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- Burmese democracy activist: 'I don't know how I kept my sanity' - The Independent
He spoke against a noisy background of friends celebrating his release, but the Burmese journalist Win Tin – freed after spending more than 19 years in one of the world's most notorious jails – said he was thinking of those he left behind. "I am ...
- Signing off: the weird world of book signings (Independent)
To some authors, the book-signing is a curse. What could be more excruciatingly dull, to the sensitive creative mind, than to sit for hours in a festival tent or bookshop, inscribing your name on several hundred copies of your new masterpiece? This isn't a proper display of your writing talent – a baboon scratching the dirt with a stick could do it just as well.
- Fontana season opens with brilliant Renaud Garcia-Fons Trio show - Kalamazoo Gazette
Fontana Chamber Arts opened its 2008-09 concert season on Thursday night with an electrifying performance by the Renaud Garcia-Fons Trio. Western Michigan University's Dalton Center Recital Hall, the new home for this year's concert series, proved to ...
- Twenty years of Tracey - The Herald
Twenty years of TraceyThe Herald, UK - 16 hours agoThese are moving, sure, and the spiky poetry of Emin's writing is at times a joy to read. But they are ultimately slight, affecting in the moment but soon ...
- Hundreds march for knife victim Darren, 14 - Guardian Unlimited
Several hundred people yesterday marched through the streets of Inverclyde, Scotland, to protest against the spiralling culture of knife crime which has blighted the lives of families across the country. The demonstration was organised by family and ...
- In Flagrante Delicto (New York Times)
What goes through lovers? minds during the act? Robert Olen Butler channels Bonnie and Clyde, Gertrude and Alice, and more.
- Williams Freshmen Encouraged to Do Something They Love - iBerkshires.com
iBerkshires.comWilliams Freshmen Encouraged to Do Something They LoveiBerkshires.com, MA - 1 hour agothe slam poetry champion said to the class of 2012 at Williams College on Saturday as she described her own experiences in trying to find her way through ...
- Legacy of NC's Black Mountain College continues - Morganton News Herald
Legacy of NC's Black Mountain College continuesMorganton News Herald, NC - 14 hours agoThe weekend celebration will feature poetry readings, musical and dance performances and an art show where Black Mountain College-inspired work will be ...
- Walkers in St. Paul could trip over a poem - Grand Forks Herald
Walkers in St. Paul could trip over a poemGrand Forks Herald, ND - 43 minutes ago"And if you accept that the sidewalk panel is a blank page, then we have this amazing book in our city that is our city," Young said.
- Poetry writing at the Library - Belleville Intelligencer
A Special guest from the Quinte Writer's Guild will inspire you to be a poet and be a poetry reader. Bring some of your inspirational poems with you. This will be held at 2:00 p.m. This is a pre-registered event
- Our Readers Put Rhymes to Work ; ++ NATIONAL POETRY DAY ++ - istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Our Readers Put Rhymes to Work ; ++ NATIONAL POETRY DAY ++istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR - 16 hours agoThe day encourages young and old to enjoy poetry and to have a go at writing their own poems. So here are some of your poems on all kinds of work - from ...
- James Crumley; inspired generation of crime writers; 68 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
James Crumley, 68, whose poetic and violent tales of crime in the American West made him a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel, died of complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases Sept. 16 at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont., where he lived.
- Cataloguing the Oppression - Gay City News
Cataloguing the OppressionGay City News - 4 hours agoTin - a brilliant 33-year-old French academic of African descent who is an expert on 17th century French poetry, on which he's published several erudite ...
- A nation ales as the common coldie epidemic strikes - The Australian
A nation ales as the common coldie epidemic strikesThe Australian, Australia - Jul 20, 2008The Belgians invented beer that inspires poetry yet goes off like a liquid depth charge. And the Czechs, who gave us the unparalleled gift of pilsner, ...
- Highlights From the 2008 National Poetry Slam - Huffington Post
Highlights From the 2008 National Poetry SlamHuffington Post, NY - 23 minutes agoThe National Poetry Slam--or so-called "Superbowl of spoken word"-- took place in Madison, Wisconsin this past week. The event featured more than 75 teams ...
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