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- William Stafford's Poetry of False Witness - New York Sun
When William Stafford (1914-93) was given the National Book Award for poetry, for his 1962 collection "Traveling Through the Dark," the judges said of his poems that "their music knows the value of silence." This seems a dubious tribute. Would a ...
- Previewing the Hay Festival (Guardian Unlimited)
Sarfraz Manzoor and Claire Armitstead are joined by the Guardian's Michael White, Ian Sample and Julia Eccleshare to pick out the best bits of the Guardian Hay Festival
- An Oregon Eco Fable at Salem's Pentacle Theatre - Oregonian
"Betty the Yeti" at Salem's Pentacle Theatre. I am always looking for homegrown theatre about environmental issues in Oregon and the western states. I rarely ever find anything. Though we are daily surrounded by real life dramas in the form of ...
- EASTERN POET - The Cornishman
EASTERN POETThe Cornishman, UK - 4 hours agoYong Shu Hoong has published three books of poetry in English: Isaac (1997), dowhile (2002) and Frottage (2005), which won the Singapore Literature Prize in ...
- Journaling workshop offered - The Daily Advertiser
Journaling workshop offeredThe Daily Advertiser, LA - 22 hours agoPatrice Melnick will show workshop participants techniques for working past writer’s block and writing freely. The class will work on both observational and ...
- Remember when: On Memorial Day, remember men in trucks and children - Fort Pierce Tribune
It was the year about 1942. During the spring and summer months, we would hear the roar of the trucks going down Central Avenue, Seaside Park, N.J. We would stop our play and run to the corner to watch the miles upon miles of khaki transport trucks ...
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- Minders of Make-Believe - San Francisco Gate
I was a bookish girl, and the heroes and heroines of children's literature were as alive to me as friends, a crew of fellow travelers from the Cat in the Hat to Pippi Longstocking, from Jo March to Holden Caulfield. Their creators were larger-than ...
- Haiku poet to share interpretation of slave ship passage - Ann Arbor News Blog
Poets have striven to tell the story of the Middle Passage before. And why not? The Middle Passage -- the forced transport across the Atlantic of kidnapped African men, women and children, packed like sardines in the holds of slave ships -- is a tale ...
- East meets West in paint - PNW Local News
PNW Local NewsEast meets West in paintPNW Local News, WA - 6 hours agoThis enabled “Doorgan†to be used collaboratively with artists in other disciplines, such as music, poetry and dance. The installation was exhibited seven ...
- 'Thebes' effective, articulate (The Post and Courier)
Judge not, oh mortals, lest ye be judged. The conflict between the "law of life" and the law of kings is among the themes at the heart of "The Burial at Thebes," poet Seamus Heaney's rendering of Sophocles' tragedy "Antigone." The spare and effective production by the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company was presented outdoors at The Cistern Thursday night.
- AP Profile of Cary Nelson - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
AP Profile of Cary NelsonChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 40 minutes ago“It’s like poetry, isn’t it?†Benjamin said, comparing Nelson’s AAUP and scholarly work. “You have to have creativity and you have to have discipline. ...
- Liberal poet explores musical legacy of Midwest (Lawrence Journal-World)
One of the most successful poets from Kansas is B.H. Fairchild.
- 'Becoming' a film: Locals team up for CMI's first big movie - Las Cruces Sun-News
'Becoming' a film: Locals team up for CMI's first big movieLas Cruces Sun-News, NM - 7 hours agoThe film is based on "Alternative Ed," a book by former Oñate High School teacher LouAnne Johnson, who now makes her home in Hillsboro. ...
- ‘Soldiers around you, kicking, spitting, screaming, swearing’ - Nouse
‘Soldiers around you, kicking, spitting, screaming, swearing’Nouse, UK - 14 minutes ago“Lists of every country in the world, lists of every capital city in the world, the periodic table of the elements… and I wrote lots and lots of poetry, ...
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