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- Author spotlight: Kathleen Van Schaick of Victor (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Victor author Kathleen Van Schaick will have a reading with Elizabeth Osta at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Writers & Books.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work ...
- Hunt for Karadzic ends as fugitive is found - Independent
Hunt for Karadzic ends as fugitive is foundIndependent, UK - 2 hours agoWhile in hiding, he published five books – poetry and novels – widely publicised by his supporters. The former UN prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia, ...
- Music Review: Jamey Johnson CD - MSN Entertainment
Jamey Johnson's "That Lonesome Song" delivers a salt-of-the-earth antidote for those who consider contemporary country music too slick and sentimental. His bare-knuckled, barroom poetry takes the point of view of hard-bitten losers and boozers, and ...
- A poet of balance, style and flexibility - Louisville Courier-Journal
Kentucky lost one of its literary masters this week. Aleda Shirley died Monday, after a long battle with cancer. She was the author of three collections of poetry, Dark Familiar (Sarabande Books, 2006), Long Distance (Miami University Press, 1996 ...
- Son rises - Buffalo News
Jakob Dylan performed in Lafayette Square Thursday in support of his first solo effort, “Seeing Things.” Jakob Dylan outran his father’s shadow on Thursday night, while looking eerily like that father in the process. Dressed in a nifty black ...
- Read all posts by Chris Matyszczyk in Technically Incorrect - CNET News
Someone has to say it. These days, people are getting far more lasting satisfaction from food than from sex. While the latter's public face is becoming ever more seamy rather than steamy, the former expresses its glories at every public level- from ...
- ASK EMILY: Teenager itching for contacts, independence - Stafford County Sun
ASK EMILY: Teenager itching for contacts, independenceStafford County Sun, VA - Jul 2, 2008I started blogging for fun and posting some of my short stories and poetry online. I was wondering how I could get more people to visit my site and read my ...
- Short Cuts - London Review of Books (subscription)
Short CutsLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 9 hours agoHis versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
- Guest commentary: Local poets inspired by spring (The Sacramento Bee)
My favorite phrase about spring is Shakespeare's "the darling buds of May." Those words speak of spring in a way that makes me look forward eagerly to the season. I want to rush outside to see flowers blooming in a riot of color, trees bursting into leaf, sun warming but not burning. Cleo Fellers Kocol
- The Good Parents - PopMatters
The Good ParentsPopMatters, IL - 2 hours agoUnfortunately, the undistinguished prose detracts from the interesting themes London touches on: the generation gap and the challenge of parenthood. ...
- Between the Gila River and Gila monster: Baxter Black performs Sept ... - Elko Daily Free Press
ELKO - Baxter Black, described by the New York Times as “...probably the nation's most successful living poet,” is performing a rare non-Cowboy Poetry Gathering event. Baxter will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Elko Convention Center. Tickets ...
- Booklovers Read and Relax at Bed and Breakfasts from Oregon to DC - 3x24 - Your Newspaper and News Magazine
Booklovers Read and Relax at Bed and Breakfasts from Oregon to DC3x24 - Your Newspaper and News Magazine, Germany - 8 hours agoOther guest suites are named for literary themes: Romance, Modern Classics, Inspiration, Poetry and the Writer’s Suite. Sylvia Beach Hotel, named not for a ...
- Child's poses: Storytime Yoga teaches kids through movement and myth - Daily Camera
Child's poses: Storytime Yoga teaches kids through movement and mythDaily Camera, CO - 2 hours agoThe Storytime Yoga method incorporates poetry, song, words in Spanish, geography and yoga philosophy. Solis uses several stick puppets from her ...
- Schools sending parents tips for street-proofing children - Ottawa Citizen
Schools sending parents tips for street-proofing childrenOttawa Citizen, Canada - 2 hours agoThis followed another incident at Hopewell in the past month: "A man was standing on the corner near the school trying to lure kids with poetry readings, ...
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