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- 12:35 p.m. - Book launch, poetry reading tomorrow at Java Junction (Pacific Daily News)
12:35 p.m., May 14 — The University of Guam's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences-Women and Gender Studies Program and Division of English and Applied Linguistics is sponsoring a book launch and poetry reading of Emelihter Kihleng's "My Urohs" at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Java Junction Cafe at the Agana Shopping Center in Hagåtña.
- Henry Rollins Tickets on Sale Saturday (Austinist)
Henry Rollins will give a spoken word performance at La Zona Rosa on October 5. Rollins, best known as lead singer of Black Flag and the Rollins Band, continues to rile audiences worldwide with his fiercely delivered poetry and activism. Tickets will go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m., through Gettix , and range from $25-27.
- Songwriter gains new fan - Commercial News
That unbelievably upbeat, infectious, fun song, by John Denver, was a No. 1 hit in 1975. It was on the radio constantly, and I can’t tell you how much I hated it. I didn’t like John Denver, either. He was way too earnest, too happy and too folksy ...
- Author Paula Gunn Allen dies at 68 (Moldova.org)
Breakthrough Native American author, feminist and top scholar Paula Gunn Allen died of lung cancer at her California home at the age of 68.The one-time University of California-Los Angeles professor paved the way mainstream Native American authors when she began her career in the 1960s, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.What I want from readers is a fundamental recognition that American ...
- Gary Snyder inspired by nature (The Union)
Years of physical work, intimate travels across the Pacific West Coast, Alaska and Asia, and a lifelong fascination with language thread the poetry of Gary Snyder.
- A Poetry Slam dunk: From the halls of Pittsburgh Sterrett - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hey, here's an idea. Take a bunch of eighth-graders desperately consumed with what's cool, what's not, what their friends think of what they wear, what they do and what they say -- and have them deliver their hopes, dreams, fears into words on a page ...
- Carefully staged 'Journey' lingers in mind (Pioneer Press)
Eugene O'Neill knew what he was doing when he titled his play "Long Day's Journey Into Night." His autobiographical masterpiece is not about destinations and resolutions. It's about the passage: how we get where we get and why.
- BR area for May 30-June 5, 2008 - 2TheAdvocate
BR area for May 30-June 5, 20082TheAdvocate, LA - 1 hour agoOPEN MIC POETRY SHOW: 8 pm, Insomkneeacks, 9895 Florida Blvd., Suite B, upstairs next to the Broadmoor Theater. (225) 935-2824. JAMIE WAX’ GOIN’ TO JACKSON: ...
- Haycast 07: Michael Rosen, Will Self and Kathleen Turner - guardian.co.uk
Haycast 07: Michael Rosen, Will Self and Kathleen Turnerguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoPlus Kathleen Turner and Jhumpa Lahiri Children's laureate Michael Rosen opens today's programme with a poem and explains how you talk politics to children ...
- NANCY J. GOOD - Elkhart Truth
She was born March 25, 1939, in Elkhart to Ellwood Hogendobler and Donna Lawver. On Feb. 17, 1962, she married Wayne Good in Elkhart. He survives along with two children, Steven W. Good and Jackie (Bryan) Smith, both of Elkhart; one granddaughter ...
- Delta Sigma Theta sorority reports plethora of activities (Kinston Free Press)
Contestants in the Jabberwock Scholarship Pageant, sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and scheduled for April 4 at the Kinston-Lenoir County Performing Arts Center, are participating in a variety of preliminary events.
- Batman is Back -- TIME Reviews The Dark Knight (Time Magazine)
Richard Corliss takes an advance look at The Dark Knight and finds it a masterly weave of madness and dread
- The Impostor, by Damon Galgut (Independent)
A ramshackle farmhouse in the hinterland of South Africa, a mysterious silent neighbour and a town where corruption has become a way of life. These ingredients go into making Damon Galgut's follow-up to The Good Doctor. It's a spine-chilling read that doubles as a sharp and rather depressing critique of the "new" South Africa.
- If you really love Dad, give him a big box of nothing - New York Daily News
If you really love Dad, give him a big box of nothingNew York Daily News, NY - 2 hours agoThis was back in the dark days of cologne-giving, which mercifully came to an end after the horrible 1986 tragedy in Cincinnati wherein a 72-year-old man's ...
- Classrooms close for the summer - Belmont & Mount Holly BannerNews
Classrooms close for the summerBelmont & Mount Holly BannerNews, CN - 25 minutes agoLiz Ann is now a strong reader who’s also translated her skills into writing, especially poetry. In one of Hovis’ packed boxes, were two of Liz Ann’s poems ...
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