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- Hundreds turn out for Black Family Day (The Record)
STOCKTON - Aside from live music, craft booths and bounce houses, visitors to Stockton's 31st annual Black Family Day on Monday had a chance to come face to face with elite black writers of Northern California.
- The monster in the mirror (Guardian Unlimited)
Comment is free: Slavenka Drakulic: We examine Karadzic's appearance for anything that will justify our belief that he is nothing like us
- Dylan's New York (BBC News)
On a literary pub crawl of poet's old haunts
- New movie ‘The Express' sparks fond memories of football star Ernie ... - Miami Herald
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The new film "The Express" - about legendary Syracuse running back Ernie Davis - holds special importance for Helen T. Gray, The Kansas City Star's religion editor. She and Davis - the first African-American to win the Heisman ...
- It takes four to make a Dream Poetry Team - Contra Costa Times
A powerhouse quartet of poets steps into the spotlight at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley tonight for a series of readings they're calling "Arte Poetica  The Dream Poetry Team." The participants include Jack Hirschman, the activist and writer ...
- Paul Overy: versatile historian and art critic of The Times - Times Online
Paul Overy was an historian of art, architecture and design of impressive versatility. He was an art critic (for four years for The Times ); he taught at numerous art schools (including the Royal College of Art, the Slade, the London Institute, and ...
- Books can help kids look forward to school - TheNewsTribune.com
Books can help kids look forward to schoolTheNewsTribune.com, WA - 2 hours agoHis grandmother says he’s “the artist in the family.†Shelly kisses and hugs her mom three times. Borden’s poems have a nice rhythm that work nicely for ...
- Inspiring with words, not deeds - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nzInspiring with words, not deedsStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 44 minutes ago... Smither would love the job of inspiring the All Blacks. When Elizabeth Smither heard she'd won a $60000 poetry prize she was stunned into calmness. ...
- British espionage writer John le Carré says he considered defecting - Dallas Morning News
British espionage writer John le Carré says he considered defectingDallas Morning News, TX - 1 hour agoThe Associated Press Britain's Poetry Archive has added rare audio recordings of 14 major American poets of the 20th century, including Theodore Roethke, ...
- Andrew Motion: Poetry for Performance - Daily Telegraph
A week or so after the death of Princess Diana, when the grass outside Kensington Palace had been turned into a gigantic floral shrine, curiosity and respect prompted me to go and look at the tributes that had been made. Andrew Motion: 'Poetry should ...
- What 'Dark Knight' and 'Wall-E' have in common (Los Angeles Times)
At the movies this summer, bleakness is pervasive, whether in what used to pass for comic-book adventure or in family-oriented animation. IN "THE WAY WE ARE," a concise, razor-sharp book of existential musings, philosopher Allen Wheelis describes the "margin of terror." Just beyond the agreed-upon scheme of things, like the raw desert and wild places at the edge of the paved city, it's the ...
- Bombers: Italy's finest (The Farmington Daily Times)
Italy would be proud. The Connecticut Bombers may hail from the East Coast, but with a tongue-tying roster, you'd never know. Take it from their coach, the quotable Joe Rietano, who is a Connie Mack World Series alum (class of '72).
- Sponsored by Kenny Kent Toyota - Evansville Courier & Press
Sponsored by Kenny Kent ToyotaEvansville Courier & Press, IN - 2 hours ago... the mother of the child were two different people. Whether consciously crafted or accidentally produced, these headlines are often bits of found poetry. ...
- Envoy Reiterates Iran-Pakistan Close Relations - Fars News Agency
Envoy Reiterates Iran-Pakistan Close RelationsFars News Agency, Iran - 17 hours agoHe said that Allama Iqbal was a great poet-scholar and his poetry was not only a source of inspiration for Pakistani people but the people of Iran as well. ...
- The Care and Feeding of Fiction - Slate
In the predictable universe of the illness memoir, doctors save by diagnosis and fail by misdiagnosis, alleviate symptoms or unintentionally increase them, order too many tests or refuse to test enough. Patients are the authors of these accounts, but ...
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