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Review: Enrique Martinez Celaya's art of displacement and longing
Billy Collins, among the most accessible of contemporary poets and an eloquent advocate of poetry's place in public life, spoke recently about why people tend to resist the genre. Too much emphasis, he feels, is put on interpretation, to the detriment...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Sculpture, Poetry
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Book calendar events for the week of February 27, 2011
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY Tamim Ansary: The author of "Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes" will discuss and sign his new book. Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. 2 p.m. Free...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Patricia Highsmith, Humphrey Bogart, John Wesley, Kathleen Chalfant
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Geraldine R. Dodge poetry festival begins Thursday
Jacket CopyWhen the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival kicks off Thursday night, some in the crowd will remember that it almost didn't happen. The nation's largest all-poetry festival -- lasting four days, with almost 20,000 attendees -- was nearly a victim...... -
10/10/10: The 10 best 'Best of' books of 2010
Jacket CopyAt the end of the calendar year, bookstores are swamped with anthologies proclaiming the "best of" writing of the year. There is, apparently, a lot of really good writing: above is just a sample of the galleys and paperbacks that...... -
2011 NEA Literature Fellowships are announced
Jacket CopyThree Southern California poets are among those who will receive 2011 literature fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, it was announced Tuesday. Out of more than 1,000 applicants, 42 poets were selected; each will receive $25,000. Maggie... -
Garrison Keillor envisions radio (but not bookish) retirement
Jacket CopyGarrison Keillor plans retirement from radio, but not books.... -
Obama hails White House poetry night with prose
Top of the TicketDemocrat admits he wrote two poems in college, declines to read them.... -
Jacket Copy on the Road: The Jack Kerouac house in Orlando
Jacket CopyA visit to Jack Kerouac's house in Orlando, Florida.... -
Common, Elizabeth Alexander headline White House 'Evening of Poetry,' to be streamed live Wednesday
Jacket CopyTonight's White House poetry event, which includes rapper Common, poets Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove and the singer Aimee Mann, can be streamed online.... -
Book calendar events for the week of April 17, 2011
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY Leo Braudy: The author of "The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon" will discuss and sign his new book. Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., L.A. 5 p.m. Free. (323) 660-1175....Tags: Foods and Beverages, Bob Odenkirk, Harmon, Richard Brooks, Mark Twain
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Discoveries: 'Leaving Van Gogh' by Carol Wallace:
Special to The Los Angeles TimesLeaving Van Gogh A Novel Carol Wallace Spiegel & Grau: 268 pp., $25 "Vincent wrote once in a letter that a man who commits suicide turns his friends into murderers. What does that make me?" writes Dr. Paul Gachet in Carol Wallace's riveting...Tags: Italy, Migration, Politics, Human Interest, Horoscopes
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