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- South African author Es'kia Mphahlele dies - CBC News
Acclaimed South African writer Es'kia Mphahlele, best known for his apartheid-era autobiography Down Second Avenue , has died at the age of 88. Mphahlele died Monday evening at a hospital near his home in Lebowakgomo, according to family friend Raks ...
- Pulitzer-winning poet Natasha Trethewey visits - Quad (subscription)
Pulitzer-winning poet Natasha Trethewey visitsQuad (subscription), PA - 1 hour ago... female African-American member. Recently, Trethewey was additionally awarded the 2008 Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in poetry ...
- BC BREAKING NEWS: (Victoria News)
FRAIDY CAT – Kelly McManus, aspiring climber with a fear of heights, tries her hand at a V1 in Squamish last weekend. She sent it, but not without a little trepidation.
- A good recipe gone sour - Daily Princetonian
Five cups flour, three cups sugar, four sticks of butter, four eggs, vanilla, a pinch of salt, baking powder and a smile. The secret is revealed; the classic Murray-Dodge Cafe recipe. So many stressful nights relieved, friends' heart to hearts ...
- Four renown poets to read at event honoring Jeffers - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Four noted poets will read during an upcoming UC Santa Cruz and Poetry Santa Cruz celebration of Robinson Jeffers, an environmentalist poet whose once-unpopular political views of people's egotism have regained a large following. Poets Li-Young Lee ...
- LA Litscape: celebrating with Dougla Kearney and Skylight Books - LA Observed
LA Litscape: celebrating with Dougla Kearney and Skylight BooksLA Observed, CA - 1 hour agoKearney is on a roll this year: he's also one of the five poets in the country named a 2008 National Poetry Series winner for his upcoming book, The Black ...
- Fundraising campaign, prestigious designer aim to revitalize landmark - MLive.com
MLive.comFundraising campaign, prestigious designer aim to revitalize landmarkMLive.com, MI - 50 minutes agoFor more than a century, the Woman's Club has been home to concerts and recitals, poetry readings and lively discussions at regular club meetings and public ...
- 'Leonard Cohen Songbook' opens at Canwest Cabaret - National Post
'Leonard Cohen Songbook' opens at Canwest CabaretNational Post, Canada - 4 hours agoTheir Jerusalem Salon performance made a virtue of nuance and ambiguity, exploring the porous border between Jewish and Arabic music with forays into poetry ...
- Cross-strait exchange among women deepens, mainland official says (People's Daily)
The exchange among women on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait had helped lubricate the across-strait relations, said Lin Mingyue, head of Shanghai Federation of Taiwan Compatriots (SFTC) here on Wednesday. Lin made the remark when attending the Tenth National Women's Congress held in Beijing from Tuesday morning. "Since 1997 when the mainland sent its first women delegation to Taiwan, the ...
- The Bronx... - Cinematic Happenings Under Development
The Bronx...Cinematic Happenings Under Development, NY - 36 minutes agoMurderers tend to be the guys who would go down first in a pit and run crying back to their candle-lit room to write bad 'dark' poetry. ...
- Slumdog Millionaire at Odeon, Leicester Square - Times Online
Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches story about an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Bombay is a closing-night gala that makes the heart pound. Jamal is just one correct answer away from winning – or losing – a staggering 20 million rupees on India ...
- 'The Moderate Islamist' - Front Page
The counsels of our Islamic-appeasing intellectuals today may be summarized in the career of Alistair Crooke, founder of the Conflicts Forum and formerly a special adviser to EU envoy Javier Solana. In the London Review of Books (Vol. 29, No. 13 ...
- Winning New Hampshire: Behind the state's serious pageant business - Portsmouth Herald
There's a lot at stake: money, gifts and prestige. Competition is stiff. Competitors serious. Pageants — beauty or scholarship — are big biz. Many contenders stay at it till there's nowhere left to strut their rhinestones, bathing suits, or ...
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- Limerick raises the bard - Limerick Leader
Limerick raises the bardLimerick Leader, Ireland - 33 minutes agoHe was told he would be excommunicated from the church if he published his first book of poetry 'Chords and Orchestrations'." True, poetry was once a spear ...
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