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- A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named poet ... - Newsday
NEW YORK (AP) _ Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry ...
- Paxman to interrogate the Victorians for BBC1 - Daily Telegraph
Jeremy Paxman is to present a new television series about his “first loveâ€, Victorian art and culture. In the four-part series, which will air on BBC1 next year, Mr Paxman will use Victorian art to dispel the impression of 19th-century society as ...
- Theater Giants Head Up North For Shakespeare Festival - NY1
NY1Theater Giants Head Up North For Shakespeare FestivalNY1, NY - 3 hours agoIt's very precise because it is poetry, it's not prose." Dennehy says hopes to come back to Broadway soon. Plummer's not in such a rush. "I don't know. ...
- Museum displays historic books - Stuttgart Daily Leader
Museum displays historic booksStuttgart Daily Leader, AR - 6 hours agoWe have a poetry book from Longfellow and "The Jungle Book" in German by Rudyard Kipling. Q. Do you have any elementary school books read in a one-room ...
- In the Land of the Master Chess Player - Venezuelanalysis.com
In the Land of the Master Chess PlayerVenezuelanalysis.com, Venezuela - 5 hours agoClifton Ross represented the US in the Second World Poetry Festival of Venezuela in 2005 and his book of poems in Spanish, Traducir el Silencio, ...
- Sandra Lee Anderson (Bay Weekly)
Memoirist with West Coast roots, served in the Peace Corps in Turkey and retired from D.C. Public Schools planning to St. Leonard.
- Winners of the 21st Annual Trillium Book Award are: - Toronto Star
Winners of the 21st Annual Trillium Book Award are:Toronto Star, Canada - 17 hours agoThe recipients of the $10000 poetry awards were Rachel Zolf for Human Resources and Tina Charlebois for Poils lisses.
- Sweet music: Murphys woman has a full plate (Calaveras Enterprise)
In high school, Chrys Mollett was voted most likely to succeed.
- Jasper native named Indiana poet laureate - WANE-TV
JASPER, Ind. (AP) -- An author who writes about his youth in the southern Indiana city of Jasper and his German heritage has been named the state's second poet laureate. Sixty-four-year-old Norbert Krapf was selected from among 19 nominees to the ...
- Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His ... - Washington Post
On weekday mornings as a teenager, Barry Obama left his grandparents' apartment on the 10th floor of the 12-story high-rise at 1617 South Beretania, a mile and half above Waikiki Beach, and walked up Punahou Street in the shadows of capacious banyan ...
- Winning Olympic gold just part of the battle - OCRegister
Winning Olympic gold just part of the battleOCRegister, CA - 3 hours agoThrough the poetry emerges a portrait of a man at times roiled by pain and even in fear of the end of life. Yet Bragg's words speak of challenging oneself ...
- The people have chosen - Northern News Services (subscription)
Northern News Services (subscription)The people have chosenNorthern News Services (subscription), Canada - 9 hours agoThe categories include short stories, creative non-fiction and poetry. Submissions must not have been previously published. Entries must be received by Nov ...
- The Bard outdoors? A lot to like. - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeThe Bard outdoors? A lot to like.Boston Globe, United States - 2 hours ago(T. Charles Erickson) Crammed with clowns and lovers, dukes and rustics, great poetry and rollicking song, "As You Like It" has something for every mood. ...
- Michelle, My Belle - Slate
In the cover package on Barack Obama's race and the presidential election, a piece on his wife, Michelle, finds that she "has morphed into a repository of emotion, an Oprah-esque icon of inspirational womanhood who promises the same feel-good message ...
- The Rogan Boys Find a Friend in Documentary Director Albert Maysles (The New York Observer)
Last December, bearded designer Rogan Gregory and his partner Scott Hahn were invited to a Christmas party at the Midtown home of nonegenarian labor lawyer and free subway advocate Theodore Kheel . Mayor Michael Bloomberg was there, as was Police Commissioner Ray Kelly . ("It was definitely a bit of an older crowd," recalled Mr. Hahn.) The duo, feeling perhaps a bit out of place, ...
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