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- Albee's at it again - Houston Chronicle
If, as playwright Edward Albee says, he can talk to his cat — "and she talks to me" — how much of a stretch is it really to chat with Louise Nevelson, the Ukrainian-born American sculptor who died in 1988? That's the trick he pulls off in Edward ...
- `Out Loud: Slam Poetry' is more energized than words can say - Long Beach Press-Telegram
`Out Loud: Slam Poetry' is more energized than words can sayLong Beach Press-Telegram, CA - 32 minutes agoIn Act 1, the entire company performs a delightful opening number, "This is My Poem" (written by Lori Matthews-Becker), then continues through 35 red-hot ...
- Tiny fiction strikes with poetic energy - News & Observer
News & ObserverTiny fiction strikes with poetic energyNews & Observer, NC - 2 hours agoJapanese haibun openly combines elements of both prose and poetry. Haibun are very brief prose narratives, usually personal, interspersed with one or more ...
- Locals receive honorable mention in short story contest - Frazee Vergas Forum
Locals receive honorable mention in short story contestFrazee Vergas Forum, MN - 1 hour agoKosler has had poetry published in a regional magazine and will have a piece featured in this year's edition of the Jack Pine's Talking Stick book. ...
- Library news - Wicked Local Rochester
Library newsWicked Local Rochester, MA - 2 hours agoIndependent readers going into grades 2-7 and /or family groups reading together can “fish” for a good cause, through the generosity of Lockheed Martin ...
- This Weekends Events (My Village Peckham)
Until 09 Aug 2008 On a startlingly bright Autumn night in 2006 Harper Regan walked away from her home and her husband and her daughter and she kept walking. She told nobody that she was going. She put everything she...
- Local Foundation is recognized - DogTown Wire
Local Foundation is recognizedDogTown Wire, AR - 2 hours agoPeggy Caudle Vining is an often published poet, who has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the coveted Sybil Nash Abrams Award for her seven ...
- Living death - Eureka Street
Eureka StreetLiving deathEureka Street, Australia - 6 hours agoAnd, for all its detail, Sweet Sorrow has some of the qualities of poetry: imagination, phrases, stories and images, pictures of people and lives, ...
- Cumming dares, bares in lively "Bacchae" revamp (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
He is a rock star, an exhibitionist and a vengeful god. He is Dionysus as played by stage and film star Alan Cumming in a vibrant production of Euripides' "The Bacchae," courtesy of the National Theatre of Scotland.
- Sports world's elegant voice lives on - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
At the dawn of the electronic age of sports, when our world was so much smaller, slower and beamed to us with weekly snippets in grainy black and white, sports were not a volume business. In those ancient times when we pre-digital dinosaurs roamed ...
- Hadrian's soldiers writing home - Telegraph.co.uk
Hadrian's soldiers writing homeTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoAnd you can see it for what it was: a language in which the most stirring and original history, philosophy, tragedy, comedy and love poetry was written. ...
- Review: In Jonathan Miles' 'Dear American Airlines,' a passenger's ... - St. Petersburg Times
They bully us, overcharge us, then ask us to hold, please, for 40 minutes just to lodge our complaints. Americans spend so much time in this robotic consumer purgatory, it's a wonder novelists haven't spied a story here before. But Jonathan Miles has ...
- Rest in pieces - World Link
CHARLESTON — If Charleston’s Charlie had hoped for his friends and loved ones to laugh at his funeral, the fish statue’s wishes were granted. At what was likely the most bizarre wake ever held for an 8-foot tuna, people celebrated the life and ...
- Christina Patterson: Equal opportunities? That's so public sector - The Independent
A few years ago, I was taken to tribunal by my stalker. I'd first met him some years before. Whenever he wanted to see me, he would just buy a ticket for one of the literary events I used to run, and sit in the front row and stare. He would send me ...
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant-and-rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
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