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- Lush Life (2008) (Entertainment Weekly)
With supplies of The Wire fast dwindling, fans looking for their next fix of gritty, multilayered urban sagas need look no further than the outstanding new novel by series writer Richard Price, who has been dramatizing the intricate tango of cops and drug peddlers in thrilling, soulful fiction since long before anyone ever heard of Marlo Stanfield.
- Religious poetry contest seeking entries - Shawnee News-Star
New Jersey Rainbow Poets is sponsoring a religious poetry contest with a grand prize of $1,000. The contest is free to everyone and offers 50 prizes totaling near $5,000. The deadline to enter is June 14, 2008. To enter, send (only) one poem of 21 ...
- April is Poetry Month (Whitby This Week)
WHITBY -- April brings more than showers, it brings poetry. Whitby Public Library is celebrating Poetry Month with a poetry reading and a draw for free books of poetry. On April 10, Joe...
- Weintraub: Author had her own style (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
"She could tell you to go to hell," an admirer says in PBS' irresistible new profile of Zora Neale Hurston, "and make you enjoy the trip." As outrageously colorful and complex as the queen of the Harlem Renaissance herself, this "Amer...
- Poets shortlisted for two national prizes; National Poetry Month kicks off (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO - Writers making the short lists for two national poetry prizes were announced Tuesday at a launch event for National Poetry Month.
- New niche for poetry reading
Willits News - Bill Bruneau's poetry group has a place, a new time, a new day and maybe even a new style. The poetry group will meet at J.D. Redhouse (the old Country Mall) on the second Thursday of each month, from 6 p.m. until closing. "Come and read your written ...
- A poet's love of pop - Telegraph.co.uk
A poet's love of popTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoPop, like poetry, is a demanding master: when you are not chasing tickets and missing the last train home from gigs, you are tracking down rare records and ...
- Creative families pool their talents to make picture books (Deseret Morning News)
Partnerships between authors and illustrators are common in children's production and publishing. Some combine talent and style on the same art piece while others work in unison, one writing, the other doing illustration.
- The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for April 8, 2008 - Blogger News Network
The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for April 8, 2008Blogger News Network - 51 minutes agoHe finds a poetry book and starts reading from it but she says that isn’t what it says. He pulls the book away and when she reaches for it she falls on the ...
- Fugitive Pieces sucks the poetry and life out of its source material (Phoenix New Times)
Canadian poet Anne Michaels' beautiful 1996 novel, Fugitive Pieces — about a Jewish writer immobilized by the memory of his Polish family's murder at the hands of the Nazis — distills tragedy into grief, terror, and a wary romance built on the redemptive power of love and art, and set on ...
- North, Firestone win Auten track and field titles - Akron Beacon Journal
North, Firestone win Auten track and field titlesAkron Beacon Journal, OH - 7 minutes agoAt age 9, she was writing poetry. By 17, she was a single mother. In her early 20s, she danced at a strip joint, ran a brothel, was married, then divorced. ...
- Center to offer poetry workshops - Shreveport Times
Center to offer poetry workshopsShreveport Times, LA - 5 hours agoThe Multicultural Center of the South is offering Performance Poetry workshops conducted by professional storyteller and spoken word artist Joanna Ballard. ...
- Anything But Generic
Cornell Daily Sun - ... explored several genres over the course of their careers, they have also helped blur the entrenched divisions between poetry ... in “the sharp clear globe of January” while a peacock’s tail transforms into “illumina . . . [an] archaic poem.” ...
- Survivor's tale of Holocaust touches kids' hearts - MiamiHerald.com
Survivor's tale of Holocaust touches kids' heartsMiamiHerald.com, FL - 30 minutes agoSeveral wrote poetry based on a photograph. Most of their lessons about the Holocaust centered on Adolf Hitler. ''Nothing about the people who were in it,'' ...
- New Hope Middle School Student Will Have Art Shown Statewide - Chattanoogan
Poetry and Art Competition. The River of Words contest benefits Kindergarten through 12th grade students in Georgia schools and youth organizations by encouraging art and poetry as powerful communication tools in their commitment to environmental ...
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