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- 187 REASONS MEXICANOS CAN’T CROSS THE BORDER - New York Times
187 REASONS MEXICANOS CAN’T CROSS THE BORDERNew York Times, United States - Aug 8, 2008“Performance & text-in-the-community work,†Herrera claims, “is at the core of all Chican@ poetry.†(Herrera likes the @ suffix for words that could end ...
- British troops ready to do their duty - Metro
British troops ready to do their dutyMetro, UK - 6 hours agoThe 20-year-old always wanted to join the Army and plans to spend the down time writing poetry. Gunner Sam Carroll hopes to turn to a guitar when the going ...
- Many parents ‘too busy’ to read to children (The Herald)
Fewer parents now read to their children every day than two years ago, according to new research. A report conducted on behalf of Booktime and Booked Up shows only one in three parents or carers read aloud to children on a daily basis, compared with nearly half (43%) in 2006.
- Massachusetts soldier killed (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
MASHPEE, Mass. (AP) - A second Mashpee soldier has died in a week in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Cape Cod Times reported Sunday that Army Pfc. Paul Conlon died Friday morning in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb blew up his vehicle.
- Laurie Anderson's `Homeland' Targets Iraq War; Lou Reed Cameo - Bloomberg
July 23 (Bloomberg) -- For Laurie Anderson , the U.S. invasion of Iraq raised disturbing questions about what it means to be an American, questions she turned into a piece called ``Homeland,'' playing this week at the Lincoln Center Festival . ``The ...
- Readers’ newsprint plus pen equals poetry - Tacoma News Tribune
Poetry is everywhere. It’s in the clouds, in the park, in the walk to the corner store. It’s in your morning paper. It’s newspaper blackout poetry, an emerging art form that relies on poets using text on newsprint as their inspiration. Creating ...
- Arts council awards $7.9 million in grants statewide - MLive.com
LANSING -- Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs today awarded $7.9 million in grants for arts and cultural programs throughout the state next year. Though the economy remains in the doldrums, the state Legislature squeezed out a few more ...
- The joy of comfort - San Diego Union Tribune
San Diego Union TribuneThe joy of comfortSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 53 minutes agoFor poetry that comforts, Billy Collins has no peers among contemporaries. He personalizes the notion of an angel without a trace of pretentiousness and ...
- Chennai, the erstwhile Madras, celebrates 369th birthday (Outlook India)
Fast turning out to be the Detroit of India, for its rapid expansion of automobile manufacturing units and growing reputation of being the cultural capital of the south, Chennai, the erstwhile Madras, turned 369 today.
- 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 ...
- Poetry Site, Poetrydances.com – Sees Six Exceptional Writers Share ... - PR.com
Poetrydances.com honors a further six highly talented writers with favorite writer status on its site for the month of August 2008. Busan, South Korea, September 08, 2008 --( PR.com )-- Poetrydances.com highlights on its site the work of selected ...
- Literary worthies part of reading series (Houston Chronicle)
Novelists Ann Patchett, Richard Price and Geraldine Brooks are among literary worthies taking to the stage in coming months as the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series embarks on its 28th season.
- Sheila Nevins - World Screen News
Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, loves ordinary people and the extraordinary stories they can tell. She has overseen such programs as Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq , a 10-part series that conveys the physical and emotional ...
- Latitude, Leonard and the mob mind (The New Statesman)
Get out of my country! shouts a young man. A tidal swell of assent and applause fills the comedy tent. I feel nauseous, unnerved by how quickly and completely the crowd has turned
- Civic activities (Redding Pilot)
Over the years Ms. Ensor has served on various civic boards, including the Redding Land Trust’s almost since its founding. “I would have been a founder except that I was a reporter for The News-Times reporting on it, and so I couldn’t be a part of it,†she explained.
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