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- Tuscaloosa Art - Planet Weekly
Tuscaloosa ArtPlanet Weekly, AL - 56 minutes agoThe exciting aspect of found film, prose, and poetry is the opportunity to delve, for a moment, into someone else’s life. To find an old love note and read ...
- George Garrett, 78, Southern Novelist, Is Dead (New York Times)
Mr. Garrett was a highly regarded Southern novelist who never received the wide literary renown that his decades of glowing reviews would suggest.
- Nosing out talent (The News & Observer)
"Always on the go, always on the look-out"
- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare - Reuters UK
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare. Meirelles this ...
- Love of reading requires the right book, in the right hands - St. Petersburg Times
I love to read. As a middle school language arts teacher, part of my job is to teach reading. Not just the mechanics and strategies. I try to inspire children to be lifelong readers. Most middle schoolers don't like to read. Most people don't like to ...
- Jackson Heights holds first poetry festival (Queens Courier)
An idea that came up over coffee turned into the recently-held, first annual Jackson Heights Poetry Festival. Festival founders Marina Yoffe and Sarah Heinemann first had the conversation last summer. Yoffe said that afterwards they thought the poetry festival should be more than just an idea.
- There's no trifling with Mother's Day brunches - Salem Statesman Journal
There's no trifling with Mother's Day brunchesSalem Statesman Journal, OR - 5 hours agoCall: (503) 873-8681, Ext. 25 or go to oregonstateparks.org/park_211.php Mother's Day Reading: Second Sundays Series of Poetry Readings will hold its annual ...
- Drive to make Duffy next Poet Laureate - First Post
First PostDrive to make Duffy next Poet LaureateFirst Post, UK - 2 hours agoAs part of a well-orchestrated campaign, Chloe Garner, director of the Ledbury Poetry Festival, has written an open letter to the Queen, Gordon Brown, ...
- Your life, in just six words - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Your life, in just six wordsFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 3 hours agoPaul Thornton's reads almost like poetry. "Alabama boy said Hallelujah, wrote memoirs." Writers like brevity; readers more so. Makes you think harder, ...
- Thompson: School's out, but don't forget teachers - Northwest Herald
Thompson: School's out, but don't forget teachersNorthwest Herald, IL - 41 minutes agoIn high school, Mrs. Morrison published my poem in her book about writing poetry. Forever after, I wanted to write what was on my mind. ...
- Missouri laureate’s eyewitness report from poetry front - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Missouri laureate’s eyewitness report from poetry frontSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 5 hours agoBargen became Missouri’s first official poetry advocate in January, recommended by the Missouri Center for the Book and appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt. ...
- Poetry dedication (Odessa American)
In remembrance of the deaths of police corporals Arlie Jones, Abel Marquez and Scott Gardner, the Permian Basin Poetry Society has put together an anthology called "Oil and Water."
- Love's labor’s lost in post-invasion Iraq - Middle East Online
As statistics go, at least 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the occupation, now in its fifth year. Every one of them has left behind once loved ones to mourn the loss and to think of what might have been. This is the land of the Arabian Nights ...
- Carla Bruni on music, love and Sarkozy - Times Online
Carla Bruni on music, love and SarkozyTimes Online, UK - 26 minutes agoThe British are very special: you can see it in their art, their films, their poetry. For example, the protocol of the royal family is fantastic – it’s very ...
- Angelou to celebrate her 80th birthday in Atlanta (Marietta Daily Journal)
ATLANTA - Maya Angelou may be 80, but she doesn't party like it. The author-poet-dancer-singer-activist will celebrate her birthday in Atlanta on Sunday with a star-studded gala including a red carpet and a celebrity guest list.
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