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- Kansas authors offer guidance to other writers (The Dodge City Daily Globe)
Ninety newspaper writers, book authors, and poets from around the state came together over the weekend for the Kansas Authors Club 2008 state convention in Dodge City.    “Come West and Go Wild with Words†was the theme of the convention, co-hosted by District 7 (Dodge City, Colby, Garden City and Hays) and District 6 (Great Bend and Hutchinson).    The convention’s keynote speaker, ...
- Common threads & tatters in Toni Morrison's 'A Mercy' - New York Daily News
Even when Toni Morrison writes prose, she writes poetry. Or, to put it in less mystical terms, don't let the fact her new novel, "A Mercy," runs only 169 pages lull you into thinking it's easy to absorb, or even to follow. Like her last novel, the ...
- Central students gets personal in 'Portrait' (The Doings Oak Brook)
To read poems is one thing. To bring them to life on stage is something else entirely.
- Using art to teach writing skills - The Huntsville Times - al.com
Using art to teach writing skillsThe Huntsville Times - al.com, AL - 4 hours agoRivenbark is a former classroom teacher and author of the book "Poetry and Prose Prompts: A Quick Guide to Teaching Writing Style. ...
- Author discovered his ancestors owned slave who was master potter - Examiner.com
Examiner.comAuthor discovered his ancestors owned slave who was master potterExaminer.com - 9 hours agoDave even wrote poetry on many of his works. Todd, like a master detective, tracked down and studied all of Dave’s poems for biographical clues, ...
- Not the right type of meeting (Arab News)
This is perhaps one of the most hackneyed lines in English poetry. But as is usually the case with all clichés, Rudyard Kipling’s dictum, “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,†may be rooted in reality.
- The Assholes of Assus: An Homage - Bookslut
The Assholes of Assus: An HomageBookslut, IL - 2 hours agoThe American practice of poetry is paid for in blood -- literally. And that’s not something people want to hear -- nor is it much under anyone’s control. ...
- Patriot Games - New York Times
New York TimesPatriot GamesNew York Times, United States - 21 minutes agoDavid Kirby is editing, with Barbara Hamby, “Seriously Funny: Poems About Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else. ...
- Writing's not just a sentence, it's also a story about searching - The Age
The AgeWriting's not just a sentence, it's also a story about searchingThe Age, Australia - 36 minutes agoAnother point about that last sentence: Prose borrowed it from poetry. "Not the words themselves but the notion of the sentence is stolen from a Philip ...
- Local News Briefs: Oct. 6 (Ventura County Star)
Financial aid workshop planned
- African musician to visit Dereham - Eastern Daily Press
The sounds of Africa will be coming to Dereham Library this month. Musician Seikou Susso, who was born in the Gambia, will be visiting the library as part of Black History Month. Mr Susso is from a family of griots, western African singer ...
- Governor’s Gold Cup: Mr. Pradhan’s Woes - Goal.com
Goal.comGovernor’s Gold Cup: Mr. Pradhan’s WoesGoal.com, Switzerland - 3 hours agoMr. Pradhan underlines the lack of nationwide coverage of the Gold Cup and says that even a daily short news report on the competition would be very much ...
- Author Linda Gregg to share her poetry at College of Saint Benedict - CSB/SJU
Author Linda Gregg to share her poetry at College of Saint BenedictCSB/SJU, MN - 4 hours agoShe was the 2003 winner of the Sara Teasdale Award, and the 2006 PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry for achievement across her career. Her talk is free and open ...
- Hopes and hurdles (Busselton-Dunsborough Mail)
The famously witty Adlai Stevenson, a Democratic candidate for the US presidency in the 1950s, once cracked that "in America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes".
- In search of the self - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphIn search of the selfCalcutta Telegraph, India - Oct 13, 2008a contest for young poets in Hinglish or Benglish. It is inspired, as is the title, from Forward Prize winner Nagra’s collection of poetry, ...
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