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- Women Writers Conference Boasts Huge Line-Up (Newswise)
The 29th annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference brings internationally acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey to the Commonwealth to headline its powerful line-up of writers' events.
- 'Avenue Q' is raunchy, but at its heart a good-natured love story - MLive.com
Press Photos/T.J. Hamilton The cast of "Avenue Q" performs at DeVos Performance Hall on Tuesday night. It's probably a safe bet this is the first time puppets have mimed intercourse on the stage of Devos Performance Hall. But "Avenue Q," it nearly ...
- Week of peace begins - Hillingdon Times
PEOPLE of different faiths in the community are due to gather tomorrow for the launch of Hillingdon’s week of peace. The annual event sees cultures coming together to provide a week of activities for everyone to take part in. A civic march from ...
- Rounding up the unusual suspects - Baltimore Sun
M aybe while the four undercover state troopers - identified in a report released yesterday only as "T1" through "T4" - were wasting their time spying on a few peaceniks, other members of their unit were gathering intel on the kinds of people who ...
- Word Play - Saturday August 30 - blogTO
Word Play - Saturday August 30blogTO, Canada - 8 hours agoWord Play is a unification of words and play where poetry is revered and created in the moment, and the themes and ideas of those poems are explored through ...
- Mural may get second life (Vallejo Times-Herald)
When Robert Vega attends his Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, the mural is there, quietly giving him strength. Fading, covered in graffiti and often ignored by those who pass it by, Vega nonetheless sees the mural every day on the side of the building that hosts his meetings.
- Special Summer Camp Helps Girls Recognize Inner and Outer Beauty - PR Newswire (press release)
Special Summer Camp Helps Girls Recognize Inner and Outer BeautyPR Newswire (press release), NY - Aug 20, 2008"Emotional stress has been linked to severe acne episodes, and certain factors in a teen's life -- such as getting ready to go back to school, ...
- Baring their souls - Guardian Unlimited
Fifteen years ago the music world was turned upside down with the release of Liz Phair's album, Exile in Guyville. Written in response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street (both were double albums, 18 tracks long), it matched that record in ...
- Steve Hall: Vice-Captain Loser - Metro
MetroSteve Hall: Vice-Captain LoserMetro, UK - 15 minutes agoHis phrasing is joyous and his choice of words close to poetic - kids' poetry, obviously, but that's no reason why 'wang' and 'schmoo' shouldn't be used a ...
- Travel 411: Stars, politicians among authors at book festival (TCPalm.com)
Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival on Sept. 27 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The event was started by first lady Laura Bush as a way to celebrate reading and books.
- Mark Steel: Life begins at forty* - The Independent
I've always been suspicious of the lifestyle crisis. One of my first jokes when I began as a stand-up comic was about how a "mid-life crisis" was only possible if you were comfortable enough to afford one, because you couldn't imagine a peasant in ...
- Kalima Invites Americans to Nominate US Literature for Translation ... - MarketWatch
Kalima Invites Americans to Nominate US Literature for Translation ...MarketWatch - 52 minutes ago... are invited tonominatenovels, short stories or poetry thatreflectAmerican dreams, opportunities and challenges or otherwise embody the "American spirit. ...
- AmaBooks to launch two new books during Intwasa - Sunday News
AmaBooks to launch two new books during IntwasaSunday News, Zimbabwe - 6 minutes ago’AmaBooks co-director, Brian Jones, said his publishing company will launch a poetry and non-fiction book at the annual arts festival. ...
- Records to play at one's own funeral - Newsdurhamregion.com
Records to play at one's own funeralNewsdurhamregion.com, Canada - 3 hours agoBecause it's as heavy as a mudslide it's easy to bury oneself in there for a while, shut out the world and fill your head with some poetry. ...
- Life stories, all in six words - Bloomington Pantagraph
Life stories, all in six wordsBloomington Pantagraph, USA - 46 minutes agoPaul Thornton's reads almost like poetry. "Alabama boy said Hallelujah, wrote memoirs." Writers like brevity; readers more so. Makes you think harder, ...
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