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- Griffin rewards elder statesmen (Toronto Star)
It was a night for honouring octogenarian legends at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Awards. Jointly, John Ashbery and Robin Blaser have spent more than a century publishing poetry.
- Turkey hosts world children who speak the same language - Turkish Daily News
ÝZGÝ GÜNGÖR ANKARA, KIZILCAHAMAM - Turkish Daily News Children from many different unfamiliar-sounding geographic areas are speaking the same language – the Turkish language – in order to convey a message of peace and unity, in sharp contrast ...
- Parental interest spurs summer reading program - Post-Tribune
SOUTH HAVEN -- Thanks to the Key Readers program, 92 students are receiving one-on-one, individualized reading help this summer. Fifty-seven students meet with their instructors at Porter County Education Services in Valparaiso. This year, a ...
- China's Princelings Embrace The Limelight (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
Bo Guagua, 20. (Photo courtesy: The Straits Times) He is 20, studies at Oxford University, loves street dancing and has published a book of prose. She designs jewellery, hob-nobs with the rich and famous and got her introduction to high society at an upper-crust debutantes' ball in Paris.
- Birthday Boy - George W. Bush - Capitol Hill Blue
For at least the third time in public, in six days, George W. Bush mentioned his birthday. (there have been others, but I am not invited to 7 figure fund raisers) The first time, Boy George was being asked about gas prices, and managed to "rap" from ...
- Remembrance of flings past (Guardian Unlimited)
Life & style: What happened when Tanya Gold tried to track down her ex-boyfriends?
- Veronica Patterson's "Marry Me" (Seattle Times)
I don't often talk about poetic forms in this column, thinking that most of my readers aren't interested in how the clock works and would...
- An athlete in the extreme sport of poetry - Globe and Mail
An athlete in the extreme sport of poetryGlobe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours agoI get through the day and I love it - but something always happens to throw me for a loop. She laughed. "People seek to be thrown for a loop. ...
- Fear factor (Sunday Herald)
for Croatia and getting on the wrong side of their manager, Slaven Bilic. Look at the state of him: 6ft 2in, square-jawed, dead-eyed, tattooed and built like a brick outhouse.
- Howe’s Brooklyn Art for 2008 Beijing Games Provided by Pratt Designer - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Howe’s Brooklyn Art for 2008 Beijing Games Provided by Pratt DesignerBrooklyn Daily Eagle, NY - 5 hours agoON ALTERNATE THURSDAYS through August 28, Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum docent Lucie Chin will give free cellar-to-attic tours of the house, and the grounds’ ...
- How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone - San Francisco Gate
"A good story," writes Sasa Stanisic in his first novel, "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone," "is like our river Drina: never calm, it doesn't trickle along, it is rough and broad, tributaries flow in to enrich it, it rises above its banks, it ...
- Reporting: South Africa - American Reporter
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. -- We live, we Americans, in a time of the quick fix for every woe, every twitch of discomfort, every mood. We live as though it's a personal insult to experience anything except pleasure. We want surgery for problems that a Band ...
- Where for arts now? - Daily Telegraph
There’s an art to commissioning high-brow television at the BBC. It has to satisfy politicians and journalists who are on the lookout for dumbing down. Sir Michael Lyons and his BBC Trust are watching, particularly in the annual report, whether the ...
- MOVIE REVIEW: 'Jellyfish' (The Charlotte Observer)
A beautifully strange movie, "Jellyfish" - from the Israeli author, and now director, Etgar Keret - tracks the perambulations of three Tel Aviv women. Though they are unrelated, and their paths cross by chance, they share a common bond: a profound sense of disconnection - from family, from loved ones, from themselves. The mesmerizing Sarah Adler is Batya, a young woman whose boyfriend has left ...
- Playing to the gallery - Peninsula On-line
Playing to the galleryPeninsula On-line, Qatar - 2 hours ago... work of Iraqi Artist Dia Azzawi, whose art crosses many mediums including ink drawings, paintings, sculptures and print for books, poetry, and prose. ...
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