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- From Service Function to Discipline - Inside Higher Ed
As thousands of the professors who teach writing and rhetoric gather in New York City this week, many of their programs are on a roll. Instructors who long felt tethered in English departments, and relegated to teaching freshman comp or remedial ...
- Matshikiza's fans say goodbye - Independent Online
Matshikiza's fans say goodbyeIndependent Online, South Africa - 2 hours ago... son and an inspirational genius, Matshikiza had touched the lives of more people than he could ever have imagined. His life was celebrated with poetry, ...
- Kids asked for street names for new Filton housing estate - Evening Post
Kids asked for street names for new Filton housing estateEvening Post, UK - 1 hour agoMs Barnes said: "The children were doing a project on poetry and have also been asked to come up with new street names for Cheswick. ...
- Be social (LA Weekly)
“So achingly honest it takes your breath away.” In June of 1999 a writer calling himself Nasdijj emerged from obscurity to publish an ode to his adopted son in Esquire . “My son is dead,” he began. “I didn’t say my adopted son is dead. He was my son. My son was a Navajo. He lived six years.
- News from the chalkface - Scotsman
News from the chalkfaceScotsman, United Kingdom - 4 hours ago... a 15-year-old pupil at Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School, won a top prize in the recent Away With Words national poetry competition. ...
- Beware the burger? New fast-food restaurants banned in South LA - Los Angeles Times
Beware the burger? New fast-food restaurants banned in South LALos Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours agoScattergood grew up in Iowa, has degrees in theology, poetry and cooking, and, when she isn't writing about food, is trying to get her two young daughters ...
- Andrew Calhoun to perform at Cornell - Ithaca Journal
Andrew Calhoun to perform at CornellIthaca Journal, NY - 6 hours agoInterspersing his own compositions with spiritual songs of liberation, poetry of Robert Frost and Mary Oliver, ancient Scots ballads (which he weaves his ...
- Mickey Kaus - Slate
USA Today isn't buying Story #2 ... 12:40 A.M. John Tabin makes a good point about Rielle Hunter's refusal to allow a paternity test : [Hunter's] response -- invoking her and her daughter's privacy -- is a little odd if she expects the test to come ...
- Robust Pathan with delicate verse - Daily News & Analysis
Robust Pathan with delicate verseDaily News & Analysis, India - 3 hours agoHe was the last bridge between the traditional aesthetics of Urdu poetry and modern thought. He was the huge tree, which had its roots deep in the Urdu soil ...
- The Team Behind 'Hamlet 2' - Artistdirect.com
Artistdirect.comThe Team Behind 'Hamlet 2'Artistdirect.com, CA - 58 minutes agoAF: Written a lot of poetry. A lot of bad poetry. AF: But it was really the kind of thing where as we were prepping the movie, I said we should have more of ...
- Arts: Glass creations inspire project blending art, poetry - The State
Arts: Glass creations inspire project blending art, poetryThe State, SC - 1 hour ago... and there will be poetry readings and a discussion tonight at the museum. Workshops on connecting creative writing and art will be held Saturday. ...
- Events Calendar (Rome Observer)
This Week Visual Arts September 5 First Friday Shorts 15-minute art talks given in the galleries by museum curators, docents and decorative arts guides at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum Education Department, 310 Genesee Street, Utica. Meet in the Edward Wales Root Sculpture Court.
- Where Worlds Collide (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
There were no books about Jewish children when writer Lesléa Newman was growing up. "I was hungry for a book with characters like [me] to make me feel valid and normal, and to make me think there wasn't something wrong with my family," because it lacked Christmas trees and Easter egg hunts.
- Fall foreword, or the big books of autumn (The Plain Dealer)
Book-clubbers will tell you that their best attendance invariably comes in the fall. The reason, I think, is that echo, like an old circadian rhythm, we carry from our school days.
- DTH Archives (The Daily Tar Heel)
Billy Collins is out to show that poetry isn’t arcane and irrelevant fluff written by cigarette-smoking bohemians decked in berets — it’s a way to consider the world humorously, empathetically and accessibly.
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