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- Classy back-to-school books for kids - Scripps News
Classy back-to-school books for kidsScripps News, DC - 3 hours agoBy KAREN MACPHERSON, Scripps Howard News Service -- In "Off to First Grade" (McElderry/Simon & Schuster, $16.99), author Louise Borden uses poetry to ...
- Palanca won’t stage satirical play on woman president (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines—A satirical play -- about a woman president toying with the idea of establishing a monarchy to save her troubled nation -- could have brought the house down at Monday night’s award ceremonies of the 2008 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
- A Whole New Approach to Modern Art - MarketWatch
A Whole New Approach to Modern ArtMarketWatch - 8 hours agoOther installations invite geocachers to add their own poetry and handiwork. Sculptures are hidden at 11 secret, family-friendly destinations in the ...
- Instrumental Women Presents "Lady Jazz in the Key of - All About Jazz
Instrumental Women Presents "Lady Jazz in the Key ofAll About Jazz, PA - 22 minutes agoHis smooth voice and charming personality are often at the forefront of events related to Jazz, Gospel, Rhythm & Blues, The Blues and Poetry all across ...
- Jennifer Nix: Resurrecting Literature: Sustenance for the Progressive Soul (HuffingtonPost)
I was living in Torino, Italy, when Bush's war on Iraq broke out, trying rather desperately to finish a collection of short stories I'd started...
- Witnesses to the hurt of history - Indianapolis Star
Witnesses to the hurt of historyIndianapolis Star, United States - 3 hours agoPeople will say it's great to have that outlet; but his poetry was the fruit of so much pain." Busailah did not know Darwish well, having met him only two ...
- The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory (Science Daily)
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 new study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory.
- On Poetry: Writers gain strength in co-op (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
It's a thrill for me, too, to discover a writer I admire. It's nice to think that she just sprang full-grown from the head of Zeus, but, like all good things, a writer grows slowly and needs good soil. Writers are the least demanding of artists: they use such primitive tools -- paper, pen (a computer would be nice) and books. They like solitude and silence.
- Melvin Dale Hawley (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
Mel passed away peacefully in the middle of the night on September 6, 2008, after a long battle with COPD. He was born in Newbury on April 11, 1935, and raised on a farm in the Sullivan area. Mel was the son of the late Mr. Arthur Hawley; his mother, Hattie Hawley, 95, lives in [...]
- Writers pick up pens to protest 42-day detentions (AP via Yahoo! News)
Dozens of renowned British writers came out against new anti-terrorism legislation Sunday, publishing a collection of satire, essays, fiction and poetry to protest a proposal allowing police to hold suspects without charge for up to 42 days.
- Student activist focuses on Congo - Greensboro News Record
Student activist focuses on CongoGreensboro News Record, NC - 1 hour agoSay Musavuli meets a guy who writes poetry. "You could write a poem about the Congo," Musavuli tells the poet. Or maybe he's with friends at a spiritual ...
- Ex-wife's book shows Che Guevara's transformation - North Channel Sun
This revised and updated version of Hilda Gadea's 1972 book tells of the pair meeting in December 1953 when she was a Peruvian political exile living in Guatemala and he was wrapping up his motorcycle travels across Latin America. Although later ...
- Go and Do - Joe Hill book event tonight in Exeter (Portsmouth Herald)
Local author Joe Hill will be at Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 1 to celebrate the release of two of his books, the paperback edition of "20th Century Ghosts," as well as his newest book "Locke and Key." "20th...
- Varone's "Alchemy" works its anguished magic (The Plain Dealer)
REVIEW Doug Varone and Dancers Art doesn't have to be pretty. It can (and must) tell us things we don't want hear or see, haunt our consciences and provide glimpses into the darkness of life. The bleak eloquence of...
- The Magic Flute: Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson - Express from The Washington Post
Express from The Washington PostThe Magic Flute: Jethro Tull's Ian AndersonExpress from The Washington Post, DC - 5 hours agoSo why choose the flute as a vehicle for obscure poetry, observations on quotidian life and conceptual compositions? "I was a guitar player, but not a very ...
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