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- Steppenwolf trifecta takes on love, fear and the workplace (Chicago Tribune)
Can writers own their own influence?
- Africa: Futampaf 2008 A Living Cultural Experience (AllAfrica.com)
The world-famous Gambian cultural extravaganza known as the Futampaf (initiation) took place on Thursday at President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh's home village of Kanilai.
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate (AP via Yahoo! News)
Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet.
- Abortion and Crime: The Flip Side - New York Times Blogs
Abortion and Crime: The Flip SideNew York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Living in downtown Flint is a mixed bag - MLive.com
Lately a lot of people have asked me how I like living in downtown Flint. I moved to a historic building a block from The Flint Journal last November. Those who don't frequent the city are increasingly curious about all the construction and changes ...
- Short takes: 'Heaven' is a study of life on Earth - San Jose Mercury News
"The Edge of Heaven" is the movie "Babel" so badly wanted to be. Written and directed by the enormously gifted Fatih Akin, "Heaven" deals with many of the same themes of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's over-praised 2006 film (globalization, cultural ...
- TAPPING BARACK OBAMA'S PHONE - OpEdNews
TAPPING BARACK OBAMA'S PHONEOpEdNews, PA - 2 hours ago... when Obama eschewed the pundit’s red-blue-purple state preoccupation during his ’04 Democratic Convention speech, he was choosing poetry over polls. ...
- VANISHING VOICES CRUELLY-ABSENT CROAKS! (Deccan Herald)
What does a little boy do when he wakes up one morning to find that his voice has disappeared altogether? What does a little frog do when he just doesn’t seem to be able to croak? When no amount of help from his worried mother can coax anything other than a discordant ‘Cronk’ out of him.
- Jimi Hendrix burnt guitar set to fetch £500,000 at auction - Daily Telegraph
'When Hendrix set this guitar alight it marked a watershed in live performance' Hendrix's 1965 Fender Stratocaster, which was famously set alight on stage during a performance at London's Finsbury Astoria in 1967, is going under the hammer with other ...
- 2008 Presidential Election - Chud.com
Political Discourse Pretend you don't see the "Uncle Mitch in '06" stickers and discuss the workings of the political machine. I could type out a long string of "ha ha's" to represent the high comedy on display but why bother? My soul hurts. "The ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse - Star-ecentral.com
"Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't ...
- Bart Schneider's debut mystery takes a turn for the verse (Pioneer Press)
Bart Schneider was a high-profile member of the Twin Cities literary community for more than two decades. He lives in California now, but his fast-paced and timely new literary thriller, "The Man in the Blizzard," is set in the Twin Cities during the Republican National Convention.
- South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
August Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings. Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler ...
- Poet Plans Signing Party for First Collection - RedOrbit
Poet Plans Signing Party for First CollectionRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoFor further information, go online at www.spokanelibrary.org or call (509) 444-5331. Members of the Palouse Cowboy Poetry Association will give a benefit ...
- Captivating Art from Inside (Time Magazine)
A new London show, Captivated: The Art of the Interned , is a quietly damning indictment of Britain's treatment of post 9/11 terror suspects
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