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- Former beat movement member Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize - Jam! Showbiz
NEW YORK - Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago-based ...
- Independent Reader: Hummingbirds, heists and lost loves - Independent News Online
DREAM YOUR WAY back in time to 1882--the summer of love, when Venus "passed like a beauty spot across the sun's face." After the Civil War, "like so many Rip Van Winkles, Americans awoke to a new world... and rubbed their eyes in disbelief." So ...
- Vandals ponder 'road not taken' - Detroit News
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Queer Up North 2008 (RainbowNetwork.com)
Queer Up North is Europe’s most ambitious queer festival. This year, despite threats of funding cuts from the Arts Council of Great Britain (which the organisers successfully contested), the festival is back, bigger and better than ever.
- Take a Look into the Complicated Life of a Straightforward Author ... - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Take a Look into the Complicated Life of a Straightforward Author ...PR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - 1 hour agoAnnouncing the release of "See What I See", a collection of poetry composed by author Susie McCray. This is a page turning, real-life depiction of a young ...
- Andy Shapiro, It Takes a Village: Students show Earth Day spirit - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Andy Shapiro, It Takes a Village: Students show Earth Day spiritSanta Cruz Sentinel, CA - 10 hours agoThe convergence of Earth Day on April 22 and National Poetry Month throughout April has inspired me to share the following personification poems written by ...
- 'Leaves of Grass' Still Growing, Inspiring - NPR News
All Things Considered , October 8, 2007 · When I first read Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in college, I knew I had found a soul mate. Long before the discovery of black holes, he wrote: "The bright suns I see, and the dark suns I cannot see, are in ...
- Senior college sweethearts (Bar Harbor Times)
MOUNT DESERT — Jim Clunan steps down as president of Acadia Senior College this week.
- Updated 5/7: OPRF grad killed in possible gang crossfire - Pioneer Press Online
Updated 5/7: OPRF grad killed in possible gang crossfirePioneer Press Online, IL - 10 hours agoIshma Stewart's adolescent poetry mused on the meaning of the poverty that she saw in Chicago's public housing. As a student at Oak Park and River Forest ...
- Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective at Queensland Art Gallery (Art Daily)
Sidney Nolan, Death of Sergeant Kennedy at Stringybark Creek 1946. Ripolin enamel on hardboard. 91 x 121.7 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 1972 © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
- Ballymena pupils focus on holocaust story - Ballymena Times
Ballymena pupils focus on holocaust storyBallymena Times, UK - 1 hour agoThis novel, about a friendship which strikes up between a German boy and a Jewish boy during the time of the Holocaust, was chosen in order to hopefully ...
- Eagle poet pens new book of verse (Vail Daily)
EAGLE — “The Word of God is sharper than the sword.” This is not only a beloved point from scripture, but also the message that Eagle poet Tio Carlos hopes to convey to readers of his new book, “The Bells of Saint Mary’s and Other Ventures in Verse.”
- Samuel Segev - Winnipeg Free Press
Samuel SegevWinnipeg Free Press, Canada - 5 hours agoHis eloquent Knesset speech Monday sounded like poetry and was interrupted several times by warm applause. "Israel's security and survival are not the ...
- Literary Happenings: Robert Crais to make TO appearance - Ventura County Star
Literary Happenings: Robert Crais to make TO appearanceVentura County Star, CA - 18 hours agoPoetry Workshop 7 pm Wednesday. Barnes & Noble, 4820 Telephone Road, Ventura. 339-0990. Train of Thought 6:30 pm Thursday. Poetry reading at 856 E. Thompson ...
- Playhouse, Liverpool - guardian.co.uk
Playhouse, Liverpoolguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoMcGough's approach is to wring maximum fun from Molière's 17th-century poetry, and introduce a 21st-century conversational ease to the text. ...
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