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- Advice dissent - Chicago Sun-Times
At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his opinions. He ...
- New indie bookstore opens in Sault Ste. Marie - Quill & Quire
New indie bookstore opens in Sault Ste. MarieQuill & Quire, Canada - 1 hour ago“We’re going to do a lot of small press, poetry, history, and moving into children’s books… [We want] people to get excited about books. ...
- I'll take the Manhattan: Ode to a cocktail classic - Bridgeton News
JULIA EWAN/WASHINGTON POST The Manhattan is a drink that encourages experimentation. Mix up a classic or try the Black Manhattan, background. H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet ...
- New Book Release - Dark Thunder by Cricket Sawyer - PR.com
This summer has been weather horrific. Dark storm clouds on the horizon signify danger, potential for intense storms. In a novel these same storm clouds signify danger of another sort. Dark Thunder is about more than just the noise of an impending ...
- Addicted to life (HT via Yahoo! India News)
The once bitten twice-shy actor has finally realised that all he needs now is 'a simple, ordinary girl to make my world extraordinary.' And even as he is busy 'going on dates' and 'meeting interesting girls', he's quite comfortable leading a bachelor's life.
- Sean Wilsey Goes Slow - London Review of Books (subscription)
Sean Wilsey Goes SlowLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 54 minutes agoMark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London. Deborah Friedell is an editor at ...
- Celebrating our gaylit - Toronto Star
Celebrating our gaylitToronto Star, Canada - 3 hours agoThere's the first lesbian collection to win the GG award for poetry, the country's first openly gay poetry collection, and even a straight novel with many ...
- Chinese writer's 2 one-acts, akin to absurdist theater, are a must-see - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Actress Anne McEvoy and a mannequin's hand make for stunning theater in Cleveland Public Theatre's "Between Life & Death," the first of a two-part program of short works by Chinese dissident author Gao Xingjian. We now have an opportunity to see the ...
- Eppie's tri-ku: Poetry in motion (The Sacramento Bee)
Athletes at Eppie's Great Race on July 19 racked up the miles, while our tri-ku writers racked up the poetic meter. Betsy Rogalla leaves her canoe to run for the finish line. Dennis Lloyd hands off his bike to a volunteer as he finishes the race's cycling portion. A pack of runners leads the way along the American River bike trail.
- Be a Father to Your Child: Book Review - NewsBlaze (press release)
Be a Father to Your Child: Book ReviewNewsBlaze (press release), CA - 11 minutes agoBe a Father to Your Child amounts to a heartening mix of poetry, prose and pictures which combine to reassure skeptics about the prospects for the black ...
- Poetry of the pavement - The Columbian
The ColumbianPoetry of the pavementThe Columbian, WA - 23 minutes agoOn Friday, she was among a group of students writing poetry in chalk on the school’s sidewalks. The annual poetry event, organized by English teacher ...
- Book of Poetry Brings Comfort to Grieving Family - BigNews.biz (press release)
BigNews.biz (press release)Book of Poetry Brings Comfort to Grieving FamilyBigNews.biz (press release), MA - 18 minutes agoHer son’s reflections on love, pain, addiction and God are revealed in Breaking Down the Wall of Silence. Apart from being a collection of Rivera’s poems, ...
- Bookmarks: The Amnesiac - Wall Street Journal
Ditched by his girlfriend and holed up in Holland with a busted leg, James Purfew -- the hero of "The Amnesiac" -- broods on the kinds of big questions that plague the post-college, pre-marriage set: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going ...
- Takin' Ahoy Ride (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Russell family of Georgia gets into the nautical spirit for the camera in front of the Desert Princess. Photos by Marlene Karas/Review-Journal. C'mon, give us a smile, Hoover Dam: Jay Christie of Winnipeg traveled all the way from Canada for a photo aboard the Desert Princess.
- Conference to commemorate Sohrab Sepehri - MehrNews.com
Conference to commemorate Sohrab SepehriMehrNews.com, Iran - 30 minutes agoHe studied at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Tehran, where he was attracted to the modern art movement, both in his painting and his poetry. ...
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