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- Self-published authors share their journeys to authorhood (Courier-Post)
S.L. Sharp spent 23 years writing "Baby Jules," her first novel. It took much less time for Sharp to publish her tale of two generations of women fighting for the survival of their dysfunctional family.
- What if the Detroit Lions were a rock band? - MLive.com
Today, I begin my annual descent into football hell. I do this willingly even as I ignore the unsettling sound of dollars being sucked from my wallet. I do this in spite of the ridicule I endure from co-workers, relatives, even strangers, who shake ...
- Red Ribbon Week brings anti-drug message to Vallejo - Vallejo Times-Herald
Jimmy Myles, 15, a Vallejo High School student, repaints a portion of the mural. (Lanz Christian Ba es/Times-Herald) Volunteers began repainting the derelict anti-drug mural at Tennessee and Monterey streets on Friday. The 20-year-old mural, which ...
- The Word Revealed, The World Revealed - World Sikh News
World Sikh NewsThe Word Revealed, The World RevealedWorld Sikh News, CA - 1 hour ago... poetry, the vision of cosmic order and exhortation to the higher life. In that respect, it is a unique scripture among the source books of religion. ...
- Isiah is Set to Release a Mini Series of Book - PR.com
The book will be based on different adventures that Sam goes on. And at the end of each book there will be some kind of life lesson in it. Cushing, TX, October 30, 2008 --( PR.com )-- Isiah Hurts is set to release a series of mini books for children ...
- The next chapter: Who'll be the bestsellers of tomorrow? (Independent)
There's something inescapably retro about the book trade. But then what do you expect from an industry in which the pastiche Victorian novel is still red-hot, the Knights Templar are big news and the biggest success of the last decade was a series about a boarding school? As persuasive visions of the future go, you still can't beat Russell Hoban's post-Apocalyptic Riddley Walker, and that came ...
- Writers read passages about 'sex and private schools,' fear ... - UConn Daily Campus (subscription)
Writers read passages about 'sex and private schools,' fear ...UConn Daily Campus (subscription), CT - 2 hours ago... her poetry (the latest volume of which, "One Body," recently took home the gold at the Connecticut Book Awards), tackling the memoir was an act of love. ...
- Nimoy on Star Trek Online: Live Long & Prosper (WarCry Network)
"Star Trek Online fans shall rejoice", thus saith Cryptic Studios about their interview with Spock himself: Leonard Nimoy. See what Nimoy has to say about STO by clicking below.
- Deepti Naval turns director, ropes in Manisha Koirala (New Kerala)
By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, Sep 16 : After Nandita Das, avant-garde actress Deepti Naval has turned director. Her directorial debut has a rather poetic title - 'Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish' and she has signed on close friend Manisha Koirala as the heroine.
- Reds, whites.... and greens - Adelaide Independent Weekly
Reds, whites.... and greensAdelaide Independent Weekly, Australia - 1 hour agoBoth go very well with poetry, as was evident at Albert and Nyra Bensimon’s recent soiree, where each diner was obliged to read or recite a poem. ...
- Book Review - Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat edited by Nikki Giovanni (Blogcritics.org)
A marvelous book and CD set. Stories in Rhythm. Operatic vernacular. Poetry with a beat. Call and Response. One part story and one part rhythm. These are some of the terms the poet Nikki Giovanni uses to describe Hip Hop in her marvelous introduction to this astounding and beautiful book, Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Really? Opera? Read on, because Giovanni enlightens,...
- Waldorf's visiting writer series opens with memorist - Forest City Summit
FOREST CITY - Noted memoirist Tim Bascom will be the first author coming to Waldorf College as part of its newly established Distinguished Visiting Writer Series. Bascom, whose memoir "Chameleon Days" won the Bakeless Literary Prize in Nonfiction and ...
- Poetry festival packs a punch - Enfield and Haringey Independant
WHETHER you’re a verse virgin or a budding bard, the Essex Poetry Festival guarantees to give you something to wax lyrical about. From Buckhurst Hill to Wivenhoe, and Harlow to Southend-On-Sea, melodic ditties will be ringing in ears as rhyme and ...
- The Poetry of April Ossmann (Good Times)
Editor’s note: This week’s Poetry Corner features April Ossmann, the author of “Anxious Music” (Four Way Books, 2007) who has published her poems widely in journals. She is executive director of Alice James Books and teaches at The Writer’s Center in White River Jct., Vt.
- Nina Cassian returns to Romania for the launch of two books (Nine O'Clock)
The poet lives in New York, where she immigrated during the Communist regime.
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