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- Canadian poet and playwright James Reaney dies at 81 (CBC)
James Reaney, a poet, author and dramatist of three famous plays about Ontario's feuding Donnelly family, has died. He was 81.
- Lessons from nature - Times of India
Lessons from natureTimes of India, India - 24 minutes agoNo, call it poetry. The pavement and the road beyond it had been dyed like a royal robe, though not evenly Here, it was of deep rich hue, there, ...
- Arts & Books Digest - Thecalifornian.com
Romance Writers of America has announced local author Kelly Parra's novel "Graffiti Girl" has been named as a finalist in the Best First Book and Young Adult Romance categories of the 2008 RITA awards. The RITA, the romance publishing industry's ...
- Poetic justice - Morley Observer
Poetic justiceMorley Observer, UK - 1 hour ago... said: "We are very proud that the children from St Francis have been selected to have their poems published in the Big Green Poetry Machine Book. ...
- The poetry of the puppets - Nation - Thailand
The Sema Thai marionette troupe will stage "Chao Ngor" at 2pm in Thai and 5pm in English on June 28 at the Thai and Japanese Youth Centre in Din Daeng. The Sema Thai marionette troupe garnered some much-deserved home praise last week following its ...
- Literary Happenings: Los Angeles' saints make up an unusual read - Ventura County Star
Literary Happenings: Los Angeles' saints make up an unusual readVentura County Star, CA - 2 hours agoPoetry Workshop 7 pm Wednesday. Barnes & Noble, 4820 Telephone Road, Ventura. 339-0990. Train of Thought 6:30 pm Thursday. Poetry reading at 856 E. Thompson ...
- Magical terrains - Hindu
HinduMagical terrainsHindu, India - 1 hour agoWhile non-fiction is doing well, short stories are dwindling, poetry remains invisible except to poets and poetry lovers, crime fiction is still not making ...
- IT IS A MOST DIFFICULT CHALLENGE’ At Aveda, ‘the nose’ knows - Tacoma News Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS – For years, “the nose” of Aveda has traveled the Amazon River in Brazil, the flower fields of Corsica and the banks of the Nile in Egypt in search of his aromatic Holy Grail: a lone, elusive ingredient that just might defy Mother ...
- Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place - Georgia Straight
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of PlaceGeorgia Straight, Canada - 1 hour agoNevertheless, despite this seeming discrepancy in rhetorical skills, all their recollections are equally eloquent, as if poetry were a kind of virus that ...
- New Montreal exhibit showcases legacy of designer Yves Saint Laurent - Canada East
MONTREAL - As the world celebrates the life and work of designer Yves Saint Laurent, anyone venturing into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will get to see his creations first-hand. An Yves Saint Laurent cocktail dress from 1992 is shown in a handout ...
- Bessie Head competition (Mmegi)
The Bessie Head Heritage Trust and Pentagon Publishers have announced the winners of the 2008 Bessie Head Literature Awards.
- Miles Kington: Why no one writes poems about spiders, and other ... - The Independent
Today, another helping of Albanian proverbs. If you haven't met them before, Albanian proverbs are very different from ours. Ours are dry and common-sense. Look before you leap. Don't count your eggs. But Albanian proverbs are both allusive and ...
- Right now, his art is an open book (San Diego Union-Tribune)
He's made 12 books thus far and continues to embrace the form. “Coverage” is a different type of work. It's a cross between poetry and conceptual art, and it's made to be mailed – in installments. He just had hhis first solo exhibition in a gallery, at Harrington Fine Arts in San Francisco, which included paintings and assorted other works.
- Media Notes: McClellan, a Tad Late - Washington Post
In an interview three years ago, when he was waging daily warfare against the White House press corps, Scott McClellan told me: "The media's trying to get under our skin and get us off-message." Now it's McClellan who's gone way off-message -- and ...
- How to look just like Paris Hilton and drink like Carrie Bradshaw. It ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Dear George, just heard you've broken up with Sarah Larson, that 29-year-old Las Vegas cocktail waitress you took to this year's Oscars. Read you're 'relieved' to be single again. Glad to hear you've come to your senses. You know where to find me ...
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