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- No City for Smart Men (Washington Post)
Washington is a mean little world peopled by third-level bureaucrats, randy federal marshals, over-intellectualized Ivy Leaguers with drinking problems, adulterous pediatricians, process servers, shadowy CIA types, sleazy divorce lawyers, and gym workers selling secrets to the Russians. The whole...
- Author Patricia Smith gives poetic voice to Katrina victims - Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Poet Patricia Smith is gifted beyond reason. Fluid, impassioned, inexorably profound, she puts fire to the page with such brilliance you don’t even have to like poetry to be arrested by her hand. Small wonder she has more awards than you can shake ...
- Rob Hughes: Carribean Conundrum - Scotland on Sunday Online
THE SO-CALLED Lightnin' Bolts on the Olympic track this past week would not have surprised Louise Bennett. More than 40 years ago, Bennett, Jamaica's very own Rabbie Burns, wrote Colonization in Reverse, in which she foresaw her boys and girls re ...
- Literary Calendar - Washington Post
Washington PostLiterary CalendarWashington Post, United States - Aug 9, 20087 PM George Pelecanos reads from and signs The Turnaround, his new urban noir set on the streets of DC, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919. ...
- Quick Hits - Asheville Citizen-Times
Quick HitsAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 1 hour agoPOETRY READING: Join local poets Michael Beadle, Sonja Contois, Charley Pearson and Lesley Reifert for an evening of poetry at 7 pm Friday at Osondu Books ...
- Top marks for Nutcracker - West Online
In this radical post-modern version of the much-loved classic, WA Ballet artistic director Ivan Cavallari pares Christmas festivities to a minimum. Instead of a tree, a washing machine takes centre stage, sugar plum fairies are replaced by ...
- Hayden Carruth, Marian McQuade - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Carruth lived for many years in rural Vermont and New York, where manual labor and an unforgiving climate became part of his daily life and, ultimately, his poetic voice. Through years of isolation and neglect, he doggedly continued to write, gaining ...
- LITERARY DATEBOOK - Kansas City Star
LITERARY DATEBOOKKansas City Star, MO - 1 hour agoRegister. www.menuha.org (816-444-2434) WALSH WRITING WORKSHOP: Six-week workshop covering fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Thursday’s 9-10 am Sept. ...
- Matthew Sweet takes 'Lies' on road - LiveDaily
Pop-rocker Matthew Sweet [ tickets ] comes out of hiding this fall for a run of dates behind his first studio album of original material in more than four years. The singer, who tours infrequently and has made only a relative handful of live ...
- The man from Galilee - Business Standard
Impact NewsThe man from GalileeBusiness Standard, India - 56 minutes ago... were written to be sung in the streets, to be chanted by crowds, the daily quota of poetry just as important and ordinary as the daily loaf of bread. ...Video: Inside Story - Mahmoud Darwish remembered - 14 Aug 08 - Part 1 AlJazeeraEnglishMahmoud Darwish, Poet Laureate of the Palestinians, 1941-2008 Democracy NowFAREWELL MAHMOUD DARWISH The People's Voiceall 52 news articles
- Celebrating poetry in motion - GulfNews
Celebrating poetry in motionGulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 12 minutes agoThe National Development Board asked the stars to be part of a program called "Poetry reading on the train," said Libre, a free paper. ...
- Jamie Bernstein shares her father’s legacy with audiences - Cleveland Jewish News
Jamie Bernstein shares her father’s legacy with audiencesCleveland Jewish News, OH - 10 minutes agoThe Beatles had returned to America for their second tour, and Dad was consulting with them about setting John Lennon’s poetry to music. ...
- Summer's beautiful melodies - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunSummer's beautiful melodiesVancouver Sun, Canada - 3 hours agoWhat a lovely heart for poetry and justice, albeit with a slightly cynical edge, our young people have. I thought this was more the kind of music Amy ...
- Te Papa Book Launch sequence initiated! - Scoop
Priming itself as one of the literary hubs for the upcoming 2008 instalment of New Zealand Book Month, Wellington’s Te Papa Tongarewa launches the season on August 31st at 10am and throws open its doors with festivities for both the older and ...
- Mom and dad's lives -- real and imagined (Miami Herald)
ALFRED & EMILY. Doris Lessing. Harper. 274 pages. $25.95. Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books -- novels, story collections, poetry and nonfiction -- became the oldest writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. This year, she has published a clever, moving coupling of fiction and nonfiction. Alfred & Emily is a culmination of ...
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