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- Step right up! Pick a winner! (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
LOS ANGELES - For Philadelphians who attend Book Expo America (BEA), the yearly meeting of the nation's publishing business that ended here Sunday, you judge a bookfest by the amount of preplanned agenda you cover.
- COMMUNITY CALENDAR - The Wichita Eagle
COMMUNITY CALENDARThe Wichita Eagle, KS - 6 hours agoKansas Writers Association meeting and poetry reading by author Chinyere Okafor, 1:30 to 4:30 pm Saturday, Rockwell Branch Library, 5939 E. Ninth St. Free ...
- CARRIE ALLEN MCCRAY NICKENS (The State)
• Born in 1913 in Virginia; grew up in New Jersey • Earned a master’s degree in social work from New York University • Taught school and was a social worker in New York; moved to Columbia in 1986 • Her second husband was journalist and civil rights activist John H. McCray, who died in 1987. Married John Nickens in November . • Began publishing poetry in the late 1980s; first collection ...
- Soldiering on - Guardian Unlimited
In one of Tobias Wolff's early stories, a married professor has a one-night stand with a vulnerable woman helping out with the catering at an academic conference. Brooke, the professor, dislikes his colleague Riley, a Yeats scholar with an ...
- Anthology traces lines of contemporary poets from across the sea (The Kansas City Star)
This spring I had the opportunity to visit Paris bookstores, where I searched for contemporary French poets.
- Young and restless: APT actor Matt Schwader taps into his own rebellious teen years for latest role (Wisconsin State Journal)
SPRING GREEN -- It makes sense that Matt Schwader looks like the boy next door. Because he is. Although his studies and acting career have taken him around the country, Schwader, a three-year veteran of American Players Theatre who joined the core company this year, grew up in Kenosha. He cut his teeth on APT by coming to shows while still a renegade teen, a kid with talent and charm to burn, ...
- Obama Struggles To Gain Evangelicals' Vote - The Bulletin
A new survey released this month is beginning to cast doubt over Barack Obama's ability to woo white moderate Evangelicals and Mainline Protestants from the Republican Party - a political maneuver that would make it increasingly difficult for John ...
- The Miracle of the Blue Tree - Huffingtonpost.com
I have a huge blue maple tree in my front yard. As I explain why it is blue, I will ask you to keep an open mind. The story of the blue tree involves faith. And the belief in the power each of us has to heal. If you've read anything about the so ...
- A national award,a gifted local bard (Prince George Citizen Online)
a gifted local bard' title='Prince George Citizen - A national award, a gifted local bard' src='http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/images/stories/News/30author_thumb.jpg' / Prince George poet Gillian Wigmore has won the eighth annual 2008 ReLit Award for her first collection of poetry, Soft Geography, which was published by B.C.'s Caitlin Press.Wigmore said Tuesday she was still taking in ...
- Up close and personal with the Lincolns - Chicago Sun-Times
Up close and personal with the LincolnsChicago Sun-Times, United States - 41 minutes agoThey read poetry together, and talked politics. They shared ambition -- Mary wanted to marry someone who would be president, and recognized greatness in ...
- Love and strife under the stars - Charlotte Observer
Love and strife under the starsCharlotte Observer, NC - 28 minutes agoWith most of the action set in the same area, we can settle into our beach chairs, sip our wine and allow Shakespeare's lush poetry to work its magic. ...
- Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea - musicOMH.com
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout SeamusicOMH.com, UK - 6 hours ago... as more and more nuances and links are revealed. If Berman does decide to swap songs for prose full-time, then poetry's gain will be music's loss for sure.
- Patti Smith takes over every medium - AfterEllen.com
Patti Smith takes over every mediumAfterEllen.com - 1 hour agoThe woman is an artist in every sense of the word, as she's been a consistent force of music, activism and poetry since the 1970s. ...
- Snowbombing 2008 - NME
It might only take an hour and a half to get there by plane, but Mayrhofen is a mighty long way from home. When NME arrives at the ski resort – which doesn’t seem to have had a makeover since 1972 – the town is awash with dark tales of girls ...
- Ode to Recovery - RedOrbit
Ode to RecoveryRedOrbit, TX - 14 minutes agoTheirs is a story that begins with pain and ends with poetry. They divorced when he was a little boy and his dad received legal custody of him. ...
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