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- National poetry prizes awarded - Jam! Showbiz
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced over the weekend at a festival and conference held ...
- Victorian Theatre Announces Universal 1 Variety Series - HULIQ (press release)
Victorian Theatre Announces Universal 1 Variety SeriesHULIQ (press release), NC - 14 hours agoWith words, humor and extreme hip-hop energy, the Mayhem Poets take poetry to playful and compelling new heights. Infectious, charged with adrenaline, ...
- Memorable Speech: An Interview with David Yezzi - MichNews.com
David Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion and a well-known poet whose published collections include The Hidden Model and Sad Is Eros . His essays have appeared at Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New ...
- Ellen E. Crean - Recorder
A native of Montague, she was born on March 13, 1916, in Turners Falls, a daughter to Antoinette (Descouteaux) and Denis Lonergan. She attended St. Anne's Parochial School and Montague Public Schools, graduating from Turners Falls High School in the ...
- Students' Work Helps Ex-Slaves - Hartford Courant
SIMSBURY — - Lots of elementary school students have written book reports; students at Tariffville Elementary School have written books. The colorful, laminated volumes, 122 in all, run the literary gamut from poetry to fantasy fiction to humor to ...
- The importance of being real - Tonight
The importance of being realTonight, South Africa - 1 hour agoTo say she has changed the way people view poetry is an understatement. She has helped to make poetry accessible, though some have criticised her for ...
- Fourth of July holiday events (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
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- Haunt the PHX in Style - Phoenix New Times
Terror. It's a sensation we know all too well, especially during Halloween. Whether it's getting caught by the po-pos smashing a few dozen pumpkins or waking up on November 1 next to a paramour with a case of coyote ugly worth chawin' your arm off ...
- Neuroscientist: Poetry Comes From Synesthesia, Tree-Climbing (Wired News)
A prominent neuroscientist told a crowd at the World Science Festival that the curious phenomenon of synesthesia -- in which some people "taste" colors or "hear" smells -- is simply a consequence of the aptitude humans evolved for abstraction.
- Historian and history maker - guardian.co.uk
Historian and history makerguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoA bright Jewish child saved from the Warsaw ghetto amid the apocalypse of Nazi occupation, educated in patriotism and poetry by Catholic pedagogues of the ...
- Award winning novelist comes to Grand Cayman - Caymen Net News
Over 120 reading enthusiasts gathered to hear award winning novelist, Michael Ondaatje read from his latest book, Divisadero, at Books & Books in Camana Bay on Saturday, 10 May. The author of The English Patient, that won the man Booker prize and was ...
- The twin presidencies - DAWN Group
AT noon on Jan 20, 2009, George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, will cease to hold office. In reality, the Bush era is already over, swallowed up by the unfolding drama of an historic presidential election season. However, good or ...
- Football was played in Wales 1000 years ago - WalesOnline
Football was played in Wales 1000 years agoWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 19 minutes ago“There are surprisingly quite a few references to ball games in early Welsh poetry. The earliest I found was made between 942 and 950AD, which is the one ...
- The Legend of the Dragon Boat - Windsor Star
The Legend of the Dragon BoatWindsor Star, Canada - 11 hours agoHe wandered the countryside, collecting legends, rearranging folk odes and writing much of his poetry. When the Qin capital of Chu was captured in 278 BC, ...
- McDonagh led cheers for village (The Saginaw News)
As a novelist and a poet, Marie Flowers McDonagh is leaving a legacy on the village of Chesaning. In October 2006, doctors told McDonagh she had lung cancer. She died Monday at 84.
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