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- 2008 National Book Festival - Associated Content
Washington D.C. -- On a humid early fall day, the 2008 National Book Festival took place on the expanse of the National Mall. The Library of Congress sponsors the yearly event. The purpose is to promote reading by showcasing authors and programs that ...
- Writers welcome a literary president-elect (Seattle Times)
For Toni Morrison and other writers, the election of Barack Obama matters not because he will be the first black president or because the vast majority of writers usually vote for Democrats. Writers welcome Obama as a peer, a thinker, a man of words — his own words.
- Former U.S. poet laureate plans K-State visit - Topeka Capitol-Journal
MANHATTAN — Kansas State University’s Visiting Writers Series will feature a public reading by 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 in Forum Hall at the K-State Student Union. The reading is free and open to the public ...
- Community Calendar - The Gazette (Montreal)
Community CalendarThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 49 minutes agoThe West Island Writers Association meets tonight from 7 to 9 pm Open to aspiring and published writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry who want to learn ...
- Put Some Shake in your Shaker (Boise Weekly)
The wacky confounding of geographies in the Egyptian Theatre venue, transposing Asia and Africa, perfectly fits Taj Mahal—the supremely entertaining inventor of blues—in crossing geographical and cultural boundaries. It was 40 years ago at The Fillmore that he implored his audience to respond to "Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixie (Any Mo')" by "putting a little shake in your shaker."... By Norman ...
- Ten horror hoaxes that spooked the masses - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukTen horror hoaxes that spooked the massesTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 13 hours agoNeedless to say, her predictions were as good as her poetry: 'The world to an end shall come, in eighteen hundred and eighty one'. In the 17th Century, ...
- How Reader Girl Got Her Groove Back - School Library Journal
School Library JournalHow Reader Girl Got Her Groove BackSchool Library Journal - 1 hour agoI adored the intoxicating discussions, the unraveling of poetry, the sweet little A's at the tops of my essays. (Let's pretend they were all A's. There's no ...
- JOHN HALEY'S HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PICKS/WEEK 7 - MyCentralJersey.com
The game of football is so vicious and filled with commotion, but at the same time, it can be poetry in motion. There's Vitabile, Danielsen, Bolin and Cole doing what they do best, which is opening a hole, then there's Fitzgerald, Little and Miller ...
- Celebrating the life of a poet - Daily Times
LAHORE: The Punjab University Department of English Language and Literature on Thursday commemorated the life and work of poet Hima Raza (1975-2003). A slideshow of Raza’s pictures and excerpts from her poetry was shown to the audience, tracing her ...
- 'Rock' of ages, at the Huntington - Boston Globe
'Rock 'n' Roll" is the ultimate rebuke to anyone who still argues that Tom Stoppard is all head and no heart. It pulses with the energy of a formidable intelligence, to be sure, but also with the unstoppable force of love and desire. That said, it's ...
- Dr. Z: You can't spell hapless without PSL (Sports Illustrated)
Achtung Loyalists! Your faithful narrator is being ripped by Sean of Rochester for being a copout and so wimpy that he's chicken to take a shot at the Personal Seat License scam. Coward, that's what he says I am, and what's worse, a coward with a weight problem.
- Festival of Books Kicks off this Weekend (KSFY Sioux Falls)
The 6th Annual Festival of Books is going on this weekend in Sioux Falls.
- As roach and cat, clever comic duo is without a point in play - Minneapolis Star Tribune
As roach and cat, clever comic duo is without a point in playMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 20 hours agoHowever, they never get really inside the episodic and reflective poetry, so this work plays out as a 60-minute acting exercise — clever vignettes, ...
- Angelou writing a poem about Obama - Detroit Free Press
RALEIGH, N.C.-- Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton — affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president — asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her ...
- Calendar (The Post and Courier)
SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD FESTIVAL: Noon-6 p.m. Charleston Maritime Center, 10 Wharfside St., Charleston.
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