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- Travel briefs - Times & Democrat
WASHINGTON -- Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival for Sept. 27 on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady ...
- Urban Poet (New York Times)
This long-needed collection fair-mindedly presents Frank O?Hara?s unapologetic narcissism and often blissfully trivial verse.
- Edgar Allan Poe - Baltimore Sun
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, editor and literary critic and is described as the father of the modern detective story. Some of his most famous writings of mystery and the macabre include "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of ...
- Star of Spike Lee's 'When the Levees Broke,' puts heart into raw ... - New Orleans Times-Picayune Blogs
Ted Jackson / The Times-Picayune Phyllis Montana LeBlanc pens her hurricane tale in "Not Just the Levees Broke: My Life Before and After Katrina." See Phyllis talk about her book » "I truly believe that home is where the heart is and when you say ...
- 'Walking park' to open Saturday - Olympian
• What: Olympia's Southwest Neighborhood Association invites neighbors to the opening of a new "walking park" in the neighborhood Saturday morning. The walking park is not a single park, but four mini-parks to which people in the neighborhood can ...
- Key figure in promoting American Indian literature - Miami Herald
In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of American Indian literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong -- and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses. Allen ...
- New Arab poetry award in memory of Palestine’s Darwish - SINDH TODAY
New Arab poetry award in memory of Palestine’s DarwishSINDH TODAY, Pakistan - 1 hour agoThe Sharjah Department of Culture and Information has launched the new competition as part of the annual Arab poetry forum it organizes, according to the ...
- Eric Waugh (Belfast Telegraph)
Next week's vote south of the border on the EU treaty may seem a far-off matter to you. But you should watch it carefully, for in their referendum, the voters in the Republic have in their hands the only weapon left which can stop it. If they give it a 'No', it at once is called in question.
- They're tagging in praise of Jesus (Everett Herald)
SNOHOMISH -- Come Friday, graffiti will be legal. That's when the Christian and music arts festival called Freedom Fest arrives in town, along with its 50-foot tagging wall.
- Comments, corrections clarifications, and c*ckups - Crikey (subscription)
Comments, corrections clarifications, and c*ckupsCrikey (subscription), Australia - 3 hours ago"Death of BB marks an end to cruel, crude reality TV" (yesterday, item 19). Regarding Glenn Dyer's piece on the rise and fall of Big Brother within the Ten ...
- A Golden Age On Campus - Newsweek
A Golden Age On CampusNewsweek - 20 minutes ago... 78-year-old Marika Cahill, a former social worker who lives at the Colonnades and takes continuing-education classes in creative writing and poetry. ...
- North Hampton news briefs - Portsmouth Herald
North Hampton Public Library hosts "Home Is Heaven: Poems by Ogden Nash," today, July 1, at 7 p.m. The presentation is Pontine Theatre's original staging of poems by "America's master of light verse," who made his summer home at Little Boar's Head in ...
- A World of Music - Santa Fe Reporter
Santa Fe ReporterA World of MusicSanta Fe Reporter, NM - 23 hours agoThe Nobel-winning Spanish poet published more than 130 brief prose poems in 1917 chronicling the relationship between a donkey and his owner. ...
- The Kamasutra Code (And Questionable Coffee Table Book): Ancient ... - Blogcritics.org
See also: » The New Canon: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster » Manga Review: The Drifting Classroom , Volume Five by Kazuo Umezu » Book Review: A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion Series #1) by Francine Rivers The Kamasutra is flooding the ...
- Edinburgh festival: Jidariyya - Guardian Unlimited
You can't fault Jidariyya for topicality. This Palestinian production is adapted from an epic poem by Mahmoud Darwish, whose death last Saturday prompted candlelit vigils across Ramallah. Eerily, the play foretells his demise. It was written as ...
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