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- Other highlights - Tonight
Other highlightsTonight, South Africa - 13 hours agoAnother KKNK repeat is the poetry performance Elders aan Diens in tribute of maverick poet Jeanne Goosen, starring Nicole Holm, Luna Pieterse and Frieda van ...
- Artists space opening in Keene - The Keene Sentinel
Artists space opening in KeeneThe Keene Sentinel, NH - 2 hours agoThe space, which will be open by the end of October, will have room for art classes, some writing and acting classes, poetry workshops, open-mike nights for ...
- Boiling Point (MetroActive)
AS neologisms go, "steampunk" isn't a pretty one. Stuck with it, the devotees of an imaginary world persist, dreaming of gas-lit laboratories and silent airships. The steampunkers will arrive in Silicon Valley this weekend for Steam Powered, the first-ever steampunk convention.
- Local poet Gary Fincke publishes his 10th book (The Daily Item)
SELINSGROVE -- Local poet Gary Fincke has a talent for making the unfamiliar feel like home. Fincke tunes all of his keen senses on and doesn't ever shut them off in his newly-released full-length book of poetry, "The Fire Landscape."
- Book finalists named - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
NEW YORK – Talk about second chances: Peter Matthiessen, 81, has received a National Book Award nomination for “Shadow Country,†an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s. Others in the fiction category include ...
- Graves Forensics Team Wins Tourney - WNGO
WNGOGraves Forensics Team Wins TourneyWNGO, KY - 3 hours ago... and medals in broadcasting, dramatic interpretation, duo improvisation, duo interpretation, humorous interpretation, poetry, prose, and storytelling. ...
- Election Wasn’t Black Or White - Daily News - Galveston County
Election Wasn’t Black Or WhiteDaily News - Galveston County, TX - 15 hours agoI am numb, not sad, not angry, but numb. I have to move, pick myself up. I have to go on — start over. I am strong. I am resourceful. I can sort this out. ...
- Importing a passion for poetry (Guardian Unlimited)
Sarah Maguire: If we could read the poets that move huge audiences elsewhere in the world, would it wake up our own?
- Straight off the shelf (Hindustan Times)
Sometimes, places are associated with writers. Dickens’ London, Roth’s New York, Rushdie’s Bombay. Ruskin Bond has his own spot on earth. In this delightful anthology, A Town Called Dehra (Penguin, Rs 200), Bond not only zones in, but also opens out Dehradun for all to see.
- Biography of priest-poet shows strength of verse - 33 KDAF-TV
Biography of priest-poet shows strength of verse33 KDAF-TV, TX - 45 minutes agoIt's by an American poet who is also a biographer of American poets. Hopkins died at 44 with little work published. He tried to destroy his poems when he ...
- Landis students use poetry to bolster troops (Daily Journal)
VINELAND -- Landis Middle School students shortened the distance between themselves and a few members of the military overseas with words of encouragement.
- The dream catcher - Denton Record Chronicle
Denton Record ChronicleThe dream catcherDenton Record Chronicle, TX - Oct 11, 2008To her, the photographs are visual poetry, telling a story or explaining an idea in bits of lines. “I think I like to think about my dreams because they ...
- MoMA exhibit features van Gogh's starry nights - International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK : Before Vincent van Gogh could make what would become one of the world's most famous and beloved images, he had to figure out how to use color to paint the blackness of night — and how to do it in the dark. The story of the technical ...
- See 'The Odyssey' this weekend (Hopkinton Crier)
What better way to spend an evening then attending a performance of Homer’s epic poem, "The Odyssey?" Not only are you treated to a tale of a romantic character who has unusual strength and wit, and tests uncharted waters in his quest for adventure, but in the mix you also understand the engaging pre-history of different ancient cultures.    Â
- Ballet Arts pairs Strauss and Prokofiev with 'Cinderella' - Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- When the Ballet Arts Ensemble stages its full-length production of "Cinderella" next weekend at the newly renovated Chenery Auditorium, it will be "a show that children and adults are going to be captivated with and thoroughly enjoy ...
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