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- Book festival receives grants - Caspar Star-Tribune
The Casper College/ARTCORE "Equality State Book Festival" recently received grants totaling more than $48,722 from outside funders, according to a release from the college. The festival is scheduled for Sept. 18-20 at the college and other venues ...
- Capital garden becomes focus for a celebration of poetry (The Scotsman)
ST ANDREW Square is to become a focus for poetry in the Capital as part of new initiatives put forward by the city council.
- Obama's bitter muse: Frank M. Davis - Iowa City Press-Citizen
Of the potential father figures in Barack Obama's autobiography "Dreams from My Father," one of the first -- and most mysterious -- is a poet whom we only ever know as "Frank." "Dreams from My Father" credits Frank with being the sole older black man ...
- Poet takes his one-man show to school - Newham Recorder
Poet takes his one-man show to schoolNewham Recorder, UK - 35 minutes ago... primary after meeting some of its pupils at a poetry workshop at London's Barbican Theatre. So impressed was he by the children's creative writing that ...
- Granville scribe is nominated for state writing honor - Coshocton Tribune
GRANVILLE - Passion runs deep for writer William Zink. With an unflagging persistence to distribute his work, the self-published author of seven books has beaten the odds. His seventh novel, "Ohio River Dialogues," has been named one of five ...
- In conversation with zaccai curtis - Jazz.com
Jazz.comIn conversation with zaccai curtisJazz.com, TX - 2 hours ago{Laughter}. Congratulations on a fine performance at The Jazz Gallery and good luck with your upcoming gig at The Nuyorican Poets Café.
- Sara Mobayen: A talented young photographer - Payvand
PayvandSara Mobayen: A talented young photographerPayvand, Iran - 4 hours agoI must admit that even from the back one can feel that this child is having a good time. When she told me that she does yoga I realized where that gentle ...
- In the next 7: Poetry; sidewalk sales; Art Hop - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
In the next 7: Poetry; sidewalk sales; Art HopKalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com, MI - 2 hours agoThe PAKZOO Poetry Slam is scheduled for 8 to 10 pm Monday at Papa Pete's Banquet Room, 502 S. Burdick St. The annual Summer Sidewalk Sales throughout ...
- Tasmania poet wins NSW prize - Big Pond News
Kathryn Lomer has won the prestigous Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry. Photo: ABC A Hobart writer, Kathryn Lomer, has won the $30,000 Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry. Ms Lomer's second collection of poetry, 'Two Kinds of Silence', was recognised as ...
- A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy world - The Olympian
A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy worldThe Olympian, WA - 1 hour agoI unfolded the scrap of paper with its 16 words, and wondered how this sparse verse, which I'd carried around since college, applied to my life. ...
- The Testy Traveling Texan: What to Wear - WOAI
The Testy Traveling Texan: What to WearWOAI, TX - 22 hours agoThe castle houses "The Ezra Pound Centre for Literature" where students come from all over the world to study poetry. Traveling in the post-9/11 world is no ...
- Fading galaxy - Guardian Unlimited
Cyd Charisse was not the greatest of movie stars. When she sang, she was dubbed. When she spoke, she was on cue, at best. But when she danced, there was no need for artifice. A couple of dozen times in the 1950s, she moved across a screen to music ...
- Whither Arab criticism? (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Organised by the Supreme Council for Culture (SCC), the International Conference for Literary Criticism, a three-day event held recently in Cairo, was taken up by discussion of problems of more than narrowly academic interest, including the definition of the literary text, ambiguity in modern Arabic poetry, methods of teaching the canonical Arabic criticism of the Middle Ages and cultural ...
- Rare books and manuscripts now shared online - Houston Chronicle
From Timbuktu to here, to reverse the expression, the written words of the legendary African oasis are being delivered by electronic caravan. A lode of books and manuscripts, some only recently rescued from decay, is being digitized for the Internet ...
- Poetry Column: Hanover first with borough laureateship - Evening Sun
Carl Sandburg once said, "Nothing happens unless first a dream." According to Anna Manahan Bowman, Hanover's first poet laureate, Hanover was first in the state of Pennsylvania to designate the official position of a borough poet laureate. The ...
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