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- Synopses of 2008 IMPAC finalist novels and list of previous year's winners (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The finalists for this year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, with synopses from the Web site, are: ...
- The Reciprocal Antagonist - Forward
The Reciprocal AntagonistForward, NY - 1 hour ago... published poetry, as in “Candy Jail” (also from “Lookout Mountain”): “Pain works on a sliding scale/So does pleasure in a candy jail/True love doesn’t ...
- Dressed For Success - Newsweek
Dressed For SuccessNewsweek - 17 minutes ago... he has refused to fix on any single style; as he says, his paintings, "like poetry, like a diary, tell my life story." Indeed, the dark and often ironic ...
- Agnostic about atheism - Guardian Unlimited
Agnostic about atheismGuardian Unlimited, UK - May 26, 2008Run from religion, if you must, but you can't hide from song, sculpture, poetry, architecture, painting, tourism or food. Given that the influence of ...
- Students support Heart Association - Observer-Dispatch
Students and staff at Westmoreland Road Elementary School showed their support for the American Heart Association by participating in a Mini Relay for Life walk on school grounds Thursday morning. “My mom is a cancer survivor,” said Wendy Karas ...
- Coast Calendar (The Mississippi Press)
Friday -- Gautier Garden Club will hold a Rained-Out Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to noon at 420 U.S. 90 in Gautier to offer the remainder of plants that did not sell during its annual sale May 3 because of heavy rain.
- Vilhelm Hammershøi: her indoors - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukVilhelm Hammershøi: her indoorsTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 15 minutes agoWelcome to the world of Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), the Danish painter whose subtly beautiful art is the subject of an exhibition, 'The Poetry of ...
- Milking History: 'Amalia's Tale' by David I. Kertzer (The New York Sun)
'Nothing is so dangerous to its surroundings as a syphilitic infant." So wrote Alfred Fournier, a prominent French doctor whose exaggeration, back in the late 19th century, would be hard to blame. In southwestern France, a contaminated newborn had recently infected his unsuspecting wet nurse, and when she fell ill her neighbors, equally unwary, took her place in between nursing their own ...
- Snaky Spence and the Missing Boomstick (in Tyee Books) (The Tyee)
Why can't working-class BC poets be Milton's equals?
- James Tate's poems are about something and everything else (The Kansas City Star)
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You’ll remember “Seinfeld,” the sitcom dubbed “a show about nothing.” Here’s part of Charles Simic’s blurb for Tate’s new collection, The Ghost Soldiers: “To write a poem out of nothing at all is Tate’s genius. Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry, and that is ...
- Southwest summer poetry project - Southwest Journal
The month of August contains certain traditions in Minneapolis: humidity so thick that breathing is difficult, the beginning of summer’s end and the Uptown Art Fair. This year, as fair-goers flock toward Hennepin Avenue and snake through the fair ...
- Review: Guillaume Zuili's double-exposure photographs - Los Angeles Times
Even the simplest snapshot is a complex testament to how the past persists into the present. Then becomes now, remains now. Guillaume Zuili 's photographs at Couturier complicate the matter exquisitely. Each is a double exposure, two thens fused into ...
- Your life, in just six words - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Your life, in just six wordsFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 3 hours agoPaul Thornton's reads almost like poetry. "Alabama boy said Hallelujah, wrote memoirs." Writers like brevity; readers more so. Makes you think harder, ...
- Q Song contest highlights growth in Brisbane music scene - News.com.au
IT'S Saturday night in Brisbane's indie-rock central The Zoo, the house is packed, the floor crammed with music fans of all kinds and ages, from 18-year-olds to 50-somethings, and the band is as hot as the winter air outside is cold. Instruments are ...
- Poetry: Is poetry's future as bright as its past? - Evening Sun
Editor's Note: Guest poet columnist Allen Taylor is webmaster of http://www.world-class-poetry.com and writes a daily blog at http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com . He spent 2005 in Iraq with his National Guard unit and is revising a book of poems he ...
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