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- Finding some solace in the bare necessities (Daily Aztec)
Alright, so the place smelled like mold. But, it was a place to sleep - for free. How? Squatting. Ummm...what is this? Think "Fight Club." Many squats are communities built around sharing resources and mutually exchanging skills. It's a form of radical direct action. Undermining the rat race. Umm...is this illegal? Yes.
- Washington hosts National Book Festival, Sept. 27 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival.
- Poet finds new love in novel work - BCLocalNews
Poet finds new love in novel workBCLocalNews, Canada - 13 minutes agoHe won a Governor General’s award for poetry in 1979, and has been shortlisted for everything from the Charles Taylor Award for Literary Non-Fiction to the ...
- Manifestos and sodas - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Manifestos and sodasSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 2 hours agoThe sad fact about poetry in the US [today] is not that political poetry cannot be swallowed, but that it can be swallowed quite easily. ...
- Review of "Brideshead Revisited" - AfterElton.com
Review of "Brideshead Revisited"AfterElton.com - 4 hours agoIn fact, when we first meet him (drunk and lounging in a gondola while another showboating dandy, Anthony Blanche, spouts poetry at him), Charles's cousin ...
- Literary Happenings: 3 Vietnam War books geared to young people (Ventura County Star)
Although much has been written about the Vietnam War and its aftermath, few books have been geared toward children or young adults. Here are three excellent titles for young people: "Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam," "When Heaven Fell" and "Escape From Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy."
- Free Friday Flicks: Lost in translation - Duxbury Clipper
Free Friday Flicks: Lost in translationDuxbury Clipper, MA - 4 hours agoOne of my poetry teachers once said—in a formulation supposedly first used by the Israeli poet Chaim Nachman Bialik—that reading poetry in translation is ...
- Yard Dogs hop the train to Asbury Lanes (Asbury Park Press)
The Yard Dogs Road Show is a modern-day living patchwork of carnival-inspired road show entertainment. Inspired by American road culture of the 1800s, show performances are complete with hobo poetry, cabaret, vaudeville and rock 'n' roll.
- Amazing Customer Service - New York Times Blogs
Amazing Customer ServiceNew York Times Blogs, NY - 11 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- EVENT SEARCH RESULTS (East Bay Express)
ARTiFACTS: The Art of Mary Black, Kirk Crippens, and Linda Race Since we glue words together these days to form traincar neologisms, ARTiFACTS is a nice reverse-engineering of "artifact," combining artfulness/artifice and facticity/factuality -- and adding a dollop of i-era pizzazz (is iArt far behind?).
- Poetry reading slated for Wednesday, 7 p.m. at Texas A&M University (Texarkana Gazette)
The English Department at Texas A&M University- Texarkana and English Club will host a poetry reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Akin Building, Room 117.
- Mexican-themed festival planned for Tuesday - Post-Star
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- This weeks’s "dark day" at the Saratoga Race Course will be brightened by a fiesta. La Fiesta en el Museo de la Hipica, a free festival of traditional music and arts associated with the racetrack and its backstretch workers ...
- America Back on Track... for Wednesday, July 30th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Wednesday, July 30thOpEdNews, PA - 5 hours agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Detroit Slam Team heading to nationals in Wisconsin - Model D
Model DDetroit Slam Team heading to nationals in WisconsinModel D, MI - 3 hours agoOur 2008 Detroit Slam Team will represent Detroit, the Java Exchange and the EchoVerse Poetry Series in national competition this year in Madison, ...
- Tamblyn, the poet, stars in Litquake opener - San Francisco Chronicle
Tamblyn, the poet, stars in Litquake openerSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 53 minutes agoThese people were all big in my life." Another family friend was San Francisco poet Jack Hirschman. "He was my mentor. I would send him a packet of poems ...
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