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- Quebec author denies racism in criticizing Jean - Globe and Mail
MONTREAL — One of Quebec's most popular authors says Ottawa is using Governor-General Michaëlle Jean to "forcefully integrate" the province into the Canadian ensemble. Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, who has penned some 70 works of fiction, non-fiction ...
- Orthodox Christians Celebrate Easter (R News)
Orthodox Christians around the world are celebrating Easter Sunday. At St. Mary The Protectress Ukranian Orthodox Church in Irondequoit, the overnight ceremony started with a processional around the church at midnight.
- Not loving Mike Myers' 'Guru' too much - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Paramount Pictures Mike Myers promoting "The Love Guru" with co-star Verne "Mini-Me" Troyer, who plays a hockey coach. Mike Myers and his Guru Pitka character made the obligatory promo rounds. I saw him on "American Idol," "The Today Show," and a ...
- Silver Jews' latest album mostly loses its way - Chicago Tribune
David Berman, frontman for the Silver Jews, never had much of a voice. "Like a message broadcast on an overpass / all my favorite singers couldn't sing," he intoned on the band's 1998 masterpiece "American Water," aligning himself squarely in the ...
- Is a slow-witted person an oxymoron? - Jackson Clarion Ledger
Is a slow-witted person an oxymoron?Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - 55 minutes agoA troubadour was to poetry what a raconteur [rak-uhn-TUR] is to An oxymoron is a combination of contradictory words. Examples: jumbo shrimp (jumbo is large, ...
- Azaan Kamau Publishes In The Midst of My Blackness! - PRLog.Org (press release)
Azaan Kamau Publishes In The Midst of My Blackness!PRLog.Org (press release), Romania - 1 hour agoThe book has received excellent reviews thus far, and has been nominated for numerous prestigious awards. Ifalade Ta’Shia Asanti, author of two best-selling ...
- Dante, Primo Levi and the intertextualists - Times Online
Dante, Primo Levi and the intertextualistsTimes Online, UK - 57 minutes ago... their implied commitments from Diodati’s 1603 Italian version of the Scriptures (he does not quote Hebrew) throughout his prose as well as his poetry. ...
- Slim Pickings? Not on This Langhorne's List! - Jewish Exponent
Jewish ExponentSlim Pickings? Not on This Langhorne's List!Jewish Exponent, PA - 2 hours ago"I had been just writing little stories and poetry and stuff like that, like a lot of kids," he recalls on the phone from eastern Oregon. ...
- Making Poetry of Pain - Argus Leader
VERMILLION - Those who have undergone an MRI say it surrounds them with an unpleasant whir. Or it bangs intermittently, like an ornery appliance. Or like a jackhammer. To Annie Christain, surrounded by darkness, fearful of the MRI's results, the ...
- Sneak thief loses the plot on stereotypes - Independent Online
Sneak thief loses the plot on stereotypesIndependent Online, South Africa - 1 hour agoWe were in the middle of the main exhibition hall at the book fair, surrounded by a sea of pashminas and the barracuda barbs of hair-grips. ...
- John Adams Survives - City Journal
John Adams SurvivesCity Journal, NY - 34 minutes agoAdams’s final words were poetry itself: “Thomas Jefferson survives.” Actually, Jefferson had died a few hours earlier, though of course Adams didn’t know ...
- Free Bird Sheryl Crow let all inhibitions go in recording her new ... - Modesto Bee
Free Bird Sheryl Crow let all inhibitions go in recording her new ...Modesto Bee, CA - 25 minutes ago"My main objective was to be strikingly truthful on this record, to not mask anything behind beautiful poetry, but just to really speak the truth," she said ...
- Writers retreat steams full speed ahead, despite flooding - Evansville Courier-Press
The show must go on — even if it takes "an army of golf carts" to shuttle people attending the 20th annual RopeWalk Writers Retreat to facilities in New Harmony, Ind. The Wabash River at New Harmony was at 22.4 feet Sunday, more than seven feet ...
- James Reaney, 81: Canadian playwright - Toronto Star
CKCOJames Reaney, 81: Canadian playwrightToronto Star, Canada - 1 hour agoHe won three Governor General's Awards for poetry and drama, the first in 1949 for a collection of poetry, "The Red Heart." In 1960, he began teaching at ...James Reaney: 'artistic giant' dies London Free Pressall 6 news articles
- Last chance for poetry contest - WalesOnline
Last chance for poetry contestWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoLike all other regional winners, the Blaenau Gwent winner gets a free copy of the book with their poem in it. To enter, send three unpublished poems on any ...
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