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- Goodison, Gowdy shortlisted for Trillium award (Toronto Star)
Lorna Goodison’s family memoir From Harvey River, which was in the running for this year’s Charles Taylor Prize, and Barbara Gowdy’s novel Helpless, a Governor General’s Award nominee from last year, have been shortlisted for Ontario’s $20,000 Trillium Book Award.
- Teach Your Children - World Defense Review
Teach Your ChildrenWorld Defense Review - 23 minutes agoNo poetry. How well can a parent who has never studied physics teach it to her child? Shouldn't these children be given the slightest insight into ...
- First Wednesday Poets - Sierra Mountain Times
First Wednesday PoetsSierra Mountain Times, CA - 1 hour agoBy Jerome Peterson Peter Guissi, a former Sonora High School student, reads contemporary “rap” poetry during open mic night at Legends Books and Antiques in ...
- Owen Wilson a 'Big Poetry Fan' - People Magazine
Owen Wilson a 'Big Poetry Fan'People Magazine - 2 hours agoBy Amy Elisa Keith "He's a big poetry fan, and I am too. So we email poems to each other," says Academy Award-wining actor Alan Arkin, 74, who recently ...
- An Interview with Amy Knox Brown - Bookslut
An Interview with Amy Knox BrownBookslut, IL - 11 minutes agoIt's actually pretty difficult for me to work on stories and novels simultaneously -- I can do a novel and some poetry or nonfiction, but there's something ...
- There Reigns Love - Variety
A Stratford Shakespeare Festival presentation of a play in two acts devised by Simon Callow from the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Directed by Michael Langham. With: Simon Callow. Ever since an afternoon in 1979 when he performed all 154 of ...
- Allen Johnson: The dying art of the letter to the editor, written by ... - Greensboro News & Record
As homesick freshmen in Chapel Hill, my college roommate and I waged a quiet war whose ammunition was pastel envelopes lightly laced with perfume. The object was to get the most letters from home penned in delicate cursive writing by our respective ...
- Exhibitions preview - Guardian Unlimited
Poetic flights of fancy would appear to be an apt description of the contemporary work of Axel Antas. This is because his makeshift assemblages, sculptures and interventions are rooted fundamentally in an absurd futility that forces us to consider ...
- Channeling Shakespeare - The Phoenix
The PhoenixChanneling ShakespeareThe Phoenix, MA - 16 minutes agoBut this new Cardenio is tedious, meandering, and bereft of the poetry and rueful human insight Shakespeare wraps into his comedies. ...
- Taste of the Olympics - Wall Street Journal
Taste of the OlympicsWall Street Journal - 3 hours agoFor that reason, celebrated chefs such as Da Dong, whose new roast-duck palace not only features appetizers based on classical poetry but China's first ...
- AP Top News at 1:26 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Barack Obama has effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates. The tally put Obama over the top Tuesday, ahead of the results from the day's final primaries in Montana and South Dakota. The Illinois senator becomes the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House. ...
- In brief: shirt for sale (slight bloodstain) - First Post
First PostIn brief: shirt for sale (slight bloodstain)First Post, UK - 3 hours agoFinal-year students at Cambridge University have been asked to compare the lyrics of Amy Winehouse with the poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh in an end-of-year ...
- 3 in 4 Minn. sophomores satisfy reading requirement - Winona Daily News
ST. PAUL — Three-quarters of Minnesota sophomores can begin their summer break knowing they’ve performed well enough on a state reading exam to satisfy a requirement for high school graduation. As freshmen, they faced a writing exam with diploma ...
- '10 Bad Dates With De Niro' edited by Richard Kelly - Los Angeles Times
'10 Bad Dates With De Niro' edited by Richard KellyLos Angeles Times, CA - 4 minutes agoMy only question here is why Flicka, the jug-head pony who is gentled into civility by Roddy McDowall in "My Friend Flicka," does not rate a mention. ...
- Children's tale comes to stage - Rocky Mount Telegram
Children's tale comes to stageRocky Mount Telegram, NC - 2 hours agoShe repeats a lot of poetry, and I don't really enjoy poetry as much as she probably does," said Mary McCall of Tarboro. Janie Leland, 12, will join her ...
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