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- 'Southern Masters' opens retrospective at Ogden Museum of Southern Art (The Meridian Star)
For close to 50 years, artist, designer, and urban planner Robert Tannen has interwoven visionary urban schemes, many of which were realized, and environmental, social and urban commentary in his art.
- Lollapalooza 2008: Day 3 Recap - Chicagoist
ChicagoistLollapalooza 2008: Day 3 RecapChicagoist, IL - 1 hour agoWe've seen his rap/slam poetry in the past and were impressed by the intensity of his politically-charged set yesterday. Stomping through material like ...
- Shenandoah Announces Inaugural Graybeal-Gowan Prize for a Virginia Poet (Rockbridge Weekly)
Shenandoah and The Virginia Poetry Center at Washington and Lee University are pleased to announce the inaugural Graybeal-Gowan Prize for the best poem entered by a Virginia poet.
- Short 'n' sweet - NZ Herald Christchurch Metro
Short 'n' sweetNZ Herald Christchurch Metro, New Zealand - 1 hour ago"It's a really intense experience, every word counts - it's like poetry, really." Short stories are having a golden time at present. ...
- Oliver Stone's 'W.': Critics react - Los Angeles Times Blogs
The very first public screening of Oliver Stone's latest film "W." unspooled at the Landmark in West Los Angeles on Monday night before a crowd of Hollywood luminaries. Among them were critics, bloggers and pundits, and we've assembled notable bites ...
- At writing camp, schlepping goes with scholarship (AP via Yahoo! News)
It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s.
- Reading matters - Metro
MetroReading mattersMetro, UK - 8 hours agoAnyone who thinks they have a knack for verse, rap or poetry should sign themselves up (the winner nabs a £250 prize) while spoken-word fans can expect a ...
- Uniting Britain through literature - Liverpool Daily Post
Uniting Britain through literatureLiverpool Daily Post, UK - 3 hours ago“On National Poetry Day, the event called ‘If you don’t read poetry you will after this’, will be fed onto the BBC big screen in Clayton Square,†says Jen ...
- Religion As Poetry - Atlantic Online
Religion As PoetryAtlantic Online - 22 minutes agoBy Patrick Appel James Carse, who directed the Religious Studies Program at NYU for 30 years, has a new book out called The Religious Case Against Belief. ...
- A 'legend' passes on - Kingston Whig
When retired Gananoque postman John Nalon heard that his old friend Hal (Moose) McCarney was laid up in hospital with a broken leg, his first instinct was to rush into Kingston and pay him a visit. On second thought, Nalon figured -correctly - that ...
- Grim Theatre | Idolatry and deceit are on the playbill this weekend (Urban Tulsa)
Two cutting-edge productions are coming to theaters near you. In mid-August, Midwestern Theater Troupe will present Tape, a play about "motive, memory, truth and perception," at the Nightingale Theater, 1416 E. 4th St. At the same time, Orasi Productions will present Graven Image, a combination of... By Paul Sheckarski.
- Salvadoran poet to sign books this weekend - Frederick News Post (subscription)
Salvadoran poet to sign books this weekendFrederick News Post (subscription), MD - 7 minutes agoA well-known writer in her hometown of San Salvador, Cortez had published her first book of poetry, "Lumbre de Soledad" (Fire of Solitude), in 1976, ...
- Their man in Pari: How Aimé Maeght changed the face of 20th-century art (Independent)
I am sitting in the café of the Fondation Maeght, a private art foundation in the hills above Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera, listening to Isabelle Maeght, the granddaughter of its founder, Aimé Maeght, reminisce about her very special friendship with the artist Georges Braque, co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso. "Though only a child, I was in love with Braque," she tells me. "He was ...
- Martin fought for gay rights - Long Beach Press-Telegram
SAN FRANCISCO - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center ...
- Awards bring translators out of 'darkened rooms' - Guardian Unlimited
Rarely afforded much limelight, literature's best translators were rewarded with a host of prizes worth a total of £10,000 at a ceremony at London's Southbank Centre last night. The winners had translated works from French, Spanish, Italian, German ...
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