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- Alan Brownjohn leads poetry event - Bath Chronicle
Alan Brownjohn leads poetry eventBath ChronicleThe first reading in the new series of Bath Spa University stand-up poetry will be held on Thursday, February 11 in the Duncan Room at the Bath Royal ...
- Love Your Body at Sierra College Mar. 22-25 - YubaNet
Love Your Body at Sierra College Mar. 22-25YubaNetSpecific events will include speakers, films, panel discussions, student projects, poetry readings, the Great Jean Give-A-Way, and a display of the Body ...and more »
- Saarang diary - The Hindu
The HinduSaarang diaryThe HinduIt was sensual, erotic and surreptitiously wild as the well-toned bodies intertwined like snakes with the elegance of poetry in motion. ...and more »
- You Can Call Me Paula - fiction - Salon
In the morning Mrs. Thomas Livingston the Third sat on the upper deck looking at the lake; that's where she liked her coffee. The brand she had me buy was Italian, but the flavor she liked was French Roast. I said once: Maybe there was a French brand ...
- Fiction Book Reviews: 2/8/2010 - Publishers Weekly
Fiction Book Reviews: 2/8/2010Publishers WeeklyOther highlights include his involvement in a too-good-to-be-true poetry contest, and the colorful characters he meets along the way. ...and more »
- An artist extraordinaire - The Sun Daily
An artist extraordinaireThe Sun DailyI love the way he told his story. There was lyricism and poetry in his words. "His spirit was very clear in the book. I kept his tone throughout. ...
- Get The Ink Out: - Daily Pilot
The holidays are over. I don’t know about you, but I’m grateful. I’m grateful that the stress is gone and that my family is out of my hair. But most of all I’m grateful that I even got to spend the holidays with my family. As a journalist, it ...
- For Block E, a little luck of the Irish - Pioneer Press
For Block E, a little luck of the IrishPioneer PressFolliard's counting on his formula of poetry slams, pub quizzes and live music to lure regulars on those slow nights. His good looks, Irish brogue and ...and more »
- Reading set for Coffee With the Poets - Clay County Progress
Reading set for Coffee With the PoetsClay County ProgressOnce a guest writer for several newspapers, he has turned his love of writing toward poetry. He has studied under local poets Nancy Simpson and Betty ...
- Foster Wallace archive goes to U. of Texas - Norwalk Hour
Hailed as a visionary of his literary generation, Wallace suffered from depression and committed suicide in 2008 at age 46. His archive includes handwritten notes and drafts of "Infinite Jest" and other works, poems written as a child, his personal ...
- Recalling the many we lost - Boston Globe
“What art offers is space, a certain breathing room for the spirit,’’ John Updike once wrote. In novels, short stories, essays, and poems, Updike, who died last January, crafted a spacious and brilliantly conceived body of work that placed him ...
- House Lions 1.7 - Josh Smith - Wesleyan Argus
House Lions is Wesleyan's resident poetry podcast. To hear featured poets read their poems live and talk about their work, check out the House Lions weekly featured reader. Look for information about live recording sessions in the Shapiro Creative ...
- Missouri's outgoing laureate liked making poetry relevant - News-Leader.com
Columbia -- Missouri poet laureate Walter Bargen said he was not expecting a new job when he took the unpaid position that over the last two years has taken him to 100 places to read poetry to 10,000 people. But the poet from central Missouri said ...
- Liverpool LitFest highlighted by Poetry Slam (The Advance)
Liverpool Regional High School is hosting its annual LitFest today (June 8). Classes are coming to the library throughout the day to read stories and poems written by their peers, and offer comments on their appreciation of the writing...
- Nina Simone: The 'Princess Noire' - NPR News
She could mix and match and meld, improvising as she went along. She wouldn't be tied down to three-or-four-minute songs like most piano players, and that first night what she played weren't really "songs" at all but extended poems made up of musical ...
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