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- Library of Congress Organizes Eighth Annual National Book Festival Hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush on the National Mall; ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The Librarian of Congress and Mrs. Laura Bush invite book lovers of all ages to celebrate reading on the National Mall on Sept. 27.
- All hail Kay Ryan - Salon
Kay Ryan, America's new poet laureate (a post appointed annually by the Library of Congress), has been called an "outsider," despite the fact that she publishes in the New Yorker, won a Guggenheim fellowship and the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ...
- THE LIFE OF REILLY - ESPN.com
Since this is my first column for The Magazine , I figure I should introduce myself. And maybe the best way to tell you who I am is to tell you about my dad, Jack. He was an Irish tenor, a yarn spinner, a songwriter, a father of four, a crack golfer ...
- Chris Abani Wins Beyond Margins Award - UC Riverside
Chris Abani Wins Beyond Margins AwardUC Riverside, CA - 11 hours ago“As usual, Abani’s prose is haunting and unforgettable,” he said. A native of Nigeria, Abani is the author of “The Virgin of Flames,” “GraceLand,” “Masters ...
- She’s still unusual - Bay Windows
She’s still unusualBay Windows, MA - 37 minutes agoA: I wrote in beat poetry. I love beat poets like Lawrence Ferlinghetti. And "Into the Nightlife," that title was taken from that Henry Milller play. ...
- Art show to help Thunderbird Clubhouse - Daily Oklahoman
A reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. and will include a poetry reading at 8 p.m. The Thunderbird Artists Collective is an affiliate of Thunderbird Clubhouse, a nonprofit agency in Norman that helps adults living with and recovering from mental ...
- Pope: Christian Culture Isn't 'Outdated' - Catholic Online
"Faith is love," commented Benedict XVI, "and so it creates poetry and music. Faith is joy, and so it creates beauty." VATICAN CITY(Zenit.org)- The beauty of the Christian cultural inheritance is not something that is "outdated," but rather something ...
- A new vision - Schenectady Gazette
A new visionSchenectady Gazette, NY - 42 minutes agoJust imagine poetry readings, political debates, even spelling bees. I could handle this. I ran whole arts programs at Hudson Valley Community College for ...
- At our best: June 9 - Corvallis Gazette-Times
Tony Wu, a junior at Crescent Valley High School studying in Germany as an exchange student through the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program, has been selected as a participant for one of the seminars of this year’s Telluride Summer Program ...
- Teenage poet sharing her work: Widdifield grad wins young authors contest (The North Bay Nugget)
Susie Gooch didn’t think her poem Infinitely was an award-winning piece when she first wrote it. “I was on the bus on the way from my sister’s graduation in Guelph and I didn’t really have anything with me so I started writing on Post-it Notes,” said the 17-year-old. [...]
- Getting into character with Marisa de los Santos - phillyBurbs.com
Getting into character with Marisa de los SantosphillyBurbs.com, PA - 2 hours ago“Then I went on to get an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a PhD from the University of Houston. It was all poetry. I didn’t write fiction at ...
- Students from 9 schools to perform at 'Poetry Slam' - Halifax Evening Courier
Students from 9 schools to perform at 'Poetry Slam'Halifax Evening Courier, UK - 9 hours agoThe Lottery-funded Todmorden Touchwood project is holding a "Poetry Slam" at Ferney Lee School, Todmorden. Students from nine schools involved in the ...
- Bookmarks: The Amnesiac - Wall Street Journal
Ditched by his girlfriend and holed up in Holland with a busted leg, James Purfew -- the hero of "The Amnesiac" -- broods on the kinds of big questions that plague the post-college, pre-marriage set: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going ...
- Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 3rd Nov 2007 07:17 UTC (New Mobile Computing)
At OSNews we are committed on being geeky. However, "being a geek" does not always constitute a person who just loves technology. There are geeks about literature (who do you think wrote "Shrek"?), and of course, art geeks.
- Who Is the Donna Reed of This Election? - Slate
It's no secret that Slate has actively cultivated a reputation for contrarianism . Our headline piece over the weekend, in which Jack Shafer took down the clichés of Slate 's "green journalism," raises our institutional antagonism to Whitmanesque ...
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