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- Eager fans brim with anticipation - Canada.com
Eager fans brim with anticipationCanada.com, Canada - 14 hours agoAt 85, Gwen Berkowitz had been waiting a lifetime to see a live performance by the man whose poetry and music helped to define her life. ...
- Clergy in the closet - Washington Blade
The connection between sexual identity and Judeo-Christian values is fraught with complexities, which are explored in detail in “The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir” by poet Honor Moore. The searing chronicle lays bare the dual life of her father ...
- Gaia Online Offering First Access to Casual MMO at New York Comic-Con (IGN PC)
The online community is kicking off the casual MMO closed beta through a golden ticket contest.
- Hear & Near (5/30) - Ahwatukee Foothills News
Ahwatukee First Sundays - Healthy Laughter with Laurie's Laughter Club meets from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on the first Sundays (June 1) at Fire Station 43, Community Room, 4110 E. Chandler Blvd. Certified laughter instructor and local resident Laurie ...
- Holiday observances span valley - Medford Mail Tribune
It's Memorial Day. Schools, post offices, libraries and some businesses are closed today, and Memorial Day ceremonies span the valley. Here's a look at what's available: — In Medford, Eastwood Cemetery (off Siskiyou Boulevard across from Bear Creek ...
- Winners of Lorin Tarr Gill Writing Competition (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
The National League of American Pen Women's Honolulu chapter has announced the winners of the 2008 Lorin Tarr Gill Writing Competition. The biennial contest was open to all writers in categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The poetry winners are printed below.
- Funny prize from Rosen (Guardian Unlimited)
May 14: Children's laureate Michael Rosen has stepped up his mission to put the pleasure back into reading by creating a prize for the funniest children's books
- Get ready for the first annual Rappahannock Independent Film Festival - The Free Lance-Star
Get ready for the first annual Rappahannock Independent Film FestivalThe Free Lance-Star, VA - 1 hour agoThis latest initiative by the Fredericksburg Athenaeum complements its ongoing efforts in the literary and live-performance arenas, from poetry readings to ...
- • A true case of poetic justice - Guelph Mercury
• A true case of poetic justiceGuelph Mercury, Canada - 4 hours agoAs it happened, I had just finished a book called "Why Poetry Matters," a study on the role poetry can play in our daily lives that deals extensively with ...
- Barbara Gowdy, Rachel Zolf win Ontario's Trillium Book Awards - Canada East
TORONTO - Authors Barbara Gowdy and Rachel Zolf were named winners Thursday of the 21st annual Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's top literary prize. Gowdy won for her novel "Helpless" (HarperCollins) while Zolf won the poetry award for her collection ...
- Sluggish pace hampers RVP's 'Brooklyn Boy' - Marin Independent Journal
Ross Valley Players' production of "Brooklyn Boy" - a somewhat thought-provoking, occasionally nuance-layered and, at times, well-crafted evening of community theater - is, well, a little dull. Now, I am a critic of a certain age, born in the '50s ...
- Etched with human passion - Daily Press
Etched with human passionDaily Press, VA - 29 minutes agoIt also provides a stirring, sometimes uncannily personal window into the disappointment, mystery and poetry of his old age, which was hounded both personal ...
- When a woman is at her Wit’s end - BCLocalNews
BCLocalNewsWhen a woman is at her Wit’s endBCLocalNews, Canada - 35 minutes agoShe’sa strict, unfriendly English poetry professor who had devoted her life to the writing of John Donne. “You wouldn’t know a sonnet from a steak sandwich ...
- 'Feral thugs' who killed young woman for being Goth are jailed for life (Times Online)
Two teenagers who murdered a young woman because she was dressed as a Goth displayed a “feral thuggery... [that] degrades humanity itself”, a judge said yesterday as he sentenced them to life imprisonment.
- The longtime teacher who wrote poetry was her church’s historian - Fort Worth Star Telegram
The longtime teacher who wrote poetry was her church’s historianFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 4 hours agoBy AMAN BATHEJA Ruby Peters starting writing poetry as a teenager. It was a practice she would continue throughout her life. At her funeral Friday, ...
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