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- Iran Has Many Old Scores to Settle-Just Ask The Arabs and Turks - Newsblaze.com
His book of poems, Far From Algiers, won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize from Kent State University in 2007 and was published in 2008. His story, Artists Hill, adapted from the second novel of an unpublished trilogy, won the Literal Latté first ...
- News Calendar: Jan. 15-30 - Salem Gazette
News Calendar: Jan. 15-30Salem GazetteWinners will be invited to read at the forums' annual Poetry Day reading, this year held Saturday, April 17, at the Beverly Public Library. ...
- Lind: Facing life's challenges at age 11 - In-Forum
Lind: Facing life's challenges at age 11In-ForumOlaf loved spending time with family members, reading, poetry and music; he could play both the violin and accordion. But Harriet died in 2003, ...
- The Irish - Vermont Public Radio
First, I listened again to a tape of Thomas Cahill’s rollicking, celebratory history of How the Irish Saved Civilization , in which his prose borders on poetry. Cahill makes the case that, when Europe was falling beneath the pillaging assaults of ...
- Please, please, please, let me get the memoirs I want - The Guardian (blog)
The Guardian (blog)Please, please, please, let me get the memoirs I wantThe Guardian (blog)Our blog overflows with the wit and wisdom of Sam Jordison, Billy Mills, Carol Rumens and David Barnett and your poetry and tales of wine, women, ...and more »
- Why Do so Many Boys Slack Off in Class? - AnnArbor.com
Why Do so Many Boys Slack Off in Class?AnnArbor.comWe are entering crazy time in the youth poetry slam season and I need to save some time and energy for my wife and kids. Look for new postings on Thursday ...
- Professor Remembered for Integrity, Ability to Bring ... - Daily Californian
But he read the poetry so well, you were drawn to it." UC Berkeley senior Vanessa Lavorato worked on her art history thesis with Muscatine in the last six-months of his life, and said she regarded him as both a teacher and mentor. "He advocated ...
- The leavening of a serious food editor - Montreal Gazette
The leavening of a serious food editorMontreal GazetteThere's such a wide range of places that seem lost in time, that belong to Eastern European and Asian and African American communities. ...and more »
- Christina Bruni - HealthCentral.com
Christina has been in remission from schizophrenia, and out of the hospital, for 17 years. She currently works as a public service librarian, a job she’s held for nine years. In June 2000, she graduated from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn with a Masters ...
- COMMUNITY EVENTS - Caledon Citizen
COMMUNITY EVENTSCaledon CitizenDeadline to enter the Caledon Public Library's annual Young Adult Poetry Writing Contest (for ages 12-18yrs) and its annual Short Story Writing Contest for ...and more »
- New Three-Week Arts Festival In Philly For 2011 - Allentown Morning Call
A huge new arts festival -- the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts -- will arrive April 7-May 1, 2011. For three weeks, there will be one-time productions by some of the region's top talents, many of whom will partner with or present ...
- Creativity can help ease sorrow - Edmonton Journal
A High River family sets up an enormous Christmas tree by the local hospital entrance each year ... Grandma was from Montreal and was 96 when she died so she had no close friends here. We had a little room at the funeral parlour where we read some ...
- ShopRite, General Mills look to fight hunger through video contest - Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
Gloucester County Times - NJ.comShopRite, General Mills look to fight hunger through video contestGloucester County Times - NJ.comIn an effort to raise awareness of our country's hunger problem, ShopRite has teamed up with General Mills to launch a new online video contest called, ...and more »
- Translating Poetry from Spain and Latin America - Boston University
The Translation Seminars present Forest Gander, an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator, in "More Authentic Than The Original: Translating Poetry from Spain and Latin America." He is a professor of English and comparative ...
- The Staggering Work of Publishing Genius - Publishers Weekly
In the January/February issue of Mother Jones magazine, Ted Genoways, editor of the venerable literary journal the Virginia Quarterly Review , laments the impending “death of fiction,†and suggests its cause: too many publication outlets, and too ...
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