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- Author Ha Jin still waiting for the right time to visit his native China (The Kansas City Star)
On a trip that has put him the closest he has been to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books.
- Local author sees timely relevance in political tale - Middleboro Gazette
Local author sees timely relevance in political taleMiddleboro Gazette, MA - Sep 11, 2008In addition to novels, Mr. Hutchinson has also written poetry, as well as letters to the editor in various newspapers. He grew up in Avon and eventually ...
- Patti Smith's 12-year take - Austin Chronicle
"It's really funny when people ask you about that: 'How does it feel to be a rock icon?' When they say that, I always think of uh, like, Mount Rushmore." – Patti Smith in Patti Smith: Dream of Life Turns out a good way to make friends with Patti ...
- With 'Eurydice,' New Rep offers a shimmering meditation on life ... - Boston Globe
With 'Eurydice,' New Rep offers a shimmering meditation on life ...Boston Globe, United States - 2 hours agoIn short, "Eurydice" is poetry, poetry made play. It inhabits some dream world that is neither foreign nor familiar, a world that looks just like the one ...
- Bedecked in Denver (Financial Times)
Something unusual is afoot when Pat Buchanan, the prominent “paleo-conservative”, waxes ecstatic about an African-American liberal. But US television viewers were not hallucinating when they heard him assess Barack Obama’s Denver acceptance speech late on Thursday.
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - FOX News
HONOLULU — At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Christian culture talk at college Sept. 18 - South Bend Tribune
Christian culture talk at college Sept. 18South Bend Tribune, IN - 3 hours agoOpen to the public, the talk “Poetry as an Act of History: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, Spain” will be at 7:30 pm Sept. 18 in the Little Theatre of the Moreau ...
- An Interview with Bernard Avishai - Bookslut
An Interview with Bernard AvishaiBookslut, IL - 2 hours agoYou seem to believe that Israeli Arabs will fall into a situation similar to African-Americans in places like South Central Los Angeles? ...
- Mom's game to learn football - Toronto Sun
Mom's game to learn footballToronto Sun, Canada - 4 hours agoSo I guess he won't be joining the poetry club, like I had hoped, because I could have helped him with that, could have pulled out some dusty old books of ...
- Canadian book lovers take to the streets Sunday (CBC)
Word on the Street, the annual celebration of books, magazines and writing, goes ahead in four cities on Sunday.
- More about what God wants - Beliefnet.com
More about what God wantsBeliefnet.com, NY - 25 minutes agoNow, a little respite from all this theological exploration, with a touch of poetry from m.Claire. This week's offering...
- My First Ramadan - PoliGazette
My First RamadanPoliGazette, Netherlands - 12 hours agoAfter reading several Suras and continuing reading I found myself mystified by the poetry, down to the level of my soul. “This is,” I thought, ...
- "Indias made me a lot more sceptical about America" (Express India)
Well, yes. Despite being influenced by the Beats like any other American, I generally held them at arm's length because I perceived them to be anti-women.
- Portrait of a lady (Guardian Unlimited)
Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? Why do his poems so often feature husbands who kill or resent their wives? Elizabeth Lowry looks to his dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess' for clues
- April 2008 - Weekly Standard
Nearly half of Democrats (48 percent) think Hillary Clinton has a better chance of beating John McCain in November — 10 percentage points higher than the 38 percent who think Barack Obama can win, according to a FOX News poll released Wednesday ...
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