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- No peace prizes in prospect on the literary scene - Slate
No peace prizes in prospect on the literary sceneSlate - 13 hours agoAnother Fray with no fights came on Ron Rosenbaum's "Spectator" on blurbing poetry: The best efforts by posters will feature in the column, ...
- Arboretum honors founder (Albany Times Union)
Festival on Saturday celebrates legacy of Landis founder ESPERANCE -- The Landis Arboretum will celebrate its founder's legacy Saturday with a day of family-friendly activities and a night of music by starlight.A renaissance man of his day, Arboretum founder Fred Lape was a poet, musician, English professor, writer and amateur botanist who attracted a following in the local community. ...
- 2 summer wonders: Winning hot-weather limericks revealed - Arizona Republic
2 summer wonders: Winning hot-weather limericks revealedArizona Republic, AZ - 4 hours agoAnd his famous hot-weather poetry contest has been the inspiration for this much-more-low-brow limerick contest. One disclaimer: If you don't like today's ...
- Poetic Justice: A dying artist finally gets recognized for his work (The Plain Dealer)
Editor's note: Reporters usually are careful to stay out of the action. They watch, listen and ask questions, but they don't set things in motion. Michael Heaton got involved because he wanted to help a lonely man who reached out to him in his dying days.
- Howard Jacobson: God knows, we like a mirthster, but this smart-arsery ... - The Independent
Nothing is sacred but not every act of satirical disrespect is funny. I say this after reading another of those lists of books which the list-compiler considers grossly over-estimated, or which he contends we only pretend to like and cannot wait for ...
- Mick Imlah: master of versification - Times Online
Mick Imlah: master of versificationTimes Online, UK - 4 hours agoIf, as verse, Imlah’s writing has panache, as poetry it frequently has power to provoke or move. “Braveheart†tells of the adventure-cum-pilgrimage ...
- In Kids & Family - On Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Numismatic Society Coin Show brings more than 75 tables of coin collectors to Serb Hall. Entry donation is just $1 and kids under 16 are free. Kick off the season with a fresh cup of cider at the Wehr Nature Center. Experience cider ...
- GreenSpace: Retailer provides Hope for more eco-friendly world - Post-Bulletin
GreenSpace: Retailer provides Hope for more eco-friendly worldPost-Bulletin, MN - 14 hours agoBeginning in fall, the store will be a site for poetry readings, health and wellness education classes and a Scrabble club. Draves lives close to work and ...
- Review: Out of the Blue by Chris Yates - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukReview: Out of the Blue by Chris YatesTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 55 minutes agoDay after day - and it is written almost as a consecutive series of daily accounts - he conveys an air of calm. There is no soapbox (beyond a mildly ...
- Sometimes the n-word just says it all - Chicago Sun-Times
Sometimes the n-word just says it allChicago Sun-Times, United States - 12 minutes agoBut if I use it and my niece, cousin or friend overhears it, thinks it's poetry and makes a hit song with it, what have I done? ...
- Library is the place for poets - Eagle Tribune
Library is the place for poetsEagle Tribune, MA - 1 hour ago"This group will provide a forum where people can learn about poetry, have their writing critiqued, work on poetry reading skills and share resources," ...
- Religion is poetry - Salon
SalonReligion is poetrySalon - 6 hours ago"What these critics are attacking is not religion, but a hasty caricature of it," he writes in his new book, "The Religious Case Against Belief. ...
- The Insider - Egypt Today
I REFUSE TO talk with you, you must be a true Muslim,†Ahmed Al-Zayat told his younger brother Montasser upon his return from Assiut where he had studied natural sciences at the governorate’s main university. “I am Muslim, I pray and you know ...
- Kay Ryan, UCLA graduate in English, named 16th poet laureate of US - UC Los Angeles
Washington PostKay Ryan, UCLA graduate in English, named 16th poet laureate of USUC Los Angeles, CA - 11 hours ago... remedial English teacher at the College of Marin in Kentfield, leaving her free to take long mountain bike rides and focus on her poetry. ...Kay Ryan, a Laureate Worth Lauding New York SunFairfax Woman Named Nation's Poet Laureate FoxReno.comall 141 news articles
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - Ha'aretz
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish diesHa'aretz, Israel - Aug 9, 2008By Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters , By Zvi Bar'el Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, ...
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