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- Barack Obama: Search for identity - Los Angeles Times
On the mainland, the reality of race was more stark. As a scholarship student at Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1979, Obama faced assertions of identity everywhere: the Democrat/Socialist Alliance, Black Student Assn., Jewish Student Action ...
- Ryan Adams Pens Prose for Punky Publisher - New York Observer
Ryan Adams is nothing if not prolificâ€â€as a songwriter, drug-taker, rant-maker, blog-hater. So it should come as no surprise that the fella’s publishing a book, or that he’s doing it through Brooklyn’s Akashic Books â€â€the same punky boutique ...
- Oak Park Festival's 'Lughnasa' a powerful force - Arlington Heights Post
Late in the second act of the restless poetry that is Brian Friel's drama "Dancing at Lughnasa," an undertow of wildness and raw, instinctive sensuality roars up like a tidal wave. Until now, the underlying pull of unfettered, primeval emotion has ...
- Sunday's child - IdahoStatesman.com
Sunday's childIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 1 hour agoI like to read and I also write songs and poetry. I'm a pretty good artist, and I like to draw outdoor settings and abstract designs. ...
- Allmacht und Ohnmacht - Junge Welt
Allmacht und OhnmachtJunge Welt, Germany - Jul 16, 2008Neben vielen Schauspielern und Autoren warten die vier Tage mit Poetry-Slams, einem Fußballturnier (FC Augsburg gegen Künstler des ABC-Festivals) und jeder ...
- Oxford American says it all (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
The Oxford American's most recent issue is devoted to post-Katrina writing, with the theme of "Three Years After: New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in Their Own Words." At $5.95, it's an unbelievable bargain, a feast of good writing....
- Tea Barn owner remembered - Terrace Standard
Tea Barn owner rememberedTerrace Standard, Canada - 4 hours agoYou could tell how much she savored the rhythm, the story and the thought of this old poetry. Like all writers, she possessed a vivid imagination. ...
- Sisters, 92, 90, recall Little Red Schoolhouse days - Recorder Community Newspapers
Mary Arrants, who celebrated her 92nd birthday on June 22, remembers hers. Twin brother George Schwartz walked up the hill from the farm with Arrants that morning. And there was more land in front of the schoolhouse than there is today, she said. But ...
- Getting to know Lincoln: New biographies mark bicentennial - Dallas Morning News
Getting to know Lincoln: New biographies mark bicentennialDallas Morning News, TX - 3 hours agoHe read, memorized and quoted poetry from Burns to Byron to Shakespeare. And like all good writers, he could take an idea he read elsewhere and re-phrase it ...
- Cultured Traveler | Spain A Poet’s Realm of Myth and Reality - New York Times
New York TimesCultured Traveler | Spain A Poet’s Realm of Myth and RealityNew York Times, United States - 32 minutes agoPure Soria), as Machado described it in a poem  is much changed since he departed in 1912 after the death of his child bride, Leonor. ...
- Templars prayer published - CathNews
The Holy See has published a prayer composed by jailed medieval Knights Templar in which they lament being "unjustly imprisoned" and appeal to the Virgin Mary to persuade their enemies to abandon "calumnies and lies". L'Osservatore Romano , the ...
- Poetry Basics Saturday at the Writers' Gallery - Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror
Poetry Basics Saturday at the Writers' GalleryYucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror, CA - 26 minutes agoSpend Saturday with published poet Dan D'Amelio analyzing the appeal of poetry, how to be a better poet through the study of the key elements to successful ...
- Academic rock star fails to score another hit - Calgary Herald
Academic rock star fails to score another hitCalgary Herald, Canada - 21 minutes agoEarly in the book we encounter "music-dance" as a kind of anthropological equivalent of space-time, but it does not last long. Poetry and song lyrics are ...
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- Playwrights discuss Thornton Wilder's underappreciated genius (The Times of Trenton)
EWING -- Thornton Wilder was a playwright's playwright, though his most famous work, "Our Town," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938, is often misinterpreted as warm and sentimental.
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