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- Foundation adds new focus to marketing - Augusta Free Press
The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation is stepping up its tourism marketing efforts. The foundation announced yesterday that it has hired Terence Heder to a newly created position of program manager for field services. Heder, who comes to the ...
- Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (BBC News)
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Stalin's prison system, dies at the age of 89.
- REQUIRED READING - New York Post
Full of wonderful tidbits about Ginsberg, including a 1976 letter to Bob Dylan, the poet asked for money to pay off bank loans of Naropa, a Beat- and Buddhist-inspired school he helped establish in Colorado. And in his last letter, just days before ...
- Weekend roundup: Hippies, poetry and Olympic opening - Access Atlanta
Weekend roundup: Hippies, poetry and Olympic openingAccess Atlanta, GA - 1 hour agoChief medical correspondent for CNN discusses and signs his new nonfiction book, "Chasing Life." 2 pm Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. ...
- Tuesday, August 19: ‘Celebrate the Word’ poetry festival opening ... - Metromix
Tuesday, August 19: ‘Celebrate the Word’ poetry festival opening ...Metromix, IL - 2 hours agoTuesday's frenzied slam by Da' Poetry Lounge will kick off the fest with an avalanche of impassioned wordplay. (Through Aug. 26.) Why: Poetry on your ...
- National Poetry Slam - Isthmus
National Poetry SlamIsthmus, WI - 1 hour agoThe granddaddy of spoken word events, the National Poetry Slam, is coming to Madison this August 3-9. Poets representing 80 teams from all over North ...
- Eats: The Commons - SunJournal.com
Eats: The CommonsSunJournal.com, ME - 10 hours agoIn person, Roundy was friendly and outgoing, and gently plugging the Rhythm nights and poetry readings he's got planned. I went in with my family, ...
- Grandchild brings literary inspiration - Post-Star
Sometimes it takes a little longer to find your niche in life. For Ronald Leonard, it happened when most people are considering retirement. In 2000, halfway through his sixth decade of life, Leonard began compiling poems that were inspired by the ...
- John 's Fans (3) - Bleacherreport.com
John does not have any lineup tags. John began his writing career as an intern for The Washington Informer in Washington, DC. After being retained as a freelance journalist, John continued his tour with the Informer for the next three years. John ...
- Nightlife, Sept. 5-11 - Canton Repository
The Ticket Nightlife calendar will list DJs, open mic, jam nights, karaoke and live bands. Deadline for submitting Nightlife listings is noon Tuesday. To do so, fax The Repository at (330) 454-5745 or e-mail necole.sims@cantonrep.com American Legion ...
- What did I learn at uni? Sorrry, it's all a bit of a blur - Times Online
What did I learn at uni? Sorrry, it's all a bit of a blurTimes Online, UK - 36 minutes ago“Does John Milton infuse new significance into the concept of 'history' in his poetry?†It doesn't matter. “Would you agree that for Alexander Pope, ...
- Controversial Stitching Extends Off-Broadway to Aug. 2 ... - Playbill.com
Controversial Stitching Extends Off-Broadway to Aug. 2 ...Playbill.com, NY - 5 hours agoThe visceral poetry and physicality between the lovers creates a surprisingly tender, often humorous, brutal romance. Stitching challenges the notions of ...
- Sidway creates sesquicentennial buzz - EastOregonian.info (subscription)
Sidway creates sesquicentennial buzzEastOregonian.info (subscription), OR - 8 hours agoBut even if that's too difficult to pronounce, she at least wants to get Oregonians thinking about their state's 150th birthday - which officially is Feb. ...
- Shakespeare's Bootlegger, Dylan's Biographer, Nabokov, and Me - Slate
I believe I've discovered a previously unrecognized genre of contemporary writing that deserves commendation for its distinctiveness and frequent excellence. It's practiced mainly by contemporary poets, but it's not poetry. In fact—at least for me ...
- A self-professed intellectual who felt he understood his people (International Herald Tribune)
It was in his intellectual guise that Radovan Karadzic liked to present himself to visitors at the height of his power, when he ruled as president of the self-styled Srpska Republic and supreme commander of its armed forces.
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