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- This week's book events and lectures (The Kansas City Star)
Victoria Chang, poet and author of Circles and Salvinia Molesta, reads and discusses her work at 6:30 tonight at the KC Public Library, 14 W. 10th St. The program is called “The Business of Words” and is part of the Park University Ethnic Voices Poetry Series.
- Literature is not a hobby  Iftikhar Arif - DAWN Group
Iftikhar Arif was catapulted into the spotlight in the 1970s when he appeared in PTV’s quiz programme Kasauti. As a bespectacled, sparkling young man, he mesmerised the millions of audience across the nation with the range of his knowledge and ...
- Poet Kooser, musicians to perform in Omaha bar (Daily Nebraskan)
Ted Kooser, who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004-2006, made about 200 public appearances during his term. Nowadays, he doesn't do nearly as many poetry readings. "It really is slowing down now, and I'm glad," Kooser said. The reduced pace gives him the opportunity to fix things up on his farm in Garland, Neb.
- Angry young lady-man - Mail & Guardian Online
Angry young lady-manMail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 2 hours ago... on the same day like an American or European, we can talk about that again." Nástio Mosquito performs at the 12th Poetry Africa Fesival on October 1. ...
- Fall Arts Guide: 5 Questions for Preston Singletary, glass artist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Preston Singletary uses glass to express his Tlingit heritage.
- Philip Glass: Confessions of a chameleon - The Independent
As a child, the composer Philip Glass worked at his father's radio- repair shop in Baltimore, which doubled as a small record store. It was there that he was exposed to a huge variety of music, from Schubert and Bartok to Hank Williams and Elvis. "I ...
- Apples, pumpkins, music, poetry, trolleys ... they're all part of the Fall festival fun (The Herald-Mail)
Take craft booths, food vendors, live music, children's activities, some fresh air and a crowd of happy people. Mix well, and you have a festival.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Daily Telegraph
In his lecture of acceptance of the Nobel prize for Literature in 1970, Solzhenitsyn quoted a Russian proverb: "One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." Those words succinctly encapsulated his literary creed. In a country where autocratic ...
- Olympic celebration of arts in the capital - This is London
This is LondonOlympic celebration of arts in the capitalThis is London, UK - 1 hour agoThere will be poetry in Docklands, bell-ringing in Bexleyheath and free ballet classes for adults with the English National Ballet. ...
- Daily News welcomes new publisher - Red Bluff Daily News
Daily News welcomes new publisherRed Bluff Daily News, CA - 17 hours agoGreg Stevens, 63, has been named publisher of the Daily News in Red Bluff beginning Monday. Stevens comes to Tehama County after 18 months as publisher of ...
- Beijing Olympics: BBC banned but pornography for sale in Olympic ... - Daily Telegraph
The blocking of politically sensitive sites, including those dealing with Tibet and Taiwan, remained in place today despite government assurances that censorship would be lifted during the Games. The ban is in contrast to the more liberal attitude of ...
- 33 actors in ‘Grapes of Wrath’ top elaborate special effects - Colorado Springs Gazette
33 actors in ‘Grapes of Wrath’ top elaborate special effectsColorado Springs Gazette, CO - 10 hours agoJim Casy, the former preacher who sees all too clearly, is played with heartfelt poetry by Sean Tarrant. But brilliantly underplayed, with simple dignity ...
- Episcopal Seminarian Releases Gay Christian Poetry Anthology ... - StreetInsider.com (subscription)
Episcopal Seminarian Releases Gay Christian Poetry Anthology ...StreetInsider.com (subscription), MI - 9 minutes agoJustin R. Cannon, editor of "Sanctified: An Anthology of Poetry by LGBT Christians," explains, "I am excited about this publication because LGBT Christians' ...
- master takes - Tehelka
master takesTehelka, India - 12 minutes agoJameela Nishat is a significant presence in contemporary Urdu literature and has published three collections of poetry: Lava (2000), Lamhe ki Aankh (2002) ...
- Bart Schneider's debut mystery takes a turn for the verse - Pioneer Press
Bart Schneider's debut mystery takes a turn for the versePioneer Press, MN - 1 hour agoThe book also places poetry in the lives of otherwise hard-boiled cops. That's wonderful and funny at the same time." When Schneider began work on this ...
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