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- HOWL! makes a break, hasn’t got the FEVA anymore - Downtown Express
HOWL! makes a break, hasn’t got the FEVA anymoreDowntown Express - 2 hours ago“That’s because everyone worked for free last year, dedicated their time.†The weeklong festival is being run under the aegis of the Bowery Poetry Club, ...
- First lady of scandal - Brisbane Times
SOMETIMES a confluence of celebrity circumstance reaches such a critical mass of PR fluff that the merest spark might cause it to flare into a raging blaze of publicity. Such was the case when it was first revealed, late last year, that supermodel ...
- Book it Over to the Festival - Emory Wheel
Poetry slams are already the norm at Java Monkey, a downtown coffee shop, while a recent “Save Our Bookstore†campaign at Wordsmiths Books drew an overwhelming response. But nothing solidifies the quirky city’s commitment to the written word ...
- Involved in politics and in medicine (The Florida Times-Union)
There will be a memorial service Saturday for Emmet Fewell Ferguson Jr., a longtime Jacksonville physician and community leader who was a friend of former President Jimmy Carter since childhood.
- Youth Activism: TAKE ACTION PACK - MediaRights
MediaRightsYouth Activism: TAKE ACTION PACKMediaRights - 41 minutes agoStart a slam-poetry club and encourage students to start one themselves. Check out sites for poets such as WelfarePoets.com who incorporate spoken word, ...
- What's Happening - Fort Bragg Mendocino Coast Calendar of Events - Fort Bragg Advocate-News
- Coast Cop Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Fort Bragg Library Community Room. 357-2928. - Mendocino County Resource Conservation District special board meeting, 3 to 4 p.m., 405 S. Orchard St., Ukiah. 462-3664. - Plein Air Painters of Mendocino, 1 to 3 p.m ...
- Academics unearth UK's oldest joke - Economic Times
LONDON: A 1,000-year-old double-meaning wry observation is what British academics consider to be their country's oldest joke. They found it in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral. It reads: "What ...
- I'll take (a) Manhattan (The Standard-Times)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
- Fall Arts Preview: September (San Francisco Chronicle)
THEATER The Best Man: The Aurora Theatre opens its season with an election year special, Gore Vidal's timely 1960 political drama in which two candidates for president, armed with some serious mud about each other, have to decide how much to sling and where...
- uprisingradio.org - Uprising
uprisingradio.orgUprising, CA - Aug 13, 2008Uprising is a daily radio program, produced at KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. It airs weekdays from 8-9 am PST. A weekly syndicated version of ...
- He-man ‘n handbag - Bongani has us guessing ‘n gawking - Sunday World
Sunday WorldHe-man ‘n handbag - Bongani has us guessing ‘n gawkingSunday World, South Africa - 13 minutes agoStarted writing poetry and reciting on the pathway of revolution – at UDF and Cosatu rallies and at night vigils for fallen fighters. ...
- Mahmoud Darwish: Palestinian poet - Times Online
The poet Mahmoud Darwish, hailed as the eloquent voice of the Palestinian people, was destined to lead the life of a peripatetic exile. He was born in 1942 in Birweh, near Acre, to a large, land-owning Sunni Muslim family. Taught to read by his ...
- Sylvain Trudel's 'Mercury Under My Tongue' (International Herald Tribune)
Sylvain Trudel's acid novel "Mercury Under My Tongue," tartly translated from the French by Sheila Fischman, is a tale told by a 16-year-old named Frédéric Langlois who is dying of bone cancer in a Montreal hospital.
- The Early World: New Non-Fiction for the Week of October 6, 2008 (Blogcritics.org)
Anne Rice, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcella Hazan, John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution, the Hunt for Bin Laden... Ahem. I call this piece, "In Celebration of Autumn: New Books, in Poetry and Prose." Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted ManBy Dalton Fury In its endeavor to track down the world’s most dangerous man, the 40 members of America’s ...
- U.S. poet laureate is a fitting role for a Fairfax teacher - Marin Independent Journal
HAVING YOUR name on a short list of literary honorees that includes Robert Frost and Robert Penn Warren can be heady. But Fairfax's Kay Ryan appears to find the limelight that comes with being named U.S. poet laureate much brighter than that to which ...
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