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- Blood and belonging (Toronto Star)
Certain gifts are afforded a playwright in a quest to complete and deliver a profound drama that is uniquely his. In the case of Where the Blood Mixes , Kevin Loring heard an elder's story about how Lytton, or Kumsheen as his Nlaka'pmux nation called it, came by its name.
- Scholar seeks to change wisdom on Serenity Prayer (Chicago Tribune)
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."
- Poetry uses all six senses - Tonight South Africa
Baitse Mokiti is from Pimville, Soweto. She works as a communications assistant. She has an Honours Degree in Psychology from Unisa. She fell in love with words in primary school when her class was presented with an assignment to write a short story ...
- Iran honors great poet Omar Khayyam (Payvand Iran News)
Iran has honored the 960th birthday anniversary of the eminent Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam of Neyshabur.
- Literary award goes to Internet blogger - The Washington Times
Emma Sovich, 22, an English major at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., gets a diploma and about $67,481 as this year's winner of the Sophie Kerr Prize for literature. Her winning portfolio included her efforts as an Internet blogger, a first ...
- Third-year in philosophy named Beinecke scholar - University of Chicago Chronicle
Nathana O’Brien spent six months studying abroad in Germany and Austria last year. Nathana O’Brien came to the College with a passion for science—but after one philosophy course, she said, “I did a complete 180.” “I’m a perfect example ...
- Teenage poet sharing her work - North Bay Nugget
Susie Gooch didn't think her poem Infinitely was an award-winning piece when she first wrote it. I was on the bus on the way from my sister's graduation in Guelph and I didn't really have anything with me so I started writing on Post-it Notes," said ...
- No Parking Anytime: Cottages house writers' aspirations - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Post IntelligencerNo Parking Anytime: Cottages house writers' aspirationsSeattle Post Intelligencer - 4 hours agoAnd Storme Webber's memories of having Alaskan and African-American roots will move in, hoping to take shape in poetry, song and his own memoir. ...
- Sonoma West News (Sonoma West Times and News)
Barbara Letson-Briggs sponsors nationwide essay contest, “What About Peace?”
- I've had 30 lovers, Carla Bruni tells world - and it's music to ... - Times Online
Carla Bruni, the chanteuse wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, is to release a new album on which she sings of 30 past lovers and compares one of them to taking hard drugs. But rather than embarrass her husband, her work is likely to give him a boost. “You ...
- Old 97's Murry Hammond Releases First Solo Album (Kansas City InfoZine)
Seventeen tracks, produced by Mark Neill, are self-released by Hammond on the "Hammond family label," Humminbird Records.
- Philadelphia teacher of year: Bodine's Hart (Philly.com)
An English teacher who has her hand in many school activities beyond the classroom was named the Philadelphia School District's teacher of the year last night.
- Dale City rapper stays positive - Inside NoVA
Inside NoVADale City rapper stays positiveInside NoVA, VA - 1 hour agoBrick Flaco, 24, will be one of the handful of artists performing at "The Smoken Word," a hip hop-poetry-reggae-R&B talent showcase Saturday. ...
- TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif - Newsday
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
- Afterlife: The rhyme of a slow, spirit-sapping death - Daily Telegraph
Who's causing hours of needless pain. A couple of months ago, I ripped into Tony Harrison's verse drama Fram at the NT, a dreadful epic about a Scandinavian polar explorer I'd never previously heard of and have already forgotten. Roger Allam (as Max ...
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