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- Oakwood native earns photography award - Times Community Newspapers of Greater Dayton
Oakwood native earns photography awardTimes Community Newspapers of Greater Dayton, OH - 1 hour agoPast members have included eminent culinarian, cookbook author and television personality, Julia Child, who was an active member of IACP for nearly 25 years ...
- Kay Ryan To Be Named Poet Laureate - New York Sun
Kay Ryan will be named the nation's next poet laureate today by the librarian of Congress, James Billington, the New York Times reported tonight. A Californian, Ms. Ryan, 62, is known for her short, playful poems, for which she has won the 2004 Ruth ...
- Glister: the new John Burnside novel - Times Online
Glister: the new John Burnside novelTimes Online, UK - 19 minutes agoBurnside admits that he is drifting away from poetry, for which he has won several awards, towards prose, particularly short-story writing (he is a regular ...
- The Man of Letters vs the Academy - Times Online
The Man of Letters vs the AcademyTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoOf the authors discussed in detail, eight wrote fiction, poetry, or criticism. (The remainder were historians and social or political commentators. ...
- Peter Schjeldahl on Criticism and Context - ARTINFO
Peter Schjeldahl on Criticism and ContextARTINFO, NY - 4 hours agoHe has also published a number of books of art criticism — all collected essays and columns — and several volumes of original poetry. ...
- 'World's worst poems' at auction - BBC News
BBC News'World's worst poems' at auctionBBC News, UK - 28 minutes agoAlex Dove, from auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull, said: "Poetry didn't really come to him until I think he was 47 and the voices in his head told him that he'd ...
- Bhutto memoir to Cape - The Bookseller (subscription)
The Bookseller (subscription)Bhutto memoir to CapeThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 5 hours agoShe has written two previous books, including a volume of poetry and a collection of accounts from survivors of the 2005 earthquake. ...
- Charter school takes on big challenge - Rocky Mountain News
Charter school takes on big challengeRocky Mountain News, CO - 1 hour agoUnder pressure from DPS to make changes, Jones tapped Oscar Joseph, a former Montbello High School football star and poetry lover who stands 6-foot-4 and ...
- Afghan poet's tomb calls to lovelorn (Toronto Star)
A lady who died for love is perhaps not the best patron saint for romance. I'm just saying. Yet Afghan girls of nubile age keep coming to her austere tomb here and pouring out their hearts, so often yearning for what has been forbidden.
- Teen poetry slam set (The Sacramento Bee)
The Elk Grove Library will host its annual poetry slam from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today.
- Patois, Bible and translation - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerPatois, Bible and translationJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 4 hours agoBecause of the variety of text types present in the Bible - from poetry and song to wisdom sayings and dream narratives - its translation into any language ...
- Alex Boyd, Anne Simpson win $1,000 national poetry prizes - Canada East
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced over the weekend at a festival and conference held ...
- Centuries-old Shakespeare volume recovered - Daily News
London - It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of pounds after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C. and asked to have it ...
- 'The Shack' opens doors for self-published author - USA Today
A little novel written by an Oregon salesman and self-published by two former pastors with a $300 marketing budget is lighting up USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list with a wrenching parable about God's grace. First-time author William P. Young's ...
- MCLA presents evolving programming (North Adams Transcript)
NORTH ADAMS -- Performances by singers, songwriters, dancers, poets and performance artists make up the season set for the debut of "MCLA Presents!," the latest incarnation of the former Smith House Series hosted by the college.
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