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- At writing camp, schlepping goes with scholarship - Napa Valley Register
RIPTON, Vt. - It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s. But ...
- Monumental miseries - Daily Pioneer
Monumental miseriesDaily Pioneer, India - 2 hours agoIt spoke about an erudite politician quoting eloquently from Urdu poetry and a Delhi writer and a socialite talking wistfully of the days she spent with a ...
- A belated premiere about a poet with problems (Asbury Park Press)
In summing up "Poetic License," the new show that makes its world premiere at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch this weekend, playwright Jack Canfora can't resist citing Mark Twain.
- John Betjeman on the wireless - Telegraph.co.uk
John Betjeman on the wirelessTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour ago... £14.99) and in it, Kevin Gardner, an American professor devoted to Betjeman, gathers together the poems that the poet read on the radio (or wireless as ...
- Nonfiction Book Writing - Mediabistro.com
Even experienced writers can balk at having to fill hundreds of pages with tens of thousands of words. Learn how to manage the tricky process of writing a nonfiction book from an instructor who has overseen the development of nonfiction titles of all ...
- Youth Voices 2008, The People's Convention - Examiner.com
Examiner.comYouth Voices 2008, The People's ConventionExaminer.com - 20 minutes agoThey answer these questions through poetry, through song, through dance, and through drama. Art can be an incredible medium in which to answer such big ...
- Reliving Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers (International Herald Tribune)
Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 is the subject of "Man on Wire," James Marsh's thorough, understated and altogether enthralling documentary.
- Book lovers crowd Newberry Library fair featuring rare first editions - Medill Reports
Book lovers crowd Newberry Library fair featuring rare first editionsMedill Reports, IL - 1 hour agoBryce Parsons-Twesten, a college junior, was fifth in line to get into the fair, planning to browse the poetry books. "If I could get some Frank O'Hara, ...
- Matt Auda wins design contest - Suburban News
Matt Auda wins design contestSuburban News, NJ - 2 hours agoHe also takes piano lessons and enjoys writing poetry. Honorable mentions in the contest went to Madelyn Ostrander, Melissa Rasahl, Emma Rogers, ...
- Radio free you - Atlantic Online
Radio free youAtlantic Online - 4 hours agoWhich led me to realize that I have never heard good poetry at an open mike night. Which leads me to wonder if it is possible to hear good poetry at an open ...
- George Kimball and the Four Kings - The Sweet Science
The Sweet ScienceGeorge Kimball and the Four KingsThe Sweet Science - 31 minutes agoFrom the mid-1960s he began contributing to the arts-orientated Village Voice and The Phoenix, produced poetry fit for the Paris Review and penned an erotic ...
- Soul Mountain Retreat to Host Poetry Salons - Norwich Bulletin
Soul Mountain Retreat to Host Poetry SalonsNorwich Bulletin, CT - 41 minutes agoHis books reflect his strong family relationships and unflinching view of his world. Deema Shehabi is a Palestinian-American whose poetry has appeared in ...
- Drama lures Angela Bassett to 'ER' role (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Courtney B. Vance, Angela Bassett and their children attend a ceremony honoring her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March. (Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)
- Simon Gray, Playwright, Dies at 71; Aimed Wit at Intellectuals, and Himself (New York Times)
Mr. Gray wrote bitingly comic plays like ?Butley? and ?Otherwise Engaged? about the educated British middle class and manically confessional late-in-life memoirs.
- Helpless, Soucouyant nominated for Toronto Book Award (CBC Toronto)
Barbara Gowdy's novel Helpless, which earlier this year won the Trillium Book Award, and Soucouyant, a debut novel that also was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Literature, are both finalists for the Toronto Book Award.
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