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- For young readers Back to school books - Eagle-Tribune
Borden uses poetry to capture the joy and nerves of heading into a new school year. Her free-verse poems are wonderfully readable, offering just the right touch of friendly reassurance to young readers. Joan Rankin's clever watercolor illustrations ...
- From the Beats to Barack - National Journal
From the Beats to BarackNational Journal, DC - 6 hours agoMike Heslop, a fiction writer and a coffee-shop owner in swing-state Ohio, serves customers daily who identify with the Obama generation. ...
- Local interest in poet Robert Frost reinvigorated - Addison Independent
RIPTON — Writers traveling the flood-damaged Route 125 to the Middlebury College Bread Loaf campus last week passed a familiar landmark on their way to the annual writers’ conference: the cozy white Homer Noble farmhouse, where poet Robert Frost ...
- Peter rabbit and his eclectic band in the deserts of Iraq - The Age
The AgePeter rabbit and his eclectic band in the deserts of IraqThe Age, Australia - 2 hours agoTHE MARX BROTHERS DON'T USUALLY spring to mind when you talk about Australian poetry. And it wasn't JSHarry's full-bodied and frequent laugh that did it. ...
- Writer who hasn't forgotten her Fredericton roots to launch successful play in Australia (Daily Gleaner)
Alana Ruben Free is a shining example of the small-town girl who went off to conquer the big city.
- Writer remembers Pa. 'sabbaticals' at grandmother's (Akron Beacon Journal)
A trip to grandmother's house? Supposed to be nice, safe and wholesome. Gregory J. Bednar's My Sabbaticals at Grandmothers make his visits sound more like the plot of a slapstick movie.
- Pub Crawl - New York Observer
James Wood. Mark Sarvas has read James Wood’s new book three times already. That’s a lot, especially considering Farrar Straus & Giroux, its U.S. publisher, only put it out yesterday. But Mr. Sarvas, a lit blogger (his site is called The Elegant ...
- Rwanda: Get Your Child to Start Reading - AllAfrica.com
Rwanda: Get Your Child to Start ReadingAllAfrica.com, Washington - 58 minutes agoIn this way do we miss the great entertainment value of novels, travel guides, readers' digests, anthologies, and poetry, to mention but a few. ...
- Vibey Vilakazi - iAfrica.com
iAfrica.comVibey VilakaziiAfrica.com, South Africa - 2 hours agoVilakazi’s main works include three novels and poetry collections Inkondlo Ka Zulu and Amal'eZulu. He was inspired by Dr John Langalibalele Dube, ...
- In two languages, Palabristas speak of love and loss - Twin Cities Planet
In two languages, Palabristas speak of love and lossTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 8 minutes agoWhen they formed in 2002 for the National Poetry Slam, they wanted to have a Latino name. Their original name was Palabreros, but later changed it to ...
- Patti Smith and Philip Glass Front Melbourne International Arts ... - Undercover Music News
The return of Patti Smith to Australian shores has been announced as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Smith’s tour is hot on the heels of a new film about her life by Stephen Serbing called ‘Dream of Life’. The festival will ...
- William Rockhill Nelson Awards honor Kansas, Missouri writers - Kansas City Star
William Rockhill Nelson Awards honor Kansas, Missouri writersKansas City Star, MO - 8 hours agoGlancy won the poetry award for Asylum in the Grasslands, and Katz was named the nonfiction winner for Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend ...
- Leading Men (Washington Post)
W onderful moment in John Ford's "The Searchers," from way back in 1956: John Wayne, as the surly, violent Ethan Edwards, signals to his young compadre that it's time to move on in their pursuit of Scar, the Comanche chief who's murdered their family and kidnapped the youngest daughter, Debbie.
- 2 writers to recount violence in Central America (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
After the United States kicked Spain out of Cuba in 1898, the nation's relationship with Central America and Mexico has been tainted by political and military meddling. ...
- Palestinians mourn passing of Mahmud Darwish - Al Arab Online
Palestinians mourned the passing of Mahmud Darwish, who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets. In a televised address after Darwish died on Saturday in a US hospital from ...
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