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- Loves Finds Her in Ozark, AR (Charleston Express)
Acclaimed author, Gwen Ford Faulkenberry, is a hometown hero in literary circles.
- Nigeria: Second Wole Soyinka Literary Prize Holds At Eko Hotel (AllAfrica.com)
After the successful hosting of its maiden edition, which held in 2006, at the Muson Center, all is set again for the second edition of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa billed to take place on Sunday, November 2, at the Ground Ball Room of Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.
- NEA gives $1.8 million to Bay Area arts groups (San Francisco Chronicle)
As usual, Bay Area arts groups and writers scored a nice chunk of cash from the National Endowment for the Arts in the first round of the agency's fiscal year 2009 grants. And with the economic squeeze on, they can certainly use it. The NEA is giving $23.2...
- Visual Poetry - The Cord Weekly
Visual PoetryThe Cord Weekly, Canada - 6 hours agoWhen I stumbled across a Rumi poem … it sparked that love of poetry and that idea of going back to my origins.†The piece in question starts in traditional ...
- Woman starts first abolitionist society - Detroit Free Press
Woman starts first abolitionist societyDetroit Free Press, United States - 2 hours agoShe was the first female American writer to use abolition as a main theme in her poetry, according to the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. ...
- 'Something in me wanted to rock and roll' - Jerusalem Post
When he's talking, Asaf Avidan's voice sounds positively normal. But get him on a stage or in a studio with his guitar in hand, and the Jerusalem-based singer/songwriter is transformed, as one observer commented, into "the lost love child of Dylan ...
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks, Best Of The Year - See Magazine
4 Months, 3 Weeks, Best Of The YearSee Magazine, Canada - Dec 30, 2008Funny when it needs to be and utterly heartbreaking in ways that only great films can be. An utterly mindboggling true underdog story introduces us to a ...
- Barry Feinstein/“Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric†- New York Times
New York TimesBarry Feinstein/“Hollywood Foto-Rhetoricâ€New York Times, United States - 12 minutes agoIn an introductory Q. and A., he is reluctant to call the text poetry. “If they are poems, or if they are not poems . . . does it really matter?†he says. ...
- A time to be thankful - Chicago Tribune
A time to be thankfulChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours agoI'm thankful that I learned to love reading and to love history and poetry. I think my biggest regret at death will be all the unread history books. ...
- Blog digest: Contrast – The Blog - Independent
Share Contrast.ie is a young and talented firm of web designers who really get online branding. Its blog is a great place to dip your toes in if you are an SME looking to establish your visibility and brand on the web, because the way information is ...
- The Horrors of War, Sanitized - Wall Street Journal
What is war like? Those who, like me, have never seen combat in person often look to art to tell us what we missed, while pacifist playwrights seek to portray war in order to persuade us that it is ever and always a bad thing. Yet both groups ignore ...
- Bruce Springsteen posts Halloween song on Web site - MLive.com
RUMSON, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen has a Halloween treat for his fans. The rocker has posted a free download of a new song, "A Night With the Jersey Devil," on his Web site. The song has a blues beat, and Springsteen sings about "16 witches casting 16 ...
- New magazine combines local, University artists - Indiana Daily Student
New magazine combines local, University artistsIndiana Daily Student - 2 hours agoThe magazine, started by two former Cultureweek managing editors, is currently accepting submissions of art, prose, poetry and photography for its first ...
- A moving confluence of music, rap, and dance sends a message - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeA moving confluence of music, rap, and dance sends a messageBoston Globe, United States - 6 hours agoThe afternoon-length confluence of rap poetry, original violin/viola compositions, and Myer's iconoclastic movement style - a kind of cracked-apart ballet ...
- Students Look to Future of Creative Writing - UNM Today
UNM TodayStudents Look to Future of Creative WritingUNM Today, NM - 20 hours agoAmong other partnerships, Winder teaches poetry monthly in the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in Ignacio, Colo. To foster community, she started Chicken ...
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