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- Fall Guide: Literary - Artvoice
Fall Guide: LiteraryArtvoice, NY - 1 hour agoFormer SUNY at Buffalo professor and postmodern fictioneer Raymond Federman will be feted for his 80th birthday on October 18. From 1pm to 4pm at the Poetry ...
- Deploying airmen make storytime DVDs for their children - NW Florida Daily News
HURLBURT FIELD - Tim Karsten regrets not taking advantage of one USO service before his last deployment. He learned how much his 16-year-old daughter missed him while he was gone. "She told me she called a phone number that she knew no one would ...
- Being Laureate does not inspire poetry in Motion - This is London
Telegraph.co.ukBeing Laureate does not inspire poetry in MotionThis is London, UK - 5 hours agoThe last thing I did was for her diamond wedding anniversary [in 2007]. Afterward she told me 'thank you' but I have no idea if she really liked it. ...Woe is me! Poet Laureate is suffering from writer's block and is ... Daily MailLaureate bemoans 'thankless' job BBC Newsall 14 news articles
- Musicals and revivals highlight Broadway season (The News Journal)
NEW YORK -- Even after three canceled openings, Broadway is not looking bare.
- Author Spotlight: Steve Fellner of Brockport - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Author Spotlight: Steve Fellner of BrockportRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 3 hours agoLatest work: Blind Date With Cavafy (Marsh Hawk Press, $12.50), which won the 2008 Thorn Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry from the Publishing Triangle, ...
- Poetry on a motorcycle: Riding through the fear - MinnPost.com
MinnPost.comPoetry on a motorcycle: Riding through the fearMinnPost.com, MN - 46 minutes agoThe kind of invisible that Louis Jenkins writes about in his poem, "Invisible." ..."At times we are caught in a warp of space or time and, for a moment, ...
- In defence of the Scottish bard - Guardian Unlimited
Reading Jeremy Paxman 's comments about Scotland's national bard on the train on the way to the Edinburgh book festival made my blood boil. It's interesting how personally one can take criticism of the bard. But then curiously, in the taxi, I asked ...
- Iran's expatriate poets speak out, in English and Farsi (The Daily Star Lebannon)
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, thousands of intellectuals, activists and poets have left Iran, many fleeing to Europe and the United States. A new book brings together the work of 18 Iranian poets from this diaspora to share their experiences with a wider audience.
- Upstate NY home to religious retreats - PR Inside
NEW LEBANON, New York (AP) - At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts ...
- Shaking the tree with fury: Jack Marshall and Julia Hartwig (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Now in his early 70s, the American poet Jack Marshall is acutely conscious of his mortality – a fact that gives a sharp edge to the poignancy of the poems in his latest collection, “The Steel Veil” (Coffee House Press, 124 pages, $16).
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - Calgary Herald
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish diesCalgary Herald, Canada - Aug 9, 2008RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart ...
- Album Reviews - RedOrbit
Album ReviewsRedOrbit, TX - 4 hours agoThe eco-message being understated, their open-air song-poetry is bracing. **** Confidence is the sole shortcoming on this dutifully hairy London folkie's ...
- Arts council offers new online application process (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
The Illinois Arts Council has announced a new online application process (CueRate) for the Artists Fellowship Program. The Artists Fellowship Program awards $7,000 fellowship and $700 finalist awards to honor Illinois artists of exceptional talent and enable them to pursue their artistic goals.
- Pulitzer hoax targets city's poet laureate (The Brantford Expositor)
America's highest literary honour has been sullied in an Internet scam affecting writers, including Brantford's poet laureate, John B. Lee. The acclaimed author is still smarting after an e-mail saying he had been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize turned out to be a cruel hoax. "I had [...]
- Give Newark a (coffee) break - Bridgeton News
Starbucks built its business by recognizing that many people want more than a quick cup of coffee. Many want a coffeehouse experience, a place where they can gather to chat with friends, work on a laptop or even hear poetry. The Starbucks on Broad ...
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