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- Kate Summerscale wins the Samuel Johnson prize - Daily Telegraph Blogs
My brilliant former colleague Kate Summerscale has won the Samuel Johnson prize for her book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher . We are delighted for her. Hooray for Kate! It's customary when someone goes from being a well-kept secret, to a less well-kept ...
- Faith meets tragedy - Longmont Daily Times-Call
Longmont Daily Times-CallFaith meets tragedyLongmont Daily Times-Call, CO - 1 hour agothe church mourned with those family members and reached out to them through prayer, in poetry and with casseroles delivered to the family’s door, he said. ...
- Sunny side up - The Age
Sunny side upThe Age, Australia - 50 minutes agoThere were bears in boas and works that seemed more interior decor than visual poetry. And just when you thought the Myer porcelain department was where you ...
- Book Happenings - Ottawa Citizen
Book HappeningsOttawa Citizen, Canada - 6 hours agoPoetry reading: Newfoundland poet George Murray reads at the Tree Reading Series, 8 pm, Arts Court Library, 2 Daley Ave. Free admission. ...
- Dalton's Damaar is a published poet - at two! - Huddersfield Examiner
Dalton's Damaar is a published poet - at two!Huddersfield Examiner, UK - 9 hours agoDamaar, of Cow Heys in Dalton, is to have a poem about his favourite things published in an anthology of poetry by pre-school children. ...
- On the Dylan Thomas trail in Wales - Times Online
Times OnlineOn the Dylan Thomas trail in WalesTimes Online, UK - 2 hours ago... in the poetry of its greatest son: Dylan Thomas. Like a doomed 1960s rock star, Thomas's artistic brilliance, booze-sodden life and early death at the ...
- Russian poetry, put in perspective - The Age
Russian poetry, put in perspectiveThe Age, Australia - 2 hours agoIn her preface to the poem, she described how she would queue for hours with hundreds of other women outside the prison where she believed her son was held. ...
- Acts big and small to fill area halls - The Columbus Dispatch
From Metallica to Celine Dion, some of the most familiar acts have set their sights on central Ohio. But in addition to the instantly recognizable brand names playing basketball arenas, there also are many other singers and musicians to consider ...
- Sufies promote Islam through message of love, peace: Taseer - Associated Press of Pakistan
Sufies promote Islam through message of love, peace: TaseerAssociated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - 5 hours ago“Sufies of the sub continent always raised their voice against extremism and deliver a message of love and peace through their poetry,” he said while ...
- BOOK NOTES: Tribute to the late Jonathan Williams planned (Asheville Citizen-Times)
ASHEVILLE - A tribute to recently deceased poet, photographer, publisher and Black Mountain College alumnus Jonathan Williams will be at 8 p.m. July 19 at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville.
- Slanted Script (San Diego Reader)
The curtain rises at the Old Globe and vwa-lah! We’re in the majestic living room of a Victorian mansion. A bay-window seat, with nine-foot windows, overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge (we’re in San Francisco’s Marina District, east of the Presidio and up, maybe, around Lombard).
- Magnolia Arts Fest kicks off Friday - Gloucester Daily Times
Magnolia Arts Fest kicks off FridayGloucester Daily Times, USA - 1 hour agoMassachusetts State Poetry Society is sponsoring its annual National Poetry Day Contest, open to all poets. The deadline for the contest is August 1, ...
- Daily Voice « - Village Voice
The most mysterious song I've heard all year is by a Londoner named Ben Simmons. Appropriately, the track shows up on iTunes as "[Blank]," as if technology itself couldn't figure out just how to classify this inscrutable sound: He starts off ...
- Love that lasts makes the very best story - South Carolina Now
Love that lasts makes the very best storySouth Carolina Now, South Carolina - 9 hours agoAs a pre-teen she was helping her family hoe rows of beans when she got sick. Her father told her she was lazy and would not let her rest. ...
- UM experts available to discuss 2008 presidential elections - U of M News Service (press release)
UM experts available to discuss 2008 presidential electionsU of M News Service (press release), MI - 2 hours agoHis books include "Invisible Politics: Black Political Behavior," "Black Political Parties" and "The Poetry of Black Politics." He can be reached at (734) ...
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