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- Mystic Arts Cafe features poet Edward Hirsch (Westerly Sun)
The Arts Café~Mystic concludes its 14th season on Friday evening, May 16, with a reading by Edward Hirsch, widely regarded as one of the most important living American poets. Hirsch will read from "Special Orders," his just-published collection.
- Historical anti-slavery speech the subject of July 4th celebration - Oakland Tribune
Oakland musicians and poets will offer an alternative celebration of Independence Day this week with a staged version of Frederick Douglass' famed 1852 speech decrying the hypocrisy of slavery in a supposedly free country. Poetry and jazz ensemble ...
- Santa Cruz Dyke March Speaks Out for Lesbian Acceptance - City on a Hill Press
Santa Cruz Dyke March Speaks Out for Lesbian AcceptanceCity on a Hill Press, CA - 13 hours agoThe march kicked off last Saturday at the clock tower, starting with a rally that combined music, poetry and politics. The theme of this year’s march was “I ...
- After dad's death comes a year of unraveling family secrets - Minneapolis Star Tribune
By: Siri Hustvedt. Publisher: Holt, 320 pages, $25. Review: An elegant meditation on familial grief, memory and imagination. Events: 7:30 p.m. April 24, Birchbark Books, 2115 W. 21st St., Minneapolis; 4 p.m. April 25, St. Olaf College Viking Theater ...
- Poetry at the market - Owen Sound Sun Times
Poetry at the marketOwen Sound Sun Times, Canada - Apr 25, 2008The Owen Sound Farmers' Market will serve up a taste of "performance poetry" Saturday morning. The poetry is "fast-paced, full of emotion, ...
- Events Calendar: April 14-28, 2008 - BYU Newsnet
Events Calendar: April 14-28, 2008BYU Newsnet, UT - 1 hour agoPoetry Reading: By: The Word Weavers at 7p.m. - Utah Valley Chapter of the Utah State Poetry Society. Commencement Exercises: Commencement exercises will ...
- Get down with the kids ... (Guardian Unlimited)
Life & style: Bella, two, was less than impressed by her first music festival, but her father Craig McLean will try again
- Poet Plans Signing Party for First Collection - RedOrbit
Poet Plans Signing Party for First CollectionRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoFor further information, go online at www.spokanelibrary.org or call (509) 444-5331. Members of the Palouse Cowboy Poetry Association will give a benefit ...
- Vandals who trashed Robert Frost's home take poetry classes as penance - Pioneer Press
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The ...
- Bastille Day In Media? Mais Oui - Evening Bulletin
Bastille Day In Media? Mais OuiEvening Bulletin, PA - 4 hours agoIn addition, a summer concert series will be held at the Community Arts Center, several monthly poetry readings are scheduled and The Tango Hop will offer a ...
- Summer reading lists just got longer with new books by local writers - Cape Cod Times
Summer reading lists just got longer with new books by local writersCape Cod Times, MA - 1 hour agoThe New York Times Book Review has written of Toby Olson that "nothing can detract from (his) ability to conjure gorgeous prose passages that celebrate the ...
- Cason Point: Poet's verse makes sense of adversity (Ventura County Star)
It's tough to find the rhyme or the reason when a person dies way before her time. Even the verse meisters at Hallmark fall short of the occasion. It seems half the sympathy cards that line the racks confess "words cannot express" or "words fail us."
- Safe in the storm - Christian Science Monitor
Tom and Judy were playing at a friend's house on the next block over from their house. Their older brother, Paul, was playing nearby when a bad storm came up really fast. The air made everything around them look green, and the wind was blowing really ...
- Ban cheats for life, insists Kluft - The Herald
Ban cheats for life, insists KluftThe Herald, UK - 7 hours ago"I don't think a lot about Dwain Chambers, because it's his problem, and it's sad, but he cheated and maybe it would be a good punishment if he wasn't ...
- Old Globe takes a second shot at a Williams' classic (San Diego Union-Tribune)
There's little indication that, in the summer of 1944, the world was clamoring for Tennessee Williams to stage a new play titled “The Gentleman Caller.†Least of all the playwright himself.
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