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- From Service Function to Discipline - Inside Higher Ed
As thousands of the professors who teach writing and rhetoric gather in New York City this week, many of their programs are on a roll. Instructors who long felt tethered in English departments, and relegated to teaching freshman comp or remedial ...
- Briggs was a ‘teacher's teacher' who loved to write poetry (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
From as far as Hawaii to as near as Jackson-Keller Elementary, Vicki Kay Fillmore Briggs shared a love of reading, writing and religion.
- Fed up with retirement? Unretire! - Newsday
'The best-laid plans of mice and men often go astray," Robert Burns wrote. Two centuries hence, the great Scottish poet could easily have been referring to the plight of many men and women soon after embarking on retirement. Visions of wondrous hours ...
- Authors grieve over Wallace's apparent suicide - Centre Daily
NEW YORK  The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel ...
- Readers will visit The Lost World for free - The Herald
Readers will visit The Lost World for freeThe Herald, UK - 13 hours agoIn previous "city reads", Glasgow has distributed Small Island by Andrea Levy and a collection of poetry, From Saturn to Glasgow, by the nation's Makar, ...
- Growing up girl - EastOregonian.info (subscription)
Growing up girlEastOregonian.info (subscription), OR - 1 hour agoBeers said "Just Like A Girl" is packed with the trials and tribulations of life as a female. "The book is basically poetry and writings about what it's ...
- More of today's best bets in entertainment - Detroit Free Press
More of today's best bets in entertainmentDetroit Free Press, United States - 57 minutes agoCombo family pricing available. Additional $5 for IMAX. ByteThis Poetry Night: Featuring local comedy, monologues, poetry readings, performances, ...
- Deport VFD hosts fellowship event - Paris News
The Deport Volunteer Fire Department is hosting an evening of music, fellowship and food at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Deport Fire Station. The event is free, but donations to the fire department are welcome. Free hot dogs, beans and chips will be ...
- Stalin, The Poet And Life's Choices - CounterCurrents.org
Stalin, The Poet And Life's ChoicesCounterCurrents.org, India - 2 hours agoIn his many films, none really successful, and in his greatest poetry, his major theme was the proletariat. He traveled over the world from Paris to Mexico ...
- NAACP will honor activists at annual brunch - Staten Island Advance
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Dominic Carter, political reporter for NY 1 News, will be guest speaker at The Staten Island Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Freedom Fund Luncheon, featuring the annual William A ...
- Christina Patterson: The challenge of poetry – and football - The Independent
It's so weird. Grown men dressed like two-year-olds, throwing themselves on the ground and shouting. One minute they're weeping and the next they're practically snogging. All those funny lines on the field. All those logos on their backs. I just don ...
- The Kalamazoo Valley Museum continues folk-music series - Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- The Kalamazoo Valley Museum will turn into a folk music jam on Sunday. Starting at 1:30 p.m., Max and Ruth Bloomquist, of the Kalamazoo Folklife Organization, will present a concert and workshops at the museum, 230 N. Rose St. in ...
- The power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose, and memory (PhysOrg)
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory.
- James Joyce family portraits restored at Buffalo State (The Buffalo News)
Nine family portraits that belonged to James Joyce, including two of the literary giant himself, have been restored by Buffalo State College art conservators and will be showcased for the first time during the 2009 North American James Joyce Conference in Buffalo.
- Thursday September 25, 2008 - Berkeley Daily Planet
Thursday September 25, 2008Berkeley Daily Planet, CA - 32 minutes ago654-5044. www.clarencedarrowgaryanderson.com/lucasville.html Sixteen Rivers Press 10th Anniversary Poetry Reading at 7:30 pm at Mrs. Dalloways, 2904 College ...
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