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- Authors in the area (The Charlotte Observer)
Renowned poet Galway Kinnell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, speaks at Hickory's Lenoir-Rhyne University, 8 p.m. Thursday in the Belk Centrum. Kinnell's 2006 poetry collection, “Strong Is Your Hold,” includes his celebrated long poem about the collapse of the World Trade Center, “When the Towers Fell.” His talk is free and open to the public.
- Library of Congress' National Book Festival to Offer Variety of Interactive Family Activities - National Mall, ... (PRWeb)
The Library of Congress' National Book Festival offers fun-filled activities for the whole family. New teen and children's authors, NBA and WNBA players, and popular storybook and television characters to appear on National Mall throughout the day. (PRWeb Sep 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/library-of-congress-book/92008/prweb1378414.htm
- Teen Talk: Weekend reviews: Singing comedians make quite impression - Oneonta Daily Star
Teen Talk: Weekend reviews: Singing comedians make quite impressionOneonta Daily Star, NY - 12 minutes agoI've even heard him perform poetry. Oh, and if you're curious, he plays the piano beautifully. No comparison needed. The only thing I warn is that he can be ...
- Poetry, Hip-Hop and the Palestinian Experience (Middle East Online)
At a time when conditions for Palestinians have become increasingly devastating, Poets For Palestine seeks to give humanity its proper voice and attempts to further demonstrate the role art takes in transmitting and projecting the enormous weight of compassion, says Remi Kanazi .
- Oliver Stone's 'W.': Critics react - Los Angeles Times
Oliver Stone's 'W.': Critics reactLos Angeles Times, CA - 7 hours agoThe scenes feel accurate, to a fault; they capture everyone's policy positions correctly, but they lack any poetry or tragic drama. ...
- Following in a poet's footsteps: Exploring Thomas' Wales - Inside Bay Area
Following in a poet's footsteps: Exploring Thomas' WalesInside Bay Area, CA - 13 minutes agoIf it doesn't succeed in reinventing the unfashionable poet (his poetry gets little notice in the film), it will at least whet people's appetite for Wales. ...
- Day 32: Modern art continues to elude me. - Boston Globe
I'm Adam Sell and I have two months left before I leave Boston. My challenge? Do something in the city every day. Have ideas for my adventure? Send me an email . I just don't get it. I've tried to on several occasions, but "modern" art just doesn't ...
- Pulitzer hoax targets city's poet laureate - Brantford Expositor
Pulitzer hoax targets city's poet laureateBrantford Expositor, Canada - 2 hours agoThe only three-time recipient of the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award has earned some 70 prestigious national and international awards for his writing, ...
- Jeffrey Hartgraves dies: SF theater figure - San Francisco Chronicle
Jeffrey Hartgraves dies: SF theater figureSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 7 hours agoBesides his plays, Mr. Hartgraves wrote poetry and fiction, and recently published "Bone Matters," a collection of his short stories and poems. ...
- School winners - HeraldNet
School winnersHeraldNet, WA - 15 minutes agoJessica Simpson, 14, of Everett recently won an Editor's Choice Award in a poetry contest for a poem she submitted to the International Library of Poetry. ...
- Online Record Stores - San Francisco Examiner
As the San Francisco Symphony releases Das Lied von der Erde , the next-to-last installment in the complete Mahler series, I'm moved to think about the work itself and its near-century of performances, both live and recorded. (I'll discuss the SFS ...
- Palestinian poet dies in Texas - Washington Post
Resize RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. A hospital spokeswoman in Houston said the 67-year-old poet had died ...
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 - BBC News
He spent the next eight years in the Soviet prison system, or Gulag, before being internally exiled to Kazakhstan, where he was successfully treated for stomach cancer. Publication in 1962 of the novella Denisovich, an account of a day in a Gulag ...
- Do You Need Something To Read ? - CounterCurrents.org
Do You Need Something To Read ?CounterCurrents.org, India - 2 hours agoCheck out the "new" poetry and fiction? Like the soulless music, the childish movies and TV shows, etc. there's nothing but "dead grandma" stories, ...
- Chengdu tourist sites intact, still yield their wonders - China Daily
China DailyChengdu tourist sites intact, still yield their wondersChina Daily, China - Aug 3, 2008Kelsall, who can write in Chinese, told China Daily that there was much coverage of the May 12 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, but members of his group felt ...
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