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- Kevin Balling receives NC Arts Council fellowship - Appalachian State University
Kevin Balling receives NC Arts Council fellowshipAppalachian State University, NC - 3 hours agoBathanti writes poetry, novels and short stories and teaches creative writing in the Department of English at Appalachian. Since 1980, the North Carolina ...
- Life takes on sad tune - Albany Times Union
Life takes on sad tuneAlbany Times Union, NY - 2 hours agoAmerican Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the ...
- MEMORABLE STARS IN TALE OF FORGETFULNESS (New York Post)
THE smart indie comedy "Diminished Capacity" deals with three kinds of dementia: those relating to aging, concussions and being a Chicago Cubs fan. Tying those three things together is a task that the witty script does with surprising adroitness...
- Violet Festival is this weekend - Little Falls Evening Times
Violet Festival is this weekendLittle Falls Evening Times, NY - 6 hours agoPlowe Park is also the setting for a 4-6 pm performance by The Sun Mountain Fiddler, the 5:30 pm announcement of the poetry contest winners and the 6-10 pm ...
- Richard Helgerson (Guardian Unlimited)
The American academic Richard Helgerson, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 67, was one of the leading scholars of Renaissance literature and culture of the last 40 years. His reputation rests on six books, all lucidly and elegantly written.
- Event honors kids' art skills - Herald News
FRANKFORT -- It can be a few lines of poetry scribbled on a restaurant placemat, or it could be a couple of eighth notes beaten casually on a drum set. It could even be a coffee mug made out of clay or a meticulously drawn self portrait in colored ...
- Words as art - News-Times
News-TimesWords as artNews-Times, OR - 2 hours ago“Poetry Buffet” gave budding poets a smorgasboard of ideas for writing a good poem; “Script-It!” taught the rudiments of writing a movie or play script; ...
- Student picked as poetry contest winner - Sun and Press
Kristen McPeak, a ninth grade student at Maine-Endwell High School, was chosen as a top ten winner in the Creative Communication poetry contest. Kristen’s poem, “My Insanity,” is included in the Fall 2007 New York edition of “A Celebration of ...
- Cold snack tasty enough for poetry judges (Otago Daily Times)
The announcement was made today, Montana Poetry Day -- a nationwide celebration of events featuring some of the country's best and emerging poets. There were 26 books submitted in the poetry category of this year's awards up from 19 in 2007.
- Christina Patterson: Laureate kings and queens of the jungle (Independent)
So, the battle begins. The middle-aged incumbent born with a silver spoon in his mouth is on his way out and the race is on for a successor. The solid, older, conservative guy? We've had that before. The mouthy middle-aged woman? Risky. The mixed-race candidate (African father, white mother)? That would be great, of course, that would be radical, but are we really ready for it?
- Political Islam and Muslim hip hop - Zaman
There is much talk about political Islam and its future these days. The ascendancy of political movements with clear Islamic agendas is being watched closely from Egypt and Lebanon to North Africa. While many see Islamic political parties as a threat ...
- What the public wants - Ha'aretz
What the public wantsHa'aretz, Israel - 57 minutes agoIn his poetry book "Lament for Katif," Yaniv Cohen cites the Book of Lamentations: "Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are upon her cheeks. ...
- Woman's family suing Green Cove over Taser death - Florida Times-Union
The family of a schizophrenic woman who died after being shocked by a Taser 10 times during a mental health crisis is suing the city of Green Springs and two of its police officers in federal court. An autopsy categorizes 56-year-old Emily Delafield ...
- Norma Woodall (Mendocino Beacon)
Norma Alice Woodall passed away May 20, 2008 at Ukiah Adventist hospital, following a long illness. Alice was born March 21, 1924, in San Francisco, Calif. Her parents then moved to Little River, where they founded a homestead out on the Little River Prairie.
- Film industry shrank with Dhaka fall — Himayat Ali Shair - DAWN Group
A popular Lahore-based columnist recently attended a literary gathering in Karachi and, recording his observations of the event in a column, said he was dismayed to see Himayat Ali Shair ‘acting as an old man’. The comment conjured up the image ...
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