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- Reading, writing and reeling (Guardian Unlimited)
Travel: Niall Griffiths looks forward to the Laugharne arts festival in south Wales
- Arts Briefs 2/28 (Provo Daily Herald)
Billy Collins Utahns have the rare opportunity of attending a poetry reading on Friday at Brigham Young University by one of the most acclaimed poets of our time, a poet whose collections have broken sales records and whose readings often have standing room only.
- The $25 Haiku (Denver Post)
It's Earth Day today, so we couldn't help but ask entrants to the Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest to contemplate "recycling" in verse. Happily, Karen Magner of Castle Rock managed to close the loop:
- A lot you don't know
Sydney Morning Herald - ... for a writer obsessed with the vagaries of fate - how a random phone call or chance encounter can alter the course of a life ... Fortune also arrived in the form of Hustvedt, then 26, who he met at a poetry reading in 1981.
- What's up, Doc? - Concord Monitor
What's up, Doc?Concord Monitor, NH - 14 hours agoTomorrow night at 7, Russian Roulette Productions presents the NH Slam Poetry Finals at 1111 Bar in Manchester. The slam will determine which of the 10 ...
- Elyria Notebook: March 23, 2008 - Chronicle-Telegram
Elyria Notebook: March 23, 2008Chronicle-Telegram, OH - 5 hours agoThe evening will be filled with music, poetry, comedy, and a special presentation of The Pirates of Penzance by the Might Goliath Players. ...
- Urdu Rubaiyat now in Polish (New Kerala)
Warsaw, April 18 : Urdu poetry, which has made inroads in Polish literary circles in the last few years with the publications of Mir, Ghalib, Faiz and Firaq, now has a new book on Rubaiyat (quatrains), both in Urdu and Polish.
- Interview with Artie Graham - The Republican - MassLive.com
Interview with Artie GrahamThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 1 hour agoSo with that -- being able to write poetry that affected people -- my family started saying, "You've got so much talent, why don't you put it all together. ...
- Freedom from Ickiness with David Berman - Utne Reader Online
Freedom from Ickiness with David BermanUtne Reader Online - 2 hours agoHis lyrics are poetry in a cracked, catchy, alt-country frame. And yet the songs seem a little more straightforward this time around, less cryptic and more ...
- A voice heard 'round the world (The Doings Hinsdale)
To Joy Harjo, the sun is a relative. "I believe in the sun," Harjo said, quoting from her poem, "A Sacred Connection to the Sun." "In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity." As a recurring theme in her poetry, the sun was mostly absent during Harjo's March 5 visit at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, but she still delivered a luminous performance ...
- Poetry review: Modern Life, by Matthea Harvey (The Tennessean)
A runner-up for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, Harvey offers a mixture of prose poems and standard verse in Modern Life, which accurately reflects the sense of foreboding terror that fills any serious news-watcher. Without her dazzling skill for accuracy and imagery, her poems would be heavy with the turgidity and portentousness that sinks so much contemporary poetry along these lines.
- Entertainment calendar (San Jose Mercury News)
PENINSULA Banff Mountain Film Festival. Award-winning adventure films and videos from the 2007 festival.
- Sutter reflects on his two-year tenure - Duluth News Tribune
Sutter reflects on his two-year tenureDuluth News Tribune, MN - 6 hours ago... writing, reading, publishing, teaching,†he recalled. “We also involved the librarians, who found magazines and poetry books dating back to 1914, ...
- Save Write to Editor - Times of India
DUBAI: Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator hanged in 2006 for crimes against humanity, feared he would pick up sexual diseases while he was in US custody, according to extracts from prison writings published in an Arab newspaper. Saddam said he ...
- N. Scott Momaday To Give Poetry Reading (Native Times)
Oklahoma Centennial Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday will do a poetry reading as a featured speaker at Northeastern State University’s 36th Annual Symposium on the American Indian on Friday, April 18 at 11 a.m. in the University Center Sen. Herb Rozell Ballroom.
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