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- Dzanc literary and community service prize announced - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Independent publisher Dzanc Books has selected author Kodi Scheer as winner of the second annual Dzanc Prize for Excellence in Literary Fiction and Community Service . Scheer will receive $5,000 to support a proposed project of running a creative ...
- Best and Worst Productions of 2008 - New York City Theater
New York City TheaterBest and Worst Productions of 2008New York City Theater, NY - 6 hours agoRomantic Poetry - John Patrick Shanley’s farcical musical about crazed lovers, though seemingly well meant, was an Off-Broadway misfire in every way. ...
- Sixers storm over Thunder, 110-85 - The Queensberry Rules
Sixers storm over Thunder, 110-85The Queensberry Rules, MA - 17 hours agoThe tattoos I get, but the nail polish from a guy who looks like he should be writing poetry except that he grew to be seven feet tall? ...
- 'Meals on Wheels' Needs Volunteers (R News)
Visiting nurse “Meals on Wheels” delivers 1,000 meals a day to homebound elderly and ill neighbors all over the Rochester area. The need for nutritious meals continues to grow, but the number of volunteers to deliver food is not.
- Stateside: Funny capers at the USDA - Scoop.co.nz
Stateside: Funny capers at the USDAScoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 58 minutes agoThe very spot where grew the bread/That formed my bones, I see/How strange, old field, on thee to tread/And feel I'm part of thee! ...
- Poet Elizabeth Alexander to read at Obama's inauguration (Guardian Unlimited)
Barack Obama, perhaps the most literary president-elect of recent years, has chosen the poet Elizabeth Alexander to read at his inauguration on 20 January. Obama had been spotted carrying what appeared to be a book of the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott's poetry last month, but it is Alexander, a professor of African American studies at Yale University, who will compose a poem to be read at ...
- Buddies help tackle bullying - Brantford Expositor
Buddies help tackle bullyingBrantford Expositor, Canada - 1 hour agoAs part of Bullying Awareness Week, senior students are working closely with their younger counterparts on activities designed to foster friendship and ...
- Local Business Report: Heavenly Petals Florist celebrates anniversary - Vineland Daily Journal
Local Business Report: Heavenly Petals Florist celebrates anniversaryVineland Daily Journal, NJ - 5 hours agoVINELAND -- Heavenly Petals Florist, a Christian flower shop on Delsea Drive, recently celebrated its first anniversary. The shop is able to provide flowers ...
- Woman's tale of rowing the Nile has charm, subtlety - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Rowing enthusiast Rosemary Mahoney spends most of her boat time on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. But in 1999, on a trip to Egypt, she decided to row down the Nile River, a journey she chronicles beautifully in Down the Nile (Back Bay, 268 pp., $14 ...
- Literary Happenings: Two novel ideas for teen readers on your gift ... - Ventura County Star
Literary Happenings: Two novel ideas for teen readers on your gift ...Ventura County Star, CA - 2 hours agoPoetry reading 7:30 pm Tuesday. Artists' Union Gallery, 330 S. California St., Ventura. 320-3524. Bank of Books at 748 E. Main St. in Ventura has launched a ...
- A culture for contemplation - Irish Times
A culture for contemplationIrish Times, Ireland - 19 minutes ago... with Robert Lowell), he had already published four books of poetry when, in his 50th year, he spent a 1990 travel fellowship with his family in Kinvara. ...
- GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (Book Reporter)
With the hindsight that makes for history filled out and fully viewed, we can make linkages that, in their time, might not have been apparent or apropos.
- Lure of the gun is too strong for some athletes (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
To honor Sean Taylor, who was gunned down a year ago in the prime of his football career, his family and the Redskins made an interesting song choice while his highlights played on the video screen before Sunday's game against the Giants.
- Iraq takes control of the Green Zone - Star-Banner
BAGHDAD — The U.S. formally transferred control of the Green Zone to Iraqi authorities Thursday in a pair of ceremonies that also handed back Saddam Hussein's former palace. Iraq's prime minister said he will propose making Jan. 1 a holiday marking ...
- Family, country, love will gather at Thanksgiving - El Paso Times
I have always found the outdoors congenial for spiritual upliftment. Many years ago, while on a fortnight-long sojourn in the foothills of the Himalayas, I witnessed a sunrise so spectacular that it cast me into a trance-like state. As morning broke ...
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