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- Teacher exchange knits migrant kids to culture - The Salinas Californian
Teacher exchange knits migrant kids to cultureThe Salinas Californian, CA - 2 hours agoFamily members packed into a MCOE multi-purpose room on Tuesday to see an exposition of art, poetry and dancing produced by students and teachers in the ...
- Iran to honor Palestinian poet - Presstv
Iran's Palestine Museum of Contemporary Arts is slated to hold a ceremony to commemorate the late Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish. The Palestinian ambassador will attend the event along with a number of Palestinian literary figures to honor the ...
- After 'August: Osage County,' a departure for Tracy Letts (International Herald Tribune)
The best news about "Superior Donuts," a valentine to both Chicago and Norman Lear, is probably its unlikeness to any of the writer's previous plays.
- Nigeria: Sefi Atta's Swallow Takes Another Pudding (AllAfrica.com)
Sefi Atta, the London-based Nigerian writer who has twice won the BBC's African Performance Competition for plays, has come up with a new novel Swallow, and the paperback edition of the book which has been enjoying scintillating reviews globally can be obtained in Nigeria, courtesy of Kachifo Limited, the publishers of Farafina Magazine and Farafina books.
- Handstands and anger (Guardian Unlimited)
Why I write: Poet Luke Kennard, the award-winning author of The Solex Brothers on reading Snoopy, fiddling with magnets and the unorthodox passions that drive his work
- Poetic Justice: Spike in sales for Kay Ryan, the next poet laureate (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall.
- Community Calendar: 06/12/08 - The Carrboro Citizen
Community Calendar: 06/12/08The Carrboro Citizen, NC - 47 minutes agoOpen Mic —poetry, music & short fiction. Tuesdays, 7pm, Market Street Books & Maps, Southern Village. 933-5111, www.marketstreetbooks.com The Sustainable ...
- Youth mentoring program teaches children to crave more out of life - Rock Hill Herald
Youth mentoring program teaches children to crave more out of lifeRock Hill Herald, SC - 33 minutes agoShe wanted to create a program not only to give local children an opportunity to be involved in activities such as dance, acting and poetry, ...
- England v South Africa - live! - Guardian Unlimited
12 month map of Pietersen's ego, for office bound work shy obo readers everywhere. 95th over: England 331-3 (Pietersen 111 Bell 89 Steyn continues. I tell you folks, get this fella on the right pitch and he'll tear us apart. Will tear anyone apart ...
- Community Calendar - Oroville Mercury-Register
Tops 2249: 8 a.m. in game room of Olive Hill Mobile Park on Wyandotte Avenue. 533-8482. Free HIV testing: 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, at Table Mountain Clinic. Offered by Butte County Department of Public Health. Tai Chi, FRRPD: 8:30-10 a.m. at ...
- Ananda Rajakaruna: The Great National Poet - The Island (subscription)
The Island (subscription)Ananda Rajakaruna: The Great National PoetThe Island (subscription), Sri Lanka - 3 hours agoHe was famous more as a poet though he was equally able in writing prose. He adopted a more spontaneous style without confining himself to rigid metrical ...
- African-American series character is a role model for black girls - Myrtle Beach Sun News
African-American series character is a role model for black girlsMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 3 hours agoBut while in college, Barnes started writing poetry and short stories just for fun and then landed a columnist gig at the student newspaper. ...
- 'Lyrical terrorist' wins court appeal (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
A British woman who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" and wrote a poem about beheading a hostage, has won an appeal against a criminal conviction.
- Review: The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa (Guardian Unlimited)
Review: The Diving Pool by Yoko OgawaTo read Yoko Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with nightmare, writes Joanna Briscoe
- Netlets for Sunday, June 8 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The agenda Tom Friedman presents in his June 1 column, "Keep 'em high," is blatantly obvious: He just wants people to stop driving SUVs and Hummers. It's also incredibly elitist. Most people in this country are already feeling choked by the high gas ...
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