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- Writers to present a free reading - Iowa City Press-Citizen
Fiction writer Madeleine Thien from Canada and Cuban poet, fiction writer and essayist Rogelio Saunders, who lives in Spain, will present a free reading at 5 p.m. Sunday in Prairie Lights Books. The writers, who are now in residence with the ...
- Poem of the week: The Owl Describing her Young Ones (Guardian Unlimited)
Carol Rumens: Today, a cautionary tale of maternal pride from the underrated Anne Finch
- Literary Calendar for week of Sept. 14 - San Jose Mercury News
Literary Calendar for week of Sept. 14San Jose Mercury News, USA - 8 minutes ago4 pm Tuesday: "Best American Poetry 2008," Robert Hass, Chad Sweeney and DA Powell. Thursday: "Hungry Ghosts," Susan Dunlap. Friday: "Zen and Now," Mark ...
- Sewickley Heights screenwriter earns success with series of honors (Sewickley Herald)
All of Janyce Lepore's characters have a little part of her in them.  read more »
- Mountain Goats announce fall tour with Kaki King - Paste Magazine
Paste MagazineMountain Goats announce fall tour with Kaki KingPaste Magazine, GA - 33 minutes agoThere's that kid at the show who sits at the back table, alone, writing in his poetry book and making loose sketches of dragons while occasionally ...
- Q&A with author Ursula K. Le Guin - Corvallis Gazette Times
Q&A with author Ursula K. Le GuinCorvallis Gazette Times, OR - 2 hours agoWriting a book for young children is really more like writing poetry, in many ways. But my novels — they’re for anybody, any age, who wants to read them. ...
- Concerts: Hottest music events - Bradenton Herald
Concerts: Hottest music eventsBradenton Herald, United States - 3 hours ago2: Suefest: John Hancock, River Cove Ramblers, Poetry N Lotion, 8 pm, Skipper's Smokehouse; $5 AUG. 3: Soul2Earth, Rebekah Pulley and the Reluctant Prophets ...
- Pak poet Ahmed Faraz dies at 77 27 Aug 2008, 0000 hrs IST, Mohammed Wajihuddin,TNN (The Times of India)
MUMBAI: The Urdu feminist writer Ismat Chughtai once recalled meeting a young poet in Moscow. "He isn't the usual betel-chewing, kurta-pyjama-clad poet. He is smartly dressed and can dance with the girls," she remarked.
- Is Eloquence Overrated? (New York Times)
There remains a tantalizingly imprecise link between a great political speech and a great political career.
- Search: Salon The Web - Salon
Search: Salon The WebSalon - 3 hours ago... Oberst was my guilty pleasure for years. But now that he has changed from angsty teen to Johnny Cash wannabe, why can't I enjoy his music? By Judy Berman.
- Elementary, My Dears column: The best of times for teachers (San Mateo County Times)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom ... "This Charles Dickens line that begins "Tale of Two Cities" often describes our vocation.
- Montessori school in Duxbury holds peace ceremony - The Patriot Ledger
Montessori school in Duxbury holds peace ceremonyThe Patriot Ledger, MA - 1 hour agoThe event is commemorated around the world with candlelight vigils, poetry readings and celebrations similar to the one at Bay Farm. ...
- Sept. 24-28 - Arabo-Andalusian Music Of Morocco Tours NY, Boston, DC ... - Newsblaze.com
The master musicians of the Orchestra of Tangier will present a program of vocal and instrumental suites from medieval Andalusia in New York, Boston, D.C. and Atlanta, during a U.S. September tour. Performing sung poems of love, pleasure, wines and ...
- Edwards: On to the "Coverup"? - Slate
John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter – the mother of his "love child" – has been secretly receivÂing $15,000 a month as part of an elaborate cover-u p orchestrated by the former presidential contender. ... The money is being funneled to Hunter ...
- Who Wrote Dreams From My Father? - American Thinker
Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?American Thinker, WA - 35 minutes agoObama calls it some "very bad poetry," and he does not sell himself short. From "Underground": It would be another decade before Obama had anything in print ...
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