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- The worst assault against English - Star
Edinburgh, Scotland - The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating, but a collector paid £6 600 on Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language. Up for ...
- Editor confronts genocide in 'Senselessness' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Senselessness By Horacio Castellanos Moya; translated by Katherine Silver New Directions Press; 142 pages; $15.95 paperback One approach to discovering exciting new Latin American writers is to scout for contemporary authors whom Roberto Bolaño counted among...
- The rise of Turkey through Turkish - Today's Zaman
The rise of Turkey through TurkishToday's Zaman, Turkey - 1 hour agoFor instance, Turkish entrepreneurs are investing in many African countries, although probably even the thought of it had never crossed their minds ...
- Coleman Barks: poet and translator - Block Island Times
Coleman Barks: poet and translatorBlock Island Times, USA - 1 hour ago... scholars John Moyne, AJ Arberry and Reynold Nicholson to rend literal and more formal translations of the Persian poetry “into American free verse. ...Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’ Block Island Timesall 2 news articles
- Carver Author is Now Available at the Library - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Carver Author is Now Available at the LibraryPR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - 1 hour agoFour years later, Alex has self-published five novels and one book of poetry. His writing has appeared in 22 publications including Ring Magazine and Boxing ...
- Small school, big results (New York Daily News)
When his toughest students cross the stage at graduation for their diploma each June, their reaction shows East Williamsburg Principal Juan Méndez just how important his work has been: They break down in tears.
- Dornac: Unmasking a photographer of Parisian society (International Herald Tribune)
A man anxious to remain anonymous contacted a Paris auctioneer of the PIASA group, Delphine de Courtry. He had 179 photographs signed Dornac, and wanted to part with them. Here was, perhaps, a chance to find out more about the mystery photographer.
- 'The Plague of Doves' by Louise Erdrich - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
'The Plague of Doves' by Louise ErdrichSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 2 hours agoPeopled by American Indians, French and German settlers and their mixed-blood descendants (Erdrich is one), the stories take place on an Ojibwe reservation, ...
- Westport Arts Center presents Enso Quartet - Norwalk Plus Magazine
Westport Arts Center presents Enso QuartetNorwalk Plus Magazine - 5 hours agoCanadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand's (b. 1970) compositions are wide-ranging, from settings of classical Arabic poetry to scores for dance and pieces ...
- Letters to the Editor (Santa Monica Mirror)
As a long-running fan of your “Alert Police Blotter†column, I wonder if perhaps (given its recent contents) it should be renamed: “How Santa Monica Police victimize the local homeless.â€
- Local teen using events to promote awareness - Enid News & Eagle
A 12-year-old Enid artist and singer has made the rounds this spring — first as a guest at United Nations headquarters and the New York Stock Exchange in early April, then as a performer at a Las Vegas fundraising event just a week ago featuring ...
- Student slain in drive-by (Chicago Tribune)
Family surprised that woman died in violent manner A journalism student at Loyola University was killed when someone fired into her car on Chicago's South Side Sunday night, authorities said.
- Legacy.com Launches the Most Comprehensive Memorialization Portal on the Web (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Legacy.com, the Web's dominant obituary resource and leader in online memorialization, has launched an enhanced portal that builds upon its affiliation with more than 650 U.S., Canadian and British newspapers.
- Christie Brinkley stomps Peter Cook in divorce court; Tila Tequila ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Christie Brinkley is a woman on a search-and-destroy mission. Search out all her estranged husband Peter Cook's peccadillos, and use them to destroy him. The Christie Brinkley-Peter Cook trial started ugly and stayed ugly. The Uptown Girl got down ...
- Residents provide paid venue for local high school poets - Independent Florida Alligator
Residents provide paid venue for local high school poetsIndependent Florida Alligator, FL - 1 hour agoNagy said she wanted to create the event to reward students who had given up their free time and worked so hard on their poetry. ...
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