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- Ha Jin wants to visit China - FOX News
HONG KONG — On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books. The 52-year-old National Book Award winner told The ...
- Reading, dancing, and drumming at Portumna’s Shorelines festival - Galway Advertiser
Reading, dancing, and drumming at Portumna’s Shorelines festivalGalway Advertiser, Ireland - 14 hours agoMembers of the Maple Poetry Group will facilitate a special hour with the residents of Portumna Retirement Village sharing rhymes and recitations, ...
- Kindred writer and spirit Robert Morgan receives 2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize (Cornell News Service)
Thomas Wolfe was born, raised and educated in the mountains of western North Carolina, taught college English, earned a Guggenheim fellowship and attained commercial and critical success as a prolific writer of poetic fiction rich in evocative detail and firmly rooted in the Appalachian landscape.
- Lonely life as commoner for Nepal’s former king - Daily Times
Gyanendra’s new life looks set to become even quieter after the departure of his son, former crown prince Paras, for Singapore earlier this month WITH few friends coming to visit and his son and one-time heir now living in Singapore, the new life ...
- St. Paul's Karen refugees - Minnpost.com
St. Paul is home to the largest Karen refugee population in the U.S. There are approximately 3,000 Karen (pronounced Ka-REN) living in St. Paul, most of whom arrived in the 2003 resettlement wave. Many more families are expected to come to Minnesota ...
- The most important school supply of all - Del Rio Live!
The most important school supply of allDel Rio Live!, TX - 15 hours agoWe have thrillers, mysteries, romance, science fiction, westerns, literature, poetry, short stories, plays, travel guides, how-to information, cookbooks, ...
- Poetry class helping break down walls in McLoud - Daily Oklahoman
McLOUD — If not for the black block lettering across the back of their gray shirts saying "INMATE,” the women in the poetry workshop could be mistaken for creative writing students at any local university. Heads down and hands feverishly writing ...
- Garvey event celebrates leader’s legacy - The South Florida Times
Garvey event celebrates leader’s legacyThe South Florida Times, FL - 1 hour agoThe UNIA represented the largest mass movement in African-American history, according to the National Humanities Center. Proclaiming a black nationalist ...
- People in the news (The Standard-Times)
McCartney appeals for peace over concert
- Two performers tackle seven Pinters with varying success - Georgia Straight
Two performers tackle seven Pinters with varying successGeorgia Straight, Canada - 1 hour ago... the classics The Black and White and Last to Go. These two show Pinter at his best, making melancholy, sometimes menacing poetry out of everyday speech. ...
- Fyne time - Sunday Herald
STAND LONG enough at any festival, and you begin to sympathise with how soldiers must have felt during their unremembered and uncelebrated wars of attrition. There's mud - that's a given. There's the slippery kind, the smelly kind, the living and ...
- A Unique Exhibition in Tehran by Artist Bita Ghezelayagh (Payvand Iran News)
Besides this most interesting, innovative and refreshing exhibition in many respects, Bita, who was born in Italy in 1965, has worked as an architect and an interior decorative artist, stage manager and dress designer for three films as well as running a home and being a mother to two very young children, Jahan and Kiana. At the same time she has been working for a major exhibition in London ...
- Robert Giroux, 94, editor and publisher who guided prominent author, dies (Arizona Daily Star)
Robert Giroux, an editor and publisher who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century and ultimately added his name to one of the nation's most distinguished publishing houses, died Friday in Tinton Falls, N.J. He was 94.
- Faith files: 'Embrace Wilmington' this week - The News Journal
Faith files: 'Embrace Wilmington' this weekThe News Journal, DE - 1 hour agoMusic, art, poetry, refreshments and an open mike. That's what you'll find at Arts Slam at SsAM at 7 pm Friday. The free Wilmington event will feature Black ...
- Clear Message From the Dark - RedOrbit
Clear Message From the DarkRedOrbit, TX - 2 hours agoLyrical and with occasional arrows of dark humour, it is also an unfettered cry of pain. According to TR Warszawa's artistic director, Grzegorz Jarzyna, ...
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