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Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (17:30:43)
On Thursday, July 24, 2008 The 39th Annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers convenes this summer with workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Non Fiction and Screenwriting. ...
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Review: Roberto Bola o's "The Savage Detectives"
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (17:28:44)
In The Savage Detectives the poet tom-cats make a meal of the white doves and there are plenty of banana peels, some of which take the form of incredible “jokes” like the one Bolaño’s friend Rodrigo Fresán refers to in the passage quoted above.
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Review: Why I Came West, Rick Bass
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (17:26:10)
Why I Came West is his attempt to redefine himself as a writer and family man relative to his all-consuming crusade to gain a “permanent wilderness designation” for areas of the Yaak and protect them from road building and uncontrolled logging....
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Kids perform poetry at writer's workshop
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (17:22:22)
Jack Blankenship, a poet and Eagle-Gazettecorrespondent, penned his first-published poem while hiding underneath his parents' bed. His payment was a spanking and $5.
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Nick FlynnWeb-only interview with the author of Alice Invents a Little Game and
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (17:19:33)
The play Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins represents a chance for the award-winning poet and memoirist (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City) to “work a muscle [he] hadn’t before.” He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Houston....
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Man Asian longlist strong on Filipino writers
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (17:16:11)
The longlist for the second Man Asian literary prize has been announced, and features an unexpectedly strong showing from Filipino writers.
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London poet gains Parliamentary recognition
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (15:13:19)
nternationally recognized poet Penn Kemp of London will be celebrating her 64th birthday on Aug. 4 from the stage of The McManus Studio Theatre as part of this year’s Fringe Festival.
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City sisters brought Cohen a song
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (15:10:38)
arbara and Lorraine won't speak publicly about their encounter with Cohen, but the Montreal native has often talked about his muses, slightly altering the details each time.
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Welcomes Guest Blogger The Urban Jibaro with some Sofrito for Your Soul
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (15:07:21)
George Torres is a poet, cultural activist and founder of cultural online magazine www.SofritoForYourSoul.com. Having been born & raised between Brooklyn, NY & Bayamon, Puerto Rico, he was reared with traditional Puerto Rican values and incorporated that with what he learned in the streets of East New York.
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Homecoming
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (13:09:29)
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Link! A common way in literature to express a recipe for happiness is by means of a macarism. A macarism (from Greek μακαρισμός) is just a fancy word for beatitude. It consists of an adjective meaning happy, a relative or indefinite pronoun, and whatever action or state is supposed to lead to happiness.
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Ellyce Field: Fun family picks for the week
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (13:08:00)
Have some live culture, kiddie-style this week. Check out the all-kid cast in Stagecrafters' take on 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' at the Baldwin Theatre, singer, poet and storyteller Bill Harley at For Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum or downtown Birmingham's Summer in the City performance.
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Orhan Pamuk
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (13:07:04)
Readers who are attracted by Pamuk's political stance may like to explore the poetry of the late Nazim Hikmet
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'He came to Edmonton a private person and left famous'
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (12:19:04)
"He came to Edmonton a private person and left famous," says Kim Solez president of the Cohennights Arts Society, and lead organizer of the Leonard Cohen International Festival, which begins today and runs until July 28. "He stayed here for a stretch in late 1966, invited as a guest of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts and hung out for five weeks." ...
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How art reflects nature: an interview with David Guterson
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (12:18:18)
"I like to be out of doors and on foot as much as possible," Guterson writes. "The heartbreaking beauty of the world speaks to me in a powerful way, and I feel a constant compulsion to be in the presence of mountains, rivers, fields, coulees, canyons, breaks, draws, and woodlands."...
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Kudos: San Francisco's Mission district lights up with flowers and song
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (12:16:43)
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. Wordsmiths will find some choice cuts Thursday through Saturday at this year’s “Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry” in San Francisco’s Mission District.
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On Nikola Vaptsarov's death, poetry continues to live
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (12:15:44)
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Link!Marking the anniversary of the excution Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Nikola Vaptsarov on July 23 1942, Deputy Culture Minister Ivan Tokadjiev and descendants of Vaptsarov's family unveiled a Shrine to Poetry on July 23 2008. The mosaiqued open-triangular monument can be seen on 39 Blvd Bulgaria, at the site of the former garrison shooting range where Vaptsarov was shot dead, near the present-day Hilton Hotel in Sofia.
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Poetry Reading a huge success
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (12:14:14)
Poetry News: FERNLEY--Local poet and author Ferris Jones said through his leaflet, The Inquisition and such events as a Poetry Reading provides an forum in which writers can express themselves creatively.
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Ekhaya director in poetry competition
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (12:13:28)
EKHAYA arts director, Bhekumusa Moyo, who doubles up as a poet, is set to represent Zimbabwe at the Power in the Voice competition to be held in Botswana next month.
The competition will be held from 13 to 17 August in Gaborone.
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Engines have led us to this
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (10:59:46)
On the old TV show "Northern Exposure," John Corbett, aka Chris Stevens, did his doctoral dissertation on the poem "Casey at the Bat."
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Obituaries from The Gleaner for July 23, 2008
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (10:55:26)
Jamar Isaac "Markie" Black, 18, Evansville, formerly of Henderson, passed away at 2:41 p.m., Friday, July 18, 2008, at Deaconess Hospital. He was born May 29, 1990, in Henderson to James Edward "Fat Daddy" Black Jr. of Henderson and Jacqueline Louise Dixon Black of Evansville.
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The Leonard Cohen International Festival
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (10:53:03)
"He came to Edmonton a private person and left famous," says Kim Solez president of the Cohennights Arts Society, and lead organizer of the Leonard Cohen International Festival, which begins today and runs until July 28. "He stayed here for a stretch in late 1966, invited as a guest of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts and hung out for five weeks."
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Fifteen-year-old boy killed in boating accident
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (10:49:58)
A 15-year-old boy from Connecticut died after he fell from a boat Saturday evening. Town of Ticonderoga Police reported Daniel K. Nadeau of Mansfield, Conn. was riding in the bow of a 20-foot fishing boat driven by Christopher A. Novack, 45, also of Mansfield, offshore a rural part of the Town of Crown Point at about 6 p.m. The boat encountered choppy water, which caused Nadeau to fall overboard and subsequently be hit on the head by the propeller.
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