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- A Fresh Focus on Novelist Morante - Wall Street Journal
Elsa Morante was born in 1912 in the working-class district of Rome called Testaccio. The product of an extramarital liaison between her mother, a schoolteacher, and a postal worker from Sicily, she grew up in straitened circumstances, compensating ...
- Andrew Motion: Noises Off - The Independent
One million pages were read on the online poetry archive – poetryarchive.org – last month, an amazing figure. The appetite for poetry is there, but there's a real problem with delivery. On 4 July I took over the chairmanship of the Museums ...
- McCain's Magic Formula? - Slate
Semi- amnesty in St. Paul: I asked Sen. Graham how soon, in his first term, President McCain would declare the borders secure (and move on to revive "comprehensive immigration reform"). Graham said "We'll know it when we see it," but emphasized that ...
- Belleville: A corner of Paris that was Edith Piaf's home (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tourists looking for old Paris charm and a taste of "La Vie en Rose" should head to Belleville, a largely overlooked part of the city and the birthplace of Edith Piaf.
- Library is the place for poets (The Eagle-Tribune)
METHUEN — Budding poets and others are encouraged to share their writings in a new group being formed at Nevins Memorial Library. The library, at 305 Broadway, is starting Grey Court Poets, a new group open to poets of all levels and styles as well as poetry fans who don't write, but simply enjoy the creativity of others.
- Roger’s Rave Reviews: Richard Harteis & Recommended Reading - The Resident
Roger’s Rave Reviews: Richard Harteis & Recommended ReadingThe Resident, CT - 19 minutes agoThe story ends with William winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It’s an uplifting, true story.†(And Richard’s marathon training paid off: He ran the New ...
- Che's ex-wife on rebel's transformation - MSNBC
Che's ex-wife on rebel's transformationMSNBC - 17 minutes agoBut the pair's friendship deepened as they discussed books on philosophy, politics and poetry. They also both supported the Guatemalan government of Jacobo ...
- Writers work against Vancouver’s shifting backdrop - Georgia Straight
Writers work against Vancouver’s shifting backdropGeorgia Straight, Canada - 6 hours agoThese include the poets of the Kootenay School of Writing, among them former poet laureate George Bowering, who have a monthly bowling game; the slam-poetry ...
- The edge of madness - Guardian Unlimited
I have to confess, this has felt personal at times, and I have waited a long time for that message to appear from somewhere, in this case from a dear Bosnian colleague and friend: "Dr K arrested." The experience of Bosnia's war of the early 1990s was ...
- Village Theatre's Festival of New Musicals Launches Aug. 14 with ... - Playbill.com
Village Theatre's Festival of New Musicals Launches Aug. 14 with ...Playbill.com, NY - Aug 13, 2008She is surprised when she also finds friendship, love, and a home as she joins Mulcahy, a local artist, and the townspeople in exposing the corruption of a ...
- Fan Zeng's paintings true to tradition (China Daily)
Born in 1938 in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, Fan Zeng is a contemporary master of traditional Chinese painting and is especially skilled in figure painting.
- Quincy Troupe (Houston Press)
Music fans know Quincy Troupe as the writer who helped pen the life story of one of America’s most influential musicians, Miles Davis. Miles: The Autobiography won the American Book Award and is easily a top-fiver on any popular music must-read list. But Troupe is also a celebrated poet whose l ...
- The Bangla Novel lives on - The Daily Star
The Daily StarThe Bangla Novel lives onThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 3 hours agoThe odor of dust harbingers death for Sobed Ali. He smelled dust before the deaths of his father and daughter. But dust also denotes the dry season -- when ...
- Rowan summer program CHAMPions academics to S.J. youth - Courier-Post
Forget the summer slide. For middle and high school students from five South Jersey towns, summer is the time for improving academics, getting a feel for college life and even learning a bit about themselves through Rowan University's annual CHAMP ...
- Family of slain woman struggles with sudden absence - Palm Beach Post
Irma's little boy sits by the window, waiting for a mother who will never come home. A week after Irma Simeus — a 22-year-old medical technician who wrote poems, wrapped herself in strong opinions and never gave up on the idea of love — died ...
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