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- Purple haze - Minneapolis Star Tribune
By: Prince and Randee St. Nicholas. Publisher: Atria Books, 256 pages, $50. Includes CD "Indigo Nights." Web: Prince21nights.com . L ight some candles. Put "Indigo Nights" on the CD player. Plop down on the couch. Crack open the book on the coffee ...
- Jamaican launches poetry book on US terror attacks (The Jamaica Observer)
Writer Mel Cooke did not hear deejays blasting Bush on Iraq or Afghanistan, so in response he wrote 11/9 a collection of poetry, launched Tuesday.
- BOOKS: Esteban Dorantes is stranger and more magical than fiction (The Star-Ledger)
Crossing the Continent, 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South Robert Goodwin HarperCollins, 448 pp., $25.95 Esteban Dorantes lived the most remarkable life of anyone you've never heard of. In 16th-century chronicles of Spanish...
- Arab women artists create "Utopian Visions" - Arab American News
DEARBORN — Have you ever dreamed of a better, more perfect world? The word "utopia" represents a grand vision for an ideal society, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects. This imaginative concept reflects the human desire for civic ...
- Rutgers students ‘Act on AIDS’ with coffee, music, poetry - U-Wire.com
Blending music and prayer, World Vision artist representatives sought to promote charity and help students find God. Over 40 students gathered on Tuesday for a night of music and poetry, which raised money to benefit the World Vision “Act on AIDS ...
- Expert Buyers at Borders Recommend Hottest Gifts for Kids - StreetInsider.com (subscription)
Expert Buyers at Borders Recommend Hottest Gifts for KidsStreetInsider.com (subscription), MI - 35 minutes agoWhat's interesting about them is that they are completely written in free verse. Teens -especially teen girls -love them. This isn't poetry that you would ...
- I Freaking Hate Friendship - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
I Freaking Hate FriendshipCornell University The Cornell Daily Sun, NY - 40 minutes agoIt’sa place populated by man-orexics with an affinity for 18th Century poetry and chubby girls with the fastest emasculating come-backs in the West. ...
- "Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" - Phoenix New Times
There are so many things we still don’t understand: cancer, death, the popularity of Dancing With the Stars . When 19th-century artist Elihu Vedder lost two children and then fathered two more, he found his answers in the Rubáiyát, a collection ...
- 'Runway' star returns to city for AIDS walk - Access Atlanta
'Runway' star returns to city for AIDS walkAccess Atlanta, GA - 8 hours agoHe plans to start a Monday night karaoke/poetry event at Uptown Comedy Corner next month and do his shows live from Atlanta at least one day a week. ...
- Banks rich in spirit - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Banks rich in spiritTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 1 hour agoShe wrote poetry until the early 1980s when she took a playwriting workshop with Chris Heide. "The first night I started writing in dialogue I felt I’d come ...
- William E. Brady, 1926-2008 (Knox College)
A memorial service for Professor Emeritus of English William E. Brady, who died March 9 at his home in Galesburg, was held in Kresge Hall on Sunday, June 8. More than 150 Knox faculty, staff, alumni, and friends, as well as members of Professor Brady's family, attended the moving service.
- Uganda: Who Was Who At the Book Week? (AllAfrica.com)
The 16th National Book Week Festival ran from September 15 - 20 at the National Theater parking yard. Below are some publishing firms that exhibited their works.
- Editor's Choice: Poem by National Book Award finalist Reginald Gibbons - Chicago Tribune
Editor's Choice: Poem by National Book Award finalist Reginald GibbonsChicago Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoWe have written much about Aleksandar Hemon's novel, "The Lazarus Project," a finalist for the fiction award, but in this crazy world, poetry always seems ...
- Salvadoran poet to sign books this weekend - Frederick News-Post
El Salvador native Mayamerica Cortez will read some of her poetry Saturday in Gaithersburg as a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Salvadoran poetisa Mayamerica Cortez fled her native country in 1980 at the beginning of a 12-year civil war. A ...
- Personal losses sent Sims into nature - Baton Rouge Advocate
Julia Sims has won renown as a nature photographer. She is best known for her images of the Manchac Swamp, near her home in Ponchatoula. Now Pelican Publishing has produced a new collection of photographs by Sims that showcases some of her work from ...
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