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- NEA awards 'Big Read' grants (Contra Costa Times)
LOS ANGELES — The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host The Big Read, an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture.
- At the movies: Reviews of recently released flicks - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
So far this summer, I've had my brain pummeled by Robert Downey Jr. flying around in a techno-suit, Adam Sandler as an invincible (and priapic) former Mossad agent, Steve Carell as a nerdy indestructible super spy, Harrison Ford as a Teflon 60-year ...
- The Art of James Salter - Aspen Daily News
The Art of James SalterAspen Daily News, CO - 3 hours agoHis prose doesn't exactly explode in your mouth, but rather, it seeps like a drug slowly into your bloodstream, into your consciousness, leaving you in a ...
- Summer TCA: Live fom Beverly HIlls -- NBC Us Getting Cranky - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
The Oregonian - OregonLive.comSummer TCA: Live fom Beverly HIlls -- NBC Us Getting CrankyThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 16 hours agoIt's poetry, isn't it? I'm sure that sort of stuff kills at the upfronts, when the audience consists primarily of advertising buyers and corporate execs and ...
- Pencil This In: Tuesday - LAist
LAistPencil This In: TuesdayLAist, CA - 20 minutes agoPOETRY*: Greenway Court celebrates poetry and the spoken word with a weeklong festival featuring new and established writers and poets. ...
- Yampah students ready for the world - Sky Hi Daily News
Yampah students ready for the worldSky Hi Daily News, CO - May 24, 2008Principal Leigh McGown said the babies are also graduates of the school’s teen parent program. “Sonja definitely opened my eyes,” said Kaityn Welch. ...
- Black Infiniti - Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City PaperBlack InfinitiBaltimore City Paper, MD - 1 hour agoShe studied poetry with Elliot Coleman during the earlier days of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars (on full scholarship, no less). ...
- Haden's a master of elegance - Calgary Herald
Tonight, as part of the Calgary Jazz Festival, bassist Charlie Haden and Quartet West are playing at Knox Church downtown. Charlie Haden is one of the most important musicians working today, anywhere, on any instrument. He has been one of the bright ...
- Anthony Burgess Geoffrey Hill - Times Online
Anthony Burgess Geoffrey HillTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoOne has the impression of so powerful a desire for self-effacement, as a poet if not, which would be unseemly, as one who professes poetry, that a perhaps ...
- A new American (poetry slam) Idol is crowned - Minneapolis City Pages
A new American (poetry slam) Idol is crownedMinneapolis City Pages, MN - 1 hour agoFirst round, poets performed a bad poem as poorly as they could--and these were pretty rank, culminating in Wonder Dave's stunning parody of ...
- MBS Productions reveals 2008-2009 season - Pegasus News
MBS Productions reveals 2008-2009 seasonPegasus News, TX - 1 hour agoThis new translation by Ian Johnston is dynamic, yet doesn’t loose sight of the beauty of Sophocles’ poetry while at the same time making it accessible to ...
- Poets share thoughts, ideas, emotions on stage (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON — The group Poetic Voices hosts an open-mic night at Mod Reserve in Galveston, elevating poetry into performance art.
- Noted black poets to be featured at Greensburg readings - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Noted black poets to be featured at Greensburg readingsPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 45 minutes agoToi Derricotte, whose "Tender" won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize and whose memoir, "The Black Notebooks," was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. ...
- IN YOUR OPINION, IS MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL FIXED? - OpEdNews
IN YOUR OPINION, IS MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL FIXED?OpEdNews, PA - 3 hours agoIt is simple, like poetry, and a politician's speech, the strike zone was open to each individual umpire's interpretation. Here is a guide to the new strike ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections ...
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