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- James Tate's poems are about something and everything else (The Kansas City Star)
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You’ll remember “Seinfeld,” the sitcom dubbed “a show about nothing.” Here’s part of Charles Simic’s blurb for Tate’s new collection, The Ghost Soldiers: “To write a poem out of nothing at all is Tate’s genius. Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry, and that is ...
- Cros-Lex grad reaches out to Christian gays (Times Herald)
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- Wisconsin Book Festival 2008: Patricia Smith speaks (Isthmus)
Published last month by Coffee House Press, Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith is a searing portrait of the horrors wrought by Hurricane Katrina -- told from perspectives including the hurricane itself, its victims and survivors, politicians and more abstract points of view. In an interview conducted via email, Smith describes the genesis of Blood Dazzler assesses the legacy of Katrina, compares ...
- Festival fuses arts, culture and sports - Epping Forest Guardian
IN the month that the Olympic baton is officially passed to London, the Shoreditch Festival fuses themes of sport and art with a party atmosphere. From August 16 to 24, residents, local artists and small businesses that make up the Shoreditch Trust ...
- UK Girls’ Clubs - Islam Online
UK Girls’ ClubsIslam Online, Qatar - 6 hours agoShe has written a number of books including: Buried Treasure (An Islamic novel for teenagers), The Light of Submission (Islamic Poetry). ...
- Sing along to ‘Mamma Mia’ - Kansas City Star
Sing along to ‘Mamma Mia’Kansas City Star, MO - 9 minutes agoAll Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut, has scheduled two more free movies as part of its documentary series. •“The Other Europe” (7 pm Sept. ...
- Everything Is Preachy Keen In 'Resurrection' (Washington Post)
In "Resurrection," Daniel Beaty's perky new poetry slam of a play about the hardness and softness of life for African American men, a 10-year-old science wiz spends hours with his chemistry set, trying to perfect a formula for the world's best herbal iced tea.
- Literary Happenings: Magazine is a time capsule of 1992 book news - Ventura County Star
Literary Happenings: Magazine is a time capsule of 1992 book newsVentura County Star, CA - 58 minutes agoPoetry group 7 pm Wednesday. Bank of Books, 748 E. Main St., Ventura. 643-3154. Train of Thought 6:30 pm Thursday. Poetry reading at 856 E. Thompson Blvd., ...
- Books can help kids look forward to school - Tacoma News Tribune
At this point during the summer, both parents and children count the hours until the start of school – some with relief, some with excitement and some with anxiety. Good books help pass the time. Here’s a few of this year’s back-to-school ...
- Inner voices - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Inner voicesHonolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - Oct 5, 2008Writer-teachers Pat Clough and Ilima Stern launched the creative-writing program at Oahu's Women's Community Correctional Center several years back and have ...
- 'South London's Woodstock' unites art lovers - Streatham Guardian
Poetry reading and literature appreciation used to be confined to arts theatres and smoky pub backrooms, but on Sunday it took centre stage at a festival in Brockwell Park. The Pipe and Slippers festival - united local arts lovers for an afternoon of ...
- Sunny Irvine mom is also a dark poet - OCRegister
Sunny Irvine mom is also a dark poetOCRegister, CA - 2 hours agoThose aren't exactly jolly topics, but who said poetry had to be joyful? "I have a very dark mind," said the second-generation Chinese American poet. ...
- Bernie’s Distillery: Shake Em Ups - U Weekly
Bernie’s Distillery: Shake Em UpsU Weekly, OH - 23 hours agoDefinitely a light bulb moment, but I'd been writing poetry since I was a kid. It just seemed really natural to start singing it. Now it's even harder, ...
- Hood Explores Luminous Landscapes and Abstract Still-Lifes of Dartmouth Professor Ben Frank Moss (Art Daily)
Ben Frank Moss, Eight Shallow Dishes, 1979. Oil on paper, Collection of the artist. HANOVER, NH.-
- Cowboy poet, singer are performing in Reno - North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
Cowboy poet, singer are performing in RenoNorth Lake Tahoe Bonanza, NV - 23 minutes agoIf you would like to submit poetry, a book review of your own or what your book club is reading email bpwhyman@sbcglobal.net.
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