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- Peace Corps assignment takes traveler to Morocco (The Bellingham Herald)
- Party got what it wanted from Obama speech - MSNBC
DENVER - Barack Obama's speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night was what many nervous Democrats were hoping for: a forceful challenge to John McCain and the Republicans, and a restatement of the message to change ...
- BERLIN ZOO HONORS DÖRFLEIN - Der Spiegel
Berlin is still in saddened shock after the sudden death of Thomas Dörflein, the 44-year-old zookeeper who died suddenly Monday of a heart attack. A quiet man by nature, Dörflein was thrown into the spotlight after being chosen to raise the now ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' - The Courier News
Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell'The Courier News, IL - 28 minutes agoThe way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates already has done that -- her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Pishko Najmadin – Memoirs of a veteran and leader in the Komala and PUK (Kurdish Media)
The memoirs written by the Kurdish veteran and former leader in the Komala and PUK is the best that I have read in many years, which reflects the reality of the armed-struggle against the tyrannies and enemies of freedom. This book has now been published both inside and outside of Kurdistan.
- Arts & Cultural Council honors seven area artists - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Arts & Cultural Council honors seven area artistsRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 1 hour agoBOA Editions Ltd., which has published 200 poetry books since its 1976 founding by the late poet A. Poulin Jr. Since 2004, the Rochester press also has ...
- Ahmed Faraz’s death widely condoled - The News - International
Ahmed Faraz’s death widely condoledThe News - International, Pakistan - 22 minutes agoNawaz Sharif said that Ahmad Faraz not only supported the struggle against dictatorship, issue of civic movements or movement of lawyers through his poetry ...
- Mental illness survivors launch book - Fiji Live
Some survivors of mental illness in Fiji will be releasing a book tomorrow to help raise awareness and understanding of mental illness. The book, Fright or Light: Surviving Mental Illness is an attempt by members of the Psychiatric Survivors ...
- Literature in the leaves - The National
Literature in the leavesThe National, United Arab Emirates - 18 hours agoBroad topics open to the public include a talk titled A Traitor in the House: Autobiography and Fiction, organised by the South African novelist Lynn Freed, ...
- Listening with the same face - Ballard News Tribune
Listening with the same faceBallard News Tribune, WA - 12 hours agoAlexie writes poetry and short stories in addition to his fiction and essays. He's working on the screenplay for "Absolutely True Diary" and revealed that ...
- Search the Archives (The Pitt News)
"Revolution on Canvas, Volume 1: Poetry from the Indie Music Scene" is a commendable project. While proceeds of the poetry collection will be donated to the National Center for Family Literacy, one has to wonder how beneficial this book would be for the cause.
- LiveDaily Interview: Weather Underground - LiveDaily.com
LiveDaily Interview: Weather UndergroundLiveDaily.com - 5 hours agoLyrically, it's how death affects you, kind of dark but there's a redemption quality to it a la Neil Young. There's a dark element to it but there's also ...
- The Poetry of April Ossmann (Good Times)
Editor’s note: This week’s Poetry Corner features April Ossmann, the author of “Anxious Music†(Four Way Books, 2007) who has published her poems widely in journals. She is executive director of Alice James Books and teaches at The Writer’s Center in White River Jct., Vt.
- Peek at the Week (Rolling Meadows Review)
Deadline for items for Peek at the Week is one week before desired publication date.
- Award-winning poet Al Purdy celebrated at Madoc event - Belleville Intelligencer
Award-winning poet Al Purdy celebrated at Madoc eventBelleville Intelligencer, Canada - 1 hour agoJeff Seffinga, wearing a white Jack Kerouac T-shirt (Kerouac, who died in 1969, was an American writer and poet of the so-called Beat Generation), ...
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