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- Ideas in Motion: Art on Track (Chicagoist)
When local arts advocates Salvo and Lethal Poetry, Inc. found a way to convert an 8-car CTA train into a bonafide arts space, Art on Track was born. After lots of toiling and planning, Salvo and LP are putting the fruits of their labor on display as Art on Track takes to the Orange line tomorrow night from 6pm to 10pm. If this sounds like your kind of thing, hop on at the Adams and ...
- Local Newsmakers - August 24, 2008 - Rock Hill Herald
Local Newsmakers - August 24, 2008Rock Hill Herald, SC - 33 minutes ago21 at the Center for the Arts. Winners were: first-place poetry competition, Allan Ryder-Cook of Rock Hill; first-place short story competition, ...
- THOSE WERE THE DAYS - Egypt Today
THERE ’S SOMETHING ABOUT fiction chronicling the life and times of Egypt and its residents that attracts readers — Egyptian and foreign alike — like moths to a flame, especially when the work is suspected to be romans à clef. Lawrence Durrell ...
- It's hell getting old - Creative Loafing Tampa
It's hell getting oldCreative Loafing Tampa, FL - 7 hours agoThe amazing Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) kept writing fine poetry into his 90s. But usually the ending isn't good. I remember Mom and Dad on their deathbeds, ...
- Interview: Tim Winton (Guardian Unlimited)
Aida Edemariam talks to Tim Winton about his youth, Australia and why writing is like surfing
- Memoirs (Washington Post)
Harry Bernstein's first critical success came with his memoir The Invisible Wall , published two years ago when he was 96. It described his upbringing in an impoverished Lancashire town, where the Jews lived on one side of the street and the Christians on the other. Though he'd been a writer all his...
- Historic headstones repaired - Fayetteville Observer
Dean Ruedrich sees a challenge — and a responsibility — to preserve history when a tombstone breaks. This month, Ruedrich, a restoration contractor who works for Preservation North Carolina, has begun repairing 28 headstones that were vandalized ...
- Music, poetry for refugees - Northern Rivers Echo
Music, poetry for refugeesNorthern Rivers Echo, Australia - 1 hour agoAuthor Sandy McCutcheon will speak at a gala dinner hosted by Sanctuary Northern Rivers at Southern Cross University in Lismore on September 6. ...
- volunteer opportunities - San Jose Mercury News
volunteer opportunitiesSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 2 hours agoExhibits, poetry readings, story telling, workshops for all ages. FBCA has volunteer opportunities to do what you love while making a positive difference in ...
- Jenny McLeod - SOUNZ
Born in Wellington in 1941, Jenny McLeod grew up in Timaru and Levin. Throughout her childhood and adolescence she was always involved in music, as school pianist, church organist, accompanist, or playing at dances in a band with her brothers. She ...
- Bush the Uniter - OpEdNews
Bush the UniterOpEdNews, PA - 34 minutes ago... publish hundreds of freelance magazine and newspaper articles and political commentary columns along with 7 books of poetry and short fiction. ...
- Vacations for the soul - Cecil Whig
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- Where in the world is Cleveland actress Ring? In Pittsburgh's "Playboy ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
That's a big question, involving discussions of which city is on the ups, and which on the downs. But for the purposes of this blog-post, we can definitely say that Pittsburgh has Derdriu Ring. Stephen Grebinski The Widow Quin (Cleveland's own ...
- Writer vows to get children reading - expressandstar.com
Writer vows to get children readingexpressandstar.com, UK - 12 hours agoMr Ahlberg, a Baggies fan, has most recently released Collected Poems, a collection of his favourite children’s poetry.
- Pak poet Ahmed Faraz dies at 77 - Times of India
MUMBAI: The Urdu feminist writer Ismat Chughtai once recalled meeting a young poet in Moscow. "He isn't the usual betel-chewing, kurta-pyjama-clad poet. He is smartly dressed and can dance with the girls," she remarked. Non-conformist in his views ...
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