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- Author Gowdy wins Trillium Book Award (Toronto Star)
Barbara Gowdy's gripping novel Helpless , which incited controversy in some quarters for its sympathetic portrayal of a man who abducts a young girl, is the winner of the $20,000 English-language Trillium Book Award.
- Community Calendar: June 15-21 - Budgeteer
Community Calendar: June 15-21Budgeteer, MN - 52 minutes agoThere will be music, youth poetry and reflection. At 6:30 pm Warren Read, a great grandson of one of the mob organizers, and relatives of Elmer Jackson, ...
- Nosing out talent - News & Observer
News & ObserverNosing out talentNews & Observer, NC - 1 hour agoAnd tenderly erotic: My lips in / your flowers. Williams was also an accomplished photographer whose images of writers, artists, gravestones and natural ...
- My husband's sighs are driving me up the wall! (Salon.com)
Every time he takes a sip of anything, he emits this deep, mournful exhalation. It is spooky and weird and I want him to stop.
- Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize - NWI.com
NEW YORK - Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago-based ...
- College Town - Worcester Telegram
College TownWorcester Telegram, MA - 15 minutes ago•The African, Latino/Hispanic, Asian and Native American Network at Assumption College recently named Jeanne McNett, professor of management, ...
- War poet Robert Graves 'stole work from his mistress' - The Independent
Few would doubt the brilliance of Robert Graves, a man considered to be one of Britain's foremost war poets whose verses on Greek mythology and frontline conflict cemented his name in literary history. But one academic has accused the poet of ...
- Education notes (WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth)
Museum forum for teachers: A museum forum for teachers focusing on modern and contemporary art will be held Aug. 4 to 8. The program, which will take place daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is designed for teachers of all disciplines in grades six to 12. Applications must be received by May 16. The tuition is $250 and includes materials and lunch.
- "MVP" scrapes bottom of hockey's barrel of misogyny (Denver Post)
The New York TimesWithin the first few minutes of "MVP," a new drama — and I use that term as one might call "Big Momma's House" a film — a young woman barely out of her teens is straddling a guy upstairs during a party at her parents' Disney World castle of a house, and making royal demands: "You work for me now. Take your pants off."
- See and buy at the 3 Rivers Arts Festival - Beaver County Times
PITTSBURGH — Rain or shine, visitors will spend an estimated $2.4 million on art objects at this year’s Three Rivers Arts Festival. That’s a lot of impulse buying. “We’ve all got a little spending income, right?” said the festival’s ...
- Glenview students honor classmate who died of cancer - Chicago Tribune
Glenview students honor classmate who died of cancerChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours agoScores of students and school officials wrote letters to Eugene's family at the time. Some children dedicated a book of poetry to him and included a poem in ...
- National Book Award Winner Robert Stone visits AC - Le Provacteur (subscription)
National Book Award Winner Robert Stone visits ACLe Provacteur (subscription), MA - 17 hours agoHe then explained "There's only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is…If it works, your say that's real, that's truth, that's life, ...
- Pupils reach out to needy animals - Asbury Park Press
Pupils reach out to needy animalsAsbury Park Press, NJ - 6 hours agoBecause April is Poetry Month, the youngsters are writing poems about those dogs and cats, she said. The students also have incorporated the shelter in ...
- MTV'S BUZZING WITH LAUGHTER ON WEDNESDAY NIGHTS WITH EMERGING ... - The Futon Critic
MTV'S BUZZING WITH LAUGHTER ON WEDNESDAY NIGHTS WITH EMERGING ...The Futon Critic, CA - 21 minutes agoBut rest assured the Simmons family will endure all the chaos with love. The fourth season averaged a 1.59 P12-34 and ranked #1 in its time period ...
- Journey guided by independent thinking - Rockford Register-Star
Dr. Achal Modi has advice for this year’s Young Americans that will make their lives more interesting and fulfilling. “Question everything you are told,” he said in a telephone interview from his home in Columbus, Ohio. Well, not everything ...
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