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- Writers Receive Whiting Awards - Authorlink (subscription)
Writers Receive Whiting AwardsAuthorlink (subscription), TX - 6 hours agoRick Hilles, poetry. His first collection, Brother Salvage, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is an assistant professor in the MFA ...
- Okaw Valley honors veterans - Herald & Review
BETHANY “ Eight-year-old Natalie Jeffers knew that Veteran's Day was a holiday involving flags, patriotic music and men and women in uniform, but Monday she learned a little more. "I didn't know so many people had died serving our country," the ...
- Author discovered his ancestors owned slave who was master potter - Examiner.com
Examiner.comAuthor discovered his ancestors owned slave who was master potterExaminer.com - 9 hours agoDave even wrote poetry on many of his works. Todd, like a master detective, tracked down and studied all of Dave’s poems for biographical clues, ...
- Catch the small fry in the big pond at the London Film Festival - Times Online
It’s easy to focus on the big names and the red-carpet wow factor at The Times BFI London Film Festival, but audiences shouldn’t overlook the smaller films – there are plenty of delights and discoveries to keep the adventurous cinephile happy ...
- Back to classroom all over again, and this 75-year-old bibliophile ... - Indian Express
Back to classroom all over again, and this 75-year-old bibliophile ...Indian Express, India - 4 hours ago“In April 1955, I had appeared for the examination but could not clear the poetry paper. Hence, I thought of giving it another shot and also revive my love ...
- Miami mission's 'nice lady' introduces culture to the homeless - Miami Herald
In the fifth pew from the back of the Coral Gables Congregational Church, Luanne Allgood sits with four homeless men on one side of her, two on the other, and listens to flutist Eugenia Zukerman's interpretation of Mozart's Violin Sonata in F Major ...
- Book features state award winners (The Tuscaloosa News)
Each year since 1998, on the first weekend in May, in Monroeville - home of Nelle Harper Lee and childhood home of Truman Capote, and the Legislature- designated 'official' Literary Capital of Alabama - the much-coveted Harper Lee Award is given to a living Alabama writer who has achieved national recognition and who has made a significant,...
- Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday - Phillyist.com
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. We posted a link to an xkcd comic a while back wherein a character created a virus that would force commenters on YouTube to listen to any comments they tried to make by reading their ...
- Short-story author to give reading at Missouri State on Friday - News-Leader.com
Danielle Evans, an instructor of creative writing in the English department at Missouri State University, will be holding a reading of her work at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the theater in Plaster Student Union, 1110 Madison St. Evans’ story “Virgins ...
- 'Romantic Poetry' stumbles in its tale of love - Asbury Park Press
'Romantic Poetry' stumbles in its tale of loveAsbury Park Press, NJ - 26 minutes agoHow else to explain "Romantic Poetry," the bewildering collaboration of John Patrick Shanley (book, lyrics and heavy-handed direction) and Henry Krieger ...
- Award-Winning Nigerian Writer Chris Abani to Read From His Work - Hamilton College News
Award-Winning Nigerian Writer Chris Abani to Read From His WorkHamilton College News, NY - 42 minutes agoChris Abani, a Nigerian writer and professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, will read from his fiction and poetry on Thursday, Nov. ...
- Holiday happenings - Weatherford Democrat
Holiday happeningsWeatherford Democrat, TX - 7 hours agoFestivities begin at 6 pm with a campfire and a program of cowboy music, poetry and sing-along with a Christmas theme Christmas Open House at Millsap ...
- Those delicate Jesuit sensibilities Laura Vozzella - Baltimore Sun
Those delicate Jesuit sensibilities Laura VozzellaBaltimore Sun, United States - 4 hours ago"Nobel Prize winners in hard sciences," he added, "not the wussy stuff like poetry." Block said no one pulled him aside after the lecture to express dismay. ...
- Gulf Coast residents making lemonade from lemons - Montgomery Advertiser
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- I am always struck by the light on the Gulf Coast, by its peculiar qualiĂ‚Âty and strength. Blues are bluer. Whites dreamier. Shadows are denser somehow. Makes sense that so many great artists eddy up on these shores. Three ...
- Antonia Fraser to Jackie Kay: writers and politicians pick the best books of 2008 (Guardian Unlimited)
Antonia Fraser By far the best novel I read this year was Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture (what on earth were the Booker judges thinking about?). I have always admired Barry's work, both on stage and off it, but I feel this is the finest thing he has done. The book has two narratives, one being the story of a very old woman indeed, possibly over a hundred, and the other the doctor ...
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