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- Cancer survivor to lecture, discuss book at Shawnee university (The Oklahoman)
SHAWNEE — Attorney and cancer survivor Jim Chastain will give a lecture at 7 p.m. today at St. Gregory's University, 1900 W MacArthur. Chastain is a writer, film critic and attorney for the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. The theme for his lecture is "When bad things happen to good writers.” He also will talk about his book, "I Survived Cancer, but Never Won the Tour de France.” Chastain ...
- Book Signings and events this week - Long Beach Press-Telegram
Book Signings and events this weekLong Beach Press-Telegram, CA - 8 hours agoBook club meets the second Tuesday of the month. 11 am, Artesia Library, 18722 S. Clarkdale Ave. (562) 865-6614. Open-Mike Poetry with Murray Thomas invites ...
- New York, NY 10013 - Metromix
New York, NY 10013Metromix, IL - Jul 29, 2008... treats and chocolates from the Essex Street Market's Ronnie Sue while listening to an erotic poetry performance by singer/songwriter Brown Rane? ...
- Religion in brief for Aug. 9, 2008 - St. Joseph News-Press
Religion in brief for Aug. 9, 2008St. Joseph News-Press, MO - 15 hours agoThe service will begin with a prayer walk starting at the shelter house, which will be followed by music, poetry, praise dancers, drama and more at the park ...
- A Mixed Bag - San Francisco Gate
The time limit is part of the new packaging for WestWave, a festival that has long struggled to balance inclusiveness with quality control. In recent years, it's also fought for survival in the face of funding cuts, venue closures and the inevitable ...
- Carla Carlisle on a new Wyken map - Country Life
Carla Carlisle on a new Wyken mapCountry Life, UK - 1 hour agoI want a map that has the poetry of our ancient maps, a map that looks like wrap-ping paper that Matthew Rice created in the 1980s, with water-colour fields ...
- Dominican’s Siena Center Presents Year-long Series on Sustainability - Catholic Online
Dominican’s Siena Center Presents Year-long Series on SustainabilityCatholic Online, CA - 2 hours agoBoyle, who teaches at Caldwell College, is the author of Science as Sacred Metaphor: An Evolving Revelation (2006) and Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels: ...
- Chester singer hits high note in song showdown - Chester Evening Leader
Chester singer hits high note in song showdownChester Evening Leader, UK - Oct 10, 2008"I like to think of the lyrics as poetry. I don't sit down and think, I am going to write about any particular subjects." The full article contains 579 ...
- American scholar translates Rumi quatrains into English - Tehran Times
American scholar translates Rumi quatrains into EnglishTehran Times, Iran - 18 minutes agoTEHRAN -- An American psychologist and a former Afghan representative to the United Nations have translated all the quatrains of the Persian poet Molana ...
- Bumbershoot '08: Let's Get Ready to Rumble!!! (Seattlest)
With this year's Bumbershoot nearly upon us, let's continue to hope that the weekend weather keeps looking good . If you don't have tickets yet, stop by your local Starbucks to avoid the lines and fees at the gates. Check out a few more tips (bring water and a jacket! take the bus! wear sunscreen! call your mother!) at the Bumbershoot site . While there's plenty of music acts to ...
- Bukowski: What Lies Beneath - Popmatters.com
During the rare moments when Charles Bukowski's vulnerable side are shown, they manage to break through the "dirty old man" parody of himself that he had become. As an avid reader who doesn’t know that much about Charles Bukowski, apart from the ...
- Geo Beach: A Swamp Yankee in the Last Frontier - Atlantic Free Press
Geo Beach: A Swamp Yankee in the Last FrontierAtlantic Free Press, Netherlands - 19 minutes agoHe has also won an Atlantic Monthly poetry prize, top awards from the Pacific Northwest Press Association, and the Mencken Award for “independence of mind, ...
- Writer Ha Jin says he wants to visit native China but is frustrated by censorship (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Award-winning author Ha Jin says he wants to visit his native China after being away for 23 years but is discouraged by the Communist government's censorship of his books.
- Mahmoud Darwish "free from Palestine" at last (Radio Netherlands)
Palestinians have been mourning the death of their national poet Mahmoud Darwish, seen by most in the Arab world as the greatest poet in modern Arab culture.
- ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS - Grand Rapids Press
announced the books for Reading Together 2009. The community reading event will focus on Rick Bragg's memoirs ``All Over But the Shoutin','' ``Ava's Man'' and the recently published ``The Prince of Frogtown.'' Bragg, who won the Pulitzer Prize as ...
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