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- Where Worlds Collide (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
There were no books about Jewish children when writer Lesléa Newman was growing up. "I was hungry for a book with characters like [me] to make me feel valid and normal, and to make me think there wasn't something wrong with my family," because it lacked Christmas trees and Easter egg hunts.
- Zora Neale Hurston - Orlando Sentinel
Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the most important authors of southern African-American literature in the 20th century. Hurston, born in 1891, grew up in Eatonville, Fla., just north of Orlando. The award-winning author, anthropologist and ...
- Ted Nugent: Me, my hounds, and I (Waco Tribune-Herald)
Back in the roaring Fifties, as a very young whippersnapper of an American Dreamer, I had Duke, a big old black Labrador mix.
- Harper’s opinion aside, ordinary folk actually do like art - BCLocalNews
Harper’s opinion aside, ordinary folk actually do like artBCLocalNews, Canada - 51 minutes agoRandom Acts of Poetry are currently being committed by some 25 poets across the country, on totally innocent people for no reason other than to put a smile ...
- Sixto Diaz Rodriguez: 'Cold Fact' album reissued - WFAA
Sixto Diaz Rodriguez toiled for decades as a day laborer in Detroit's gritty Cass Corridor. To this day, he rides a bus to get around town. Just last month, Entertainment Weekly declared him a genius. Four decades ago, Mr. Rodriguez recorded 12 sweet ...
- Ted Hughes (Guardian Unlimited)
'Every work of art stems from a wound in the soul of the artist... Art is a psychological component of the auto-immune system that gives expression to the healing process. That is why great works of art make us feel good. '
- 'Piercingly insightful' 21-year-old in running for Dylan Thomas prize (Guardian Unlimited)
A 21-year-old poet is among six authors shortlisted for the lucrative Dylan Thomas prize
- STAGE REVIEW: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' a feast for the senses - Reading Eagle
STAGE REVIEW: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' a feast for the sensesReading Eagle, PA - 3 hours agoSince words are of the utmost importance in this play, the poetry needs to soar, and Burgess' does indeed. As Cyrano, the wizard swordsman and poet with the ...
- Poet Justin Coe to tour North Devon schools - Torquay Herald Express
BACK to North Devon by popular demand is poet Justin Coe who will be touring several schools and colleges. He will be here for two days on October 2 and October 3 to coincide with National Poetry Week. Justin Coe  also known as Justin Rhyme is ...
- New twists for Warped tour (The Star-Ledger)
Charlotte Sometimes isn't just playing the Warped Tour for the first time this summer. She's attending Warped shows for the first time. "I was more of a coffeehouse kind of girl," says the singer/songwriter/guitarist, who is fronting a five-piece band on the tour.
- Browsing poetry - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Browsing poetrySt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 8 hours agoAnd the poem "House of Cards" describes living in political danger: "The sound of boots in the street/ Making us still for a moment. ...
- Louise Glueck wins $100,000 poetry prize (CBC)
Louise Glueck, a former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, has won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
- Poetry and War, Olympic Events, and Looking for Trouble - KUOW NPR
KUOW NPRPoetry and War, Olympic Events, and Looking for TroubleKUOW NPR, WA - 5 hours ago... storyteller and teacher Merna Ann Hecht and how the war in Iraq permeates her day–to–day activities and writing. Merna Ann will read two such poems. ...
- Dalmiya campaign blooms on Tagore’s poetry - Indian Express
In a unique campaign stunt, Tagore’s timeless words are being used to woo voters in the Maidan circuit ahead of the upcoming elections to the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), with incumbent CAB president Prasun Mukherjee and a resurgent Dalmiya ...
- 'Romantic Poetry' adds cast - Variety
More Articles: Mark Linn-Baker, Ivan Hernandez and Patina Renea Miller have signed on to appear in Manhattan Theater Club's preem of the new John Patrick Shanley-Henry Krieger musical "Romantic Poetry." All three thesps appeared in the tuner's ...
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