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- Accomplished professionals honored at annual event to inspire Hispanic youth (Hispania News)
PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Five extraordinary Latinos will be inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) Alumni Hall of Fame at its seventh annual gala September 17, 2008 at the Pierre Hotel in New York City. They will join a select group of Latino professionals who have been recognized for their personal achievements, contributions and service to America, including former Surgeon ...
- Russian Bombers Fly Over Caribbean - The Bulletin
In a move reminiscent of Cold War tactic, Russia flew two bombers over neutral waters in the Caribbean Sea yesterday, basing the mission in Venezuela. The two Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers arrived in South America ahead of planned joint military ...
- An Afternoon of Chicano Spoken Word - SDSUniverse
SDSUniverseAn Afternoon of Chicano Spoken WordSDSUniverse, CA - 2 hours agoBringing spoken word to relevant places – from taquerÃas to Chicano Park to New York University – Riley’s more than 200 thought-provoking poetry ...
- Rosanna Warren's 'Fables' about poetry - San Francisco Gate
As a literary critic, Rosanna Warren likes to be coy. Or so it seems from her "Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry," a book of essays that the author - also a classics scholar, translator and an award-winning poet - calls an "occult ...
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Another Booker Flop - London Review of Books (subscription)
Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Another Booker FlopLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 56 minutes agoStephen Burt’s new book of criticism is The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence. A collection of his essays on contemporary poets, ...
- Exhibit honors poet Jeffers (The Salinas Californian)
For eight weeks beginning Oct. 4, The National Steinbeck Center is presenting an exhibition, "Jeffers & Steinbeck: Habitat of Thought," as part of a National Endowment for the Arts pilot program called "The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers."
- Professors from two academic fields to examine memory loss (Daily Orange)
Chris Kennedy's mother has Alzheimer's disease. She would forget her name, where she was, how to describe her basic surroundings. He took these experiences and wrote a memoir about his relationship with his mother. "It became my way to make sense of what was happening with my mother," said Kennedy, director of the Creative Writing Program in the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Autumn brings cornucopia of arts to valley (Las Vegas Sun)
Fri, Oct 17, 2008 (2 a.m.) The arts spring to life come autumn, creating an onslaught of sometimes riveting, sometimes mundane events. This weekend promises a mishmash.
- Plans for national music museum come to a coda - Washington Business Journal
Plans for national music museum come to a codaWashington Business Journal, DC - 3 hours agoThe music center brought some attractions to the stage, such as a Valentine’s Day student poetry contest, and planned to expand its classes, festivals and ...
- Acclaimed Minnesota Authors to Visit Carleton as Part of ... - Carleton College News
Acclaimed Minnesota Authors to Visit Carleton as Part of ...Carleton College News, MN - 5 hours agoErdrich is the author of three collections of poetry, “The Mother's Tongue†(Salt Publishing, 2005), “Fishing for Myth†(New Rivers Press, 1997), ...
- WORKSHOP Noon — Poetry and performance workshop available for teens (Pacific Daily News)
Noon, Nov. 18 — "Spoken Word: The New Generation of Native Tongues" after-school spoken word poetry/writing workshops program will run through February 2009. The program is free and open to all teens.
- Poet turns to prose to assess his life - Inrich.com
We tend to revere poets in visible ways: More than writers, they are our secular priests who evoke in brilliant brevity our joys, our sorrows and our soaring aspirations. That's perhaps why we have a national poet laureate, not a national novelist or ...
- Regional A&E Calendar | Oct. 15 - Auburn Reporter
Regional A&E Calendar | Oct. 15Auburn Reporter, WA - 3 hours agoPerformers welcome to share music, poetry, spoken word, comedy or magic. Cost: $5 donation for adults; $3 for students and seniors. ...
- With 'Driftless,' acclaimed novelist David Rhodes returns to the land of the living (Pioneer Press)
After a silence of 33 years, Rhodes has published "Driftless," a profound and enduring paean to rural America
- Ashbery welcomes audience to his world (Massachusetts Daily Collegian)
John Ashbery, one of the most respected and beloved contemporary American poets, read a number of his poems to a packed house at Memorial Hall on Thursday, Sept. 11 as a part of the Visiting Writers Series.
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