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- Ha Jin wants to visit China - FOX News
HONG KONG — On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books. The 52-year-old National Book Award winner told The ...
- Indexed: Nuttiness - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsIndexed: NuttinessNew York Times Blogs, NY - 4 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 ...
- Opinion: Put some excitement back into your bookmarks - Computerworld
August 28, 2008 (MacWorld) Buried in the clutter of my browser's bookmarks bar is a folder called Inspiration. This is where I store sites that make me marvel at how funny and creative people can be, and it's often my first stop when I need to ...
- Concerts for freedom in Zimbabwe - The Zimbabwean
Concerts for freedom in ZimbabweThe Zimbabwean, Africa - 6 hours agoComrade Fatso has performed his rebel poetry across the world and has built up a following in South African poetry circles. He will be performing with his ...
- Lola Mae Shoup - Daily Gate City
CARTHAGE, Ill. - Lola Mae Shoup, 88, of Carthage, Ill., died Saturday morning, Aug. 23, 2008, in Memorial Hospital, Springfield, Ill. She was born on Feb. 11, 1920, near St. Mary's/Plymouth, Ill., the daughter of Roy and Adelia Esther Wier Sellars ...
- 'Fram' needs to get with the program - Variety
More Articles: The National Theater's "Fram" can be accused of many things -- I'll come to them -- but short of ideas it is not. However, when the background to those ideas is better expressed in the theatergoer's accompanying program than on the ...
- New in Paperback - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Robert Goddard's lush historical novel Past Caring (Delta, 501 pp., $12) circles the lives of two ruined men. Beset by scandal, Martin Radford gets a second chance and is hired to delve into the ruination of a once- promising British politician ...
- Black Dog Music Fest set for July 27 - Democrat and Chronicle
More than 20 acts will perform at the Black Dog Music Fest on July 27 to celebrate the life of the late Dennis Monroe. The show will feature local folk, alt-country, rock and poetry groups, including the Dady Brothers, Hunu?, Watkins & the Rapiers ...
- Spare Times: For Children (New York Times)
FOR CHILDREN.
- Literary Calendar (Washington Post)
10 A.M. Sept. 8 is International Literacy Day, and to mark the occasion, children's author Sharon M. Draper reads from and discusses her young adult novel Copper Sun (a tale of the slave trade) at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. To RSVP, contact the International Reading...
- Dovetailed Corners - Budgeteer News
Dovetailed Corners" a reading of prose poetry by Jim Johnson and exhibition of photography by Marlene Wisuri. Marlene also incorporates images from glass plate negatives by her grandfather, Jesse C. Hendricks. They depict the struggle of Finnish ...
- Local poet celebrates new CD - Press-Register - al.com
Local poet celebrates new CDPress-Register - al.com, AL - 38 minutes agoa title taken straight from the book of poetry McMillan published in 2000. The contents also come from that volume. The reason for revisiting the material ...
- PAUL HAYWARD: Federer falls but he goes down with grace (Daily Mail)
When kings tumble, they should fall like this, with valour, with the crowd thrilled and exhausted, with a light trained on all the human virtues sport brings out.
- Tragedy ended the pastoral bliss of the lone residents of San Miguel but the memories are sweet (Ventura County Star)
Betsy Lester Roberti saw ghosts of love and a lost life on a recent afternoon at San Miguel Island. Both had been snatched away — suddenly, darkly — long ago. She held the ruins of her old home in her hands on this sunny midsummer's day. Ghosts, good and bad, have a way of hanging around like a permanent curtain, like the eternal sea. They come back whenever she returns to San Miguel. ...
- BTC: Visible minority - Macleans.ca
BTC: Visible minorityMacleans.ca, Canada - Jul 2, 2008Every few weeks or so he’s joined in protest by a small group of elderly protesters who march up and down Bank Street, reciting poetry near where Dr. ...
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