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- IJ Weekend guide to Marin summer festivals - Marin Independent Journal
When the sun starts to set later in the evening, it's a signal to the start of Marin's summer festival schedule. This county knows how to throw parties, especially the kind where hundreds or thousands will show up. This chronological list is a sample ...
- Poets and tea make wonderful week - The Casper Star Tribune
Poets and tea make wonderful weekThe Casper Star Tribune, WY - 3 hours agoCowboy "poetry" is not like reading EE Cummings or Shakespeare, thank goodness. Sometimes it rhymes, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's short and funny, ...
- Writer who prefers being a waiter is up for ÂŁ60,000 prize (Evening Standard)
A 28-year-old London waiter has been nominated for one of the world's most lucrative literary prizes for his first novel. Ross Raisin's debut God's Own Country is a contender for the ÂŁ60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize for authors under the age of 30.
- Southern Fried Poetry Slam (WCTV Tallahassee)
Each year the uniquely named competition is held in a different city in the south to find the best poetry slammers around.
- University Press books 'part of the mission' at Northwestern U - U-Wire.com
Walking into Northwestern University Press is almost like walking into a far corner of the campus library. The muffled tapping of fingers on a keyboard and the abrasive creaking of the front door break the silence. A simple table of books stands in ...
- Book club confidential (City Pulse)
For more than 40 years, authors, friends and Michigan State University alumni Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane have exchanged letters, documenting a trove of their trials, tribulations and careers.
- Scholars to share views at Hall of Fame - Major League Baseball
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum does not confine itself to hits, runs and errors when it comes to celebrating the game. Academic and literary scholars will share their views of the national pastime this week in the ...
- Actor Mark Rylance's Tony acceptance speech greeted by uniform ... - Times Online
Actor Mark Rylance's Tony acceptance speech greeted by uniform ...Times Online, UK - Jun 16, 2008Jenkins, who read at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival last year, said Rylance had been given his prose poems by mutual friends. ...
- Upshaw's silvery voice'Was Here' - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comUpshaw's silvery voice'Was Here'The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - May 12, 2008The composer's description of the poetry's "somber abstractions" is apt for the music: "an art where all the elements are so intimately bound up that one ...
- On and Off the Shelf: A Bookseller on Selling (and Reading) the Novel - Los Angeles Weekly
I have on my desk two new books on a subject that now seems to be so last century. The title of Jeff Gomez’s offering, Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age , speaks for itself. The cover illustration shows a USB connection, wire trailing off ...
- 'Telling It' the way it is Program promotes kids' literacy through ... - The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
'Telling It' the way it is Program promotes kids' literacy through ...The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com, MI - 54 minutes agoCOPE's third Telling It exhibit this school year featured students reading their own poetry as well as visual artwork displays created with help from the ...
- State of the arts - Guardian Unlimited
Misfits, artists, loners and stoners have been fleeing north from Manhattan for decades, looking for a slower pace of life away from the urban jungle. Some make it all the way to Canada but most city emigres stay in the small towns and villages of ...
- Capital garden becomes focus for a celebration of poetry (The Scotsman)
ST ANDREW Square is to become a focus for poetry in the Capital as part of new initiatives put forward by the city council.
- Everyone has something to say - Austin Herald
Everyone has something to sayAustin Herald, MN - 1 hour agoI think my interest in poetry surfaced in sixth-grade in Miss Frost’s class when she asked that we illustrate a poem that included lines from the poet. ...
- How to read Cicero's gobbets - Times Online
How to read Cicero's gobbetsTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoThis is well known to be the case with, for example, the later speeches in the series “Against Verres”; for Verres had seen the writing on the wall and ...
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