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- Emory Professor Natasha Trethewey Named Georgia Woman of the Year (The Weekly)
ATLANTA, GA (July 28, 2008) - Georgia Woman of the Year Committee, Inc. announced today that Natasha Trethewey, Professor of English and Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair at Emory University has been confirmed as 2008 Georgia Woman of the Year! Nellie Dunaway Duke, Committee Chair, said that Trethewey was chosen as the 13th honoree by the Committee on their first ballot at their annual ...
- American youth say they're left behind - Medill Reports
American youth say they're left behindMedill Reports, DC - 54 minutes agoThe youth spoke out about their experiences during the 11th annual International Youth Poetry Slam Festival called Brave New Voices. ...
- Washington poet laureate plans reading in Omak (The Chronicle)
Washington state’s first poet laureate, Samuel Green, will give a poetry reading at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Breadline Café, Omak, as part of his week-long residency in the Methow and Okanogan valleys.
- Dorival Caymmi: Leading figure in Brazilian song (Independent)
In February 1939 a young, unknown singer-songwriter got the most fabulous break of his life by recording a duet of his swinging samba "O Que É Que A Bahiana Tem?" ("What is it about Bahian Women?") with Brazil's biggest ever vocal star. The song became one of Carmen Miranda's signature pieces just before she took Hollywood by storm, and launched Dorival Caymmi as a leading figure in Brazilian ...
- Castleton student to present one-man show - Burlington Free Press
CASTLETON -- Castleon State College student Ken Holmes will present a one-man show at 7 p.m., Sept. 26, in the college's Old Chapel. Ken Holmes will perform a dramatic reading of his new one-man show, “Talking Aloud Alone.†The event is part of ...
- Scholars Defend American Literature (The Harvard Crimson)
With the announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature expected in the coming days, many literary hopefuls are sure to be on the edges of their seats as American authors like Philip Roth, John Updike ’54, and Joyce Carol Oates are considered for the prize.
- Movie Review "The Lucky Ones": When soldiers return home - Seattle Times
Movie Review "The Lucky Ones": When soldiers return homeSeattle Times, United States - 2 hours agoTK (Michael Peña) is the latest soldier recruited from a poor military family. One by one, they discard their illusions and come to rely on each other  as ...
- A Tribute to the Poet Philip Lamantia - San Francisco Weekly
Less well known than some of the Beat poets, Philip Lamantia nevertheless embodied the spirit of his times so thoroughly that his life story now seems iconic. Born in San Francisco in 1927 to Sicilian immigrants and raised in the Excelsior, he was ...
- Colorado Travel Examiner - Examiner.com
Examiner.comColorado Travel ExaminerExaminer.com - 15 minutes ago... of the Gallery’s poetry readings featuring Loveland’s local talents – certainly a way to put a smile on your sweeties face. For a final romantic romp, ...
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- Touting the joys of poetry (Miami Herald)
THE POETRY LIFE: Ten Stories. Baron Wormser. CavanKerry. 196 pages. $18. ''Poetry,'' Auden famously observed in his elegy for Yeats, ''makes nothing happen.'' What isn't often remembered are the words immediately following that trenchant comment: ''it survives. . . . '' It survives even in a digitized age, offering what Frost called a ``momentary stay against confusion.''
- Book Review - Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by Herb ... - Blogcritics.org
See also: » Book Review: Silent Thunder by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen » Book Review: Digging Into America by Anne Tyler » Book Review - The Last Season by Eric Blehm James Baldwin fascinates and is fascinated with Harlem. The confluence of ...
- Father-focused group broadens role in community - Record
STOCKTON - At a community meeting inside the Dorothy L. Jones Community and Health Center this week, Marcyelle Wheaten introduced himself as a youth advocate. A little more than a year ago, the 21-year-old was a parolee from the California Youth ...
- Lesbian rights activist Del Martin dies - Salon
SAN FRANCISCO -- Del Martin, a lesbian rights pioneer who took part in one of California's first same-sex weddings, died today in San Francisco after a long period of declining health. She was 87. Ms. Martin's political activism began more than five ...
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