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- Author Spotlight, updated July 24 (TCPalm.com)
Turning the spotlight on area authors.
- Buzz builds for 'Blizzard Voices' - SW Iowa News
Buzz builds for 'Blizzard Voices'SW Iowa News, IA - 44 minutes agoOn Wednesday, Mick's Music & Bar in Omaha was the site of a performance and discussion centered around poetry and music. Ted Kooser, the former US Poet ...
- Mourning and Melancholia: Pierre Michon's 'Small Lives' - New York Sun
Mourning and Melancholia: Pierre Michon's 'Small Lives'New York Sun, United States - 30 minutes agoBoth an experiment in hagiography and an episodic confession, "Small Lives," first published in 1984, immortalizes the author's failure to love those who ...
- Carnival of Memories - CNW Group
Moving account of one family's quest for freedom, love, and life in-between >> NEW YORK, Sept. 12 /CNW/ -- Meet Lyana Lagos, and follow her as she describes her life and personal experiences being the daughter of a Dominican family that escapes one ...
- Garden site hosts 9/11 remembrance, opera preview - Post-Tribune
International Friendship Gardens is a lovely, peaceful place to visit from spring through autumn. Inspired by the sentiments of peace and friendship promoted at Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair, the gardens opened in 1934 and have ...
- Meet ‘Unlucky Lucky Days’ author Daniel Grandbois (Vail Daily)
Author Daniel Grandbois will be signing his book, “Unlucky, Lucky Days” on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Next Page Bookstore in Frisco. FRISCO, Colorado — Author Daniel Grandbois is a Boulder resident who spends time in Frisco at his parent’s home.
- An interview with Timothy Gager: A “Dire” Reader in Somerville - Somerville News
An interview with Timothy Gager: A “Dire” Reader in SomervilleSomerville News, MA - 31 minutes agoHe has a new poetry collection out from Somerville's Cervena Barva Press: “This Is Where You Go When You Are Gone.” In 2007 alone Gager had 32 works of ...
- Royal Family's verse writer's 'thankless' job gave him writer's block (New Kerala)
London, September 11 : Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has proclaimed the job of writing verse for the Royal Family "thankless", for it gave him a case of writer's block.
- Greed, water and poetry - Salon
A scene from "I Served the King of England." "I Served the King of England" feels like a film from another era, and not only because its black-comic picaresque saga unfolds during the 1930s and '40s, before and during the Nazi conquest of ...
- National recognition for teenage poet - Gloucestershire Gazette
National recognition for teenage poetGloucestershire Gazette, UK - 3 hours agoBy Jayne Bennett » A SIXTH former in her final year at Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School is one of just a few winners of a national poetry competition. ...Chester Literature Festival gets under way ChesterChronicle.co.ukHeather Halliwell: Armley sixth former win prestigious writing prize Armley Todayall 4 news articles
- Palestinians plan big funeral for poet Darwish - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday -- an honor only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes for ...
- WITHER WITHOUT YOU (Orlando Weekly)
It might have been upon hearing Axl Rose’s shot at honky-tonk on the leaked version of his mythical album-in-the-works Chinese Democracy ( editor’s note: Yes, it’s exactly as bad as you imagine ) when I first felt a twinge that said, “This isn’t going to end well.”
- The next step? Local author releases book proving God exists - Hudson Reporter
The next step? Local author releases book proving God existsHudson Reporter, NJ - 42 minutes ago"It is written in a style of Free Masons rituals." The book includes poems, psalms and analysis in an attempt to provide a unique view. ...
- SQA gets black mark for dropping Makar - Scotsman
SQA gets black mark for dropping MakarScotsman, United Kingdom - 4 minutes ago... beginning his tenure by writing 'The Poem For The Opening Of The Scottish Parliament'. Morgan's publisher, the professor of poetry at Glasgow University ...
- In 'My Sister, My Love,' Oates fictionalizes JonBenet Ramsey (Boulder Daily Camera)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates. Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
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