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- Calendar (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
ONGOING Alfred T. Hornbacks -- Rockin' C Karaoke, 8 p.m. Tuesdays, no cover. The Beer Joint -- Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. Wednesdays, no cover ...
- Emory Launches $1.6 Billion Campaign - PressZoom (press release)
Emory Launches $1.6 Billion CampaignPressZoom (press release), Netherlands - 20 hours agoAn Emory professor of English, Natasha Trethewey, was named last year's Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, while another Pulitzer Prize winner, Georgia-born ...
- Dead Palestinian poet's words alive on UK stage - Reuters UK
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The words of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish have come poignantly to life on an Edinburgh Festival stage a week after his death following heart surgery in a U.S. hospital. Ironically the play Jidariyya (Mural) - written eight ...
- Angelou awarded honorary doctorate degree (Moldova.org)
Virginia's Shenandoah University said it has awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to U.S. literary great Maya Angelou.The honor was presented to the 80-year-old writer, poet and activist Thursday during A Morning with Maya Angelou, the official kick-off event for the inauguration of the university's 16th president, Tracy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D., the university said.The Shenandoah University ...
- Saratoga Springs High School teacher fired for misconduct (WRGB Albany)
A tenured English teacher at Saratoga Springs High School has been fired from his job after a hearing by the State Education Department determined he had an inappropriate relationship with one of his students in 2007.
- Ryan Adams to Publish Book - Soul Shine
Soul ShineRyan Adams to Publish BookSoul Shine, Canada - 1 hour agoAmerican singer-songwriter Ryan Adams has signed a deal with Akashic Books to release a book of poems, though no release date has been confirmed. ...
- Travel briefs - Times and Democrat
WASHINGTON -- Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival for Sept. 27 on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady ...
- Saving a youth center: Bartech founder seeks funds to give other kids the lift in life he received (Crain's Detroit Business)
Bartech Group founder John Barfield moved from Pennsylvania to the Parkridge Projects on Ypsilantiand#39;s south side during the 1940s when he was 15 years old.
- On DVD: "Jellyfish," "Snow Angels" - IFC
IFCOn DVD: "Jellyfish," "Snow Angels"IFC - 5 hours agobut focuses on Michael Angarano's sheepish teen, and on Glenn (Sam Rockwell), a chronically jobless drunk who's now sober, employed and fervently born again ...
- Leafing through - Al-Ahram Weekly
Leafing throughAl-Ahram Weekly, Egypt - 18 minutes agoMohamed is not interested in the literary production of Naguib Mahfouz, the poetry of Ahmed Shawki, or the history of Egypt. "This is not what I want to ...
- Inspiring with words, not deeds - Stuff
She also couldn't tell a soul. It wasn't until the next day that the New Plymouth writer felt a growing excitement about winning the Prime Minister's Award for poetry. "You know that feeling when you are out driving in the car and you are sort of ...
- Photos worth a thousand words (London Free Press)
The power and beauty of the photograph have new meaning for me after a visit to Museum London last week. I would have expected Sketches in Black and White, a selection of photographic portraits from the museum's permanent collection to impress, even move deeply.
- Maher's mockery misses the point - Los Angeles Times
There are three problems with Bill Maher's new movie mocking faith: It misunderstands religion, misconceives God and gets human nature all wrong. I have a fantasy of a counter-movie. I would travel around the world and interview every scientist with ...
- Both parties inject drama into the race (Miami Herald)
No Drama Obama? The Democratic convention was anything but. Laced with enough tears of anguish and joy to keep a team of crisis counselors billing overtime, the giant group therapy session belied the nominee's reputation as a cool customer.
- Poetry Award for Glück (New York Times)
The poet Louise Glück has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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