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- Writing, trouble-free, in Baguio (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - There are rites of passage typical for the Filipino writer: having your work first published in a magazine, enjoying your first fellowship in a national writers workshop (Dumaguete, Iligan, Bacolod), winning your first Palanca, putting out your first book.
- The Libertines - Artvoice
The LibertinesArtvoice, NY - 1 hour agoYes, the debaucher should be made more welcome in poetry. To approach life without fear is the debaucher’s motto. To make art without fear is a good motto ...
- Literary award goes to Internet blogger - The Washington Times
Emma Sovich, 22, an English major at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., gets a diploma and about $67,481 as this year's winner of the Sophie Kerr Prize for literature. Her winning portfolio included her efforts as an Internet blogger, a first ...
- Community Calendar: 06/05/08 - The Carrboro Citizen
Community Calendar: 06/05/08The Carrboro Citizen, NC - 3 hours agoBalanced Movement Studio. 304 W Weaver St, upstairs. Smoke & alcohol free. Call 968-8776 for more info. Open Mic —poetry, music & short fiction. ...
- Arts centre’s long struggle - Dorset Echo
Arts centre’s long struggleDorset Echo, UK - 8 hours agoAttendances for its silver jubilee in 1980 were so bad for a series of poetry readings, classical music, stage shows and painting exhibitions that its then ...
- Is the Arab world ready for a literary revolution? (Independent)
I had wandered awestruck around the Alhambra before, but never in the company of someone who could – literally – read the writing on the wall. Visitors with no knowledge of Arabic vaguely grasp that lines of scripture and poetry, carved in stucco, crawl over almost every surface in the stunning Moorish citadel of Granada: Europe's most elegant graffiti.
- Not Dead Yet: The Novel as Lifeline - Los Angeles Weekly
I read and I read and I read. I read like Forrest Gump ran, because I didn’t know what else to do or where else to go. He went running. I went reading. Novels mostly. The supposedly dead form. The only thing deader than poetry, or so the joke goes ...
- Spoleto scores with Heaney's searing Antigone - Globe and Mail
There is always at least one production at Spoleto Festival USA that is so powerful it remains embedded in my brain forever. Such a one is the Nottingham Playhouse's The Burial at Thebes . In an inspired decision, Nottingham's artistic director ...
- Arthur Gardner - Guardian Unlimited
I first met my husband, Arthur Gardner, who has died of motor neurone disease aged 65, in the mid-1980s when we sat next to each other at a public meeting about a proposed bypass in Barrow-upon-Soar in Leicestershire. He had no memory of the ...
- Writers Rally 'Round Readings - Springdale Morning News
Writers Rally 'Round ReadingsSpringdale Morning News, AR - 10 hours agoPoetry student Jennifer Jebailey said Stokesbury spent the day with students in one-on-one sessions, reading their work and offering critiques. ...
- A rock-solid body of work for an island artist (Bainbridge Island Review)
Artist Gary Groves hangs pieces for his current retrospective. The densely packed series of drawings, etchings, photography and woodcuts spans 30 years worth of work on the island.
- Lou Reed, Royal Albert Hall, London Beck, Guildhall, Southampton - Independent
Lou Reed, Royal Albert Hall, London Beck, Guildhall, SouthamptonIndependent, UK - 59 minutes agoNone of which can mask the sheer awfulness of Reed's lyrics, which recall both Baldrick's poetry in Blackadder Goes Forth and that of the Vogons in The ...
- Marking Caribbean American Ties (Washington Post)
Since 2000 the Institute of Caribbean Studies in Washington has celebrated Caribbean American heritage, highlighting contributions made to the United States.
- Remembering Josh: Friends gather to honor young Bluffton car-crash victim (Island Packet)
Cindy Sprouse, a teacher and friend of Josh George, didn't know much about the 17-year-old junior when she met him.
- Gifts from kids’ hands and hearts - West Linn Tidings
West Linn TidingsGifts from kids’ hands and heartsWest Linn Tidings, OR - 58 minutes agoRRMS seventh-grader Remmy Burns produced a book of poetry on horses. She copied some poems from other writers and then she wrote some from her own interest ...
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