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- A chat with Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Detroit News)
He's in Detroit and will be performing tonight at a poetry slam that is part of the DSO's "8 Days in June" festival.
- Memories of professor Burt Hatlen - Bangor Daily News
Memories of professor Burt HatlenBangor Daily News, ME - 7 hours agoHatlen’s work as director of the National Poetry Foundation was noted several times throughout the service, in addition to his dedication to his students ...
- Small Black Stilt coffee house survives big competition (Victoria Times Colonist)
He started a coffee house in the shadows of Starbucks and Tim Hortons nearly three years ago across from Hillside Centre, but Dave Crothall has emerged with nary a scratch.
- Children's summer program covers spectrum of interests - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Children's summer program covers spectrum of interestsSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 1 hour agoNew classes this year include: what makes human beings unique; history of the first US colonies; night creatures like bats and cats; writing poetry; ...
- National Geographic Goes Chinese - Danwei
National Geographic Goes ChineseDanwei, Hong Kong - 3 hours agoIn a similar vain, he traces the preference for male heirs back to an old dictum from the Book of Poetry, which advised parents to let sons dress in silk ...
- 20 Questions: Frank Turner - PopMatters
PopMatters20 Questions: Frank TurnerPopMatters, IL - 3 hours agoA book of poetry by Philip Larkin. I’ma latecomer to his work, and I don’t usually do this, but a combination of his awesomeness and a hangover made me cry. ...
- Prize winner and Nashville native Williams reflects on writing poetry (The Tennessean)
Nashville native Lisa Williams' second collection of poetry, Woman Reading to the Sea, is the winner of the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joyce Carol Oates. An associate professor of English at Centre College in Danville, Ky., she explores myriad topics in her latest book, which is divided into four thematically organized sections. Intensely observant, her poems grapple with the ...
- The Great Exhibition and London's Chinese Junk - BBC News
If the 21st Century belongs to China, as many believe, what will it mean for Britain's relationship with this emerging superpower. In a series of four essays, cultural writer Patrick Wright looks at China's historical relationship with the UK. He ...
- Three Princetonians elected to arts and letters academy - Princeton University
Three Princetonians elected to arts and letters academyPrinceton University, NJ - 3 hours agoMuldoon, a faculty member since 1990, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "Moy Sand and Gravel," his ninth collection of poems. ...
- Poets recite stories of Jakarta's urban lives - Jakarta Post
Jakarta poets celebrated Wednesday night the city's anniversary through poetry readings and performances at Warung Apresiasi in Bulungan, South Jakarta. The event, called Sastra Rabuan (Literary Wednesday), has been held every Wednesday this month ...
- Of caste and Sikhs - Tribune
Jyoti Grewal’s, Betrayed by the State: The Anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 in “Memories that haunt” , (Saturday Extra, Dec 15) by Khushwant Singh. She is grossly misinformed about castes of the Sikhs. Sikhs have a caste system similar to Hindus. Non ...
- PBS struggles to survive (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
''Is PBS Still Necessary'" read a New York Times headline a few weeks ago above a story about public TV's struggles. PBS is again imperiled by threatened severe funding cuts, tired-looking shows, competition from cable and, not surprisingly, lower ratings.
- Don't give up on Sir Walter Scott - Telegraph.co.uk
Don't give up on Sir Walter ScottTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 20 minutes agoIt was a splendid dinner, held at the New Club, overlooking Edinburgh Castle and Sir Walter's gothic memorial in Prince's Street. ...
- NORM: Steve Wynn goes for mega-yacht - Las Vegas Review Journal
Casino developer Steve Wynn has put dueling pirate ships and a faux volcano on the Strip. Now the Disney of the Desert is pursuing another passion: a mega-yacht. Several sources confirmed that Wynn recently purchased the 183-foot Allegro, which was ...
- 'Exiles': Hansen gets inside poet Hopkins' head (San Francisco Chronicle)
Exiles By Ron Hansen Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 227 pages; $23 Ron Hansen's best novels, "Mariette in Ecstasy" (1991) and "Atticus" (1996), probe the realms of religion and ethics with uncommon intelligence and deeply felt characterizations of people in crisis....
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