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- The Impostor, by Damon Galgut (Independent)
A ramshackle farmhouse in the hinterland of South Africa, a mysterious silent neighbour and a town where corruption has become a way of life. These ingredients go into making Damon Galgut's follow-up to The Good Doctor. It's a spine-chilling read that doubles as a sharp and rather depressing critique of the "new" South Africa.
- Bay Area music legends Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill play - Pacifica Tribune
Bay Area music legends Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill playPacifica Tribune, CA - 19 minutes agoI've always been in love with words and as a young girl would sit alone in my room and read poetry aloud. Oh, I was such a dweeb!" Where has her music taken ...
- After 'August: Osage County,' a departure for Tracy Letts - International Herald Tribune
CHICAGO : Tracy Letts's Pulitzer-and-everything-else-winning "August: Osage County" is a full theatrical meal, a nine-course tasting menu of family angst. His new play, "Superior Donuts," which has opened at the Steppenwolf Theater here, is a much ...
- Obama's bitter muse: Frank Marshall Davis - Iowa City Press-Citizen
Of the potential father figures in Barack Obama's autobiography "Dreams from My Father," one of the first -- and most mysterious -- is a poet whom we only ever know as "Frank." "Dreams from My Father" credits Frank with being the sole older black man ...
- Senate committee calls for music video classification review - Australian Broadcasting Corp.
A Senate committee has urged television stations to review classifications of music videos, due to concerns children are getting too much access to inappropriate material. The committee found that inappropriate sexualisation of children in Australia ...
- Stockton youth seek to give city positive spin at poetry event - Record
Loreal Nelms is going to Washington, D.C., to make a statement about her hometown. She wants to show that Stockton's reputation as a city that lacks education and struggles with literacy is overblown. She wants to prove that our young people are ...
- All Akeley HRA members resign - Park Rapids Enterprise
All Akeley HRA members resignPark Rapids Enterprise, MN - 18 minutes agoFuture plans call for a book/study club, an artist in residence for a day, poetry day and a summer reading promotion for kids.
- Poetry isn't in the cards - Denver Post
For more than a century, nothing but nothing has brought out the shameless sentiment in writers like baseball. Everyone from George Bernard Shaw to Red Smith has taken a swing at distilling the romantic essence of the game into words.
- Ripley Writes program has a successful year - Evening Observer
Ripley Writes program has a successful yearEvening Observer, NY - 5 hours agoDistinguished writers Paul Leone and Jae Newman worked with students during the course of the spring to produce original prose and poetry works. ...
- First Friday raises funds for Myanmar relief - Ashland Daily Tidings
The theme of Gallery DeForest's newest art show — "Opening the Closed" — took on new meaning when local poet Derek Pyle approached Cathy DeForest to raise money for the relief effort for Burmese cyclone victims. DeForest was preparing to show new ...
- Concert of Colors - Dearborn Press and Guide
Concert of ColorsDearborn Press and Guide, MI - 1 hour agoSince the opening of The Max in 2003, the DSO has expanded its diverse programming to include poetry slams, chamber music, world music and other special ...
- Teacher sentenced for texting student thousands of times - ksl.com
A teacher in Weber County is going to spend a year in jail because of thousands of text messages with a student. He's also going to have to pay for some therapy. It apparently started with the 13-year-old girl texting a question about an assignment ...
- Casper Calendar for July 2, 2008 - Casper Star-Tribune Online
Casper Calendar for July 2, 2008Casper Star-Tribune Online, WY - 2 hours agoJuly 21, 7:30 pm, Artcore Music & Poetry at The Jazz Spot. * July 23, 12:15 pm, Bach's Lunch Organ Recital at First United Methodist Church. ...
- Little things mean a lot (The Telegraph)
Little magazines, a forum for experimental and alternative literature in the vernacular that may or may not have much commercial value, prove that popular phrases like “Less is more” and “small is beautiful” do contain a grain of truth.
- Mimi White shares 'the gift you give back for being alive' (Portsmouth Herald)
Mimi White of Rye writes love poems, or maybe poems on the subject of love, if there's a difference — and there probably is.
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