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- Gulf Coast Reading Series (Houston Press)
Nothing says “back to school†like witnessing the results of a good edumacation. The Gulf Coast Reading Series starts out the school year with a trio of talent from the University of Houston’s nationally acclaimed Creative Writing Program. Hayan Charara, the editor of Inclined to Spea ...
- Poet turns to prose to assess his life (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
NONFICTION We tend to revere poets in visible ways: More than writers, they are our secular priests who evoke in brilliant brevity our joys, our sorrows and our soaring aspirations. That's perhaps why we have a national poet laureate, not a national novelist or essayist. Now, recent laureate Donald Hall, in "Unpacking the Boxes," affectingly evokes his life as a poet.
- Proud to be an American… Finally’? - Reality Check
I really hated Jimmy Carter. I felt Bill Clinton was a disgrace as a man much less a president even though his administration wasn’t half as bad as Carter’s, admittedly. Historically, FDR proved to be a president that introduced more anti ...
- STUDENT PROFILE - River Forest Leaves
STUDENT PROFILERiver Forest Leaves, IL - 8 hours agoIt's something I wish I was still able to do, and I'd like to be able to read classic Persian texts and poetry in their original format. ...
- Poet set to slam PG with live performance - Prince George Citizen
Poet set to slam PG with live performancePrince George Citizen, Canada - 3 hours ago... situations and real-life human drama in his work, often imparting personal stories. His latest poetry/performance, Stickboy, is narrated by a character ...
- Where Have Our Nursery Rhymes Gone? (Alamogordo Daily News)
Where Have Our Nursery Rhymes Gone?
- Off-B'way ticket availability through Dec. 7 (San Francisco Chronicle)
Off-Broadway ticket availability and capsule reviews of selected shows as of Dec. 1. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are available at the theaters' box offices for the shows listed. Details about how to obtain tickets _ including by calling the box office,...
- Former teacher writes books - Staunton News Leader
Former teacher writes booksStaunton News Leader, VA - 11 hours agoGrudzinski writes poetry and penned 14 songs for a script by the late Margaret Collins, transforming it into a musical called "The Hub. ...
- Rosie Goes Live With Variety Show Special (The Lakeland Ledger)
Here's a novel idea: a live variety show. Sort of like "The Ed Sullivan Show," which crushed its network competition every Sunday night for decades.Live variety shows are the kind of TV they don't make anymore. Conventional wisdom says they went out with black-and-white sets and gas at 30 cents a gallon.
- A Halloween Haunting - Frankfort Station
A Halloween HauntingFrankfort Station, IL - 6 minutes agoDr. Alan Heath, disguised as the most recent version of the Joker portrayed by Heath Ledger in "Batman: The Dark Knight," read poems and stories to an ...
- Jenny Holzer exhibition, Chicago - wallpaper.com
wallpaper.comJenny Holzer exhibition, Chicagowallpaper.com, UK - 2 hours agoHer truisms, deliberate clichés, and borrowed prose touch on subjects as disparate as consumer culture and torture, death, power, and love, ...
- The poet laureate looks back - Washington Times
Washington TimesThe poet laureate looks backWashington Times, DC - 1 hour agoDonald Hall's attention to the cadence and placement of words in poetry can be found in his prose. "Unpacking the Boxes" is his first book since being mired ...
- Wreck claims life of student - The Reflector online
Wreck claims life of studentThe Reflector online, MS - 5 hours agoAccording to friends, jazz by Kurt Elling and writing poetry were some favorite pursuits. Lanton's interests uniquely defined who she was acoring to her ...
- Forward Book of Poetry 2009 (Independent)
Every year the Forward anthology, drawn from poems shortlisted or highly commended for its prizes, supplies a face-saving one-stop catch-up for readers who feel they ought to read more current poetry, but ... The judges, chaired this year by Frieda Hughes, reliably deliver on two fronts. They present strong new work from the names you should know: respect to (among others) Mick Imlah, Sujata ...
- Class Calendar (Sierra Sun)
Natural Childbirth Classes: Mondays 6:30 to 9 p.m. Group classes are held in Truckee. Four birth classes and one breastfeeding class. Birth workbook and breastfeeding workbook included in fee - $150.
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