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- Child's play - Guardian Unlimited
We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books. I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult world ...
- Dance review: Mixed bag at WestWave (San Francisco Chronicle)
Time is an elastic function of human perception. Rarely have I felt that so keenly as at Tuesday's "DanceWave 1" program, part of the reinvented WestWave Dance Festival. Amy Seiwert's pas de deux "Air" seemed over in one exquisite instant, while Erika...
- Editorial Roundup - The Ledger
Many people hoped that holding this year's Olympic Games in Beijing would serve as a lever to induce China to act more as a mature member of the international community. The Chinese government has relented on a few issues it didn't veto a U.N ...
- Poetic spirit - MetroTimes
Perusing M.L. Liebler's bio is just a tad intimidating for a young writer. The Detroit poet, professor and activist is cut from the same cloth as John Sinclair, the once-manager of the MC5 (notorious for being sentenced to 10 years in prison for ...
- You're never too young to kill - Guardian Unlimited
Between 1985 and 1991, as a result of his anti-government writings, Nigerian author and poet Chris Abani was repeatedly thrown into prison and tortured by his country's military dictatorship. During one such spell, Abani, who was 18 the first time he ...
- Benedict XVI's Homily at Synod's Inaugural Mass (Zenit News Agency)
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 6, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is an unofficial Vatican translation of the homily Benedict XVI delivered Sunday at the inaugural Mass of the 12th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, held at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
- Journey to exotic Vietnam - St. Petersburg Times
A cyclo driver tries to entice tourists to take a ride in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam reported about 2-million visitors in the first five months of 2008 and hopes to reach 5-million visitors by year-end, compared with 4.2-million in 2007. Late ...
- Impassioned Images: German Expressionist Prints Opens at Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Art Daily)
Head of a Woman, 1916, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German 1884-1976), woodcut on wove paper, Syracuse University Art Collection. POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.-
- Celebrating a heritage of the arts - Desert Valley Times
Celebrating a heritage of the artsDesert Valley Times, UT - 17 hours agoFor example if you're looking for something to do on Oct. 3 you can take in a piano recital, a poetry and fiction reading, a "Dancing at Lughnasa" ...
- Nicole Cooley reads her poems (Tulane Hullabaloo)
Nicole Cooley, this year's Florie Gale Arons Poet, gave a reading of her work in the Lavin-Bernick Center Monday evening. Cooley, daughter of Tulane creative writing professor Peter Cooley, has already released two books of poetry, "Resurrection" and "The Afflicted Girls.
- Palestinian poet's the voice a people's (Denver Post)
Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67.
- Killing the CanLit competition - Globe and Mail
Killing the CanLit competitionGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoA line of poetry found by a decapitated head. "You will see me - here in your dreams." The author of this rhyming couplet is the Sandman, who shuffles with ...
- Regional Happenings: Grape festival, other events slated - Baxter Bulletin
Regional Happenings: Grape festival, other events slatedBaxter Bulletin, AR - 23 minutes agoCelebrate America's Western culture with music, storytelling and poetry recitations by working cowboys. Concerts planned both evenings. ...
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