supernatural ghost stories, “Worse than Myself,†published.
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