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- Gioia to Step Down as Chairman of National Endowment for the Arts - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Gioia to Step Down as Chairman of National Endowment for the ArtsChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 13 hours ago... life through such programs as the Big Read and Poetry Out Loud. He has added a strong, often gloomy voice to public debates about the death of reading. ...
- DeJohn Aims For Temple In Court - And Wins - The Bulletin
For nearly eight years, Christian DeJohn has been a graduate student at Temple University, attempting to earn a degree in military history. But due to his position as a sergeant in the Army National Guard, his quest for his diploma has been a rocky ...
- Sasha Frere-Jones: The Brazilian Girls at Terminal 5. (The New Yorker)
Sabina Sciubba has lived in Italy, Germany, France, and New York, and is currently the lead singer of a band called Brazilian Girls, which contains no Brazilians and only one girl. The group’s third album, “New York City,” is sung in five languages, though not all simultaneously. Perhaps the most . . .
- Obituaries in the news - International Herald Tribune
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oliver Kaufman Crawford, who overcame the "Red Scare" blacklist of the 1950s to become one of television's most successful writers, died Wednesday. He was 91. Crawford wrote for such shows as "Star Trek," "Bonanza," "Perry Mason ...
- Tech files show Cho’s teachers were concerned - Lynchburg News and Advance
When he finally took off his mirrored sunglasses, Seung-Hui Cho’s empty gaze shook his teachers, who had just asked police to be on hand the next time he showed up for poetry class. “It is a very distressing sight, since his face seems very naked ...
- Art review: 'Monsters' at ellO Gallery & Shop - Portsmouth Herald News
Art review: 'Monsters' at ellO Gallery & ShopPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 12 hours agoSome have text that can cloud your interpretation or solidify it — "Desolate" features a line from Saufley's own poetry, "We are mesmerized on the brink of ...
- Professors named finalists for prestigious book award - North by Northwestern
Professors named finalists for prestigious book awardNorth by Northwestern, IL - 9 hours agoHe has published eight poetry collections and is nominated for the award for one of them, Creatures of a Day (LSU Press, 2008). He is currently a columnist ...
- Danita Davis gives voice to those silenced by abuse - News & Observer
News & ObserverDanita Davis gives voice to those silenced by abuseNews & Observer, NC - 11 hours ago"Storms of Life" is a raw collection of poetry, songs and dialogue so disturbing and realistic that some domestic violence victims can't sit through the ...
- One book fair, hours of satire, and the Dixie Chicks - Bush's cultural ... - Guardian Unlimited
I'm hard-pressed to think of a single thing the Bush administration has done to promote the arts. Things have gone on as before: novelists are writing books, people read them or don't read them, movies are being made and people go or don't go ...
- Nigeria: Eugenia Abu's Eyes Still Blinking! (AllAfrica.com)
It was the President of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Dr. Wale Okediran, who once remarked as a guest at one of Eugenia Abu's reading that the publicity and tours for her book -In The Blink Of An Eye was one of the longest running book promotions in the history of contemporary book publishing in Nigeria.
- Ensuring veterans never make last ride alone - Rockwall County Herald Banner
Ensuring veterans never make last ride aloneRockwall County Herald Banner, tx - 2 hours agoWhenever an American soldier dies, a group of volunteer motorcycle enthusiasts ensures the veteran doesn’t make their last ride alone. ...
- ARTS NOTES: Asheville Arts Council awards 12 grants - Asheville Citizen-Times
ARTS NOTES: Asheville Arts Council awards 12 grantsAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 1 hour agoElizabeth Bradfield is the author of “Interpretive Work” and a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Katherine Soniat is an associate ...
- What's happening - Bothell Reporter
“East of Eden” fall literature class at the parish hall of Emmanuel Church, to continue Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Registration at the Library $20. Deer Harbor Women’s Auxiliary, first meeting of the 2008-2009 year. Noon at the ...
- United Way to Recognize Merit Grant Recipients - Washington Post
United Way to Recognize Merit Grant RecipientsWashington Post, United States - 1 hour agoThe fall offerings include US politics and elections, poetry, religion and war, and ancient and modern India. ...
- Poetic Ponderings - Chandigarh Newsline
Poetic PonderingsChandigarh Newsline, India - 3 hours agoArt should touch the heart of someone and address the feelings,’’ Ali is these days working on script of Rumi, to explore his soul, vision, poetry and life. ...
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