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- Visiting Writer Sherman Alexie reads newest poetry - Dawgnet
Visiting Writer Sherman Alexie reads newest poetryDawgnet, IN - 1 hour ago... American poetry. Alexie, who grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Wash., said after reading the anthology, he was “hooked.†A poem ...
- John Sutherland: The nobel prize judge Horace Engdahl is wrong - the greatest American writers are far from 'insular' (Guardian Unlimited)
John Sutherland: The greatest American writers are concerned with the human condition – and that transcends borders
- Lakview Terrace and other new movies - Creative Loafing Tampa
Lakview Terrace and other new moviesCreative Loafing Tampa, FL - 4 hours agoThe smoothly digestible freneticism of WALL-E's last act is a bit of a let-down after the near-minimalist poetry of the unconventional opening passages ...
- Simon Gray, Playwright, Dies at 71; Aimed Wit at Intellectuals, and Himself (New York Times)
Mr. Gray wrote bitingly comic plays like ?Butley? and ?Otherwise Engaged? about the educated British middle class and manically confessional late-in-life memoirs.
- Desire: A dangerous flame - The Independent
We think of it as an irresistible force – yet we are so in thrall to it that we have ceased to respect it. Jeanette Winterson looks at the power of desire Why is the measure of love loss? In between those two words – love, loss, and standing on ...
- A "message" for Obama. - Slate
At the insistence of the McCain campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., will have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the ...
- New Arab poetry award in memory of Palestine's Darwish (New Kerala)
Dubai, Aug 15 : A new Arabic poetry competition has been launched in the memory of departed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
- A look at what people are reading this summer - Wayland Town Crier
A look at what people are reading this summerWayland Town Crier, MA - 1 hour agoHe also reads for pleasure, a range of books from "junky stuff" to poetry, political science, history and biography. "The book I’m reading for the Wayside ...
- "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man ... - guardian.co.uk
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 47 minutes agoIt also helped to do for the novel what Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass did for poetry: namely, to create of it something identifiably American, ...
- Literary calendar (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Your guide to author and literary events in Western North Carolina Aug. 17-23.
- Poet laureate 'outsider' followed traditional path - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazettePoet laureate 'outsider' followed traditional pathPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 4 hours agoShe has positioned herself an "outsider" in America's poetry scene, and the image has stuck. Reports of her appointment last week described her as out of ...
- Real Lives: Generous Duncan was a 'fantastic friend' of the Poetry ... - Edinburgh News
Poet and cultural worker Duncan Glen has died at the age of 75. Duncan Glen was born in 1933 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, the son of a manager at the local steelworks. He married Margaret Eadie, daughter of the stationmaster at Markinch when he moved ...
- Business North - The Daily Briefing - Business Newspaper Online 'Paradise Lost? Climate Change in the North Woods' ... (BusinessNorth)
Celebrate the opening of an innovative environmental art exhibit with the Cable Natural History Museum. Paradise Lost? Climate Change in the North Woods is a new traveling art and science exhibit focusing on climate change in the Lake Superior region.
- Read your poems against a backdrop of nature at Green Cay Wetlands - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
West Boynton — Fans of nature and poetry will have a chance to enjoy both at the Green Cay Wetlands. Bards of a Feather, a local poetry reading group, is having a free "Round Robin Reading" at the Green Cay Wetlands Preserve at 1 p.m. Aug. 5. The ...
- Christina Patterson: There is a lot to be said for marrying young - The Independent
It was always the right man at the wrong time, or the wrong one at the right time. Then we started over again My parents met on a hill in Heidelberg. It was, they always told us, love at first sight. My mother was 18. My father was 21. When they went ...
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