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- Politics and prose (and poetry, too) at book festival : More than 3,000 attend annual Annapolis event at Key School (The Capital)
The 2008 presidential campaigns are in full swing. The Democratic Party is embroiled in the tightest primary election in 40 years. At the same time, the country fights an unpopular war while its citizens deal with a slowing economy and rising fuel prices.
- V-Day festival in Providence opens Friday - Providence Journal
Providence JournalV-Day festival in Providence opens FridayProvidence Journal, RI - 7 hours agoThat moment eventually led to a friendship with Ensler and Rafi’s involvement with The Vagina Monologues and the organization of the first “V-Day” women’s ...
- 'Great Kids' honoured for community involvment (Niagara Falls Review)
Too often young people are in the news because they did something wrong. But The Review’s “Search for Great Kids contest” discovered how much they’re doing right, said Beth Lacasse, The Review’s circulation manager and organizer of the contest. After a two-week contest to find some exemplary young people, [...]
- David Beach scoops NZ literary prize - The West Australian
David Beach scoops NZ literary prizeThe West Australian, Australia - Mar 15, 2008"That a book of poems can win a $NZ65,000 ($A56,335) prize makes me feel as if I've stumbled into a parallel universe where poetry is considered important," ...
- Family Calendar - BrooklynPapers.com
Family CalendarBrooklynPapers.com, United States - 41 minutes agoFree. Call (718) 596-6972 for info. 4 pm: Teen poetry workshop. Brooklyn Public Library Flatbush branch (22 Linden Blvd., at Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush). ...
- Heights Before Broadway (New York Times)
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the music and stars in the show ?In the Heights,? offered a tour of a neighborhood that is half real and half invented.
- Skyline's yearly magazine wants your creative work - Skyline View (subscription)
Skyline's yearly magazine wants your creative workSkyline View (subscription), CA - 6 hours ago... Dutcher had a great love for poetry and journals, whereas Alvarado loved fictional short stories. The journal part of the Dutcher contest hasn't been ...
- BUSINESS CALENDAR - Grand Forks Herald
BUSINESS CALENDARGrand Forks Herald, ND - 5 hours agoPiehl will conduct workshops on poetry and songwriting. A poet and performance artist, he has been a featured performer at the National Cowboy Poetry ...
- Tribeca's Downtown Upside (The New York Sun)
Late last week, when the various award winners from this year's Tribeca Film Festival were announced, it was hard not to take note of the diversity of the honor roll. From countries as varied as Britain, Turkey, Sweden, and Pakistan, and with subjects as assorted as the fight for independence in Liberia ("Pray the Devil Back to Hell"), the angst of lovelorn vampires ("Let the Right One In"), and ...
- Iranian author Parvin Dowlatabadi dies at 84 - Payvand
PayvandIranian author Parvin Dowlatabadi dies at 84Payvand, Iran - 14 hours agoPress TV -- Veteran Iranian writer and one of the founders of children's poetry, Parvin Dowlatabadi has died of a heart attack at the age of 84. ...
- Sisterhood in song (Rocky Mountain News)
Sheryl Renee, CoCo Brown and Hazel Miller are three of the best-known singers in Colorado, spending summers and weekends performing at festivals, concerts and weddings statewide. But they wanted to do more than sing.
- Letter unfair to Hillary Clinton
La Crosse Tribune - Please do not send poetry, or items taken from other publication or from the Internet. Send letters to the editor to letters@lacrossetribune.com.
- No Country For Old Men - DVD
Cinema Blend - The violence gives way to an equally brutal kind of life poetry, the type of prose expected from a Cormac McCarthy novel. As always, the Coens have assembled a top notch cast, but the real gem in the film is Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
- Book examines small-town Newmarket - Georgina Advocate
Book examines small-town NewmarketGeorgina Advocate, Canada - 6 hours agoSome of Ms Fear’s poetry has been published in the Montreal Gazette. Three or four of Ms Fear’s poems are in her book. Ms Fear, who now lives in the ...
- Words to heal
Minnesota Public Radio - Rafael Campo: director of the Harvard Program in the Medical Humanities. He is also a practicing physician at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. His latest collection of poetry is called "the Enemy
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