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- Ex-teacher takes out top poetry prize in Montana Book Awards - Scoop
Janet Charman's book of poetry, Cold Snack, won top prize in the Montana Book Awards, beating 25 other books considered. Sports broadcaster Tony Veitch has resigned from both TVNZ and The Radio Network. The broadcaster revealed his resignation in his ...
- The world's 50 best walks - Times Online
Times OnlineThe world's 50 best walksTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoNo city is as rich in pubs and poetry as Dublin, and Colm Quilligan’s literary pub crawl is a genius amalgam of both - a 2½hour stagger with Wilde, Joyce, ...
- John Burnside's top 10 Scottish poetry collections - guardian.co.uk
John Burnside's top 10 Scottish poetry collectionsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoHe has published eight previous books of poetry, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award, and most recently The Light Trap, ..."I never had the least thought or inclination of turning poet till ... guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- Women doctor shares journey into heart of Islam - Times & Democrat
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Dr. Qanta Ahmed's journey into the heart of Islam began as a spur-of-the-moment decision to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia. Despite misgivings about women _ even doctors _ being treated as invisible in the country, the 40-year ...
- Writing captures retiree's unique perspective - Daily Review Online
Writing captures retiree's unique perspectiveDaily Review Online, CA - 2 hours agoA 66-year-old retiree who lives in Hayward, she tapped into that perspective to author an award-winning poem: "Less is More," in which she addresses the ...
- Festival of Indian Dance Schedule Announced - Broadway World
Festival of Indian Dance Schedule AnnouncedBroadway World, NY - 1 hour agoIt is a combination of musical notes or Swaras along with prose/poetry or Sahitya, usually in praise of a Hindu deity. Manijeh Ali (Canada): Manijeh Ali is ...
- Patrick Phillips' "Piano" (Seattle Times)
Poets are especially good at investing objects with meaning, or in drawing meaning from the things of this world. Here Patrick Phillips of...
- Demonic Muse (New York Times)
Victor Pelevin projects a bitter philosophy of modern times through the voice of a shape-shifting nymphet-narrator.
- Casting Complete for Shanley & Krieger's Musical Romantic Poetry (Playbill)
Jeb Brown, Jerry Dixon, and Emily Swallow have joined the company of Romantic Poetry, the new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger, which Manhattan Theatre Club will give a world premiere this fall.
- WEDNESDAY (20th) - San Francisco Guardian
Chinese Bookie, Songs for Moms, Squeeky Rice Parkside. 9pm, $6-20. Benefit for Wiretap. Disastroid, Big Blue Whale, Ninja Panther Red Devil Lounge. 8pm, $3. Fabulous Thunderbirds Yoshi's SF. 8 and 10pm, $24. *Get Back Loretta, Man Without Way, Th ...
- The Dublin Community Church remembers an important visit in 1912 - The Keene Sentinel (subscription)
The Dublin Community Church remembers an important visit in 1912The Keene Sentinel (subscription), NH - 6 hours agoThose who attend are invited to share music and poetry in a casual atmosphere. A free vacation Bible school — “Surfin’ through the Scriptures†— is being ...
- Author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' - Fosters Daily Democrat
NEW YORK (AP) _ It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the "Today" show and ...
- Poetry prize shortlist revealed (BBC News)
The shortlist for the annual £10,000 Forward Prize for Poetry is revealed, with women dominating the nominees.
- Celebrities, best-selling writers, politicians are set to appear at National Book Festival (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
WASHINGTON -- Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival for Sept. 27 on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady Laura Bush as a way to celebrate reading and books. The recently named poet laureate Kay Ryan is among the participants.
- Celebrating two years of new sounds - Get Surrey
Celebrating two years of new soundsGet Surrey, UK - 9 minutes agoThe sense of unity and familiarity that comes from 15 years of friendship and hanging out together is very much evident both in the band’s sound and in the ...
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