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- Botswana: Bessie Head Competition (AllAfrica.com)
The Bessie Head Heritage Trust and Pentagon Publishers have announced the winners of the 2008 Bessie Head Literature Awards. They are: Novel - Phidson Mojokeri, for Curse of a Dream (first prize); Khumo Ketlhwaafetse, for Scrap Yard (second); and Yamikani Patson, for Hang Him (third).
- Start your beach reading at York Public Library (The York Weekly)
A character in Philip Roth's novel "Goodbye, Columbus" describes his cousin, the ultimate summer reader: "Doris? She's the one who's always reading 'War and Peace.' That's how I know it's summer, when Doris is reading 'War and Peace.'"
- New Author: Joanne Augello Writes Two Books of Poems. First One Oct ... - PR.com
Joanne Augello has one book that was finished in Oct 2007 called Emotional Feelings which was done with red lead press. It will be out by mid May of this year. The print is being made bigger. Joannes' second book that she did herself with lulu.com is ...
- Self-exploration at heart of Shakespearean love story - Nashville Tennessean
It is spring, after all. Why not, then, a play about love — or even more so, one of being in love with the very idea of being in love? Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is the tale of the season, but there's more to it than just the mushy gushy. In the ...
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies - Ottawa Recorder
Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, diesOttawa Recorder, Canada - May 30, 2008Other times, Gibson, clutching a flower, would recite nonsensical poetry or Johnson would impersonate a comical Nazi spy. Stars such as John Wayne and Kirk ...
- american life in poetry HHHH - Register-Guard
Bad news all too often arrives with a ringing telephone, all too early in the morning. But sometimes it comes with less emphasis, by regular mail. Here Allan Peterson of Florida gets at the feelings of receiving bad news by letter, not by directly ...
- Where to next? - Citizen Online
Farmers study effects of deer on croplands Earth Day inspires cleanup efforts Four local women face prostitution charges At St. Pat's, Pope prays for healing from sex abuse scandal Auburn man convicted of assault County pulls vote on job description ...
- EUR MOTHER'S DAY WEEKEND EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Powell's riveting poem 'Son2Mother.' (Eurweb)
*Author, activist, essayist, politician and poet, Kevin Powell recently published a new book of poetry called "No Sleep Till Brooklyn: New And Selected Poems." Soft Skull Press describes the tome as "a searingly honest collection at once powerful and disturbing."
- Faith takes ‘spelling magician’ to the US (Daily Dispatch)
AN NU13 teenager is hoping for gold when she competes in the spelling category of an international schools competition in the United States this week.
- Poetry with a sense of place (The State)
Calling All Poets! The Medical University of South Carolina seeks poetry submissions to accompany art work at a new center for the diagnosis and treatment of heart, vascular and digestive diseases. Poetry Categories “South Carolina — A Sense of Place” : Poems should consider the ways in which the natural world offers poets metaphors about the beauty and mystery of the cycles of life, as ...
- Reconnecting with reading at county libraries - Cleveland Jewish News
At least three times a week, Debby Rubin and her three young children head over to the Beachwood library after dinner. “When I was a kid, my library was my home-away-from-home, and I want my children to develop that same comfort zone,” she says ...
- Oregon poet laureate connects through poetry - U-Wire.com
Oregon Poet Laureate Lawson Fusao Inada is just as interested in hearing audience members' stories as he is in sharing his own. Before officially beginning the discussion Tuesday evening, he sat before the small crowd of students and adults in ...
- Showdown in Gotham town - International Herald Tribune
Dark as night and nearly as long, Christopher Nolan's new Batman movie feels like a beginning and something of an end. Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its ...
- 'Fugitive Pieces': Survivor of war, burdened by memory (Toronto Star)
"Never forget" is the pledge made by those who honour the memory of the millions murdered in the Holocaust. But there is a price paid by curators of a tragic past. How do you keep memories alive of people long gone, while your own story is still being written?
- Caroline Kennedy's Role In Obama VP Search - CBS News
(AP) Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama 's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is sure ...
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