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- Austin literary events for April 2008 (Austin American-Statesman)
For the past 16 years, the Austin International Poetry Festival has been held every April. During an extended weekend, poets from across the country and around the world — but mostly from around Texas — get up and share their work with the public at bookstores, coffeehouses and other venues. One of the largest nonjuried festivals in the world, it's a poetry free-for-all celebrating those who ...
- Noted black poets to be featured at Greensburg readings - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Noted black poets to be featured at Greensburg readingsPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 45 minutes agoToi Derricotte, whose "Tender" won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize and whose memoir, "The Black Notebooks," was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. ...
- Our 50 favorite magazines - Chicago Tribune
Once again we've gathered around the magazine racks in our minds and pulled out our favorites. We are a mixed bag of folks, and the list reflects that, ranging from the inevitability of the New Yorker to the surprise of G-Fan, a magazine for Godzilla ...
- Hundreds mourn murdered Ashland native - MetroWest Daily News
Dawn Armstrong was a woman who "spent her dash wisely," the Rev. Ernest Batten told mourners who crowded into the Matarese Funeral Home Chapel yesterday. When dates of birth and death are recorded on a headstone, the dash between the years counts ...
- Visual Art | Mixed Use: Mestizo Coffeehouse re-opens with a vision ... - Salt Lake City Weekly
Salt Lake City WeeklyVisual Art | Mixed Use: Mestizo Coffeehouse re-opens with a vision ...Salt Lake City Weekly, UT - 5 hours agoThe gallery is also hosting weekly poetry slams and a “Saturday morning with the mayor” get-together. The energy of the community is behind Mestizo, ...
- CD Wright's 'Rising, Falling, Hovering' - International Herald Tribune
CD Wright's 'Rising, Falling, Hovering'International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoBut the fragmentary forms and skittering attention of her poems suggest that 21st-century activist poetry may face some novel challenges, ...
- Road Signs - College of the Holy Cross
College of the Holy CrossRoad SignsCollege of the Holy Cross, MA - 58 minutes agoI will continue to focus on and write poetry. And I’m happy to say I’ve been awarded a grant to publish my second book. I plan to travel more as well. ...
- New book from Bob Dylan’s old girlfriend - Monsters and Critics.com
Monsters and Critics.comNew book from Bob Dylan’s old girlfriendMonsters and Critics.com - 11 hours agoBroadway is the publisher, and visit the NYT article here, where you can not only read the review but also a chapter excerpt.
- Kay Ryan Is Named New U.S. Poet Laureate (The Online NewsHour)
The Library of Congress announced Thursday the appointment of Kay Ryan as the 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009.
- William Gage - Village Times Herald
William Smith Gage died unexpectedly on Saturday, April 19. He was born on December 1, 1984 to Joan and John Gage of Stony Brook. William attended Phillips Academy Andover in Andover, Mass., and graduated in 2004 from Ward Melville High School where ...
- A positive impact - EastOregonian.info (subscription)
A positive impactEastOregonian.info (subscription), OR - 8 hours agoHer students have won a National School Lunch award and have been published in the Anthology of Poetry, a publication of student work from across the United ...
- In brief: Crewe by-election; ‘Gay church’ film - Times Online
Gordon Brown has ordered scores of ministers to Crewe & Nantwich this weekend in a last-minute effort to stave off defeat in next week’s by-election (Francis Elliott writes). The scale of Labour’s effort belies claims that the party is resigned ...
- RACE RELATIONS: Civil rights monument unveiled on Va. Capitol lawn - Delmarva Daily Times
RICHMOND — For the first time Monday, statues of black children and civil rights leaders were placed alongside statues of some men who had worked to deny racial equality on the lawn of what was once the Confederate Capitol. Thousands of people ...
- White Plains kids and cops to stage production about diversity (The Journal News)
WHITE PLAINS - Seventeen-year-old high school junior Chris Watts, who is black, said he has never heard a racial slur directed at him.
- Donnybrook’s very own write-a-holic - Donnybrook Bridgetown Mail
Donnybrook’s very own write-a-holicDonnybrook Bridgetown Mail, Australia - 4 hours agoJo and her family used to travel to the South West for short breaks. She was impressed with Donnybrook because there was a hospital, police station, ...
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