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- Scribes and poets head to Kerry - Independent
Share So you want to be a writer? Now you've no excuse. Writers' Week has just announced its vibrant rainbow of literary competitions and workshops for 2008. The small Kerry town of Listowel will yet again play host this summer to writers and would ...
- Poet looks far away from Algiers to find inspiration - Daily Kent Stater
Poet looks far away from Algiers to find inspirationDaily Kent Stater, OH - 19 hours agoThe winner gets $2000 and the Kent State University Press publishes the poetry. His book was another stepping stone in his life, and since its release, ...
- Poetry review: Armitage maintains colloquialism (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid By Simon Armitage Knopf; 64 pages; $25 Simon Armitage's latest poetry collection, "Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid," winds down with a touch of bravado, publishing a penultimate verse that is, at first,...
- Physician Portrays Powerful Poetry at Heart of Human Condition - eReleases (press release)
Physician Portrays Powerful Poetry at Heart of Human ConditioneReleases (press release), MD - 8 minutes agoBorn in the West African nation of Cameroon, he moved to the United States when he was 17. Fote earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from ...
- Catching Up With... Ani DiFranco - Paste Magazine
Paste MagazineCatching Up With... Ani DiFrancoPaste Magazine, GA - 1 hour agoPaste: What was it like working on your first collection of poetry and why did you decide to put that out there? DiFranco: I’ve always written poetry and it ...
- The Laureate's lament: Being poet to the Queen is thankless and has ... - Daily Mail
It is a position that has been held with pride by some of our greatest literary figures. But being Poet Laureate has not been an entirely positive experience for the current incumbent, Andrew Motion. He has revealed that the role has left him with a ...
- Reader Travelogue:Olive Branch woman soaks up annual Burning Man event - Memphis Commercial Appeal
Reader Travelogue:Olive Branch woman soaks up annual Burning Man eventMemphis Commercial Appeal, TN - 35 minutes agoAccording to the artists, she is the goddess of "fire, light, the forge and crafts and the muse of poetry and music." Composed of two real oil tankers, ...
- Memorial service held - The Observer
There wasn't a vacant seat at the Smith Funeral Home in Sarnia on Monday when a memorial service was held for Barb Short. The room was packed with family and friends who gathered to mourn the 48-year-old Mooretown woman. "It was beautiful," said ...
- Parade puts family first (York Daily Record)
It takes more than teachers and school programs to shape a young mind, said Juniata Kirkland, a parent in York City School District.
- Books: "Unpacking the Boxes" (The New Yorker)
Most memoirs begin with a birth, but Hall’s starts with another sort of becoming: “At fourteen I decided to spend my life writing poetry, which is what I have done.” Soon Hall moves from suburban Connecticut, where “nothing happened,” to Exeter, Harvard, and Oxford, his time line marked indelibly by . . .
- Waves and words - BusinessWorld Online
Waves and wordsBusinessWorld Online, Philippines - 1 hour agobeauty over grief" where the "eternal note" is borrowed from the second stanza of Arnold’s poem. "People have drowned, ships have been wrecked by the ...
- Obituaries for Oct. 1 (The Capital)
Today's obituaries recognize: Robin King, Iva Owings and Ann Rowan. Robin Hayes King, 40, a resident of Arnold since 1995, died of diabetes Sept. 29 in her home after a life-long illness.
- UC Davis researcher begins study of Osama bin Laden audio tapes - EurekAlert (press release)
UC Davis researcher begins study of Osama bin Laden audio tapesEurekAlert (press release), DC - 3 hours agoEdwards contacted Miller, a linguist and cultural anthropologist who studies the roles of language and poetry in contemporary Muslim reform in the Middle ...
- A Tribute to the Poet Philip Lamantia - San Francisco Weekly
Less well known than some of the Beat poets, Philip Lamantia nevertheless embodied the spirit of his times so thoroughly that his life story now seems iconic. Born in San Francisco in 1927 to Sicilian immigrants and raised in the Excelsior, he was ...
- Hampton gallery cancels poetry and art event - Daily Press
HAMPTON - Blue Skies Gallery has postponed its Visual Arts and Poetry reception that had been scheduled for Saturday night because of impending bad weather and conflict with Bay Days. The reception with Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, a former Virginia Poet ...
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