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- Advocate for Indian writing - Chicago Tribune
In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of American Indian literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong—and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. campuses. Ms. Allen, a ...
- African-American Umoja Fest is set to kick off on Friday (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
African-Americans from throughout the Northwest will meet Friday through Sunday in Seattle for the annual Umoja Fest. Organizers say the event, named after the Swahili word for unity, is the region's largest and oldest black festival.
- Stemming flow of literary heritage across the pond (Guardian Unlimited)
The novelist Jim Crace looks remarkably chipper for a man of 62 who has just travelled through several time zones on his way home from California.
- Poet touts the power of 'rainbows in the clouds' - Salem News
SALEM - "Please be me for just a minute," poet Maya Angelou asked the crowd last night at Salem State College. "Just see it," she said, before describing the moment that she first learned about the United Nations. She was 16, pregnant and unmarried ...
- Mahakavi Pala dead - Newindpress
Mahakavi Pala deadNewindpress, India - 3 hours agoThe life of Pala Narayanan Nair was dedicated to the cause of poetry, said writer and critic MK Sanu. Expressing grief over the demise of the poet, ...
- Vermeer's Hat, by Timothy Brook - The Independent
Tmothy Brook is a Canadian historian of China who has taken up the Shaw Chair of Chinese Studies at Oxford. His many publications range widely across the last half dozen centuries in China: the history of Buddhists, book collectors, Christian ...
- TUESDAY'S CALENDAR (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
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- Myrtle Beach museum hosts Gullah celebration - Island Packet Online
MYRTLE BEACH -- Residents and visitors to the Grand Strand will have dozens of reasons to celebrate Gullah culture at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum's free Family Day on Saturday. There will be works of African-American artist ...
- The Last Republican - American Conservative Magazine
The Last RepublicanAmerican Conservative Magazine, VA - 36 minutes agoAs they sat on Garfield’s veranda, young Howells began to talk about poetry and about the poets that he had met in Boston and New York. ...
- Adam Thorpe's top 10 satires - guardian.co.uk
Adam Thorpe's top 10 satiresguardian.co.uk, UK - 8 hours agoBetween Each Breath, his latest novel, is published along with his latest poetry collection, Birds With a Broken Wing, by Jonathan Cape this week. ...
- NAIDOC Week celebrations delayed due to wet weather. - Moree Champion
NAIDOC Week celebrations delayed due to wet weather.Moree Champion, Australia - 9 hours agoElders Shirley Duncan and Lorraine Taylor gave the Welcome to Country to open the event and winner of the Northern Regional Library poetry competition ...
- (Un)Dressed for success - Ha'aretz
(Un)Dressed for successHa'aretz, Israel - 4 hours ago... who saw her outside the American University in Cairo. Ruby put aside her law books in favor of poetry, a personal agent replaced her professor, ...
- Please, no more ‘wee weeooo’ or ‘bleck, blecky’ - Moose Jaw Times-Herald
Please, no more ‘wee weeooo’ or ‘bleck, blecky’Moose Jaw Times-Herald, Canada - 1 hour agoThe next part involves poetry and I get my hopes up that there might be some redeeming quality to this torture. The poem refers to sandwiches crafted with ...
- Cy Twombly at Tate Modern - Times Online
Times OnlineCy Twombly at Tate ModernTimes Online, UK - 18 minutes agoBut there's poetry in their geometry if you're prepared to look for hidden meanings He's known as the bloke who does blotches and scribbles - not a ...
- Joseph A. Palermo: Robert F. Kennedy's Contested Legacy (HuffingtonPost)
Bobby, like MLK, will be forever identified with the explosion of citizen activism that characterized the 1960s. But Kennedy's legacy has become contested ground in the decades since his death.
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