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- Americans' fear of feeling sad may be threat to great art - Omaha World-Herald (subscription)
Americans' fear of feeling sad may be threat to great artOmaha World-Herald (subscription), NE - 36 minutes agoIt's a place where poetry is a Hallmark card and where music is, well, Muzak. "I fear we're creating a country where no one would aspire to write a novel ...
- Hearts and Darts - Jackson Sun
Hearts and DartsJackson Sun, TN - 5 hours agoCommittee members include: Lynda Snider, Kathy Hammond, Mary Ann Tremblay, Betty Brown, Tamesha Murphy and Nina Bowden; our poetry readers, Judy, Yolanda, ...
- Taking Comfort in a 'Four-Story' Escape - NPR News
Marisa de los Santos is the author of the novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me , and a collection of poems, From the Bones Out . Unlike most other writers, she lives in Wilmington, Del., birthplace of Lycra, where she takes ballet classes and ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse (Lexington Herald-Leader)
PHILADELPHIA - "Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't say that you're the greatest?'" The latter conclusion would be more logical. But it hasn't always been shared by the masses. ...
- Puerto Rican lit coming out tonight - New York Daily News
New York Daily NewsPuerto Rican lit coming out tonightNew York Daily News, NY - 33 minutes agoRice-González, who wrote a short story about a “macho kid from the Bronx†who has a crush on a friend, is only surprised that a book of this kind hasn’t ...
- Snacking on Actors - Richmond Style Weekly
Richmond Style WeeklySnacking on ActorsRichmond Style Weekly, VA - May 6, 2008Director Scott Wichmann and music director Ryan Corbitt put together a delightful banquet of entertainment — a variety show of music, short plays and poetry ...
- Wild classroom: Florence-Carlton first- and second-graders put stories of nature in poems, songs and art (Missoulian)
Chip Jasmin, center, inspired the 1-2 combination class at Florence-Carlton Elementary School to write poetry, compose songs and produce plays. The class is taught by Karla Crawford, left of Jasmin, and student teacher Tiffany Tritz, right of Jasmin.
- Copiague High School students are Poetry in Motion (Amityville Record)
The students in Ester Davila's and Flor Melgar's Spanish native and level IV and V classes at Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School recently participated in Hofstra University's annual Poetry Contest. For the fourth year in a row, Copiague students were awarded the top two spots in original poetry and first place in recitation.
- Apples in the wild - Harvard Post
Apples in the wildHarvard Post, MA - 22 minutes ago... and her family used to pick apples and raspberries. Hoffman had read Richmond’s first book of poetry, “Boto,†and the two began working together again. ...
- Your Calendar - West Lake County edition (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
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- In Praise of Political Insults - Wall Street Journal
The great American political insult is older than the nation itself. Ben Franklin, writing in 1771 before the States were even United, lamented "Libeling and Personal Abuse, which is of late Years become so disgraceful to our Country." Not even ...
- Arts therapy heals human's inner world - Turkish Daily News (subscription)
Arts therapy heals human's inner worldTurkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - 1 hour agoPeople who attend this therapy reflect their feelings via music, painting, dancing and poetry writing. This way they unburden themselves and their dreams, ...
- Institute works to raise Inland area's literary profile - Press-Enterprise
Institute works to raise Inland area's literary profilePress-Enterprise, CA - 12 minutes ago"It was incredibly rich work, amazing poetry." Judith Auth, the retired director of the library, said she searched for years for regionally based books so ...
- Evolution of an idea revolution (The Australian)
Artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev aims to explore the revolutionary in all its permutations at the Biennale of Sydney
- Chronicle Podcasts - San Francisco Gate
April was National Poetry Month and dozens of readers responded to our call to read their original poems out loud on our Open Mic podcast. We received so many that we'll have to continue posting poems into May. Susan Slusser , The Chronicle's A's ...
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