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- Main in Motion kicks off (Montrose Daily Press)
MONTROSE — Coordinators joked it was almost “Rain in Motion.” But, after wet weather earlier Thursday, Montrose’s premiere summer event kicked off under cloudy skies.
- Beck: Columns forge links with readers - Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Beck: Columns forge links with readersSioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - 53 minutes agoIf it also happens to be sheer poetry, great. But that's not the goal. Some weeks, in my case, it's enough just to get a column done. ...
- Palestinians plan big funeral for poet Darwish - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday -- an honor only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes for ...
- Lovers of reading and writing meet at annual event - Post-Tribune
GARY -- Residents shared their favorite books and local authors promoted their latest works at the annual City-Wide Book Club Extravaganza of the Gary Literacy Coalition. The July 26 event was held at the Genesis Convention Center. Era Twyman ...
- Library of the lost (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Sickert called him 'the greatest portraitist of this or any other time', but Wyndham Lewis's paintings have never received sufficient recognition, says Iain Sinclair
- TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86 - Hartford Courant
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
- Inspiring young minds - Port Huron Times-Herald
A self-described average student, Kevin Kammeraad will travel to about 100 schools and 50 libraries this year, getting kids enthused about reading and writing and using their creativity. "I just love being able to use my imagination to do what I love ...
- DON NOBLE: Writers tackle storms in first Pebble Hill book (The Tuscaloosa News)
Frye Gaillard, after a long career in freelancing and writing for The Charlotte (N.C) Observer, is writer-in- residence at the University of South Alabama. 'In the Path of the Storms' may be the twenty-third or so book by Gaillard, but it is a debut book for a new Alabama imprint. Pebble Hill at Auburn has for years been doing superb work in...
- National Arts Centre 'Legend' dies (The Globe and Mail)
Hamilton Southam, diplomat, founding visionary of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and many other cultural and historical institutions, died quietly Tuesday in Ottawa
- Thomas Disch; science-fiction novelist; 68 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Thomas M. Disch, an author, poet and critic who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in new, disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God, died Friday at his Manhattan apartment. He was 68.
- early bird tickets on sale for Latitude 2009 - eFestivals.co.uk
early bird tickets on sale for Latitude 2009eFestivals.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoLatitude isn't just about music, but has a full spectrum of art with individual arenas dedicated to film, theatre, poetry, literature, cabaret, and comedy, ...
- Libby George: 'Trinidad,' monoprint - North Coast Journal
Libby George: 'Trinidad,' monoprintNorth Coast Journal, CA - 3 hours agoThere are photographs, prints, sculpture, a wall hanging made from ocean rock, pages from one of Jerry Martien's chapbooks of poetry. ...
- Haver Scholarships award $79,000 to 16 students - Recorder Community Newspapers
Sixteen Hunterdon County high school seniors have been awarded $79,000 in college aid by the Jennie M. Haver Memorial Scholarship Fund. The Haver Fund has now bestowed $1,220,950 in scholarships to 430 students in its 52 years. For the first time ...
- More visible now, soprano Futral returns (The News & Observer)
When opera soprano Elizabeth Futral appears Friday in Long Leaf Opera's production of Ricky Ian Gordon's "Orpheus and Euridice," she will be returning to her home state with an even higher profile than when she last visited.
- Salvaged WWII stories waiting to be read - The Union Leader
Salvaged WWII stories waiting to be readThe Union Leader, NH - 5 hours agoThe premiere issue featured stories about local Marine Vincent Cassidy, who became known for writing poetry in the South Pacific and getting engaged to his ...
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