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- Gift of words: Festival of the Written Arts (Coast Reporter)
The last line that author Lorna Goodison read aloud from her book, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People, went something like this: “My mother dipped her finger in sugar and ran it around my mouth when I was born to give me the gift of words.”
- Student station allows radio host to wax poetic - The Capital Times
Student station allows radio host to wax poeticThe Capital Times, WI - 1 hour ago"I just became interested in contemporary writing, and poetry and prose that's really beyond the pale and out of the box that kind of plays with your head ...
- Why 'Religulous' misses the point - Canton Repository
MOCKING FAITH Comedian and talk-show host Bill Maher (right) appears in a scene from "Religulous." According to Internet Movie Database, the filmmakers used the fake working title "A Spiritual Journey" to obtain interviews with religious leaders ...
- Dr. Ladin's Transformative Journey - YU Observer
Dr. Ladin's Transformative JourneyYU Observer, NY - 9 hours agoBeyond religious considerations, Ladin notes that her presence is a challenge to many, who see her as someone alternatively inspirational or threatening, ...
- Louise Erdrich to speak at Austin Peay - Clarksville Online
Louise Erdrich to speak at Austin PeayClarksville Online, TN - 54 minutes agoShe also has written two collections of poetry, Jacklight, and Baptism of Desire. Her fiction has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle (1984) ...
- Ben Folds finds his 'Way to Normal' - MLive.com
Courtesy photo Ben Folds will play The Fillmore in Detroit on Thursday. For singer-pianist Ben Folds, playing Detroit is like performing in front of thousands of emotional brainiacs. "I've always liked playing Detroit," Folds said during a recent ...
- Theodore Solotaroff, 80; his New American Review showcased writers - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - Theodore Solotaroff, who in 1967 started The New American Review as a highly unusual showcase for a rising generation of writers, including Philip Roth, William H. Gass, and Mordechai Richler in just the first issue, died Friday at his ...
- Bestival | Sep 5-7 2008 (My Village City of London)
Latest - My Bloody Valentine to Headline Bestival Cult 80s band My Bloody Valentine are set to headline Bestival with Aphex Twin, The Breeders and CSS. And if those unmissable names aren’t enough how about the funksome George Clinton, Gary Numan, The Human League, Foals, DJ Yoda and, continuing the retro vibe The Wedding Present.
- Indian students perform - Medford Mail Tribune
Students taking part in the Native American Youth Academy this week in Ashland talk publicly about their heritage today. The presentation begins at 12:45 pm. on the outdoor Green Show stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 15 S. Pioneer St. It’s ...
- Towards Another Summer - Financial Times
Janet Frame is best known for An Angel at My Table , a volume of autobiography that deal t openly with her experience of mental illness. Yet she shelved this second autobiographical novel, Towards Another Summer , for being too “embarrassingly ...
- John Lundberg: Highlights From the 2008 National Poetry Slam (HuffingtonPost)
The National Poetry Slam--or so-called "Superbowl of spoken word"-- took place in Madison, Wisconsin this past week. The event featured more than 75 teams that had won their way through preliminary slams and city championships around the country to reach the final.
- Photo: Adam Travis - Time Out Chicago
Time Out ChicagoPhoto: Adam TravisTime Out Chicago, IL - 30 minutes agoThe organizer and driving force behind the Poetry Foundation’s annual Printers’ Ball, Fred Sasaki—who self-effacingly titles himself “the doorman”—recalls ...
- DJ samples sights, sounds of Antarctica - Rocky Mountain News
DJ samples sights, sounds of AntarcticaRocky Mountain News, CO - 56 minutes agoThe landscape, really, is a form of poetry." Miller stressed that Terra Nova is not merely another treatise on global warming. "There is change going on ...
- Jonathan Kay on the death of Quebec nationalism — and the 1972 book ... - Nationalpost.com
To Quebec’s few remaining hard-core Bloquistes, it was a devastating put-down from a fellow sovereigntist-in-arms: Gilles Duceppe’s party, declared former PQ cabinet minister Jacques Brassard in a La Presse op-ed last week, has become a “clone ...
- MotoGP: Aussie date change sought - Ansa news in English
Ansa news in EnglishMotoGP: Aussie date change soughtAnsa news in English, Italy - 3 hours agoJust poetry to watch''. Pitt himself is an avid motorcyclist and has over a dozen bikes in his garage, including a Harley-Davidson Shovelhead chopper which ...
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