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- Writers capture poetry awards (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Recent graduates of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop have captured two of the poetry world's most prestigious first-book awards.
- City Book Fair wants to put burgeoning literary community on the same page (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Buenos Aires had Borges. St. Petersburg had Pushkin. And Nabokov. And Akhmatova. And Brodsky. Not to mention Dostoevsky. (Ah, the Russians!) Even petite Newburyport, Mass., population 17,000, draws thousands of tourists and over 60 authors to its annual literary festival. What about San Diego?
- Film And TV - Nypress.com
“Look at me, man, I’m trying to close a bar.” Jud Mongel was holding a broom in one hand and a dustpan in the other. He had more important things to do than talk about his new, hipper-than-thou Greenpoint bar, Five Leaves, and I’d started to ...
- Newmarket news briefs - York Weekly
Newmarket news briefsYork Weekly, NH - 5 hours agoThe second Thursday of every month from 7 to 9 pm is "An Evening of Spoken Word" at Crackskull's Books & Cafe on Main Street. The poetry open mic night is ...
- Art Recycled (Honolulu Advertiser)
"Eco/Logic," on display at The ARTS at Marks Garage, is an environmentally themed art exhibition coinciding with Hawaii Conservation Week. Its 31 artists address issues as global as peak oil and as local as the pollution on O'ahu's beaches, ultimately expressing the interconnectedness of our precarious ecological system.
- '30 Rock' star Tina Fey to write humor book - Grand Rapids Press
AP Photo Tina Fey is seen in Los Angeles. Fey, already the busiest of stars thanks to her Emmy-winning role in "30 Rock" and definitive impersonation of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is working on a book. NEW YORK -- Tina Fey ...
- Wilmington's N. Madison St. kids to end summer with party (The News Journal)
Neighbors on Wilmington's North Madison Street know the drill.
- Italian Poet ComesTo GCHS - Garden City News
On Wednesday, May 28, advanced Italian students gathered for the performance of Salvatore Marchese, an Italian poet, songwriter and composer, and elementary school teacher. The students were from the classes of Mrs. Brunetti and Mrs. Cardilicchia ...
- Joan Aragone: Play games to improve your brain (San Mateo County Times)
As we age, our brains function less efficiently than they did when we were younger.That isn't news to anybody over 50 who knows the experience of forgetting a name immediately on introduction or grasping for words to describe a common object.
- Business forum: Your story? Just the facts, ma'am - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Business forum: Your story? Just the facts, ma'amMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 4 hours agoSimple, direct statements in government-style, gray-flannel prose. No lying, no embellishing. Leave out the poetry. Write in clear declarations that begin ...
- Scorched Jimi Hendrix guitar sells for £280,000 - Daily Telegraph
The rock legend torched his 1965 Fender Stratocaster at the end of a show at the Astoria in Finsbury Park, north London, in March 1967. The stunt sent roadies rushing to put out the flames and left Hendrix needing treatment for minor burns. But amid ...
- Sardar of Indian politics - Hindustan Times
Sardar of Indian politicsHindustan Times, India - 1 hour agoHarkishan Singh Bassi changed his surname to ‘Surjeet’ while trying his hand writing poetry in his youth. Surjeet lived the simple life. ...
- Emmett Till subject of Southern Quarterly - Hattiesburg American
Emmett Till subject of Southern QuarterlyHattiesburg American, MS - Aug 19, 2008Among the 15 poets who contributed works are Sonia Sanchez, considered by many scholars as one of the most prolific and distinguished African American poets ...
- TMP’s ‘South Pacific’ delivers the goods - Tacoma Weekly
TMP’s ‘South Pacific’ delivers the goodsTacoma Weekly, WA - 5 hours agoIt is a keen insight, especially considering the date that Oscar Hammerstein penned the lyrics (perhaps basing his poetry upon the prose of James Michener ...
- Killers stake it all on 'Do or Die' CD (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Chef Steve Martorano, left, served a homemade chocolate cupcake and tiramisu dessert to Pete Rose and his lady friend. Courtesy photo
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