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- Beach Reads: Babbitt - Marketplace
Beach Reads: BabbittMarketplace, CA - 3 hours agoSusan Lee: "He made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people ...
- Man crosses barrios to promote gang peace - San Diego Union Tribune
Man crosses barrios to promote gang peaceSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 2 hours agoHe protested the violence through poetry and tried to catch the attention of others through his artwork. At 16, he joined the End Barrio Warfare movement, ...
- A mass of passion, a hint of madness - WalesOnline
A mass of passion, a hint of madnessWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoWhether something is lost in translation, I’m not sure, but some of our working class hero’s attempts at poetry or philosophy lose their way. ...
- CBC's brave new Radio 2 - Toronto Star
CBC's brave new Radio 2Toronto Star, Canada - 5 hours agoTerfry, whose live performances are characterized by off-kilter yarns and apparently stream-of-consciousness poetry, sounded tongue-tied and lost early on. ...
- Poetry in praise of older folk - Stratford Press
Poetry in praise of older folkStratford Press, New Zealand - 2 hours agoTHE annual Greats and Grands Poetry Competition was held in Stratford this week, with another great turnout. The competition is an opportunity for children ...
- Hot-ticket item: Mac the Chip Cookie - Kalamazoo Gazette
Before I tasted the Mac the Chip Cookie, I'd look at vegan pastries and say, "No butter? What's the point?" What a surprise -- a vegan cookie that actually tastes good. A friend recently shared a Mac the Chip Cookie from Something's Brewing . It didn ...
- 'Infinite Jest' author, 46, an apparent suicide (CNN.com)
CLAREMONT, California (AP) -- David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46.
- Desk clear, but good reads stay (The News & Observer)
I started this column a year and a half ago as an open forum for writers to explore issues related to reading, writing and journalism. Phillip Manning has written about the state of science book reviewing in The New York Times. Todd Shy has written about the experience of reviewing books. I have written about the limitations of using the five-paragraph essay as a punitive measure for middle ...
- Central students get personal in 'Portrait' (The Doings Clarendon Hills)
To read poems is one thing. To bring them to life on stage is something else entirely. But that's exactly what the cast of "Stuck in a Portrait: A Performance in Three Snap Shots" will do next week at Hinsdale Central High School. Performers will stage poems that were written by students in August during a week-long poetry writing camp with published poet Kevin Coval. The poems will be brought ...
- Family Doctor: Dreams contribute to good health - Canton Repository
A: Yes, they are. Dreams occur during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stages. A sequence of dreams in a progressive pattern often appears to resolve emotional issues by working through them in a step-by-step manner and by comparing them to successful ...
- The Poetry of Timothy Green (Good Times)
Timothy Green lives in Los Angeles, where he works as editor of the poetry journal Rattle . His first book-length collection, "American Fractal," is forthcoming from Red Hen Press (January, 2009).
- Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont members record inspirational CD - Statesville Record & Landmark
Kent Steel performs for members of the Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont at his studio after a day of laying down tracks for their CD, "Music Expressions." Regan Hill/rhill@statesville.com Danielle Houston has dreamed of one day recording her music ...
- Strong, independent woman devoted her life to her family - Fayetteville Observer
Strength and devotion defined Margaret Davis. “She was a very independent, strong, self-sufficient woman,†daughter Deborah Davis said. Devoted to her husband and fiercely protective of their four children, part of it stemmed from values learned ...
- 'Slow' moves in revelatory ways - Boston Globe
BECKET - At first, the floor-to-ceiling image projected on the back wall of Jacob's Pillow's Doris Duke Studio Theatre appears to be a still photograph. Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa, regal in a traditional peach silk gown, stands legs bent ...
- What I’m Into (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Eleanor Goudie-Averill is thrilled to be back at the University of Iowa.
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