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- Keep this one behind closed doors - Edmonton Sun
Keep this one behind closed doorsEdmonton Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoYou know, with weird angsty poetry, school-notebook drawings, lots of sex stories, amateur essays on politics and current events, bad jokes, etc. ...
- Urban Planner: August 24, 2008 - Torontoist
TorontoistUrban Planner: August 24, 2008Torontoist, Canada - 58 minutes agoThere are also panel discussions, a poetry slam, and an open mic stage. Church Street (between Alexander Street and Gloucester Street), 11 am–7 pm, FREE. ...
- Neel De Jong - Metro
MetroNeel De JongMetro, UK - 7 hours agoBelgian company Ontroerend Goed's joyous piece of visual poetry about adolescence. Until Aug 24, Traverse Theatre (V15). www.traverse.co.uk The 2007 ...
- Authors grieve over David Foster Wallace's apparent suicide - Charleston Daily Mail
NEW YORK -- The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel ...
- Wiping out Edmonton's graffiti, one zone at a time - Canada.com
Canada.comWiping out Edmonton's graffiti, one zone at a timeCanada.com, Canada - 1 hour agoPoetry is etched in the downtown alley behind a two-metre chain-link fence, its unwelcome white lettering marring a black metal door. ...
- The Role Of The Writer In Troubled Times—Kole Omotoso - TheNews
The Role Of The Writer In Troubled Times—Kole OmotosoTheNews, Nigeria - 2 hours agoAnother writer to annoy another apartheid ruler was Opperman who had written a long epic poem at the end of the 1948 elections that saw the victory of the ...
- The value of useless knowledge - InfoWorld
The value of useless knowledgeInfoWorld, CA - 4 hours agoIt has, in some circles, become fashionable to disparage liberal arts degrees, the reading of poetry (especially in that poetry's native language if it ...
- Barak Obama’s Pakistan Connections - All Things Pakistan
Barak Obama’s Pakistan ConnectionsAll Things Pakistan, Pakistan - 51 minutes agoFor the first time in years, I applied myself to my studies and started keeping a journal of daily reflections and very bad poetry. ...
- Hundreds gather at funeral for Palestinian poet Darwish (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Hundreds of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral on Wednesday for Mahmud Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle.
- Poet Czeslaw Milosz's last days - Los Angeles Times
Poet Czeslaw Milosz's last daysLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour ago"He was a mystic, his poetry is mystical and metaphysical." In 2006, Znak published a posthumous volume of Milosz's work, "Wiersze Ostatnie" ("Last Poems"). ...
- For rapper, creativity comes in many forms - Charlottesville Daily Progress
For rapper, creativity comes in many formsCharlottesville Daily Progress, VA - 11 minutes ago... hip hop-styled poetry, “Poetic Philosophy.†He’s doing his best to put his thoughts into every form that fits. “I’m always writing,†Mr. Perkins says, ...
- State poet to speak at Guild conference - North Platte Telegraph
Nebraska State Poet Bill Kloefkorn will speak at the Nebraska Writers Guild Fall conference in North Platte on Oct. 3-4. Kloefkorn received the title of State Poet in 1982 from the Nebraska Legislature, a title he "never insisted on, and never ...
- Calendar: Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
LITERARY EVENTSHistory Ya-Ya Series Louisiana State Museum Arsenal, 600 St. PeterSt. Emily Clark presents "The New Orleans Quadroon: Myth and Reality, " 6-8. Free. Call 225.936.4346....
- Things we lost in the fire - The News International
Things we lost in the fireThe News International, Pakistan - 5 minutes agoSaturday’s blast-makers are determined to snuff out poetry, music, and the spaces that exist for musicians and singers to perform, for people to be ...
- Obama: 'I Accept Your Nomination for the Presidency of the United States' (ABC News)
First African American major party candidate speaks on MLK speech anniversary.
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