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- MEDIA BLITZ: AMARE DANCES - - ESPN.com
Amare Stoudemire's offseason was typically busy. A part-time poetry writer and full-time renaissance man, dude spent last summer taking classes at Arizona State and this summer traveling to Florida, London, and Sierra Leone for his charity, playing ...
- Wednesday Happenings - Bostonist
BostonistWednesday HappeningsBostonist, MA - 1 hour agoCharleen Swansea is the friend and former poetry teacher of documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee who plays a big role in his well-known feature Sherman's ...
- Identities in Flux - PopMatters
Identities in FluxPopMatters, IL - 34 minutes agoA senior writer at filmcritic.com, he is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and New York Film Critics Online. If he has anything else left to say, ...
- Literary Fest, prix compris or a la carte - knox.VillageSoup.com
Literary Fest, prix compris or a la carteknox.VillageSoup.com, ME - 4 hours agoDuring the afternoon, Kathleen Ellis will examine “The Nature of Nature Poetry: The Role of Poetry in the Environmental Debate.” She also will moderate a ...
- Ian Rankin: 'This is my Ocean's Eleven' - The Independent
Ian Rankin's first post-Rebus novel is an art-theft caper that paints his Edinburgh in new colours. Boyd Tonkin talks to him On the day that I discuss with Ian Rankin his new novel about art, risk and crime, Damien Hirst pulls off what sceptics might ...
- School Scene (Miami Herald)
Twenty-one Broward high school seniors are among more than 1,600 students nationwide to be named semifinalists for National Achievement Scholarships recognizing outstanding black American students.
- On the Scene: Variety is the spice of Columbia (The State)
A OK: Ben Boatwright , the Art Bar bartender who goes by BJ, had a seizure at the bar during Saturday’s Free Times Music Crawl . Andy Rodgers , a co-owner and bartender, told us Boatwright, who had a heart attack in April while working, is OK. “He should be back to 100 percent this weekend,” Rodgers said. ELECTION NOTES: Murs , an L.A. indie rapper, is on the campaign trail. His latest ...
- The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of October 6, 2008 (Blogcritics.org)
Anne Rice, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcella Hazan, John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution, the Hunt for Bin Laden... Ahem. I call this piece, "In Celebration of Autumn: New Books, in Poetry and Prose." Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted ManBy Dalton Fury In its endeavor to track down the world’s most dangerous man, the 40 members of America’s ...
- BOTTLING POETRY - Visalia Times-Delta
BOTTLING POETRYVisalia Times-Delta, CA - 21 hours agoThey even held a traditional grape crushing this year, and had friends, family and fans over to help harvest and crush the wine, Lucy-and-Ethel style. ...
- The Observer: How to write - Guardian Unlimited
The best poets read widely, says Wendy Cope . Of course this will influence their work - but how else are they going to find out what makes a really superb poem? Before you approach a publisher, it's important to be well prepared, says Neil Astley ...
- Books - ‘Love’ Tries to Solve Mystery of the Heart (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
"The History of Love" By Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton, $23.95). "The History of Love" is the name of a book within Nicole Krauss's remarkable new novel of the same name, "The History of Love" (Norton).
- Interview d’Hal Duncan VO - Actusf
Interview d’Hal Duncan VOActusf, France - 1 hour agoBut there are techniques that you just can’t carry over, like the sheer amount of repetition in Sumerian poetry ; that might work if the text is being sung, ...
- Halloween is coming. Are you ready? (The Biloxi Sun Herald)
Eight Days is a listing of public events which may be described as entertaining in the loosest sense of the word. Include name of event, day, date, place (including address and directions if needed) and cost of admission; if it's free, say that. Also include the name of a contact person and a daytime telephone number that can be published in the newspaper. E-mail to marquee@sunherald.com or ...
- St. Cloud Writer's Novel Is 'Spirits In The Grass' (WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul)
Author Bill Meissner's blue manuscript folder has seen years of use and abuse. Its seams are held together with various types of clear tape -- some packaging tape and some "magic" tape.
- Read the Metre - Delhi Newsline
Read the MetreDelhi Newsline, India - 5 hours agoJeet Thayil mentions this Macaulay moment in poetry when WB Yeats, after praising Rabindranath Tagore much, revised his opinion and wrote to friend William ...
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