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- Summer festival season is upon us - Naperville Sun
Summer festival season is upon usNaperville Sun, IL - 1 hour agoThe fest at Butterfield and Batavia roads has a car show, live entertainment, crafts, bingo, poetry slam, kids area and more. ...
- WHAT'S HAPPENING - Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
WHAT'S HAPPENINGClarksville Leaf Chronicle, TN - 2 hours agoWhat: Contest is sponsored by Home Instead Senior Care and will award $16000 in free caregiving services to the winning essay writers. In 500 words or less, ...
- Internet Terror Monitor - CBS News
An Iraqi insurgent group used the corpse of an Iraqi policemen to carry out an attack on a member of an Iraqi National Guards patrol, according to the group which posted a video of the attack on the Internet. Ansar al Sunna says it carried the attack ...
- August Kleinzahler's ugly gifts - Times Online
August Kleinzahler's ugly giftsTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoTake the following send-up of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac: "But I, for one, have never in my lifetime seen the situation of poetry in this country ...
- Playwright’s Festival returns to Telluride - The Daily Planet
Playwright’s Festival returns to TellurideThe Daily Planet, CO - 9 hours agoBy Susan Viebrock Good drama finds poetry in the flotsam and jetsam of our lives. It survives because it extrapolates what is universal and eternal — and ...
- Kay Ryan of Fairfax is named U.S. poet laureate (Marin Independent Journal)
Kay Ryan of Fairfax, award-winning poet and self-described "modern hermit," is going to Washington.
- Minnesota writers - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minnesota writersMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 22 minutes agoAuthor of more than 30 collections of poetry, winner of the 1968 National Book Award for the collection "The Light Around the Body. ...
- Literary Calendar (Washington Post)
Noon. Jim Webb , current U.S. senator from Virginia, discusses his new book, A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America , at the National Press Club, Holeman Lounge, 529 14th St. NW. RSVP at 202-662-7129 or opus@press.org .
- Entertainment Calandar - Kane County Chronicle
• ART FOR ALL: Through June 1, Campbell House Gallery, Kane County Events Center, off Kirk Road between Route 38 and Fabyan Parkway. Seventeen atists present works in metal and glass sculpture, silver jewelry, oils and pastels, mixed media and ...
- McMurtry makes every word count - South Bend Tribune
McMurtry makes every word countSouth Bend Tribune, IN - Jun 28, 2008“He excites me in a way that very few artists do, both on an emotional level, because I love music, and on an intellectual level, because I love poetry and ...
- Female mavericks of song put republic in its place - Turkish Daily News
‘Diva of the Republic' celebrates 90th birthday with new album Since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Müzeyyen Senar, known as the ‘Diva of the Republic', has spent more than seven decades as an essential figure of Turkish classical ...
- Indiana Jones and the Jordan connection (St. Catharines Standard)
The old, beaten travelling trunk in Jim Honey's Jordan basement holds the heart of an adventurer. There are yellowing photos of crocodiles and ancient ruins, journal entries about conquests and original poetry about taking risks. The tucked-away treasures once belonged to Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges: [...]
- UTPA readies sixth annual Creative Writing Institute - Monitor
UTPA readies sixth annual Creative Writing InstituteMonitor, TX - 44 minutes agoThose not interesting in putting their stamp on history can work on rhyme and meter through the poetry writing workshop, an intensive three-week program ...
- Making hay: Huge impact of literary event - ic Wales
Making hay: Huge impact of literary eventic Wales, United Kingdom - 29 minutes agoHay-on-Wye – the Spar shop is a discreet Victorian terrace painted black and white – is readying itself for the annual literary festival that causes so many ...
- The Broken Word, by Adam Foulds; Mandeville, by Matthew Francis; For All We Know, by Ciaran Carson (Independent)
The Broken Word is Adam Foulds's first published poetry (he has written a well-regarded novel). It shows a young man, Tom, fresh from "the bark/ and whine and snivel/ and brag" of school, plunged into service against the 1950s "Mau Mau" uprising in Kenya. The blurb explains this – a pity, because Foulds lets us find out decade, place and bloody context by degrees. The poem quietly initiates ...
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