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- Poetry alive (7/13) - The Commercial Dispatch
Poetry alive (7/13)The Commercial Dispatch, MS - 16 minutes agoShortly afterward, Elizabeth’s youngest child, Anne, along with her Irish husband, David Griffin, did likewise. Anne and David own the coffeehouse. ...
- Foundation plans annual Scholarship ‘Jamboree' (The Greenville News)
By giving to the students in the community, the Chapman Foundation hopes to inspire the students to give back later.
- Naipaul’s compass - Saudi Gazette
Ways of Looking and Feeling: An Essay in Five Parts. By V. S. Naipaul. 189 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95. ALL my life,†V. S. Naipaul writes in the introduction to “A Writer’s People,†his dense, dry, frustrating new memoir, “I have had to ...
- The importance of being real - Tonight South Africa
When Lebo Mashile recites people listen. Her articulate voice and dramatic gestures command attention. Even when reading from behind a podium while you stand at the back of a hall, she will, somehow, speak to YOU. Off-stage she is the much same and ...
- School to remember - Portsmouth News
School to rememberPortsmouth News, UK - 4 hours agoThe event, entitled Remembering, will consist of an evening of prose and poetry read by forces personnel, past and present, including General Sir Mike ...
- Notable: Katrina collections - St. Petersburg Times
To mark this week's third anniversary of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, three new books of poetry reflect the storm and its aftermath. Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press), by Patricia Smith, is a poetry slam champion's chronicle of ...
- 10 places for moms to unwind - AZCentral.com
Summer is here and you know what that means. School's out and moms (and dads, of course) are hustling the kids to and from camps and classes and games and play dates. The dizzying days, not to mention sweltering heat, are enough to make us a little ...
- The heft of words - phillyBurbs.com
The heft of wordsphillyBurbs.com, PA - 2 hours ago... the objectivist credo -- it wasn't until the poet was championed in the 1950s by the Black Mountain poets and the Beats that his reputation rose a bit. ...
- Poet sees hope and sarcasm in Palestinian plight - Gulf News
Ramallah: Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish said on Wednesday his new works blend sarcasm and a deep sense of hope in their treatment of the decades-old conflict with Israel. Darwish drew thousands of Palestinians to a rare public reading in Ramallah ...
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism - PopMatters
PopMattersWR: Mysteries of the OrganismPopMatters, IL - 12 hours agoThat this quotation is delivered by Milena’s severed head (even death can’t stop the proselytizing) only complicates the matter. ...
- Ferret out the ferrets - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Ferret out the ferretsPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 9 minutes ago... the festival will be presentations by school-age poets and artists who are winners of the library's River of Words environmental art and poetry contest. ...
- Visiting poets - Ledbury Reporter
Visiting poetsLedbury Reporter, UK - 15 hours agoIT is good news that six poets will visit local schools during the forthcoming Ledbury Poetry Festival in order to encourage young people to write in verse. ...
- Chamber music fest walks on wild side - Detroit News
It was a wild musical hunt, the 15th Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. Spread over two weeks and moving through venues across Metro Detroit, the Great Lakes fest -- which presented its 17th and final concert on Sunday -- was full of surprises ...
- On Poetry: Rhythm washes up in waves (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Here's a question for summer: When the tide goes in and out, when the waves wash up in rhythm, why is it that most contemporary poetry doesn't have a regular rhythm, doesn't rhyme and often doesn't tell a story? What's the pleasure in that? I've been asked this question a lot.
- Making the grade (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Assisted by my highly discerning 10-year-old daughter, Carly, I culled through more than 100 books to offer this delightful dozen, written for children 6 and younger.
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