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- Nigeria: Osundare Wins Poetry Prize - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: Osundare Wins Poetry PrizeAllAfrica.com, Washington - 6 hours agoNigeria's highest poetry prize is ANA/Cadbury Prize worth $1000. A letter from the organisers of the award, Assilah Forum Foundation, a non-profit ...
- Looking for a 'healthy and stable' democratic process - The Daily Star
Looking for a 'healthy and stable' democratic processThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 16 hours agoLike Dryden I believe that the fault lies not in poetry but in the bad poets. There is also the question of mindset. Any analysis of the political ...
- Steffens takes top honor at book awards bash - San Diego Union Tribune
Steffens takes top honor at book awards bashSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoPoetry: Gabriela Aanaya Valdepeña and Chris Vannoy, “Twenty Poems Against Love & a Song for the Air.” Biography: Bettie B. Youngs, “The House That Love ...
- B. L. Burtt: Plant taxonomist - The Independent
B.L. Burtt was one of the most prolific and knowledgeable of plant taxonomists, in the grand tradition of Sir Joseph Hooker. His long life was devoted almost exclusively to the classification of flowering plants and it is hard to imagine that his ...
- Cool App of the Moment - Times Union Blogs
Wordle . You can feed it a pile of text or links to a web page with a feed, and create cool visual art from the words contained therein. Here’s my blog wordled . Here’s my poetry chapbook, Jefferson Water . Completely pointless, but still ...
- Celebrating our Madison music scene at the 2008 MAMAs - Isthmus Daily Page
Celebrating our Madison music scene at the 2008 MAMAsIsthmus Daily Page, WI - 5 hours agoThe spoken word poetry of Adam Gregory Pergamente introduced each musical act. “Where does the wind come from and where does it go? ...
- Jarvis Cocker: the secret of saying the unsayable - Daily Telegraph
Take Louie Louie by the Kingsmen. The lyrics are unintelligible but it doesn't matter: it just sounds right. There are at least 130 versions of Louie Louie out there, but none of them comes even close to that one. Yet when a lyric and a piece of ...
- Shania Twain's boots no longer under Mutt Lange's bed; Mel Gibson and ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mutt Lange's no longer "Still the One" for Shania. Man, she feels like a single woman. Shania Twain and producer/Svengali husband Robert "Mutt" Lange are separating after 14 years, many quiet years in a Swiss villa, and one child, six-year-old Eja ...
- Rhyme and punishment: Vandals who trashed Robert Frost's home learn ... - Grand Forks Herald
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Take the studio tour - Rim Country Gazette
Take the studio tourRim Country Gazette, AZ - 2 hours agoHagen, a Renaissance man who recently published a volume of poetry, likes to portray beautiful background scenery as a setting for living creatures—birds, ...
- Juneteenth Planning Committee prepares for Big Event - Birmingham Times
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Staff and sponsors for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s (BCRI) 13th Annual Juneteenth Celebration are hard at work planning for a successful event. On Saturday, June 7, the Institute will host its free daylong street ...
- In Memoriam: Thomas M. Disch - Popmatters.com
It's often said of uncommonly talented writers that they defied description; in Disch's case, that actually managed to be true. The worlds of both science fiction and great literature lost a smart, acerbic voice on Friday when Thomas M. Disch ...
- Learn how to deal with stress (Pacific Daily News)
It's the time of the year when many teens are starting to stress over exams, grades, proms and even gas money.
- James Reaney, 81: Canadian playwright (Toronto Star)
LONDON, Ont.–James Reaney, a national literary icon who stayed close to his southwestern Ontario roots during a celebrated 50-year career as a playwright, poet and professor, has died.
- Native-American teens use poetry to convey heritage - SmartBrief
Native-American teens use poetry to convey heritageSmartBrief, DC - 23 minutes agoA group of Navajo teens will soon travel to Washington, DC, for the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival, in which top teen poets ...
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