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- Alex Boyd, Anne Simpson win $1,000 national poetry prizes (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes.
- Gaining insights from others' lives (Miami Herald)
I used to love reading biographies and autobiographies when I was younger, but maybe I'm a little jaded now. Everyone seems to have an ax to grind, an angle to play, a story to spin and a point to make. Understand, though I still find it instructive to read of other's lives and gain insight from their tales, and reading with a slightly jaundiced eye may actually be a bit of an advantage, like ...
- Bostonist Book Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Bostonist)
Murakami's latest hit bookshelves on Tuesday. Bostonist correspondent Evan Fleischer gives us the "rundown." A series of real-time anecdotes focusing in on his time as a writer and runner in Hawaii, New York, Japan, and Cambridge over the past twenty-five-odd years, Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running delivers a strong performance. Things happen along the way, ...
- Last chance to see 24 shows this week - Denver Post
A new comic burlesque opera written by and starring Reyna Von Vett, who starred in the Denver Center's "The Taffetas." Music arranged by Wendell Vaughn, now working on the "Mamma Mia" tour. Von Vett plays the madam in a turn-of-the-century dance hall ...
- Totem Figures - Toronto Star
Totem FiguresToronto Star, Canada - 7 minutes agoDawe's thesis is that on our individual, epic journey through life we all carry with us our own personal mythology – people, poetry, memories, whatever. ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse - Miami Herald
PHILADELPHIA - "Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the ...
- With Celtics, it's back to the future (Lowell Sun)
After I was left hanging on The Sun's waiver wire, the kind folks at the Sports Department reeled me in to join their gallant squad and I found myself beaming back to the future, returning to the "fun and games" that kicked off my journalism career in another century.
- Melbourne hooks the books - The Age
Melbourne hooks the booksThe Age, Australia - 3 hours ago... including the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Victorian Writers Centre, the Emerging Writers Festival and the Australian Poetry Centre. Continued...
- Bulletin Board, June 10 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board, June 10Norwich Bulletin, CT - 3 hours agoCONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY, 10 am to noon, July 5, East Lyme High School, EAST LYME. All area poets are invited to attend. Bring a work in progress or your ...
- Are Saratoga's best juveniles yet to come? - Horse Racing - ESPN
Are Saratoga's best juveniles yet to come? - Horse RacingESPN - 3 hours ago(f) Sky Beauty (1992 Adirondack): Though she struggled outside of New York in three career road trips, Sky Beauty was poetry in motion at home. ...
- 'America's poets' take their place in the Hall (The Tennessean)
Statler Brothers, Tom T. Hall are latest country elite.
- FirstAlert[tm] 8/18: Bargain Hunter's Paradise - Trading Markets (press release)
FirstAlert[tm] 8/18: Bargain Hunter's ParadiseTrading Markets (press release), CA - 8 hours agoBrian Aldiss Today is: Bad Poetry Day, Moot Point Day. Happy Birthday: Virginia Dare, Antonio Salieri, Meriwether Lewis, Jack Pickford, Max Factor, ...
- He's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verse - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesHe's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verseLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoFor him, poetry is as much about hatred as it is about love. Kleinzahler carries himself like a boxer: sure-footed, as if ready to throw a punch. ...
- What rhymes with cancer? - Monterey County Herald
What rhymes with cancer?Monterey County Herald, CA - 2 hours agoPoetry. She writes poetry. Whenever and why ever it moves her or soothes her or makes her laugh so hard she forgets, just for a moment, to be afraid. ...
- Concordia scholar shares another side of C.S. Lewis - Austin American-Statesman
American-Statesman: "The Personal Heresy: A Controversy" is certainly not among C.S. Lewis's most popular books. In fact, it's an exchange of essays between Lewis and literary critic E.M.W. Tillyard on the proper reading of poetry. How did you happen ...
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