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- Man v. Flesh (Jackson Free Press)
Andre Dubus III’s “Garden of the Last Days†(W. W. Norton, 2008, $24.95) is a brick of a book. At 500-plus pages, it’s America on parade: g-strings and neon, alcohol and testosterone, easy cash, patriotism and dumb sentiment. Once launched, though, a brick sinks quickly.
- Library digest: Round Lake (Lake County Journals)
Library hours The Round Lake Area Public Library is located at 906 Hart Road and is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. For information, call 847-546-7060 or 847-546-7064. Visit the library’s Web site at www.rlalibrary.org.
- Hilda Doolittle's Bethlehem grave at Nisky Hill Cemetery still ... - The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
Hilda Doolittle's Bethlehem grave at Nisky Hill Cemetery still ...The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com, PA - 30 minutes agoHD may not be a household name, but she holds a special reverence among poetry lovers in general and people who study her work in particular. ...
- Have the last word at poetry slam - Central Western Daily
CENTRAL West Libraries is calling all poets, hip-hop artists and other outspoken wordsmiths to polish their rhymes and lyrics for the Australian Poetry Slam 08, an annual slam contest offering more than $10,000 in cash and prizes. At 6.30pm on ...
- Authors in the area (The Charlotte Observer)
Renowned poet Galway Kinnell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, speaks at Hickory's Lenoir-Rhyne University, 8 p.m. Thursday in the Belk Centrum. Kinnell's 2006 poetry collection, “Strong Is Your Hold,†includes his celebrated long poem about the collapse of the World Trade Center, “When the Towers Fell.†His talk is free and open to the public.
- Darwish painted Palestinian dreams in his poems: translator - Tehran Times
Darwish painted Palestinian dreams in his poems: translatorTehran Times, Iran - 1 hour agoDarwish is the author of thirty books of poetry and six volumes of prose. Over 20 volumes of his works have been translated into Persian. ...
- Nimoy opens ESO's 2008-09 season (Daily Herald)
Tickets for the Elgin Symphony Orchestra's 2008-09 season opening gala concert and celebration with Star Trek icon Leonard Nimoy are on sale through the ESO's Web site at www.ElginSymphony.org. Or call the ESO box office at (847) 888-4000.
- Foresta's forge on beyond 1934! - TriVallyCentral
I talked to Scott Foresta of Foresta's Country Meat Market, Inc., at 1098 W. Bridge St., Phoenixville, while he chopped chicken cutlets in the back room of the store. He cut the chicken expertly, quickly. Another employee cut cheese in small pieces ...
- Their Bad War, &c. - Article.nationalreview.com
T here came a time when liberal Democrats decided Afghanistan was the Good War and Iraq was the Bad War. This was about the time the Afghan effort appeared successful and the Iraq effort not. So the big word became “distractionâ€: The Afghan War ...
- Annie Proulx's prairie poetry - Times Online
After you have read something by Annie Proulx, you tend to remember the “burdensome names†of the people she has described, those miniature examples of prairie poetry that sound like half-heard personifications or obscure cattle ailments: Orion ...
- Tulare students win district awards (Visalia Times-Delta / Tulare Advance-Register)
Students received awards at Thursday's Tulare Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees meeting.
- Tumwater Falls Harvest Festival has cowboys, goats and fresh cider (The Olympian)
Festivalgoers bring their own apples, and middle school students from Tumwater's Homesteader Program press them into cider.
- Paul Russell: Say nothing but good of the dead; enough about abortion - Nationalpost.com
Are there any original arguments to be made in the Henry Morgentaler/ abortion/Order of Canada debate? Readers seem to think so, as this topic dominated the letters file again this week. Of the more than 130 letters on this subject, approximately 70 ...
- Monika Mori: Mentoring the Long-Term Unemployed - The Epoch Times
Monika Mori: Mentoring the Long-Term UnemployedThe Epoch Times, NY - 5 hours agoIn response to one of Falco's lyrics, "Out of the dark into the light," Mori looks inward, “My present awareness tells me both have to exist, ...
- Famous Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish Dies At 67 - CBS 2
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) ― Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into ...
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