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- Local poets lend their voices and words for group healing - Herald Tribune
The facade of the Sanddollar Bookstore seems unassuming, but inside every Thursday evening, the store is filled with the prose of the Voices of Venice poetry reading group. Linda Neckel White, founder and host of Voices of Venice. click to enlarge ...
- Curtains up (The Wichita Eagle)
H ard economic times took their toll on Wichita's usually vibrant live stage venues in the past year, causing at least two to ring down the curtain permanently. Stage One, which launched original shows toward Broadway ("Jane Eyre," "Jungle Man") and offered revivals of vintage, rarely seen classics, called it quits last winter after 11 years. And Big Mike's Little Theatre, which showcased ...
- In search of the Yiddish voice that still whispers in Lithuania - Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
Wisconsin Jewish ChronicleIn search of the Yiddish voice that still whispers in LithuaniaWisconsin Jewish Chronicle - 2 hours agoVilna was the home of great modernist Yiddish poetry, of important Jewish publishing houses, the birthplace of the YIVO Institute, the resting place of the ...
- Mama extends a trendy welcome to tough Paris - The Independent
'The new tourism of the 21st century will be urban tourism, the discovery, or the re-discovery of great cities' The Mama Shelter used to be a multi-story car-park. Its ceilings and floors are covered with graffiti. It stands beside a disused railway ...
- 125 titles of books to be unveiled during 'Book Week' (Islamic Republic News Agency)
Iran - Book Week Some 125 titles of books by poets and writers will be unveiled in a ceremony in Al-Zahra University concurrent with Book Week slated for November 11-19, announced deputy minister of culture and Islamic guidance for cultural affairs.
- Cheeky Rosebud magazine blooms in Cambridge - Wisconsin State Journal
In the mid-1980s writer John Lehman went on a road trip with a friend to San Francisco. While there, the pair sought out City Lights Books, the independent bookstore co-founded by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, which Lehman described as the ultimate ...
- Iran attends US Jazz Poetry Concert - Presstv
Iranian poetess Maryam Ala-Amjadi has earned the admiration of participants at Pittsburgh University's International Writing Program. Ala-Amjadi and Rogelio Saunders (Cuba) attended the event through the efforts of the Bureau of Educational and ...
- Patrick Lane's Violent Memory - TheTyee.ca
Patrick Lane's Violent MemoryTheTyee.ca, Canada - 3 hours agoI wanted to start writing again, but I was afraid of writing poetry, and I was afraid of writing short fiction. I'd done them both before, and I was worried ...
- A new voice aims to evangelize, inform (Miami Herald)
For years, as he celebrated Mass at St. James Catholic Church in North Miami or tended to the special needs of his Haitian-American congregants, Father Patrick Charles envisioned a newspaper that would chronicle the important ecclesiastical events for the Creole-speaking faithful.
- Sarah?s Pompom Palaver (New York Times)
Watching Gov. Sarah Palin?s strenuously folksy debate performance, we could wonder when elite became a bad thing in America.
- End of the book at bedtime: Just one-in-three parents bother reading ... - Daily Mail
Inspiring: But a book at bedtime is no longer a part of most children's lives There was a time when reading a book at bedtime brought every child's day to a close. But more youngsters are being denied the chance to enjoy books and as a result spend ...
- Weirdness abounds in offbeat Crows - Houston Chronicle
Houston ChronicleWeirdness abounds in offbeat CrowsHouston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour agoHere, he's treating a pet topic (as defined by the The Poetry Project Newsletter): "low-rent rural America festering in the backwater pollution from the ...
- Andrew Gallix: The new wave of French urban fiction (Guardian Unlimited)
The torrent of urban writing from the banlieues is finally making an impact on the French literary establishment, but may be too challenging for this side of the Channel
- Blocked club door sparks lawsuit, accusations of racism - Las Vegas Review - Journal
Blocked club door sparks lawsuit, accusations of racismLas Vegas Review - Journal, NV - 55 minutes ago21 to enter Poetry in the Forum Shops at Caesars. The nightclub's managing partner has filed a lawsuit calling for an end to the practice of blocking the ...
- MET stages Arthur Miller classic, ‘The Crucible' (The Kansas City Star)
An old friend is in town and, as always, it was thrilling to see him. Yes, Arthur Miller is onstage again in Kansas City, and something about his plays — at least the ones I like — get to me no matter how often I’ve seen them.
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