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- Author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens dies - Star News Online
COLUMBIA, S.C. | A South Carolina woman who became well-known for her book on her biracial heritage has died at age 95. Funeral officials said a memorial service for author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens will be held Tuesday in Columbia. Nickens died ...
- HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE (Kirkus Reviews)
Times Literary Supplement columnist Greenberg chronicles his 15-year-old daughter Sally's manic breakdown in vivid yet surprisingly detached prose.
- Stratford's 2009 Phèdre Is a Co-Pro With ACT; McKenna Will Star - Playbill.com
Stratford's 2009 Phèdre Is a Co-Pro With ACT; McKenna Will StarPlaybill.com, NY - 15 hours ago"Timberlake's extraordinary and fresh translation of Phèdre pays homage to the gorgeous poetry of the original while sustaining this play's explosive heat ...
- Eagles' Tour - OpEdNews.com
During the Eagles’ three-day-stop at the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey the Los Angeles band - who laid down their first tracks in 1972 in their self-titled debut - sounded better than ever. More energetic. More harmony, sensational ...
- Keller's wit with words an art form - Chicago Tribune
Keller's wit with words an art formChicago Tribune, United States - 13 hours ago... pop, and poetry gives a welcome punch to our reading lives. Ms. Keller shows that newspaper writing may inform and educate, and give us our daily art.
- Austin math professor finds poetry in rocks - Austin American-Statesman
Austin math professor finds poetry in rocksAustin American-Statesman, TX - 1 hour agoLittle limestone rocks shaped like numerals and letters spell out the daily record on the big rock. Earlier this week, he wrote this news in rocks: ...
- Cleburne rapper Scott Johnson is trying to send an uplifting message - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Cleburne rapper Scott Johnson is trying to send an uplifting messageFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 19 minutes ago"My mother wrote poetry, and growing up in West Virginia, everyone’s got problems," he says. "It’s always down, and there’s always an air of depression. ...
- Legislature ends a wild, bizarre session - Buffalo News
ALBANY — Key measures affecting the upstate economy died Tuesday as Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders ended this year’s legislative session, one of the more bizarre periods highlighted by the departure of its two biggest power ...
- At The Shore Today Listings - Atlantic City Press
Nightlife Blue Martini, Bally's Atlantic City, 609-340-2000 - The Exceptions, 9 p.m. Brenner's Brew, 21 E. Commerce St., Bridgeton, 856- 451-5885 - Poetry Reading and Discussion, 7 p.m. Caffrey's Tavern Steakhouse, 440 Route 9 South, Forked River ...
- Poet Natasha Trethewey, Hymning the Native Guard - NPR News
Fresh Air from WHYY, July 16, 2007 · Natasha Trethewey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Native Guard, her most recent collection of poetry. The title refers to a regiment of African- American soldiers who fought for the Union in the Civil War ...
- Going from mud to verse at Glastonbury - Whitehaven News
Whitehaven NewsGoing from mud to verse at GlastonburyWhitehaven News, UK - 2 hours agoSo when I saw the Poetry & Words Tent was looking for one more poet to perform I quickly sent an audio file of my work and waited anxiously for the email. ...
- There’s still time to register for School of the Arts (The Rhinelander Daily News)
School of the Arts, a University of Wisconsin-Madison program which is in its 45th year, offers dozens of hands-on workshops for adults in art and folk art, computer arts, writing, photography, music, theatre and drama, and mind, body and spirit. The week of intensive learning and creative activity attracts more than 300 people each year.
- Festival a celebration of a city's people - Tonight
Festival a celebration of a city's peopleTonight, South Africa - 5 hours agoZizile Khumalo is one of the writers of the play and also the poetry co-ordinator at the school. "The school was started to help the homeless deal with ...
- Faith meets tragedy - Longmont Daily Times-Call
Longmont Daily Times-CallFaith meets tragedyLongmont Daily Times-Call, CO - 1 hour agothe church mourned with those family members and reached out to them through prayer, in poetry and with casseroles delivered to the family’s door, he said. ...
- Publisher's focus on exiles benefits Cuban poet - Miami Herald
In the mid 19th century, the story goes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow could not walk the streets of Boston without being recognized. But today, ''poets are not as popular as rappers; poetry is not commercial,'' says Aida Levitan , a veteran South ...
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