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- The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s Othello doesn’t flinch ... - Pitch Weekly
The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s Othello doesn’t flinch ...Pitch Weekly, MO - 3 hours agoOthello's strong opening and suitably horrific climax should appeal to grown-ups who like some poetry with their potboilers. ...
- All is not well among villagers in 'Prairie Fever' (Akron Beacon Journal)
With time in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she earned her Ph.D. in English, Mary Biddinger would know what a prairie is. In Prairie Fever, her collection of poems, she uses bucolic imagery like ''red-wing blackbirds,'' ''Riverside, selling spring peas/and bulbs. Last year's honey/wax candles.''
- The Larkin Principle at work - Daily Telegraph
There was a time, less than a generation ago, when family secrets, especially about sex, were kept under wraps, and writers addressed them, if at all, obliquely, through poetry or fiction. Since then, first biography, then autobiography, have opened ...
- He was Fredericton's man - Globe and Mail
Leonard Cohen may have 48 dates in 14 countries over the next several months, including Switzerland's prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival and Britain's Big Chill fest, but first he took Fredericton in an accomplished performance Sunday night. The 73 ...
- Diversions for July 13, 2008 (The Gleaner)
BADGETT PLAYHOUSE, Grand Rivers, Ky., "Always ... Patsy Cline," 2 p.m. today and July 20 and 27, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and July 23, 24, 30 and 31; "Variety!
- Young entrepreneur plans bookstore, café in Rockford’s first LEED ... - Rapid Growth
Rapid GrowthYoung entrepreneur plans bookstore, café in Rockford’s first LEED ...Rapid Growth, MI - 5 hours agoHall plans to hold author book signings, poetry readings, children’s events, and will carry journals, cards and educational toys and offer wireless Internet ...
- Cal State S.B. students immerse themselves in Arabic (The Press-Enterprise)
Amber Tracy spent the past academic year studying Arabic. But with a full-time job and other classes, she wasn't progressing as quickly as she had wanted.
- Sophomore's story published in magazine (North Journal)
When Steven Mueller started writing "Pink," he considered a complex backstory involving a government conspiracy, but it didn't make it into the story.  read more »
- Literary calendar for July 6-12 (The Charlotte Observer)
Sunday READINGS: Warren Wilson MFA program readings, 8:15 p.m., Canon Lounge, Warren Wilson College, Asheville. Charles D'Ambrosio, Joan Aleshire, Murad Kalam, C. Dale Young and Susan Neville. Free and open to the public. Details: 828-771-3715; www.warren-wilson.edu. Monday READINGS: Warren Wilson MFA program readings, 8:15 p.m., Fellowship Hall (behind the college chapel). ...
- Reading something into it - Sedalia Democrat
Jonathan Biggs, 9, wanted to stay home with his sister and watch TV this summer. He did not want to read. When his mother told him he would attend a special reading camp at Heber Hunt Elementary School, he was unhappy. “She literally had to drag me ...
- 2 speakers compete at national tourney - Sharon Herald
Two Mercer High School speech team members competed last week at the 2008 National Forensic League National Tournament. The weeklong event, “Desert Lights Nationals,” was held June 13 through 18 in Las Vegas. More than 3,300 contestants and 1,800 ...
- Who are the real lesbians? - The Independent
Ever since Sappho wrote of her feelings for other women, the Greek island of Lesbos where she lived has had its own place in the dictionary. But now its modern residents have begun a campaign to reclaim the term for themselves. John Walsh reports ...
- Interview: Anthony David, singer and songwriter - Blogcritics.org
Interview: Anthony David, singer and songwriterBlogcritics.org, OH - 6 hours agoI was a writer before — poetry, screenplays — but in my songwriting, I really did find my voice. It took me a long time to discover that I could sing. ...
- Me and Mr Jones - Sunday Herald
I HAVE an Average Joe lifestyle," declares Shia LaBeouf. There is a short silence before the 21-year-old actor, thinking back over what he has just said, hastily tags on a caveat: "Kind of ..." LaBeouf may in fact be that rarest of things - a ...
- 'Juvenilia' finds a forum - Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Citizen'Juvenilia' finds a forumOttawa Citizen, Canada - 38 minutes agoAnd in Vancouver, a young actress named Sara Bynoe has transformed monthly teen angst poetry nights into a one-woman fringe show and the anthology, ...
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