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- Award-winning essayist to speak at college - Ithaca College The Ithacan
Award-winning essayist to speak at collegeIthaca College The Ithacan, USA - 3 hours agoHurd has published poetry and creative nonfiction. Her writing has been awarded four Maryland Individual Artist Awards for Poetry and the Sierra Club's ...Professors bring independent press to Ithaca Ithaca College The Ithacanall 2 news articles
- War in Pieces: Combat Paper Project Sees Veterans Use Uniforms to Heal (Vineyard Gazette)
Robynn Murray stood alone in the kitchen. Bread in the toaster, she twirled a butter knife in a tub of Nutella and looked out across the brown Chilmark fields of North Road. She spread the warm bread thick; stuck the knife back in the jar. “I got these when I got back from Iraq,†she said. She licked a crumb of toast from the corner of her mouth and pointed to the two guns tattooed on her chest, ...
- Arts&Culture Zombie Haiku This summer, zombies / feast on flesh and poetry / neither one survives. (Chico News & Review)
After Robert Kirkman’s super-powered zombie runs at Marvel Comics, Ryan Mecum shows that no art form is safe with his collection of poetry, Zombie...
- Shop offers Latino literature, more - The Desert Sun
Shop offers Latino literature, moreThe Desert Sun, CA - 4 hours agoRamirez: Latino poetry by Latin American poets, tons of bilingual books for children, books in Spanish, Harry Potter in English and Spanish, ...
- RACING SCENE COLUMN: NECROLOGY - RacingWest.com
RACING SCENE COLUMN: NECROLOGYRacingWest.com, CA - 7 hours agoOn a personal note, as a teen I saw Phil race in 1953 in the 2nd annual Guardsmen SCCA sports car road races through Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. ...
- 11 Indian entries for Asia Pacific Screen Awards - Economic Times
11 Indian entries for Asia Pacific Screen AwardsEconomic Times, India - 3 hours agoThe much-talked about documentary based on India's first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi, "Yes Madam, Sir" directed by Megan Doneman, "A Jihad for Love" by ...
- Biz: Gone but not forgotten - Mountain Xpress
Biz: Gone but not forgottenMountain Xpress, NC - 2 hours agoA New Jersey native who moved to Asheville 11 years ago from Rhode Island, Crowther says she’s never run a business before, “but I come from a big family of ...
- After dark in the city of czars - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeAfter dark in the city of czarsBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour ago... era people talked candidly about politics and held underground poetry readings over glasses of vodka, jars of pickled mushrooms, and hot, black tea. ...
- Letters: War crimes (Independent)
The media circus over the capture of Radovan Karadzic has little to do with any notion of "justice" for his victims. Rather it is a continuation of the simplistic myth, peddled by Western leaders and the media through the Nineties, that the disintegration of Yugoslavia was the result of ancient ethnic hatreds and that the Serbs were the chief aggressors in the break-up.
- This week in russian history...29 August – 30 September - Moscow News
This week in russian history...29 August – 30 SeptemberMoscow News, Russia - 1 hour agoBut under the Soviet regime all her friends and family were arrested; her poetry wasn't published - she was a rebellious author and always expressed ...
- How does a headteacher cope with a pupil's murder? - Guardian Unlimited
Floral tributes to Ben Kinsella, the 17th teenager to die violently in London this year. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Hours before the funeral of knife victim 16-year-old Ben Kinsella late last week, another teenager was stabbed to death ...
- UC Irvine Extension Offers Online Writing Course on 20th Century American Writers (Centre Daily Times)
The University of California, Irvine Extension is launching a new online course titled, "Voices and Visions of 20th Century American Writers." Course topics include the characteristics of different literary periods in 20th century American literature and identification of leading writers and their works. The course will be offered in an online format from Sept. 29 to Dec. 5.
- Johnny Temple, Brooklyn Book Festival - Gothamist
GothamistJohnny Temple, Brooklyn Book FestivalGothamist, NY - 57 minutes ago... Chris Abani’s Black Goat poetry series, Hotel St. George, and The Armory. How did you get involved in book publishing? It was a hobby gone awry. ...
- Equal opportunity unemployment (Salon.com)
For the first time since the women's movement began, an economic recovery has not led to a higher percentage of women in the workforce.
- Charlotte Higgins on the literary influences of ancient Greece (Guardian Unlimited)
Its language is now barely known, and only a few of the works produced by its great writers and thinkers survive, but ancient Greece's influence surrounds us. In these extracts from her new book, Charlotte Higgins assesses the culture's legacy
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