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- Pupils shine in festival to celebrate their talents - Journal Live
Pupils shine in festival to celebrate their talentsJournal Live, UK - 3 hours agoThere has been poetry and music recitals, painting with the art department, photography and the history department has also made up a time capsule to show ...
- Freakish Web missing person mystery inspires play - Newsday
That's the premise behind "User 927," a new production in Philadelphia that blends fact and fiction in the tale of a disappearance from a small Midwestern town. "It's the world's first play based on a search log," director Michael Alltop said. The ...
- LOCAL UPDATE - Grand Forks Herald
LOCAL UPDATEGrand Forks Herald, ND - 44 minutes agoSend a poem of 21 lines or fewer to Free Poetry Contest, 7308 Heritage Drive, Mount Vernon, IN 47620. Or, enter online at www.freecontest.com. ...
- Ian Frazier's 'Lamentations of the Father' collects humorous essays by a longtime staff writer of the New Yorker. (The Virginia Gazette)
Though our era is awash in comedy, literary humor has dwindled in recent years. Comedy Central now updates our taste for political satire with every turn of the 24-hour news cycle.
- Who got city arts grants - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Who got city arts grantsSeattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour agoTo complete a poetry manuscript examining spirituality and identity from the perspective of a Portuguese-American Jew. Includes stanzas from an epic poem ...
- Ian On Sunday - Stabroek News
Ian On SundayStabroek News, Guyana - 1 hour agoSeamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, whose piercingly clear collection of essays The Redress of Poetry I like to re-read, writes that WH Auden’s elegy for ...
- Nourishing Norristown (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Don't tell Jerry Spinelli you can't go home again. The popular and prolific author of more than 20 young adult novels regularly makes the trip across the Schuylkill to Norristown, the working-class community where he was born and raised.
- The trail of political Islam - Open Democracy
Gilles Kepel, one of the world’s foremost experts on the modern Middle East, has written “Jihad: the Trail of Political Islamâ€, the first comprehensive attempt to follow the history and spread of Islamist political movements. In a talk given at ...
- Shadows in the rain - Daily Triplicate
Daily TriplicateShadows in the rainDaily Triplicate, CA - 2 hours agoHe also writes poetry and paints, some of his work inspired by his time in Klamath. King says he was surprised by the Western Writers Association's ...
- Lost for words - Guardian Unlimited
It's time to head to a Greek island with a suitcase filled with sun block, thongs and good intentions. Or, if, like me, you are planning to favour Tenby, a chilblain remedy, ear muffs and a stormproof thermal one-piece. But you will still want to ...
- What's the story? - Guardian Unlimited
Michael Frayn's new play, Afterlife, like Democracy and Copenhagen, takes a real historical incident as its starting point. Like Copenhagen it cycles deftly through the years, each cycle getting at something new, some different layer of meaning, like ...
- Brunswick farm offers community garden - Portland Press Herald
Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick will offer a new educational opportunity this summer designed to nourish the body, mind and spirit. The Organic Arts Program, which runs from July 15 through Aug. 7, will allow families to plant, tend and harvest ...
- Two views of Thomas M. Disch - Los Angeles Times
Two views of Thomas M. DischLos Angeles Times, CA - 18 minutes agoTom was a great patron not only of poetry and fiction but also of opera, music, painting and sculpture. I don't think he believed our arts would magically ...
- The Art of Conspiracy Theories (Iceland Review)
I used to proudly call myself the petite poetess until I suffered from a severe case of writer’s block that left my imagination paralyzed for almost two years. The magical remedy that cured my ailing creative soul was my introduction to Ãsland.
- Ajax writer claims Pulitzer - Newsdurhamregion.com
Ajax writer claims PulitzerNewsdurhamregion.com, Canada - 4 hours agoShe's a writer, "mostly on-line," but she also has two unpublished novels and has had poetry published. "This is the first competition for non-journalist ...
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