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- Lit Picks (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Hakawati (Knopf; 513 pages; $25.95) by Rabih Alameddine: This ambitious novel is made up of many stories, and like Scheherazade's famous nights, it is intended to keep death at bay, while in serpentine fashion resurrecting the world in words with each day'...
- Visions of Haiti - Canada.com
The truth can finally be told: Ottawa's high-profile performance poet and social activist, Oni The Haitian Sensation, is not all that Haitian. Actually, Oni was born in Montreal, and has never been to Haiti. She was named after Swedish film star ...
- Trans-gression Multidisciplinary Arts Festival - Philadelphia citypaper.net
Trans-gression Multidisciplinary Arts FestivalPhiladelphia citypaper.net, PA - Apr 30, 2008During the festival's film night (May 17), some notable shorts will be showcased, including Susan DiPronio's Nighthawks, based on her experience as a teen ...
- Study on Munir Mezyed’s “Chapter from the Poetry Bible” - Al Arab Online
It seems to me that Chapter from the Poetry Bible contains an impulse that has lain somehow dormant in English language poetry since the seventeenth century. John Donne and George Herbert wrote mystic poetry that grew from within their own culture ...
- Library hosts writing camps for students of all ages - Northwest Arkansas Times
Library hosts writing camps for students of all agesNorthwest Arkansas Times, AR - 6 hours agoA poetry intensive class will be offered from 2-4 pm July 19 for students who have completed third through fifth grade. All the classes will be in the ...
- Listen to poetry online (Midland Daily News)
Hear poetry by Midlanders John Palen, left, and Jeff Vande Zande. A new poem will be featured today, Friday, Monday and Wednesday. The poets will read their work at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 26, at Midland United Church of Christ, 4100Â Chestnut Hill. The public is invited.
- 'Diminished Capacity': Tale's charm steamrollered by faux whimsy - Chicago Tribune
"Diminished Capacity" rests on the fate of a small item of great value, a Chicago Cubs baseball card—Frank "Wildfire" Schulte, 100 years old, near-mint condition. Cub-wise it's a good year to bring this story to the screen. In his feature film ...
- Tales of fathers sail on in `The Boat' (The Charlotte Observer)
Father's Day is a Sunday. Nam Le has time to go out and buy his dad a card or a gift, but he really needn't bother. "The Boat," his debut book, serves as both. Several of the seven masterful short stories here deal with that old generational bugaboo, the tension between fathers and their sons - and yes, daughters. Le, 29, knows this does not make him unique. Literature abounds with such stories, ...
- McClellan, a Tad Late Correcting The Story (Washington Post)
In an interview three years ago, when he was waging daily warfare against the White House press corps, Scott McClellan told me: "The media's trying to get under our skin and get us off-message."
- English LC poetry - Politics.ie
I don't think that the current leaving certificate poetry sylabus succeeds in developing students interest in poetry because of the way its taught, it may even damage it. Also the amount of marks awarded, 50 marks (and 20 for unseen) for the work ...
- Many-layered 'Eurydice' takes journey beyond death (The Morning Call)
''Eurydice,'' Sarah Ruhl's updated interpretation of the Greek myth about Orpheus's journey to the underworld to save his wife, Eurydice, is not the first play Ruhl has had produced by the Wilma Theater.
- Local wagon train to participate in annual event - El Dorado Times
Area residents will have the opportunity to step back into the Old West Saturday as part of the Symphony in the Flint Hills, held one mile south of Council Grove. Flint Hills Overland Wagon Trips, based out of El Dorado, will be providing rides from ...
- Uh oh - city never had the dough! - Hudson Reporter
BAD BUDGET – The City Council learned this week that the city never told them that the budget was underfunded. Now the state will probably seize the budget, taking it out of Mayor David Roberts hands’ by will of the council. W ith the city's ...
- Greatest Generation meets young generation - Cape Cod Times
Greatest Generation meets young generationCape Cod Times, MA - 3 hours agoAn English class translated their reaction to Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" into poetry, essays and PowerPoint presentations. ...
- Jaime Courtney preferred 'well-traveled' to 'gypsy' - Dowagiac Daily News
Jaime Courtney preferred 'well-traveled' to 'gypsy'Dowagiac Daily News, USA - 40 minutes agoI remember when her four-woman writing group came away from an August Cranbrook Writers' Guild summer conference with a $125 poetry prize and a nickname. ...
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