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- Arts in Brief (Fort Worth Business Press)
Twentieth-century Olympian Tommie Smith will deliver the keynote address at the Living Legends banquet of Renaissance Cultural Center. Ceremonies will begin at 6 p.m. June 20 at the Fort Worth Club.
- Ripley Writes program has a successful year - Observer Today
RIPLEY - Secondary school principal Susan Hammond declared the Ripley Writes program a success in its goal to boost Ripley students' writing ability and creativity. "Ripley Writes came to our school so we could get the kids excited about writing ...
- Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of the gulag, dies (Boston Globe)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian novelist whose unyielding opposition to Soviet dictatorship made him one of the heroic figures of the 20th century, died late yesterday outside his home in Moscow. The cause of death was heart failure, his son, Stepan , told the Associated Press. He was 89.
- The challenge of having Western readers see past culture and gender - Lebanon Daily Star
BEIRUT: There has been a certain anglophone appetite of late for female authors from the Middle East. "Girls of Riyadh" by Rajaa Alsanea, the tale of four young women living and loving in Saudi Arabia, sold millions in Britain and the US, generating ...
- Calendar Events - Windy City Times
Calendar EventsWindy City Times, IL - 1 hour ago312-243-1143, avenue-m.com Women & Children First Bookstore Susanna Lang: Even Now; Jac Jemc: poetry reading. 7:30 pm, 5233 N. Clark St., 773-742-1284, ...
- From rock to country to academia, Tricia Walker settles on 'Velvet' - Vicksburg Post
From rock to country to academia, Tricia Walker settles on 'Velvet'Vicksburg Post, MS - 3 hours agoYou can reach Walker at twalker@deltastate.edu or dmi.deltastate.edu Her first performance was when she was about 7, and she sang "I Love You Truly" for a ...
- Her Father's Daughter (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - She has written novels and screenplays on subjects other writers dare not touch.
- Rocky Road - Gay City News
Rocky RoadGay City News - 3 hours agoIt's hopeful and grim at the same time and takes on a level of poetry that is bittersweet and very real. Terry Kinney's fearless direction pulls out all the ...
- Books of The Times - New York Times
“Once the world was whole, in Antiquity and the Middle Ages,†Heinrich Heine wrote. “There was still a unity in the world and there were complete poets. We rightfully honor these poets and take pleasure in their poetry; but any aping of their ...
- Stenny Stunner Is Poetry In Motion - Glasgow Sunday Mail
Stenny Stunner Is Poetry In MotionGlasgow Sunday Mail, UK - 15 hours agoStenhousemuir leapfrogged Blue Brazil into pole place - but Cowden will feel hard done by after controlling much of the match. The visitors started brightly ...
- Academic talents onstage at Contra Costa College - Contra Costa Times
Academic talents onstage at Contra Costa CollegeContra Costa Times, CA - 2 hours ago... co-hosting the event with the Contra Costa College African American Staff Association. The program of music, praise dance, drama, spoken word and poetry ...
- Joyce Carol Oates examines 'tabloid hell' in novel inspired by ... - Newsday
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates: Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet ...
- Palestinians Mourn Death of 'National Poet' Mahmoud Darwish - Voice of America
Palestinians are mourning the death Saturday of renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was considered a cultural icon. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. The muezzin chanted a mournful dirge as Palestinians observed three ...
- National Poetry Slam 2008 enriches Madison: The week in review (Isthmus)
At any National Poetry Slam, you're bound to see some stuff that disappoints you, but you'll also see a whole lot of stuff that inspires you. This year's gathering in Madison was no different.
- Cultural Center of Cape Cod - Barnstable - Register
Cultural Center of Cape CodBarnstable - Register, MA - 2 hours agoCreative Writing: July 14-18, kids will write both poetry and prose, revise, and present their work. Visual Arts: July 28-Aug. 1, kids will be engaged in ...
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