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- Culture at the Marxism 2008 festival (Socialist Worker)
The annual Marxism festival brings together activists, writers and campaigners from across the world to discuss the key political issues and the importance of Marxist ideas today.
- Of ivory towers and coups d'etat - Guardian Unlimited
For any student of Persian, the name Ann Lambton is likely to conjure up feelings of either despair or gratitude. Despair, if, faced with her dense, unforgiving Persian Grammar , you felt like giving up before you'd even started. Gratitude, if having ...
- To Maintain Your Misbehaving Memory, Try Alliteration - Discover Magazine
Discover MagazineTo Maintain Your Misbehaving Memory, Try AlliterationDiscover Magazine, NY - 17 hours agoThe team tested several conditions, including people reading poetry out loud, reading it silently, and reading lengthier works of prose. ...
- More on “Creative Capitalism†- New York Times Blogs
I blogged last month about a Bill Gates speech on “creative capitalism.†Motivated by the Bill Gates speech, Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke have undertaken an unusual web experiment in which they invited a number of prominent economists to ...
- Goodbye high school, hello college, and feeling torn - Stamford Advocate
DARIEN - It is three days until my high school graduation and to be honest, I really don't know what I am feeling. I'm torn between being ready to move on while at the same time having to say goodbye to the people I've made strong bonds with in the ...
- Read-A-Thon supporters assist Literacy Council - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Read-A-Thon supporters assist Literacy CouncilSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 5 hours ago... a GBM Teen Music Cafe & Poetry Slam will be held at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center. On Sunday, a Teen "Praise in the Park" and Family Cookout will ...
- Ficciones (The Globe and Mail)
. . . at least not in terms of literary influence
- Shades of Black Theatre Festival begins with 'Lover' - Nashville Tennessean
This year's Shades of Black Theatre Festival kicks off its series of shows and events with My Lover, My Best Friend & My Roommate . The piece, written by Shawn Whitsell and Melissa Hughley and presented by The Destiny Theatre Experience, runs 7:30 p ...
- Authors To Speak at Little Stone Church, Discuss Self-Publishing - Mackinac Island Town Crier (subscription)
Authors To Speak at Little Stone Church, Discuss Self-PublishingMackinac Island Town Crier (subscription), MI - 8 hours ago... poetry, and children's literature. At 7:30 pm, Vern Firestone and Joni Shanburn of TRIAD Press will present a workshop on self-publishing.
- Former Ware senior center could be reused as community center (The Republican)
WARE - The fate of the former Senior Center on Church Street will be among the items for discussion at tomorrow night's open meeting of the Board of Selectmen.
- Going Our Way: Two-week family trip to Alaska carefully avoids the ... - Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem JournalGoing Our Way: Two-week family trip to Alaska carefully avoids the ...Winston-Salem Journal, NC - 5 hours agoMark, of Trails End Horse Adventures (he of no Web site, heck, no indoor toilet), entertained us with his dilapidated pickup truck, his poetry and songs, ...
- poets speak their minds - Joburg
poets speak their mindsJoburg, South Africa - 16 minutes agoPoets from Zimbabwe, Angola and Kenya will represent the rest of the African continent. Zimbabwe's Underground MC, a social activist and spoken word poet; ...
- Service is Tuesday for Carrie Allen McCray Nickens (The State)
A memorial service for the writer Carrie Allen McCray Nickens will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Second Calvary Baptist Church, 1110 Mason Road in Columbia. Manigault-Hurley Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Nickens, who died Friday at 95, became a well-known and respected writer in her 70s. Her first poetry book, “Piece of Time,†was published in 1993. She came to much wider ...
- Photos by Doug Coombe - Detroit Metro Times
Detroit Metro TimesPhotos by Doug CoombeDetroit Metro Times, MI - 7 hours agoShe believes that Israeli nationalism is vicious political gamesmanship, a colonizing project built on principles similar to South African apartheid. ...
- Take me or leave me - Financial Times
Tracey Emin says that, at 45, she feels lighter and airier than she used to. If this is true, it must be a very recent change. As this exhibition of the past two decades of her work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art shows, few artists ...
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