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- Things to Go and Do - like join the Hoot (Hampton Union)
The 2008-2009 Poetry Hoot season with the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 at Café Espresso, 738 Islington St., (Plaza 800) Portsmouth. Featured readers will be Kate Aset and Hugh Hennedy. At 8 p.m. an open mic will be...
- 'Teza' revisits Ethiopia under Mengistu at Venice filmfest (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mengistu's blood-drenched Ethiopia was the backdrop in Venice on Tuesday for filmmaker Haile Gerima's "Teza," his attempt to reconcile an idyllic childhood with modern realities.
- Herring 'n' butterflies: Rick Jones remembers his tutor, WG Sebald (Independent)
The inaugural WG Sebald conference took place under heavy skies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The 100 international delegates slept in student residences designed to resemble ziggurat pyramids by the architect Denys Lasdun in the 1960s, when the concrete university came and robbed the city of its golf course. Such a pyramid is the Tower of Babel supposed to have been; apt for the ...
- A shower of poetry - Times of India
A shower of poetryTimes of India, India - 11 hours agoThe ragas of poetry continued as few of the most respected poets of India visited the city this weekend. The topic Badal Ko Ghirte Dekho had the audience ...
- Mark Lawson: Poetry is often misunderstood, but that doesn't mean we should ban it (Guardian Unlimited)
Mark Lawson: Carol Ann Duffy's work on violence is ideal for classroom discussion. It's a poem, not a memo
- Local open mic night has something for everyone - Capaha Arrow
Local open mic night has something for everyoneCapaha Arrow, MO - 12 hours agoThey sponsor poetry slams for local young writers. Writing groups meet there weekly to workshop their craft. And on Friday nights at 7:30, they open their ...
- TOME RAIDER LIVE: Kevin Young @ Powell's - Willamette Week
TOME RAIDER LIVE: Kevin Young @ Powell'sWillamette Week, OR - 26 minutes agoBorn in Lincoln, Nebraska, Young is the award-winning author of six books of poetry; his work has appeared in the National Poetry Series, The New Yorker, ...
- Just Asking . . . Rose Tremain - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalJust Asking . . . Rose TremainWall Street Journal - 3 hours agoI did start writing as a child, doing picture stories. Then I progressed to hysterically bad poetry. Many contemporary critics sneer at the idea of ...
- Collection shows Rivera's genius in Chicano genre (El Paso Times)
Editor's note: Tomás Rivera (1935-1984) was an executive vice president at the University of Texas at El Paso in 1978. "What is, then, the principal intent of Chicano Literature: to exchange one stereotype for another? To destroy stereotypes? To verify that which is Chicano and to conserve it?
- Writers convene, collaborate at University conference - Wesleyan Argus
Writers convene, collaborate at University conferenceWesleyan Argus, CT - 1 hour ago... exploring the worlds of fiction, poetry, autobiography, memoir, non-fiction, literary journalism and publishing. “The longevity and excellence of the ...
- Poetry, Ping-Pong, All in a Day’s Work - New York Times
New York TimesPoetry, Ping-Pong, All in a Day’s WorkNew York Times, United States - 23 minutes agoMs. Nelson said that writing the book, to be published by McGraw-Hill in September, allowed her to indulge in one of her passions, poetry. ...
- The remarkable Howard Ziff - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
The remarkable Howard ZiffThe Massachusetts Daily Collegian, MA - 18 hours agoHe loves poetry and the history of the English language, classic movies and chamber music. And he'll speak with authority on all of it. ...
- Sunday's child - Idaho Statesman - IdahoStatesman.com
Sunday's child - Idaho StatesmanIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 2 hours agoI think it would be cool to be in a family that has a couple of other kids. I like to read and I also write songs and poetry. I'm a pretty good artist, ...
- No More Bush - Philadelphia citypaper.net
Philadelphia citypaper.netNo More BushPhiladelphia citypaper.net, PA - 9 hours ago"To me, Charlie's one of the great figures in underground lit," Coley says, "for prose, poetry, publishing, editing, the works. ...
- Critic's picks - pop music - Boston Globe
At Great Scott, tomorrow. Four of Boston's finest — Apollo Sunshine, Viva Viva, Stephen Brodsky, and Doomstar — team up to raise money for Spare Change, an alternative biweekly that covers homelessness and poverty issues. Doors are at 9 p.m ...
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