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- Royal attends creative writing program (The Journal News)
From July 6 through 10, Kate Royal, a senior at Tappan Zee High School, attended the Creative Writing Summer Institute at Alfred University in Alfred, N.Y. The program provided an introduction to a variety of genres ranging from poetry to nonfiction and drama.
- Kathleen Norris battles 'the demon of acedia' - Los Angeles Times
We have a vast palette of words that attempt to express our downcast moods -- "a funk," "the blues," "the doldrums." All of them abstractions, euphemisms we employ in an effort to pinpoint something elusive -- a sensation that might be a shade less ...
- Celebrating the spoken word: Open mic night still going strong at the DLC (Elko Daily Free Press)
ELKO - Monday afternoon Jennie Dickenson stood on a ladder outside of Duncan LittleCreek Gallery electric sander in hand, taking on a window frame.
- Plato's Greek Taverna , Ponsonby Rd (The New Zealand Herald)
Greek cuisine gets a bad rap. AA Gill reckons it's "unremittingly ghastly. Greek food is best eaten drunk, but even that they don't make easy".
- Movie may be made at Howell High School - MLive.com
The mostly unused Parker Campus of Howell High School is on the verge of being transformed into a movie set that could pump as much as $6 million into the local economy. While contract negotiations continue for use of the building in Marion Township ...
- Alice McDowell wins Dan Davin Award - Southland Times
Southland TimesAlice McDowell wins Dan Davin AwardSouthland Times, New Zealand - 10 minutes agoMarion McLean won the poetry competition with her poem A Pantoum for Autumn 1964. The short story award for school-aged aspiring writers has run since 1995, ...
- Artwork inspired by feline friends - Examiner
Artwork inspired by feline friendsExaminer, Australia - 4 hours agoPoetry accompanies each piece to further contextualise the images. Arts Alive coordinator Damien Quilliam said Takanawa's work was a skilful study in the ...
- Tragic inspiration (MSU Reporter)
The most personal aspects of a human life - faith, love and loss - laid out for the world to read. For most, such vulnerability would be terrifying. For Minnesota State sophomore Sheka Mansaray, it's a fulfilled goal. This summer, Mansaray had a book of his poetry, "The Tears of My Father," published and shipped for sale through amazon.
- On history's naughty step - Guardian Unlimited
Used clumsily, historical hindsight can be a blunt and savage thing. Just last week, the birth control pioneer Marie Stopes was denounced as an evil eugenicist. Far from being a "woman of distinction" who deserves her face on a commemorative stamp ...
- Living Art: Lofts provide community plus creative elbow room - MiamiHerald.com
Living Art: Lofts provide community plus creative elbow roomMiamiHerald.com, FL - 4 hours agoBefore Street moved from an uninspiring Pembroke Pines townhouse in January, she wrote essays, poetry and plays in time stolen from the workday or in the ...
- Collective instinct - Financial Times
The author of Collections of Nothing , William Davies King, is a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara (just a few miles from that exotic collector of exotic animals, Michael Jackson). King’s book opens, glumly: “On a hot ...
- NORM: Killers stake it all on 'Do or Die' CD - Las Vegas Review Journal
The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers might not agree with the critics on the success of "Sam's Town" but he's not downplaying the importance of their latest CD: "Do or Die." "Everything is at stake on this album," Flowers tells Rolling Stone in the ...
- Authors grieve over apparent suicide of David Foster Wallace, writer of "Infinite Jest" (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week.
- Louis aiming for Sprint honours - The Press Association
Louis aiming for Sprint honoursThe Press Association - 8 hours agoPure Poetry, Doughnut, Rebecca De Winter, Infamous Angel and Souter's Sister complete his hand, while Bahamian Babe, Mullglen and Kevin Ryan's unbeaten ...
- Frankenmuth takes Center Stage with theater, music - MLive.com
FRANKENMUTH, Michigan -- the city famous for showcasing German culture -- adds theater and music to its well-known tourist attractions. Frankenmuth Center Stage opens at 5:30 and 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday with a performance by The Glenn Miller ...
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