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- Service is Tuesday for Carrie Allen McCray Nickens (The State)
A memorial service for the writer Carrie Allen McCray Nickens will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Second Calvary Baptist Church, 1110 Mason Road in Columbia. Manigault-Hurley Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Nickens, who died Friday at 95, became a well-known and respected writer in her 70s. Her first poetry book, “Piece of Time,” was published in 1993. She came to much wider ...
- Independence Heritage Festival is Saturday - Kansas City Star
Independence Heritage Festival is SaturdayKansas City Star, MO - 9 hours agoAlversia Pettigrew, who grew up in the city’s African-American district known as “The Neck,” has been continually surprised by the varieties of ethnicities ...
- Cairo is slowly but surely becoming a little less of a fashi... - Egypt Today
The book fair’s new president, Dr. Nasser El-Ansary, previously ordered wooden stalls to be built around the publishers’ booths, a move which infuriates the publishers, who believe the stalls will only keep the fairgoers away. When Minister of ...
- Celebrating with free art (Times Leader)
KINGSTON -- Marissa Miller sat on Main Street in Kingston on Sunday morning for more than three hours as she waited for the Paper Kite Studio & Gallery to open its doors.
- Prose watch: Obama acceptance speech (The Politico)
At times in Obama's acceptance speech on the final night of the DNC, poetry and prose diverged.
- Ideas, energy kick off Fringe Fest - Calgary Herald
Ideas, energy kick off Fringe FestCalgary Herald, Canada - 2 hours agoRolls is part of a micro-trend at this year's smaller, more old-school Calgary Fringe: performance poetry as theatre. For Sheri-D Wilson, director of the ...
- "Or Did You Report?" - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
I've just finished " The Dark Side " - the second half of it more or less since 12 pm this afternoon. Last night, sitting in one of those cafes they stick on the sides of Barnes and Nobles, I almost broke down crying. Instead, I went to the poetry ...
- The experience is worth more than a win for poets - Houston Chronicle
The experience is worth more than a win for poetsHouston Chronicle, United States - 9 hours agoThe group of five teenagers representing Houston in the Youth Speaks Brave New Voices Poetry Slam Festival last week in Washington, DC, was one of 45 teams ...
- The art of peace - Calgary Herald
Calgary HeraldThe art of peaceCalgary Herald, Canada - 6 hours agoMany pieces incorporate clear glass balls -- look closely, and they reveal Roma Lamb's poetry, a few words at a time: spare, simple, but packed with emotion ...
- A drop of the art stuff in the lake district - News and Star
William Wordsworth’s love of Grasmere inspired some of the Romantic movement’s most memorable poetry. Wordsworth spent his happiest years there. Tourists today travel from across the globe to marvel at the fells and bask in its beauty.Steve is ...
- Enhancing the arts - Bowling Green Daily News
Bowling Green Daily NewsEnhancing the artsBowling Green Daily News, United States - 2 hours ago... with local agencies such as with the Warren County Refugee Center, the Public Theater of Kentucky, Greenhouse Poetry and Capitol Arts Youth Theater. ...
- 2nd Annual Lake of the Sky Music, Arts, & Eco Festival: Aug.9 - YubaNet
2nd Annual Lake of the Sky Music, Arts, & Eco Festival: Aug.9YubaNet, CA - 44 minutes agoPaesano Productions brings you 3 stages of Live Music, DJ's, comedy, open mic, workshops, poetry, and more, each representing the exceptional musical ...
- Writers to present a free reading (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Fiction writer Madeleine Thien from Canada and Cuban poet, fiction writer and essayist Rogelio Saunders, who lives in Spain, will present a free reading at 5 p.m. Sunday in Prairie Lights Books.
- Ellison School head embraces challenge of operating district - Atlantic City Press
VINELAND - With almost 35 years of experience as a teacher and administrator in public schools, Karen R. Springer said she now has achieved another of her career goals - working in a private school. "I'm excited for the opportunity to lead The ...
- Kate Summerscale wins the Samuel Johnson prize - Daily Telegraph Blogs
My brilliant former colleague Kate Summerscale has won the Samuel Johnson prize for her book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher . We are delighted for her. Hooray for Kate! It's customary when someone goes from being a well-kept secret, to a less well-kept ...
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