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- Newark writer named Delaware Poet Laureate (Newark Post)
"These projects will come to fruition over a number of years, so I just have to plug away," she said Monday. "It's like working on a poem. I'll do 50 drafts. You figure you're going to get it, sooner or later. It might not be perfect, but you'll get something that's going to be good."
- Ethan Canin’s many-layered novel. - New Yorker
New YorkerEthan Canin’s many-layered novel.New Yorker, United States - 10 minutes agoAnd a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history it is, shuttling between the twenty-first-century present and the ...
- Sunday is libraries’ new fun day - San Francisco Examiner
New hours: Halle Keleta reads a newspaper at the Noe Valley Branch Library on Wednesday. The branch will extend its hours from five days per week to six. Seven San Francisco library branches will be open an extra day starting this year, restoring ...
- Columbia’s Catastrophic “Nakba” Conference - Front Page
As Israelis look towards the future in their celebration of the nation’s 60th birthday, some Palestinians cling to the past by commemorating what they call the “Nakba” or “the catastrophe.” A faculty panel discussion held at Columbia ...
- Pen stroke of genius: recalling Reed's Lloyd Reynolds (The Oregonian)
Thirty years he's been dead, and still they remember him vividly. The great teacher. The restless spirit. The man who changed their lives. And ours. Bits of Lloyd Reynolds are in the poetry we read, the art we admire, even the look of what we write on our computers.
- Wanted: 18,000 classical music fans for O2 big, brash gig - Times Online
There will be naked dancing girls, bungee ropes, a four-storey tower wreathed in fireworks and the theme from the Old Spice adverts amplified so that 18,000 people can hear it. Puritannical music lovers should probably run for the hills: the stadium ...
- Obituary: Eric Van Cleve, 25 - University of Washington
Eric Van Cleve, a master's candidate in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, died in his sleep April 11 at his home in Dublin, Ohio. He was 25. Van Cleve graduated from Dublin Coffman High School in 2001 and from the Ohio State University in 2005 ...
- Becoming Richard Rorty - Inside Higher Ed
Becoming Richard RortyInside Higher Ed, DC - 9 hours agoNeil Gross’s book Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher, to be published next month by University of Chicago Press, is not exactly a ...
- The Key To Success: Passion - Minyanville.com
The Key To Success: PassionMinyanville.com, New York - 31 minutes agoWeldon majored in English at Colgate University, developing a fondness for the poetry of John Donne. Right out of college in 1983, he took a job with a ...
- Kernersville Calendar (Winston-Salem Journal)
CENTURY PARK BAPTIST CHURCH will have a Mother's Day Bake Sale at 8 a.m. Saturday at the church, 1051 Salisbury St., Kernersville. Homemade cakes, cookies, pies and breads will be available. All proceeds will benefit the church. For more information, call 993-5964.
- Arts calendar for 7/6-7/12/08 - Daily News Tribune
Arts calendar for 7/6-7/12/08Daily News Tribune, MA - Jul 5, 2008Tonight at 8, it's "Men & Masculinity Revisited: An Exploration in Poetry and Song," featuring Franklin Abbott, Steven Riel, Rick Goldin and Willie Sordillo ...
- Non-profit seeks baseball haikus (North Adams Transcript)
NORTH ADAMS -- Baseball isn't just for jocks and jugheads but for everyone, even the literary-minded. "America's pastime" has long inspired writers -- not only day-to-day journalists but novelists such as John R. Tunis, Jackson Scholz and the legendary Ring Lardner.
- A very grown-up book club - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukA very grown-up book clubguardian.co.uk, UK - 44 minutes agoMusic and poetry have a part to play, too, not least with those who have dementia or Alzheimer's, as two-thirds of those in the Nightingale do. ...
- Turn Up The Fringe: Music at the Infringement Festival - Artvoice
Turn Up The Fringe: Music at the Infringement FestivalArtvoice, NY - 2 hours agoThe Painkillers—It’s hard not to love the city’s longest-standing, real-deal punk rock band. The Painkillers are still at it and still worshipping at the ...
- 'Don't shun us: love us' - Oxford Mail
'Don't shun us: love us'Oxford Mail, UK - 10 hours agoThe event was opened by Hasan Bamyani, a local refugee originally from Afghanistan, reading a poem from his new book of poetry Lyla and Majnon. ...
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