Kansas City infoZine Literature HeadlinesThe lastest articles from the infoZine Literature topic area.Fundraiser for The Writers Place is a Night of Poetry and Jazz- June 17, 2008 This fundraiser for The Writers Place features poetry by Phyllis Becker and Dan Jaffe, and music by local jazz greats.http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/28905/ National Endowment for the Arts Announces More Than $2,000,000 in Grants for the Big Read- June 17, 2008 208 grantees include libraries, arts groups, science organizations, colleges, and municipalities; NEA pilots The Big Read Mexicohttp://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/28928/ New Book Examines Global Trends in Environmental Aid- June 15, 2008 By Cheryl S. Ntumy - Denmark gives more in environmental aid funding than other countries, according to a new book unveiled Wednesday at a lecture in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/28898/ David Sedaris on KCUR's "Up to Date" Program- June 14, 2008 Author and public radio commentator David Sedaris discusses his new career and his new book "When You Are Engulfed in Flames".http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/28869/ Eminent Feminist Scholar to Present Holmes Lecture- June 11, 2008 Eminent feminist scholar and co-author of the landmark book "The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th-Century Literary Imagination" will present the Alice F. Holmes Summer Institute for Literature Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 12, in the conference room of the Hall Center for the Humanities.http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/28852/ KU Joins Kansas City Area Celebration of Hemingway Conference- June 9, 2008 The University of Kansas is joining the Kansas City area celebration of Nobel prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway during the week-long 13th International Hemingway Conference, "War + Ink," in Kansas City, Mo., that begins Monday, June 9.http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/28801/ National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Books for the Big Read- June 2, 2008 Communities looking to rekindle their love of reading by joining the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reading initiative The Big Read will now have even more great books to choose from.http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/28691/ |