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- At The Shore Today Listings - Atlantic City Press
Nightlife Blue Martini, Bally's Atlantic City, 609-340-2000 - The Exceptions, 9 p.m. Brenner's Brew, 21 E. Commerce St., Bridgeton, 856- 451-5885 - Poetry Reading and Discussion, 7 p.m. Caffrey's Tavern Steakhouse, 440 Route 9 South, Forked River ...
- MacNeil, Domanski pick up more book awards - Cape Breton
SYDNEY — It was a big night for two Cape Breton authors at the ninth annual Atlantic Book Awards in Dartmouth, Monday night. Beatrice MacNeil won her third Darmouth Book Award for Fiction, this time for her latest novel, Where White Horses Gallop ...
- The Note: Poets and Justice - ABC News
For a campaign that's short on poetry of late, we've sure got a fair dose of poetic justice. First, some data points as we try to figure out why really rich folks need to squeeze an extra quarter of a percentage point on their mortgages: - Jim ...
- Fort Lauderdale conference offers real-world advice to poets - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
FORT LAUDERDALE - Successful spoken-word poets mine their souls for inspiration. But to make a living, they must also troll for grant money, business contacts and performance opportunities. That was one of many lessons offered at a gathering of about ...
- Report examines Taliban media - Boston Globe
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a report ...
- Celebrating the gift of art - Victorville Daily Press
VICTORVILLE - Trinity Lutheran Church recently hosted a Spring Festival of Arts featuring paintings, photographs, wood and needle crafts. A highlight for many of the 150 attendees included a cupcake tree and dother culinary arts. In addition to these ...
- Poison Pen Reading Series (Houston Press)
The monthly Poison Pen Reading Series offers the best place to see a mix of up-and-coming and well-seasoned local writers. With three books of poetry under her belt, Susan Wood can definitely be filed under the latter. A staple in the Rice University English department, Wood has also had poems selec ...
- 'Woman Warrior' to 'Passport Baby' (The Japan Times)
LONDON — Since this fictional memoir was published in 1975, the telling of Chinese women's lives has become big business in the English-speaking world. Short stories, novels, memoirs and histories by women from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora, have proliferated to the extent that... Read the full story.
- Interview with Fantasy Author A. F. Stewart (Blogcritics.org)
Fantasy author A. F. Stewart likes to combine history, legend, and mythology in her fiction. Fantasy author A. F. Stewart likes to combine history, legend and mythology in her writing, which include novels, short stories, and poetry. In this interview she talks about her current and future projects, handling negative criticism, her writing habits, and some of her favorite authors.Thanks for the ...
- Rethinking the Paperback Timeline - New York Times Blogs
Rethinking the Paperback TimelineNew York Times Blogs, NY - 9 minutes agoMr. Mehta said Knopf also publishes some poetry volumes simultaneously in paperback and hardcover. Sometimes book stores will stock both a hardcover and ...
- Birth mothers offer gift of life - La Crosse Tribune
An open letter to all birth mothers on behalf of the families who have been able to adopt the children to whom you gave birth: Your gift of life granted to these beautiful children gave us and all the other parents the ability to be parents. Our ...
- AP Top News at 7:00 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois sealed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. A defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket. Obama's victory set up a five-month campaign with Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a race ...
- 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 ...
- Massachusetts Museums That Speak to Children - New York Times
New York TimesMassachusetts Museums That Speak to ChildrenNew York Times, United States - 54 minutes agoThe gallery is vast and dark, except for two powerful beams at either end that project the poetry of the Polish writer and Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska ...
- 'Control' transcends rock-star cliches - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
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