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- Legendary Publisher Robert Giroux Dies at Age 94 - Authorlink (subscription)
Legendary Publisher Robert Giroux Dies at Age 94Authorlink (subscription), TX - 2 hours agoThe firm is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won ...
- British playwright known for wit - Chicago Tribune
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays like "Butley," "Otherwise Engaged" and "Quartermaine's Terms" about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon ...
- A sentimental journey to Little House - Minneapolis City Pages
A sentimental journey to Little HouseMinneapolis City Pages, MN - 28 minutes agoI don't know whether it will matter much to those for whom this story is soul poetry. Maybe it shouldn't. But looking in from the outside, the results seem ...
- Being the Nation's Poet Laureate is a Total Pain [Poetry] (Gawker)
Being the poet laureate is the highest honor a poet can receive in this country. You get $35,000 and a beautiful office in the Library of Congress. (Kay Ryan just became the newest laureate, tasked...
- Art in the right place - Guardian Unlimited
I am a secondary school English teacher and I was interested to read about the decision by the AQA to withdraw Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure from the GCSE syllabus and to ask schools to destroy the anthology that includes the poem (Top ...
- Giving Foster Teens a Place to Call Home (Gotham Gazette)
(This article is adapted from Child Welfare Watch Vol. 16 , "Home Away From Home: Foster Parents for a New Generation." Reporting by Ann Farmer, Kendra Hurley, and Barbara Solow.)
- Al Resala to air exclusive Ramadan programs - Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – A number of special new TV programs will be broadcast all through the holy month of Ramadan on Al Resala Islamic Channel. At a press conference here recently, Dr. Tareq Swaidan, General Manager of the channel, said 17 new programs on ...
- Palestinians plan state funeral for national poet - 7DAYS
Palestinians plan state funeral for national poet7DAYS, United Arab Emirates - Aug 12, 2008Maliki said the Palestinians have not asked Israel to allow a funeral in Darwish’s native village which his family fled during the 1948 war that followed ...
- American youth say they're left behind - Medill Reports
American youth say they're left behindMedill Reports, DC - 54 minutes agoThe youth spoke out about their experiences during the 11th annual International Youth Poetry Slam Festival called Brave New Voices. ...
- USC's Poetry Initiative accepting manuscripts for chapbook contest - Times & Democrat
COLUMBIA -- The South Carolina Poetry Initiative at the University of South Carolina is accepting entries for the state's fourth annual chapbook contest. Chapbook entries must be postmarked no later than Sept. 30, and winners will be announced Oct ...
- Arts & Leisure Calendar - West Haven News
Arts & Leisure CalendarWest Haven News, CT - 2 hours agoThe resulting images are poetry on canvas, involving the viewer in a visual sense of motion. Landscape has always beguiled Dunlop, who was a philosophy and ...
- The Week: September 29'€“October 2, 2008 (Isthmus)
Autumns deepens this week with a busy slate of live music. The fun includes a performance by Robert Randolph ' the Family Band at the new Majestic Theatre's first anniversary party, along with more shows by Zion I, The Wedding Present, Badfish, Dr. Dog, Relient K, Trombone Shorty ' Urban Avenue, Yard Dogs Road Show, Dead Confederate, and State Radio.
- Oraz Agabaev’s world of art - Times of Central Asia (subscription)
Oraz Agabaev’s world of artTimes of Central Asia (subscription), Kyrgyzstan - 19 hours ago“By my works I try to convey the best human feelings and qualities – optimism, high spirit, inspiration, the ability to see beauty and poetry in the ...
- Short Takes (The Charlotte Observer)
POETRY POSTMODERN BOURGEOUS POETASTER BLUES By David Poston. N.C. Writers Network. 23 pages. $10. **** This mouthful of a title by Gastonia's David Poston is winner of the 2007 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition from the N.C. Writers Network. And a deserving winner it is. It seems as if Poston, who teaches at the Highland School of Technology, has stored up an entire ...
- Brothers sentenced in AmCan shooting (Vallejo Times-Herald)
NAPA - His head tilted back, tears streaming down his face, 19-year-old Junor Douglas watched Tuesday as the mother of the Fairfield teen he murdered in 2007 choked back her own tears while talking about her son. Once or twice, Junor Douglas raised his shackled right hand
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