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- New book for author - Miramichi Leader
New book for authorMiramichi Leader, Canada - 14 hours agoNew Brunswick author Raymond Fraser will be launching his new book, The Grumpy Man, at Westminster Bookstore in Fredericton, on Wednesday, Nov. ...
- U.S. Poet Laureate to give reading at CSE - Bridgeton News
Photo by Jane Hirshfield U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan The public has an exceptional opportunity to attend a reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 4:45 p.m. at the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE) in Morristown. Held in ...
- Posted By ARABELLA PRESCOTT, SPECIAL TO THE DAILY OBSERVER - Pembroke Daily Observer
Posted By ARABELLA PRESCOTT, SPECIAL TO THE DAILY OBSERVERPembroke Daily Observer, Canada - 11 hours agoMiramichi Lodge beside the beautiful Ottawa River was the setting for the October birthday party on the second floor, where autumn leaves decorated the ...
- John Henry, Myth Made Flesh (Nashville Scene)
There's not much reliable and detailed evidence, but in Steel Drivin' Man (Oxford University Press, 214 pp., $14.95) Scott Reynolds Nelson makes a good case that the mythical John Henry was a short (5'1") black man from New Jersey. A boy, really: He was only 19 when he was convicted, on qu...
- Stoppard's 'Rock 'n' Roll' is splendid (The Sacramento Bee)
Hearts and minds take center stage in Tom Stoppard's epic drama "Rock 'n' Roll." The playwright so well known for dense literary and historically based material ("The Coast of Utopia," "The Invention of Love" and "Arcadia"), and also occasionally criticized for lacking feeling, subtly shifts a tender humanity into his latest work.
- Writers welcome a literary president-elect (AP via Yahoo! News)
Last winter, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison received a phone call from Sen. Barack Obama, then the underdog to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- He doesn’t live by ‘The Rules,’ you know - Taipei Times
He doesn’t live by ‘The Rules,’ you knowTaipei Times, Taiwan - 31 minutes agoI think it’s much stronger than forced poetry.†Redemption seems to be a watchword for Gervais. The reason it’s so crucial, he thinks, is that it helps the ...
- Teenagers invited to enter writing contest (Fairfield Echo)
FAIRFIELD — The Lane Libraries will soon launch its seventh annual Teen Writing Contest, "Our Own Words," for short story and poetry writers ages 13-18. Work will be judged on originality, clarity, ideas presented, voice, word choice, presentation, sentence structure/fluency and spelling.
- Gettysburg high school publication honored - The Evening Sun
Gettysburg high school publication honoredThe Evening Sun, PA - 9 hours agoThe publication contains student poetry and artwork, and, according to Interrobang staff members, it serves as an outlet for creativity and self-expression. ...
- Nobody reads poetry anymore - NJ.com
NJ.comNobody reads poetry anymoreNJ.com, New Jersey - 28 minutes agoMaybe you hear a poem once in a while on public radio. Someone tells me one of the cable-access channels has a poetry show on Saturdays. ...
- Queen of the chakras - Khaleej Times
Khaleej TimesQueen of the chakrasKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 5 hours agoAnd I said, ‘Well, I've written some poetry, but I've never written just a song. But I'll try.’ And I did. In the United States, do you see more and more ...
- Navy veteran gets joy Ñ and medal Ñ from writing (The Salisbury Post)
By Kathy Chaffin kchaffin@salisburypost.com Daniel R. McDowell discovered the joy of writing later in life. Growing up, he had difficulty with English ...
- Activist Del Martin Remembered At SF City Hall (KRXI-TV Reno)
The life of human rights pioneer Del Martin was richly eulogized Wednesday at a ceremony in San Francisco that filled the main floor and each tier of City Hall's Rotunda with invited guests, politicians, officers in fancy dress and well-wishers wiping away tears.
- The Roustabout - New York Times
The RoustaboutNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoIt isn’t necessarily an advantage in the poetry world, especially the American poetry world, to be known for writing things that aren’t poetry. ...
- It’s raining lawsuits…. and political correctness - Stage
It’s raining lawsuits…. and political correctnessStage, UK - 1 hour agoBut otherwise, I can’t see which of his shows he is talking about: perhaps the poetry police objected to the use of TS Eliot poems to animate Cats. ...
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