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- Wisconsin Books for Prisoners, Jin's Chicken and Fish food cart, Tedd O'Connell, and more in Madison MIscellany (Isthmus)
The state DOC blocks Wisconsin Books for Prisoners, Soglin remembers the late Ted O'Connell, the Madison Roots Festival, an interview with We Are Scientists, details on the fifth annual Madison World Music Festival, the National Poetry Slam gets started, another take on the new Restaurant Muramoto, two interviews with Jin's Chicken and Fish owner Jeffrey Okafo, the brewery list and pre-parties ...
- Suspect: Alleged Kidnap Was '6 Glorious Days' (ABC News)
Man who calls himself Rockefeller says he had a "wonderful" time with daughter.
- Protesters say police used overkill; cops say anarchists had rocks (Rocky Mountain News via Yahoo! News)
An old man recited poetry into Keith Valentine's camera. A couple of people talked about racism in America. Bands played.
- Cubs Fans Have Officially Gone Insane - FanHouse
Cubs Fans Have Officially Gone InsaneFanHouse, NY - 19 hours agoJust like the gentleman pictured above. See what you're doing, Carlos? Slam poetry and motorcross, man. Slam poetry and motorcross.
- 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 ...
- Valley native finds a national pulpit - Fresno Bee (subscription)
Fresno Bee (subscription)Valley native finds a national pulpitFresno Bee (subscription), CA - 28 minutes agoThe second book draws from Herrera's 14 books of poetry for adults. In his commentary on the two anthologies, Times reviewer Stephen Burt calls Herrera ...
- East Palo Alto to celebrate Juneteenth (Palo Alto Weekly)
East Palo Alto will celebrate Juneteenth this weekend with a parade, music performances, activities and community speakers.
- TRIUMPHS: Mentoring program let her escape life of drugs, abuse (Detroit Free Press)
Janese Shurn was molested as a child. She was beaten by boyfriends. A dropout from Detroit Northern High School, she eventually resorted to using ecstasy and drinking alcohol. "When I think about what I have gone through, life feels surreal," Shurn said.
- Radovan Karadzic: from small-time swindler to war criminal - Telegraph.co.uk
Radovan Karadzic: from small-time swindler to war criminalTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoHe also wrote obscure poetry which he would recite to his friends at a local writer's club. If Karadzic cheated a little, nobody minded too much. ...
- Palanca won’t stage satirical play on woman president (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines—A satirical play -- about a woman president toying with the idea of establishing a monarchy to save her troubled nation -- could have brought the house down at Monday night’s award ceremonies of the 2008 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
- Even the Most Romantic of Poets Can Sometimes Be Awfully Hard of Heart (New York Times)
The great German Romantic Heinrich Heine was a ?torn poet,? allergic to beauty even as he produced so much of it.
- Orphans and Vandals [London, UK] - PopMatters
PopMattersOrphans and Vandals [London, UK]PopMatters, IL - 52 minutes agoHe adapted, deranged, and innovated forms and structures of poetry to fit what he had to say. Not the other way around. He was an imp of the perverse. ...
- Fascinating collage - Hindu
HinduFascinating collageHindu, India - 32 minutes agoWhile poetry is probably the most favoured genre of Bangla Dalit literature, the Bangla Dalit novel offers fascinating insights into how Dalit writers have ...
- The Gods of New Spain - Times Online
The Gods of New SpainTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoTake Giovanni Boccaccio’s reinterpretation of the startling information he received from a Florentine friend in Seville about the inhabitants of the Canary ...
- Thunder and Lightning on the Keys, With Some Intermittent Sunshine (New York Times)
The International Keyboard Institute & Festival opened with a recital by Jerome Rose, a pianist who never met a triple forte he didn?t like.
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