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- Not-your-average beach books - SouthCoastToday.com
Not-your-average beach booksSouthCoastToday.com, MA - 6 hours agoA Bengali-American, she writes mostly about very highly educated Indian-Americans in Boston and New York college neighborhoods, but always manages to tell a ...
- Main Course - Galway First
Main CourseGalway First, Ireland - 7 hours agoPoetry in mushrooms At the end of May, I went along to a reading by poet Dennis O'Driscoll at the Galway City Library. And it made me hungry. ...
- Appreciative crowd comes out for this year’s Burning Word festival (South Whidbey Herald)
The fifth annual Burning Word: Festival of Poetic Fire had its day in the sun Saturday as healthy crowds came out for a day that was met with perfect, sunny skies.
- Andras Mezei: Many-sided poet and editor (Independent)
András Mezei was a many-sided and accomplished Hungarian writer and poet. One of the defining experiences of his life was the period of Nazi terror in German-occupied Hungary during 1944. His father perished in Auschwitz and although Mezei himself survived, the suffering he and hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews underwent left an emotional scar on him for life.
- Summer is for reading (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Summer's almost here, and kids are counting the days until they can put their textbooks to rest for a while. But that doesn't mean all books have to be tossed aside. Area libraries and literacy programs are hoping to encourage kids to keep reading for fun all summer long with an array of activities and special events. .Catch the Reading Bug. is the summer reading program theme at many ...
- Poetry with a sense of place (The State)
Calling All Poets! The Medical University of South Carolina seeks poetry submissions to accompany art work at a new center for the diagnosis and treatment of heart, vascular and digestive diseases. Poetry Categories “South Carolina — A Sense of Place” : Poems should consider the ways in which the natural world offers poets metaphors about the beauty and mystery of the cycles of life, as ...
- 'We are brave enough' - Baltimore Sun
If the word "unspeakable" has any meaning, surely it applies to the acts of a South Korean loner whose shooting rampage at Virginia Tech left 33 dead this week. Perhaps only a poet could find the language to inspire at such a moment. Lucky for a ...
- Around town - Tampabay.com
Around townTampabay.com, FL - 41 minutes agoWriting groups: The Tampa Writers Alliance hosts a writing critique and poetry group. Prospective nonmembers are welcome to sit in and observe. ...
- Latest Additions (The Barnstable Patriot)
Yahoo! Jeff Streeby is a true Cowboy poet Cowboy poetry has been around for over 100 years. Initially, it was an oral tradition, as cowboys would gather 'round the campfire at night, tell tall tales and sing songs.
- Red Dog Howls - TheaterMania.com
TheaterMania.comRed Dog HowlsTheaterMania.com, NY - 2 hours agoAfterwards, Armenians were systematically murdered, raped, tortured, forced into death marches, and more. That shocking piece of history is the centerpiece ...
- Nobody knows what's true anymore - Pasadena Weekly
Pasadena WeeklyNobody knows what's true anymorePasadena Weekly, CA - 1 hour agoHe gives walking tours in downtown LA, and others for the Architecture + Design Museum and the Museum of Neon Art, after which he usually performs poetry ...
- Daily TWiP - National Hamburger Month - Nashua Telegraph
Welcome to the Daily TWiP (short for The Week in Preview), a daily online round-up of unique holidays, compelling historical observances, nifty birth and death anniversaries, and all the other odds and ends we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview ...
- Tablet linked to 'Manyoshu' entry found in Shiga (The Japan Times)
OTSU, Shiga Pref. (Kyodo) A famous poem from the "Manyoshu," the earliest existing collection of Japanese poetry, was found written on an ancient wooden tablet unearthed in 1997 in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, the local education committee said. The implement, a "mokkan," is the first such item found bearing a "Manyoshu" poem. Inscribed on the other side was another famous ancient poem, although not ...
- Black box containing gems - The Herald
Black box containing gemsThe Herald, UK - 37 minutes agoThe repeated imagery has a curious poetry to it, but the score undermines the work. Thank goodness, then, for Belgian artist Nicolas Provost. ...
- Subtle: overcoming odds in pursuit of silver linings - Drowned In Sound
When critics make reference to maverick artists operating in the margins of the mainstream, rarely are the musicians in question actually carving niches anew. And that’s fair enough – there are only so many chords, so many variations on an ...
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