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- The New Quarterly reaches for the top - Exchange Morning Post
Exchange Morning PostThe New Quarterly reaches for the topExchange Morning Post, Canada - 1 hour agoJudges cited his recent memoir The Names of Things, his book-length poem The Year One (winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 2004), and his novella The ...
- Elsie von Maur, driving force of Quad-City symphony, dies at 106 - Quad-Cities Times
The Quad-City Symphony Orchestra used to practice on Sunday afternoons in Davenport’s Masonic Temple, sometimes only to a one-person audience of Elsie von Maur. Von Maur, of Davenport, died Monday at the age of 106. Her lasting legacy will be to ...
- Local slam poetry performances full of personality, persona (Colorado State Collegian)
Larry Holgerson is a writer, a caregiver and a "this, that and the other." Most days he adorns himself in jeans and t-shirts as he goes about the various tasks of his day.
- My boyfriend tries to find happiness in homelessness (The Charlotte Observer)
In April of my freshman year, my boyfriend, Terry, decided he wanted to be homeless. Among the decisions I expected a college boyfriend to make (changing cell phone plans, or maybe going vegan), homelessness was not one of them. Still, I took the situation calmly. I had known Terry since high school and had watched him pass through various phases: Goth, punk, anarchist, Marxist and Zen. When ...
- Of Emily Dickinson and Steve McQueen on the Smith River - Missoulian
“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.” The line from Emily Dickinson drifted through my consciousness again last week on the starlit evening of the summer solstice. The insistent roll of the Smith River had lulled us all for ...
- Kansas City Author Pledges Support to National Fibromyalgia ... - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Kansas City Author Pledges Support to National Fibromyalgia ...PR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - Jun 10, 2008Mr. Summers was quoted as saying, ”I’ve loved writing all my life and have written poetry since I was a kid, but after meeting someone who actually does ...
- All tied up in knots - This is London
This is LondonAll tied up in knotsThis is London, UK - 5 hours agoNow, however, that her very recent work is exhibited by the National Gallery, promoted there by extravagant prose and poetry (yes, poetry) and presented as ...
- One of world's most wanted men - Globe and Mail
BELGRADE — Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested on Monday, saw himself as a defender of Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war but ended up a fugitive wanted on genocide charges. His 11 years at large had long been a ...
- Poetry alive (7/13) - The Commercial Dispatch
Poetry alive (7/13)The Commercial Dispatch, MS - 16 minutes agoShortly afterward, Elizabeth’s youngest child, Anne, along with her Irish husband, David Griffin, did likewise. Anne and David own the coffeehouse. ...
- MEET LEX: A uniquely gifted artist who calls his genre of music 'D ... - EURweb
*Honoring his native city of Detroit and its rich contribution to the history and evolution of Soul and R&B music, LEX originates a fresh new sound that resonates his experiences of having roots in the church, living the realities of life in the ...
- What is there to do at 93? Well, why not publish a book? - Recorder Community Newspapers
MORRISTOWN – For most people, just making it to the age of 93, is an accomplishment in itself. So what in the world is one to make of a retired attorney of that age who decided he wasn’t about to just putter around the house but instead plunge ...
- John Updike (Guardian Unlimited)
'Reality is - chemically, atomically, biologically - a fabric of microscopic accuracies. The capture of such accuracies is the surest pleasure a writer receives.'
- The Winchester Star - The Winchester Star
The Winchester StarThe Winchester Star, VA - 4 hours agoAngelou’s honors include a National Book Award nomination for “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings;” a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her book of poetry “Just ...
- The beauty and poetry of it (San Francisco Bay View)
For the past seven years, filmmakers Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye have been filming Staff Benda Bilili, a revolutionary and politically active Congolese band made up of disabled musicians.
- Literary landscapes - Jerusalem Post
A long, winding path bordered with young trees and blooming flowers leads to Bar-Ilan University's northern campus, where sparkling new buildings stand in sharp contrast to the dilapidated structures on its southern edge. Under the soft lights in the ...
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