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- Review: Joel Toledo's 'Chiaroscuro' pits art, nostalgia versus ... - ABS-CBN
By the year 2006 the Bridport Prize International Creative Writing Competition had earned the kind of venerable reputation that only a thirty-year history, plus an impressive roster of winners and judges, could grant. Simply put: the Bridport Prize ...
- City Week (Tucson Weekly)
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
- Any Suggestions for an October Surprise? - New York Times Blogs
Vladimir Putin seems to believe in the possibility: he says the Georgia clash happened because the U.S. “ needed a small victorious war ” to benefit the candidate preferred by the current administration. Yesterday at the G.O.P. convention, I ...
- Poets find new venue for verse - Abington Mariner
Spoken word followers of The Poets’ Asylum endured the sounds of silence for a while, until the group found a new home to host its Sunday night reading series. The series, held until mid-June at The Q Café in Worcester, has now moved to Jumpin ...
- Sean Connery's memoirs no "kiss and tell" (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
By Ian MacKenzie
- West Cork Literary Festival programme sets pulses racing! - Southern Star
West Cork Literary Festival programme sets pulses racing!Southern Star, Ireland - 11 minutes agoHaving said that, the festival has always been driven by a very strong workshop programme that covers not only the familiar genres such as poetry, ...
- Ellie Levenson: British men and the art of seduction - Independent
Ellie Levenson: British men and the art of seductionIndependent, UK - 4 hours agoDrunken requests for sex sent by text at 3am, yes, but thoughtful poetry or declarations of undying love, no. I was, however, once sent a book and some ...
- Scarff’s workshop focuses on writing basics - Bowen Island Undercurrent
Bowen Island UndercurrentScarff’s workshop focuses on writing basicsBowen Island Undercurrent, Canada - 56 minutes agoTo sign up for Scarff’s workshop – or for any others – register online at www.biac.ca/writersfestival, pick up a registration form at Phoenix, ...
- The Solitary Vice: Has Reading Really Made You a Better Person? - Popmatters.com
In this third excerpt of PopMatters' first book, The Solitary Vice: Against Reading , by Mikita Brottman, Brottman tells us about the dark, pathological side of books. Dreams of death among books are perhaps less common than fantasies of a life among ...
- A flood of ideas - Iowa City Press Citizen
A flood of ideasIowa City Press Citizen, IA - 24 minutes agoFor 16-year-old Miranda Stinson, a poem she helped write Saturday was "the worst poetry I've written in my life," she said. But it likely ranks high as the ...
- 'Unique' poetry day staged in Dunstan - Southland Times
Southland Times'Unique' poetry day staged in DunstanSouthland Times, New Zealand - 21 minutes agoOn display were the Montana Book Award finalists, and any profit from the night would purchase some of them for the school library.
- Benefit at Davey's and the Pitch Showcase top the week for local venues (The Kansas City Star)
Davey’s Uptown, 3402 Main St., is having a fundraiser for one of its own: “The Music Arts Spirited Libations Sale” is a benefit for Dante Vichareli, whose parents are friends of Marco Pascolini of Mr. Marcos V-7 (one of the benefit’s organizers).
- Annual journal puts focus on state's humor writers - Greenville Daily Reflector
Annual journal puts focus on state's humor writersGreenville Daily Reflector, NC - 1 hour agoReaders also will find reviews of novels and poetry collections, artwork and an interview with the state's poet laureate, Kathryn Stripling Byer. ...
- ‘Tolerance is essential, Mr Laden,’ pupil (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – "Tolerance is essential to all relationships set up by human beings. The important thing is not what each person receives but what they can offer."
- Songwriter will share his bag of tricks - Orlando Sentinel
Songwriter will share his bag of tricksOrlando Sentinel, FL - 9 hours agoOne of the biggest misconceptions in writing music is that it's like writing poetry, Padgett said. "Poetry is meant to be read and pondered," he said. ...
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