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- Author ‘not very creative’ with uni students’ marks - Hounslow Guardian
Kingston Uni's creative writing course is at the centre of controversy following the revelation that leading novelist Hanif Kureishi, a research fellow on the course, awards all his students distinctions regardless of the work they produce. Kureishi ...
- LAist Interview: Filmmaker John Palmer - LAist
LAist Interview: Filmmaker John PalmerLAist, CA - 2 hours agoObviously, these are often at odds with one another, but I also wanted to explore the poetry and balances found in their co-existence. ...
- Video game reviews: "Ninja Gaiden II," "Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Popular fascination with ninjas reached its peak in the late 1980s with the masked and near-invincible fighters featured in movies and television shows. Ninjas exhibited cunning, stealth, discipline and superior fighting techniques. My friends and I ...
- US: Indian student wins prestigious scholarship - Rediff
An 18-year-old 'exceptionally promising' high school senior from Andover, Massachusetts, was among 28 students named by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation last week as recipients of its up to $30,000 per year scholarship for four years of college ...
- Creative teens show their stuff at library - Barrie Advance
Creative teens show their stuff at libraryBarrie Advance, Canada - 11 minutes agoThe event was a celebration of the library’s Teen Creative Arts Contest entries. The evening included poetry and short story readings, as well as displays ...
- 3 poets to speak at Dominican festival - Marin Independent Journal
Three acclaimed poets will discuss their work at the concluding program of the Marin Poetry Festival on Sunday at Dominican University in San Rafael. Robert Bly, a widely influential American poet from Minnesota, author of "Iron John" and "The ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is sure to be one of the most closely watched endeavors of this year's presidential campaign. The daughter of President Kennedy has sought and treasured ...
- The Sword in the Stone - LubbockOnline.com
LubbockOnline.comThe Sword in the StoneLubbockOnline.com, TX - 2 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, ...
- Saturday, June 28 - Advocate Weekly
Saturday, June 28Advocate Weekly, MA - 1 hour ago... to preview the exciting work of this year's resident artists, art sale, children's activities, books and poetry readings and more, noon-5 pm Free. ...
- Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen: One Ounce of Truth - Broadway World
Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen: One Ounce of TruthBroadway World, NY - 1 hour ago... terrific imagery but in the natural rhythms of our American speech. They all grew up listening to jazz, gospel, blues – and it shows in their poetry. ...
- Pumped up through a volume of music (Newsday)
THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC TO GIRLS, by Lavinia Greenlaw. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 208 pp., $23.
- French black identity poet Aime Cesaire dies at 94 (AFP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
French poet Aime Cesaire, a leading voice of black cultural identity whose struggle against colonialism resonated in Africa and the United States, died Thursday in Martinique.
- What's on guide - Manchester Evening News
Touchstones: Still Crazy After All These Years – until 25 May; Made in the 70s, Gone But Not Forgotten – until 7 September; Step Into the 70s – until 29 September; Street – 24 May-7 September. Telephone 924492 or visit www.rochdale.gov.uk for ...
- Library offers new, user-friendly spaces (Wise County Messenger)
It's amazing what a little rearranging can do. The Decatur Public Library staff recently rearranged, reorganized and reordered several of its major collections. In the process, they opened up a wealth of space and program opportunities.
- Young talent floats atop Hass' River of Words - Contra Costa Times
It may have been a pretty dry April for the rest of us, but the skies opened up for poet Robert Hass of Berkeley, showering the National Book Award winner with the Pulitzer Prize and the Northern California Book Award for poetry, all for his recent ...
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