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- 'Exiles' is sure to get its claws in your brain (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Here is what happened when I began raving to some (very nice) friends about “Exiles,” a new novel by Ron Hansen about how the 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came to write perhaps his most inaccessible poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” after hearing of the death of five German nuns in a shipwreck on the shoals of the Thames.
- Sesquicentennial recognition (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Winona, Minn. Visit Winona on Friday for a Capital City for a Day celebration as part of the state's sesquicentennial.
- Was William Shakespeare a woman? - Indian Express
Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman who had disguised to get her work published in Elizabethan London where original literature from women was not acceptable, an expert has contended. The woman, Amelia Bassano Lanier Bassano, was of Italian ...
- How Ignorant Are We? - Middle East Online
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid, it would seem, when we come across headlines like this: "Homer Simpson ...
- Children's Book Reviews - Publishers Weekly
Children's Book ReviewsPublishers Weekly, NY - 22 hours agoCandlewick, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3623-4 In her first YA novel, Baskin's (The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah) portrait of a teen questioning the meaning ...
- Former poet laureate George Garrett dies - Richmond Times Dispatch
Former poet laureate George Garrett diesRichmond Times Dispatch, VA - 58 minutes agoHe was a prolific writer throughout his life, publishing eight volumes of poetry, seven collections of short stories and nine novels. ...Garrett, prodigious writer and professor, dies at age 78 Charlottesville Daily Progressall 4 news articles
- Our Daily Bleg: Wall Street Proverbs, Please - New York Times Blogs
Our Daily Bleg: Wall Street Proverbs, PleaseNew York Times Blogs, NY - 48 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Wergeland hailed on 200th birthday (Aftenposten)
Henrik Wergeland, viewed by many as one of the most important founding fathers of the modern Norwegian state, may be long gone but he's certainly not forgotten.
- Sound Tracks | Various Artists - Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City PaperSound Tracks | Various ArtistsBaltimore City Paper, MD - 3 hours agoBut that's just how Los Jaivas open "Foto de Primera ComuniĂłn,"on the new compilation Love, Peace and Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music. ...
- Leader of the Pack - Wall Street Journal
The defining quality of great children's literature is persistence: It stays with the reader with undiminished vitality into adulthood. There is a certain type of gloomy old man who, for A.A. Milne's readers, will always be an Eeyore; children who ...
- Rafe Scobey-Thal (The Ann Arbor News)
Age: He'll be 18 on Thursday. Parents: David Scobey and Denise Thal. School: Senior at Community High School.
- A prize worth cracking a beer over (Toronto Star)
An Ottawa artist who uses beer caps, auto parts and old toys to create works has won a Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Ron Noganosh will receive $35,000 and be asked to identify an emerging artist of the year, who will get $15,000. Publishing house Coach House Books gets $50,000 as the winner in the arts organization category.
- North Student News - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Fifteen pupils from St. Sebastian in Ross competed in the forensics finals at Butler Catholic last month against students from 25 local schools. Winning first-place ribbons were Rose Coppola for poetry; Joseph Bray and Cole Barkich, drama; David ...
- Gulzar's new anthology of poems steeped in nostalgia - Mangalorean.com
Gulzar's new anthology of poems steeped in nostalgiaMangalorean.com, India - Apr 30, 2008"Selected Poems" has 44 Urdu poems, mostly sonnets, along with their English translations. The poems are a reflection of the author's life, ...
- In Case You Haven't Heard - Block Island Times
In Case You Haven't HeardBlock Island Times, USA - 4 hours agoDavid, 50, lives in New York state and was a performer at the Block Island Poetry Project this year. He looks forward to coming back to Block Island for ...
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