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- Acclaimed poet Judson Mitcham to give reading at Sidney's Salon - Macon Telegraph
Acclaimed poet Judson Mitcham to give reading at Sidney's SalonMacon Telegraph, GA - 34 minutes agoToday, he teaches fiction and poetry as a part-time professor at Mercer University. He likens his creations to mere attempts, stabs-in-the-dark, ...
- Lucia Etxebarria: ‘male artists are artists, female artists are women’ - cafebabel.com
Lucia Etxebarria: ‘male artists are artists, female artists are women’cafebabel.com, France - 16 minutes agoExtebarria has also won the Nadal and Barcelona poetry prizes (Photo courtesy of Elisabeth Moreno)I sit in the living room on a huge couch, right underneath ...
- Parents forge bond at annual dinner - Delaware Online
WILMINGTON -- Portraits of smiling sons and daughters graced the tables at a Mother's Day dinner Sunday to help ease the heartache no mother should know. The children in the photos all were murder victims. "For many of the people here, this is one of ...
- Healing The Hood: Anti-Gang Street Festival (CBS 2 Chicago)
Little Village, a neighborhood that was home to two of the 24 Chicago Public School students murdered in the last year is having a street festival as part of an anti-gang strategy.
- Events added for Juneteenth in Fort Pierce - Fort Pierce Tribune
FORT PIERCE — The St. Lucie County Cultural Affairs Council has extended its Juneteenth celebration by adding an additional day of events on Saturday. The celebration includes storytellers, drumming, lectures, poetry reading, interpretive dancing ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways _ and the redemptive power ...
- Slam poet chills his audience - Nanaimo Daily News
Slam poet chills his audienceNanaimo Daily News, Canada - 2 hours agoI assure you, Koyczan may have struggled, but the man is far from depressed and he continues to have repeated success with a variety of his poetry, ...
- Not-So-Beachy Summer Reads - Daily Nexus
Summer shouldn’t be an excuse to sit around by the waves working on your deep bronze tan, frying your brain reading Cosmo and listening to your iPod for three sweet straight months (though there’s more than enough time for that, too). If you’re ...
- Pair of Singles - Edmonton Journal
I really hope no one takes my dating advice seriously, because that would be ill advised. But if you do, then please file this week's column under "do as I say, not as I do." This week, we're talking about pedestals. Do I put my dates on a pedestal ...
- Creatures great and small - Boston Globe
Children in the residential and day facilities at the Home for Little Wanderers were asked to re-create their favorite animals for this year's "Voices & Visions Creative Writing and Art Exhibition." The kids, ages 5-13, took the theme and ran with it ...
- Un Certain Regard: 'Johnny Mad Dog' and 'Delta' (International Herald Tribune)
"Johnny Mad Dog," by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, is a brutal and assaultive fiction about Liberian child soldiers that's presented without context or explanation. "Delta," by the Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo, is a beautiful if somewhat cliché art film of life in a Hungarian river settlement.
- Book note: - Twin Cities Planet
Book note:Twin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 1 hour agoBy Dwight Hobbes , TC Daily Planet Jealous Witness, the new collection of poems by Andrei Codrescu (This Was Today)—published by Minneapolis’s Coffee House ...
- David Mamet explores the wages of honor in ‘Redbelt,’ a martial ... - Philadelphia Daily News
Not so many years ago, "Redbelt" would have been a boxing movie. Certainly, boxing buffs will recognize this story - bruised fighters hewing to some kind of warrior code in a sleazy business where the dirtiest fighting is done by men in suits - the ...
- Grammy's wisdom - Telegraph
Author Esther Miller firmly believes in taking what life gives you and making the most of it. "The majority of things that we go through on the journey through life are more informative than the destination," she said. Miller's first book of poetry ...
- At the altar of aurora - The Nation, Pakistan
At the altar of auroraThe Nation, Pakistan, Pakistan - 1 hour agoIt did not stop them from writing good poetry. Marcel Proust is right that the excitement of existence is hidden in its ordinariness. But for most of us, ...
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