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- Book critics honor Oates for lifetime achievement - Princeton University
Book critics honor Oates for lifetime achievementPrinceton University... literary criticism, essays, poetry volumes and plays. She has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, ...Hilary Mantel, Richard Holmes Win at 2009 National Book Critics Circle Awards ...Wall Street Journal (blog)all 2 news articles »
- Students from Wis converge for poetry slam - Pioneer Press
MADISON, Wis.—Student poets across Wisconsin are competing this week in Madison. Contestents are being judged by artists from Madison's hip-hop, radio and writing community. The winners from each semifinal will go on to compete against other ...
- The Afternoon Meme: Rocket Propelled Polar Bears, Japanese Game Shows ... - AfterElton.com
We have two clips from the upcoming Season Two of RuPaul's Drag Race . The first is the "Meet 'n Greet" and shows everyone getting familiar. The second clip is a preview from the first episode. It's a high bar they set last season, but I think they ...
- Levi's 'Go Forth' ad campaign embraces the pioneering spirit - Independent Florida Alligator (blog)
Levi's 'Go Forth' ad campaign embraces the pioneering spiritIndependent Florida Alligator (blog)Seth Stevenson, the ad critic at Slate, makes a decent case for the inclusion of the poetry (Whitman is a “quintessentially American poet,†Levi's is a ...
- Finalists Chosen for "Poetry Out Loud" - WIBW
TOPEKA -- The Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, in cooperation with the Kansas Association of Teachers of English, present the annual Kansas "Poetry Out Loud" State Competition. The event is scheduled for 7:00 Friday ...
- The Patience Stone, By Atiq Rahimi trans Polly McLean - Independent
The Patience Stone, By Atiq Rahimi trans Polly McLeanIndependentAtiq Rahimi's prose is spare and elegant and sporadically mutates into shards of evocative poetry. Polly McLean's lean translation does justice to the ...
- Well versed in video games - Times Colonist
... their violence -- especially those in the "first-person shooter" genre. In other words, games requiring the player to blast away at people or things. While the Videogame Poetry Show is a new twist for Victoria, video game-inspired poetry is ...
- IN oRBit: THIS ISN'T 'NAM, THIS IS BOWLING - redbankgreen
redbankgreenIN oRBit: THIS ISN'T 'NAM, THIS IS BOWLINGredbankgreen01.28 - Last Thursday Poetry Reading and Open MicThe monthly series (moderated by Gloria Rovder Healy) continues at the Middletown Library, with Charles and ...
- A Super Bowl of poetry on Sunday in Pleasanton - Tri-Valley Herald
A Super Bowl of poetry on Sunday in PleasantonTri-Valley HeraldThe open mic will feature participants reading an original poem of one page or less about Frost in his writing style or any subject they choose.
- This 'Youth in Revolt' lacks a reliable rebellious spirit - News & Observer
News & ObserverThis 'Youth in Revolt' lacks a reliable rebellious spiritNews & ObserverFor starters, there is this perfect, poetry-writing boy named Trent whom Sheeni is still hung up on. Meanwhile, Nick has to flock back to the loveless ...and more »
- Wilsonville schools celebrate 'Read Across America' Day - Wilsonville Spokesman
Wilsonville schools celebrate 'Read Across America' DayWilsonville SpokesmanThere's a great rhyme to them, a rhythm to them like a beat poetry kind of thing. It's really cool and all the kids love it.†In Wilsonville on Wednesday, ...
- Blue Moon - Dartmouth
But this is the only the interest the moon generates for a purely mathematical mind — its poetry will always be dimmed by statistics and measurements. I can’t help but feel that Keats’s ideal is somehow more interesting and awe-inspiring: to be ...
- Burns Night supper and auction raises cash for Kingston's Fircroft Trust - Kingston Guardian
Burns Night supper and auction raises cash for Kingston's Fircroft TrustKingston GuardianKeen poets can choose a poem and recite it or have a poem chosen for them on the evening. A pub sign from the White Hart, which is due to be demolished this ...and more »
- Poet Al Young appears Sunday in West Oakland - Oakland Tribune
Poet Al Young appears Sunday in West OaklandOakland TribuneHe has taught poetry, fiction writing and American literature at Cal, Stanford, UC Davis, San Jose State and other universities, along with authoring 22 ...and more »
- HPU Selects Recipient for James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry - Honolulu Advertiser
Eric Paul Shaffer of Honolulu has been named the recipient of the James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry at Hawai'i Pacific University. Shaffer will receive a $250 cash award and be recognized at HPU's 13th annual Ko'olau Writing Workshops Saturday, March ...
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