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- Griffin Trust names prize jurors - Quill & Quire
Griffin Trust names prize jurorsQuill & Quire, Canada - 10 hours agoThe Griffin Trust has announced that Saskia Hamilton, Dennis O’Driscoll, and Michael Redhill are the judges for the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize. ...
- Classic children's library: 4-7 - guardian.co.uk
Classic children's library: 4-7guardian.co.uk, UK - 28 minutes agothe kind of nourishing poetry that four-year-olds really understand. Some funny and some silly rhymes about swings and see-saws, cats and dogs, ...
- A REWIND to your fellow . . . Artistic Minds® - Gather.com
Gather.comA REWIND to your fellow . . . Artistic Minds®Gather.com, MA - 6 hours agoJennifer M. ~ Jennifer loves camping, hiking, four wheeling, gardening, drawing, reading, writing poetry and above all my family. ...
- Wainwright woos Cambridge crowd - BBC News
BBC NewsWainwright woos Cambridge crowdBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoWainwright's latest album has won her new fans, and many of her lyrics stand up as poetry in their own right. Bleeding All Over You includes the lines: ...
- Sam Taylor's top 10 books about forgetting - guardian.co.uk
Sam Taylor's top 10 books about forgettingguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoHe lives in France with his young family. His second novel, The Amnesiac (Faber, Ă‚ÂŁ12.99), tells the story of James Purdew, a man obsessed with uncovering ...
- The Reverend Betty Jo Blackmon Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who ... - 24-7PressRelease.com (press release)
The Reverend Betty Jo Blackmon Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who ...24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - 7 hours agoAt present, she is working on a soon-to-be-published compilation of her beach sermons and poetry entitled Preaching Where Pelicans Fly. ...
- Preacherless choir - San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay GuardianPreacherless choirSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 1 hour agoCurrent events are poetry's bait and bane — who will write the great 9/11 poem, the great Iraq Occupation poem, the great Bush empire poem? ...
- Urban Music Week starts Friday (East York Mirror)
The best in Canadian and international urban music will be showcased during the 12th annual Urban Music Week Aug. 29 to Sept. 6. Formerly called Toronto Urban Music Festival, Canada's largest urban ...
- Arts Alliance hosts literary salon - Houston Chronicle
• Where: space125gallery on the ground floor of Houston Center for the Arts, 3201 Allen Parkway; 713-527-9330 Fans of the spoken word can get their fix Thursday night at space125gallery, where the Houston Arts Alliance is presenting a free literary ...
- From Service Function to Discipline - Inside Higher Ed
As thousands of the professors who teach writing and rhetoric gather in New York City this week, many of their programs are on a roll. Instructors who long felt tethered in English departments, and relegated to teaching freshman comp or remedial ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish commemorated on stage (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Ian MacKenzie EDINBURGH, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The Palestine National Theatre is putting on a play based on a poem by Mahmoud Darwish at the Edinburgh International Festival dedicated to the ...
- In harmony with all creation (The Japan Times)
If the primary theme of human life in the 21st century is living in harmony with other animals and plants — and also preserving the bounties of the Earth — then Kenji Miyazawa is the Japanese writer who can most thoroughly help us to understand and pursue this theme. Miyazawa died 75 years ago this Sunday, Sept. 21; but his profound ideas, expressed in exquisite prose parables and philosophical ...
- Mental Health Media Grant recipients - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Mental Health Media Grant recipientsScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 8 hours agoKarlo Mila is writing a poetry book (featuring some prose) about her experience of unwellness and recovery. Jenn Shelton will bring together talented ...
- Lucinda Williams sings of a rambling woman's travels (Access Atlanta)
From stark images that raise goosebumps on the arms to swoonworthy expressions of love, Lucinda Williams is a master of rustic lyrical beauty. She's also created quite the travelogue, with the references to cities, towns and other geographical landmarks lending local color to her musical poetry, from Beaumont to Birmingham, Minneapolis to Memphis.
- Africa: The Net's Eating Its Kids (AllAfrica.com)
THE SURPRISING THING IN the announcement that the Internet is probably bad for your brain is that it took so long to come: but the word is out; the information revolution is eating its children.
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