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- Question of the Day: - Grand Rapids Press
It's not a trick question. Some local theatergoers are concerned that FYT's practice of casting adult actors in its productions spoils opportunities for young people. The theater's mission, counters executive director William P. Ward, is not ...
- Wrongs and rights - New Statesman
New StatesmanWrongs and rightsNew Statesman, UK - 1 hour agoBut this book goes out of its way to eschew poetry or, indeed, much colour at all. It might have been better to try for, if not "The Prelude", ...
- Poetry: Find encounters of the sacred kind - The Evening Sun
Poetry: Find encounters of the sacred kindThe Evening Sun, PA - 5 minutes agoI suggest that the writer wants us to see a spark of heaven in every aspect of life on earth, even in the most common occurrences. ...
- Author: Youth, tech are keys to Mideast activism - Jewish News Weekly
During the two years that Jared Cohen traveled the Middle East, he met with leaders of Hezbollah in a McDonald’s, drank bootleg liquor made in a bathtub, found out about underground literary readings via text messages and spent a Shabbat in an ...
- He Blurbed, She Blurbed (New York Times)
Book blurbs are a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith.
- Wet, If Not Wild - Santa Fe Reporter
Santa Fe ReporterWet, If Not WildSanta Fe Reporter, NM - 12 hours agoToo much of Water Planet is text-heavy and pedagogic rather than simply presented with the natural poetry of art. When Irland presents the documentation of ...
- After Dark: Can't beat the livin' on Carrol's Creek deck - HometownAnnapolis.com
"Summertime, and the living is easy." Gershwin could have been writing about life along the Chesapeake Bay when he penned those lines 70-some years ago, as this is one of the best places to live come summertime, with so much to do and everyone ...
- Animal welfare advocates say the shelter could dramatically reduce ... - City Pages
The Minnesotan governor now knows how Carol McCain feels It's a common story in the arts. Young, fresh, and brash group hits the scene, be it a band or a theater company, a visual arts group or a magazine. The group burns white hot for a time—six ...
- A brief story of a life in poetry - Concord Monitor
To set up one story in his new memoir, Donald Hall mentions in passing that at the time it happened, he told no one about it. Such reticence, he writes, is "contrary to my usual habit of telling everything to everybody." This is a habit that serves a ...
- Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-Lee - WalesOnline
Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-LeeWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 5 hours agoI thought about poetry. I thought about rendering something pithy in Welsh. I even thought about translating profound insights into Latin, but as both these ...
- ‘Moving tributes’ to the words of national bard (The Herald)
The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns will be commemorated at transport hubs across the west of Scotland, while a carriage on Glasgow's Subway system will also be dedicated to the national bard.
- In two languages, Palabristas speak of love and loss - Twin Cities Planet
In two languages, Palabristas speak of love and lossTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 8 minutes agoWhen they formed in 2002 for the National Poetry Slam, they wanted to have a Latino name. Their original name was Palabreros, but later changed it to ...
- Marching to their own drummer (Cape Cod Times)
While children who think outside of the box may go through an uncomfortable time when they are young, by the time they are older - in high school, say - they see the benefits of independent thought.
- Writers to present a free reading (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Fiction writer Madeleine Thien from Canada and Cuban poet, fiction writer and essayist Rogelio Saunders, who lives in Spain, will present a free reading at 5 p.m. Sunday in Prairie Lights Books.
- Acres of Books a Long Beach institution for nearly 75 years (Los Angeles Times)
The family-run store had an inventory that topped 1 million volumes, but the owners have sold the building, which will soon contain housing and art galleries. In an era of Amazon.com and chain bookstores, where a good read is a click or neighborhood mall away, Melody Peck drove more than 100 miles from San Diego to downtown Long Beach to walk Friday among the dusty stacks at Acres of Books, ...
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