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- Today's local news briefs (Kingston Daily Freeman)
POUGHKEEPSIE -John Prendergast, former National Security Council director of African Affairs, will give a lecture, "What You Can Do to End Genocide in Darfur," at 5:30 p.m. Monday in Room 300 of Rockefeller Hall at Vassar College.
- Topsfield Council on Aging - Wicked Local Topsfield
Topsfield Council on AgingWicked Local Topsfield, MA - 16 minutes agoWednesday, 1:30 to 3:30 pm at the Topsfield Town Library, 1 South Common St., come and join a group of beginners – creative writing, poetry, writing memoirs ...
- Looking ahead - GulfNews
Looking aheadGulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 34 minutes agoEmiratis sharing an interest in traditional poetry will want to have a medium through which they can publish their work for other poets to appreciate, ...
- Middle East and Middle America - Chicago Sun-Times
For far too long, most cartoonists in this country were content to be merely average. Now the prevailing trend is to combine an art house aesthetic with mainstream commercial sensibility and strive for excellence as a matter of course. First Second ...
- "Black princess of poetry" to grace Miami Book Fair - The South Florida Times
"Black princess of poetry" to grace Miami Book FairThe South Florida Times, FL - 42 minutes agoShe also recalls a sad chapter in Virginia Tech’s history. Two dozen people were injured and 32 students and faculty members were killed when student gunman ...
- Long Island libraries an inspirational resource - Newsday
Long Island libraries an inspirational resourceNewsday, NY - Nov 15, 2008I agree with your article ["Life-Changing Books," Nov. 8], that books certainly can be life-changing. Some books can be priceless at your neighborhood ...
- Sweet 'Secret Life of Bees' raids the honey jar (East Valley Tribune)
 The thing about honey is that it’s not just sweet, but awfully gooey. That goes for the new film “The Secret Life of Bees,” too. Is the sweetness worth the stickiness in this maudlin “American Sisterhood of the Traveling Green Tomatoes”?
- Author and Poet Pat Mora to Receive Luis Leal Literature Award - UC Santa Barbara
Author and Poet Pat Mora to Receive Luis Leal Literature AwardUC Santa Barbara, CA - 2 hours agoAmong her collections of poetry are "Agua Santa: Holy Water"; "Adobe Odes"; "Communion"; "Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints"; "Borders"; and "Chants. ...
- Off-West End : Security - Whatsonstage.com
Security is as masterful a performance as you are likely to see. Zena Edwards, performing in her first solo show, taps into an unlimited supply of potent charged poetry, which is moving, relevant and as innovative and theatrical as Peter Brook at his ...
- 'Tree of Smoke' author reads in Boise (The Idaho Statesman)
Acclaimed author Denis Johnson will read selections from his fiction and poetry to benefit the Court Appointed Special Advocate program. His latest book is "Tree of Smoke: A Novel" (Picador, $16), the 2007 winner of the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. His story compilation "Jesus' Son" (Harper Perennial, $12) was made into a feature film in 1999, starring Billy Crudup. The ...
- The Obama phenomenon: a dream can compel people to hold their breath ... - Times Online
Something must be wrong with me. I don’t like flying. I don’t write with a computer. I’m a peculiar traveller. I prefer to minimise the ways that I can be unduly affected, and yet here I am setting out on a long flight to America, to write ...
- No man is an island, says Iceland bank chief - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukNo man is an island, says Iceland bank chiefTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoBut let’s not to be too downhearted, today is National Poetry Day. To kick things off, I offer this little ditty from Felix Riley at bookmakers ChoiceOdds:
- LeBron brings basketball film to Toronto (Canada.com)
Apparently not content with his role as one of the two best basketball players in the world, LeBron James is getting into the movie industry.
- One-night revival - The Winchester Star
One-night revivalThe Winchester Star, VA - 47 minutes agoNext week’s presentation of “God’s Trombones” will feature poetry by James Weldon Johnson and local church choir members singing African American spirituals ...
- The Horizon Foundation for NJ Announces 26 Grants Totaling ... - ParamusPost.com
The Horizon Foundation for NJ Announces 26 Grants Totaling ...ParamusPost.com, NJ - 19 minutes agoThe grant also supports a series of in-depth poetry writing and performance classes for 100 at-risk, minority high school students. ...
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