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- State library announces best books of Indiana awards - NWI.com
The 2008 Best Books of Indiana were named last week at an awards ceremony at the Indiana State Library. The Indiana Center for the Book began the state book-award contest in 2005 to strengthen interest in Indiana's strong literary heritage. The ...
- Dominic Lawson: A simple lesson in humanity - The Independent
It could be described as the ultimate stamp of approval – to be commemorated on the surface of countless letters sent across the country every day. All of us will have our own idea of the sort of person who deserves the immortality of appearing on ...
- Steely Dan to do it again at WFC - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Steely Dan to do it again at WFCSanta Rosa Press Democrat, CA - 8 hours agoThey write "cryptic poetry that Dylan might have conjured had he pored over (author William S.) Burroughs instead of (Woody) Guthrie," says Slate's Fred ...
- "Middle Class Thugs for Bush" Part 2 - OpEdNews
"Middle Class Thugs for Bush" Part 2OpEdNews, PA - 2 hours agoBorn the son of a nightclub singer, Mikel Weisser watched anti-war hippies getting beaten on TV during the Vietnam War and decided to devote his life to ...
- Book lists backroads of Texas - Abilene Reporter-News
Book lists backroads of TexasAbilene Reporter-News, TX - 6 minutes agoTexas Poetry Calendar: More than 75 Texas poets have pieces published in the new "Texas Poetry Calendar 2009," edited by Scott Wiggerman and Cindy Huyser ...
- Heinz Awards Honor Five Eminent Americans with 14th Annual Human Achievement Prize (Centre Daily Times)
Celebrating the unbridled human spirit to change the world around us in ways great and small, in the here and now, and for generations to come, the Heinz Family Foundation today announced the recipients of the 14th annual Heinz Awards, among the largest individual achievement prizes in the world.
- Rome to host first International Jewish Literature Festival in Italy - European Jewish Press
European Jewish PressRome to host first International Jewish Literature Festival in ItalyEuropean Jewish Press, Belgium - 15 hours agoThe four-day festival features readings, poetry, panels, discussions, a film screening, and a writing contest, all of this enriched by the presence of a ...
- Fahmida praises PPP workers - The Post
Fahmida praises PPP workersThe Post, Pakistan - 4 hours agoPoet and short story writer, Agha Saleem was the key speaker on the occasion and delivered his lecture on Poetry of Shah Abdul latif Bhitai and Sufism. ...
- Poetic Justice: Spike in sales for Kay Ryan, the next poet laureate (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall.
- Dorival Caymmi: Leading figure in Brazilian song (Independent)
In February 1939 a young, unknown singer-songwriter got the most fabulous break of his life by recording a duet of his swinging samba "O Que É Que A Bahiana Tem?" ("What is it about Bahian Women?") with Brazil's biggest ever vocal star. The song became one of Carmen Miranda's signature pieces just before she took Hollywood by storm, and launched Dorival Caymmi as a leading figure in Brazilian ...
- ‘Penguins’ deliver newspaper audience (Lawrence Journal-World)
The newspaper industry is constantly bewailing its need for a new economic model, as the Internet upends the old one. Maybe it could take a page from the Club Penguin Times.
- Should Darwish's poetry be taught in schools? - Jerusalem Post
Should Darwish's poetry be taught in schools?Jerusalem Post, Israel - Aug 10, 2008I am afraid [teaching his poetry] would arouse sentiments against Zionism, Judaism and the country," said Orlev, also the former chair of the Knesset ...
- From Better To Verse - Cape Breton Post
From Better To VerseCape Breton Post, Canada - 48 minutes ago... a book length poem. A section of this poem, under the title "to float, to drown, to close up, to open-a throat", earned honourable mention in Arc Poetry ...
- Italian singer adds new facet to Rabindra Sangeet (Calcutta News)
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's music transcends geography and culture. For Italian singer Francesca Cassio, a blue-blooded Roman, it is both a passion and vocation.
- USU receives grant for arts education (Deseret Morning News)
Museum acquisitions will continue to be used to teach not only art in area schools, but mathematics and geometric concepts as well, thanks to a federal grant supporting arts education.
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