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- Meaningful memories: Scrapbooks offer historians a more personal view (The Star-Ledger)
Pages from the 1920s scrapbook of Lydia Blanchard, a Louisiana socialite, appear in Jessica Helfand's book "Scrapbooks: An American History." Every page of Blanchard's scrapbook can be viewed at lydiablanchard.net. Scrapbooks have come into their own. These very personal, handmade...
- John Ashbery — movie fan and canonical poet - Times West Virginian
NEW YORK — White-haired and round-faced, with a kind smile and a wry, modest air, the award-winning poet stands before hundreds on a cloudy fall night. John Ashbery first appeared at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y as an emerging writer more than 50 ...
- Short-story author to give reading at Missouri State on Friday - News-Leader.com
Danielle Evans, an instructor of creative writing in the English department at Missouri State University, will be holding a reading of her work at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the theater in Plaster Student Union, 1110 Madison St. Evans’ story “Virgins ...
- Chamber Players To Perform Sunday (Leesburg Today)
Franklin Park Performing and Visual Arts Center in Purcellville wiill host the Loudoun Symphony Chamber Players in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23. The afternoon program will include four classical pieces, with two special guests joining the group of talented musicians.
- Gaia Online Gets Its Ghoul on with Halloween Hysteria (Centre Daily Times)
Each year at the end of October millions of Americans get dressed up in the scariest, sexiest, creepiest or cutest costumes they can get their hands on to celebrate the most anticipated holiday of the year - Halloween, of course! Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 7 million users, is answering the call of teens and young adults across the country, letting them show off their ...
- Book Publishing Workshop Provide Tools for Aspiring Writers - PRLog.Org (press release)
Book Publishing Workshop Provide Tools for Aspiring WritersPRLog.Org (press release), Romania - 5 hours agoSome people have a fascinating life story to tell, some have the ability to write poetry that can move your soul, but few people have the information and ...
- No "Doubt" -- new Shanley musical a mess (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
"This is a train wreck," says a character in John Patrick Shanley's "Romantic Poetry," an astoundingly misjudged attempt at a new musical. And unless the Pulitzer-winning playwright of "Doubt" wants most of Manhattan Theater Club's audience silently nodding their heads in agreement, he would do well to cut the line.
- Our Daily Bleg: What’sa Concerned Citizen to Do? - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsOur Daily Bleg: What’sa Concerned Citizen to Do?New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Pervez Musharraf - Newsday
The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77. The cause was kidney failure, said his son Shibli Faraz. He was earlier reported to have died while ...
- Rising to the challenge - Boston Globe
Rising to the challengeBoston Globe, United States - 5 hours agoThe notion that one campaigns in poetry but governs in prose is on vivid display this week. No one knows how bad the crisis will get, driven as it is by ...
- A determined American tale - Iowa City Press-Citizen
On Monday, the great Canadian artist Alan Weinstein, 69, was sworn in as an American citizen at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. The new citizen studied fine art at Ecole du louver in Paris and received his art degree from Princeton in 1961 ...
- Events Calendar the week of Nov. 12 - Bridgeton News
Altars of the Invisible : Sculptural Book-works, is on exhibit in the Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, from Nov. 14 to Dec. 20. Multimedia book artist Miriam Schaer uses garments like girdles, bustiers, brassieres, gloves, aprons and ...
- Literary, culinary journeys set for upcoming Ubud festival - Jakarta Post
Literary, culinary journeys set for upcoming Ubud festivalJakarta Post, Indonesia - 33 minutes agoZuleikha Abu-Risha has published her poetry in several literary magazines and has three outstanding collections. She is known for her outspoken views on ...
- Words of Wisdom: Life is like a poem ... and other metaphors (Collier Citizen)
In a quote from William Shakespeare, the world is compared to a stage and Shakespeare’s aim is to describe the world utilizing many of the well known attributes of theatre.
- TV on the Radio: Dear Science - Paste Magazine
Paste MagazineTV on the Radio: Dear SciencePaste Magazine, GA - 1 hour agoIt’s enough to make a guy wish he’d paid more attention in his college poetry courses. Each successive piece of music TVotR has put out can be classified as ...
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