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- Slam poets head to nationals - Lincoln Journal Star
The poets are going to the show. Next week, the Nebraska Writers Collective team will head to Madison, Wis., to compete at the 2008 National Poetry Slam. The annual five-day event is the largest poetry performance gathering in the world. The Lincoln ...
- Poet aided Obama's search for black identity in Hawaii - Los Angeles Daily News
HONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- The Logic of Lament (Extract) - Jerusalem Post
Be'av, originated as a commemoration of the destruction of the Temple, first by the cohorts of the neo-Babylonian Empire in 586 BCE and then, and more enduringly, by those of the Roman Empire in 70 CE. Although the Bible never speaks of the 9th of Av ...
- Supernatural: Bone Key - Exclusive Book Preview - Eclipse Magazine
Supernatural: Bone Key - Exclusive Book PreviewEclipse Magazine, CA - 40 minutes agoDean went on: “He sets up somewhere on Duval Street selling his poetry, and he keeps an eye on the weird stuff.” Cutting Bobby off before he could interrupt ...
- New Christian Website Departs From Norms, Offers Something Different - HNN Huntingtonnews.net
New Christian Website Departs From Norms, Offers Something DifferentHNN Huntingtonnews.net, USA - 1 hour agoTowards this end, Hardesty offers his visitors food for thought in the form of poetry as well as audio (and soon video) teachings on various Christian ...
- The Sister (The New Yorker)
This suspenseful first novel is set in a crumbling Dorset mansion and features two aging sisters, reunited after a separation of nearly fifty years. Virginia is the sensible older sister who stayed, carrying on the family tradition of lepidopterology, while the reckless and free-spirited Vivien left to lead a . . .
- Artist's friend - 'because I buy art' - Manawatu Standard
Artist's friend - 'because I buy art'Manawatu Standard, New Zealand - 7 hours ago"My husband does not like these so they are hung in a dark alcove," Ms Sandilands said. "We have some wonderful New Zealand artists who are under-valued and ...
- On Shakey Ground - Philadelphia citypaper.net
On Shakey GroundPhiladelphia citypaper.net, PA - 3 hours agoA song like the clumsy "Let's Impeach the President" has all the righteous indignation of "Ohio" with none of the poetry.
- Is Hawkins Galliano's new muse? (Sydney Morning Herald)
Stay In Touch: If John Galliano is looking for a new muse, Australia's own Jennifer Hawkins could be it. They already look as though they are sharing the same hair stylist.
- Undaunted by her disorder - Hampton Roads Daily Press
WACO, Texas - The ulcers on her gums and lips were so painful that Sanya Richards stopped eating. But she kept running. She fashioned a mouthpiece from a cardboard tape roll, bit down on it like a bullet, sprinted around the track and tried to focus ...
- Students urged to use energies for country - Daily Times
Students urged to use energies for countryDaily Times, Pakistan - 4 hours agoThe VC awarded prizes to winners of singing, poetry and short story competitions, organised earlier in connection with the Independence Day celebrations. ...
- Ethan Canin’s many-layered novel. - New Yorker
New YorkerEthan Canin’s many-layered novel.New Yorker, United States - 10 minutes agoAnd a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history it is, shuttling between the twenty-first-century present and the ...
- Dine with chefs and farmers (Seattle Times)
Join local farmers and chefs at the Aug. 24 Incredible Feast; Seattle Dames to release new cookbook; Costco to post mercury warnings in seafood section; Meet Jason Mesnick, recent finalist on "The Bachelor," at Waterfront Seafood Grill; James Gaddis and Holly Smith team up to redo menu at McCaw Hall; An art contest for PBR fans; Bin Vivant opens in Kirkland; Bon Appetit names Baguette Box among ...
- Women dominate fiction list for Montana NZ Book Awards (The New Zealand Herald)
The finalists of the Montana New Zealand Book Award have been named - and the fiction writers in the running are all women.
- Can iPhone restaurant picks be trusted? (Dallas Morning News)
If you were searching for a restaurant that would please almost anyone, Dressler, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, might well be it. Good-looking? Definitely. Menu? Contemporary American, with a mix of fish, meat and meatless options.
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