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- Griffin Poetry Prizes go to Blaser and Ashbery - CBC News
Robin Blaser, poet and professor emeritus from B.C.'s Simon Fraser University, was awarded the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize for Canadian poetry on Wednesday night. Blaser was joined by acclaimed U.S. poet John Ashbery, who took home the ...
- Kitchen Next Door - Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel.comKitchen Next DoorSun-Sentinel.com, FL - 32 minutes agoWhen this second-generation Italian wrote her first book of poetry, each poem drew on her memories of cooking with her mother and grandmother and of sharing ...
- Al Purdy: an uncommon poet memorialized - CBC News
In a writing career that spanned more than 50 years, Al Purdy came to be known as the nation's "unofficial poet laureate.” This week a statue of Purdy was unveiled in Toronto's Queen's Park. The statue was commissioned from sculptors Edwin and ...
- Women writers help each other find the right words (Daily Record)
Culinary and literary adventurer that she is, Joanne Flynn Black of Morristown penned the beginning of "Daily Dosa," the story of how she first encountered the South Indian crepe in a restaurant Down Under.
- `Gurgitators' race: Eating contest this week (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
'Gurgitators' race Some call it gross. Some call it down-right ridiculous.
- Friends united by poetry, disability - St. Joseph News-Press
Friends united by poetry, disabilitySt. Joseph News-Press, MO - 13 minutes ago“I tried the writing poetry thing and the short story thing, and it just didn’t work out for me,” said Mr. Phillips, adding that he “couldn’t hang” with the ...
- D.C. Cousins, Swimming in Film's Big Pool (Washington Post)
CANNES, France, May 20 -- There are big films and little films here; documentary films and animated films; films with movie stars and films from Belgium. But by far the most numerous are the many, many films that no one will ever see. This is the story of Dan and Guy, who came to the Cannes Film ...
- Casa de las Americas will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary - Cuba Headlines
Casa de las Americas will soon celebrate its 50th anniversaryCuba Headlines, Cuba - 42 minutes agoIn 1962, he was a member of the jury of the Casa de las Americas Literature Prize in the poetry category and from 1965 on, he has directed the institution´ ...
- Daily Planner: May 15 - Enterprise-Record
Daily Planner: May 15Enterprise-Record, CA - 6 hours ago... Asociacion de Teatro y Poesia: pensamiento, verso y actuacion (Association of Theater and Poetry: thought, verse and acting). Show in Spanish. Free. ...
- Music day will rock the town - Ipswich Evening Star
Music day will rock the townIpswich Evening Star, UK - 10 hours agoNow part of the Ip-Art festival, this year there will be six stages, as well as a poetry tent to delight and entertain the thousands expected to flock to ...
- Written test stings teen in Scripps spelling bee - Knoxville News Sentinel
Canada.comWritten test stings teen in Scripps spelling beeKnoxville News Sentinel, TN - 1 hour agoLillie, a straight-A student who plays soccer, listens to music and writes poetry, was one of 288 champion spellers competing in the national bee. ...Snohomish girl gets another crack at national spelling bee TheNewsTribune.comall 595 news articles
- Step right up! Pick a winner! (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
LOS ANGELES - For Philadelphians who attend Book Expo America (BEA), the yearly meeting of the nation's publishing business that ended here Sunday, you judge a bookfest by the amount of preplanned agenda you cover.
- Sarasota High School senior takes district debate honors - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota High School senior takes district debate honorsSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 56 minutes agoBailey picked two of 15 events; Public Forum and US Extemporaneous Speaking. The topic for his Public Forum debate was how the "Economic Stimulus Act of ...
- 'The Earl Sande Saga' chronicles legendary jockey - White Mountain Independent
'The Earl Sande Saga' chronicles legendary jockeyWhite Mountain Independent, AZ - 1 hour agoSande even moved Runyan to poetry: "Gimme a handy, Guy like Sande, Bootin' them hosses in." Earl Sande died in Oregon in 1968 and is buried next to his ...
- Robert Greacen: Ulster poet of considerable gifts (Independent)
In the years just before and after the Second World War, the north of Ireland was thought of, if at all, as a province culturally in the doldrums and religiously on the boil. "There was an almost complete blank in poetic utterance and in drama," Robert Greacen wrote. For an aspiring poet at the time in Belfast, he went on (in an article for the magazine Rann), few local literary exemplars ...
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