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- School's out, and there's time for some fun reads for kids (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
A persistent mouse. A vanishing sculpture. An interstellar apocalypse. There's something for just about everyone, from preschoolers to teens, in our summer book wrap-up for young readers.
- Double Dreams - LubbockOnline.com
LubbockOnline.comDouble DreamsLubbockOnline.com, TX - 4 hours agoA story about LA’s gangs, lead by a teen girl, taking on the LAPD sounds like something that’d have something to say about racial politics, cop culture, ...
- The Newest US Poet Laureate: Kay Ryan - About - News & Issues
The Newest US Poet Laureate: Kay RyanAbout - News & Issues, NY - 1 minute ago... Ryan is most definitely a loner, an outsider in the world of po-biz and writing workshops — witness her 2005 essay for Poetry magazine, “I Go to AWP. ...
- Local Starbucks will close - Plainview Daily Herald
Coffee lovers in Plainview received a slight shock this week when they learned Starbucks here will be closing down. “I’m so sad. I just found out an hour ago,” Amanda Murray said Wednesday night. “I’m heartbroken.” Starbucks announced ...
- Inaugural Manukau Poetry Competition - Scoop
Manukau City Council Libraries, in conjunction with the Gadd Family, invite Manukau poets to submit entries in the inaugural Bernard Gadd Memorial Poetry Prize. The annual competition commemorates the late Manukau poet and continues his support of ...
- Small press, big drama - National Post
National PostSmall press, big dramaNational Post, Canada - 48 minutes agoIn the acknowledgements of Wallin's poetry book A Thousand Profane Pieces, she notes that she wrote one of her poems at Ross's workshop.
- SRB: Marx the Poet - Scoop.co.nz
SRB: Marx the PoetScoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 5 minutes agoNo doubt there are a few die-hard Marxists who can find poetry in Marx's theory of surplus value, but the ABC Book Show seems to think the world was spared ...
- Derek Walcott: 'The Chatterbox' - Jamaica Observer
Derek Walcott: 'The Chatterbox'Jamaica Observer, Jamaica - 2 hours agoBut whenever I stay in Jamaica, I remember my late friend John Hearne very much. The landscape starts to look like prose. Very Hearnian. ...
- A "book learnin'" vs. Common Sense Look at Just One 9/11 Incident - OpEdNews.com
Besides, what do we look like? Cambodia under Pol Pot? North Korea under Kim Jong Il? Germany under Hitler? China under Mao Tse-Tung? No, boy, you’re way out there with your tin hat. This here is the good ole US of A and we’re a free country ...
- Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection - Movie City News
Movie City NewsIndiana Jones: The Adventure CollectionMovie City News, CA - 47 minutes agoIn a 60 Minutes interview, he told Ed Bradley that he had no idea how the streams of poetry and torrents of transcendent imagery came to him in his ...
- Write on: Gathering for scribes of all sorts (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Writers of all experience levels and of all genres - from novels and short stories to memoirs, journals and poetry - will seek fellowship, comfort, advice, and even tough love from one another this weekend at the 60th Annual Philadelphia Writers' Conference.
- Local poet "highly commended" - South Yorkshire Times
Local poet "highly commended"South Yorkshire Times, UK - 6 hours agoTALENTED local young poet, Kirsty Morris from Royston High School has been highly commended for her entry in a national poetry competition. ...
- The Traveller - guardian.co.uk
The Travellerguardian.co.uk, UK - 8 hours ago... up with a linked pair of works, one for chorus, another for solo violin, based on the poetry of George Herbert and the music of JS Bach respectively. ...
- Sean Wilsey Goes Slow - London Review of Books (subscription)
Sean Wilsey Goes SlowLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 54 minutes agoMark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London. Deborah Friedell is an editor at ...
- Lesbos islanders battle for Lesbian name (BBC News)
Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos try to prevent a gay rights group from calling itself "lesbian".
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