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- Obsessed, from cover to cover - Globe and Mail
Obsessed, from cover to coverGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoNow, he's on to the poetry winners. "I've read a great deal of these," he says, carefully picking up the book he calls "the Holy Grail" - the inaugural GG ...
- 3 in 4 Minn. sophomores satisfy reading requirement - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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 implications ...
- This week in the Arts: - The Chattanoogan
This week in the Arts:The Chattanoogan, TN - 9 hours agoThe Chattanooga African American Museum will host the Smithsonian travel exhibit, The Dancer Within, through Aug. 15. To obtain additional information about ...
- Author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' - Forbes
It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the "Today" show and soon faces a ...
- 3 Famed Novelists Weave Exhilarating Tales - NPR News
All Things Considered , May 5, 2008 · Three renowned women writers have books of fiction out this spring and each one asks the reader to take a leap of imagination. Joyce Carol Oates reimagines the last days of five authors; Jeanette Winterson takes ...
- A Brief History Of: The Poet Laureate - Time
On July 17, Kay Ryan became the 16th U.S. poet Laureate, one of the most coveted positions in American letters. Yet when Senator Spark Matsunaga, himself an amateur poet, pushed Congress to create the post in 1985, the American literary community was ...
- Nobel Prize Politics:Chinua Achebe, a shameful omission — Annie ... - Vanguard
Annie Gagiano is a Professor of English at Stellen bosch University, South Africa. She obtained her B .A(Honours), M.A as well a D. Lit from the same university, where she has been teaching in the Department of English for over three decades now ...
- Haiku and gentle fun (Centre Daily Times)
Jon J Muth's cleverness emerges gradually in "Zen Ties," a glowing companion to his Caldecott Honor book, "Zen Shorts." Stillwater, the gentle giant of a panda, greets his nephew at the train station with "Hi, Koo!" His welcome includes a gift of helium-filled balloons.
- The prize fighter - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - On the darkened stage, two dancers tentatively touch each other to the sounds of falling rain and distant thunder. Images of lush scenery appear on a screen behind them. It seems to be daybreak. As the man lifts the woman to his shoulders ...
- Gary Snyder wins poetry prize - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Gary Snyder wins poetry prizeSeattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour agoGary Snyder, who spent his formative years in the Seattle area, has won the 2008 Ruth Lilly Prize for his body of work. The Lilly Prize, with a stipend of ...Gary Snyder Wins $100000 Poetry Prize New York TimesGary Snyder Wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize PR Newswire (press release)Former beat movement member Gary Snyder wins $100000 poetry prize The Canadian PressWLFI.comall 34 news articles
- Skip to the heart beat and it's all the more rosy - Brisbane Times
Circumcise your heart? It sounds, when you're done wincing, like some snippet of Eastern mysticism, some off-cut - if you'll pardon the pun - of the mantras, kabbalas or kama sutras we presume to be more poetic than what-I-suppose-we-might-still-call ...
- Marine uses poetry as release from pain of war (ABC12 Mid-Michigan)
Memorial Day is a time of reflection for one Mid-Michigan Marine.
- The Dangers of Going Right in Sin City: Gun Control - NewsBlaze
The Dangers of Going Right in Sin City: Gun ControlNewsBlaze, CA - 3 hours agoZach Mroczkowski is an active poetry, short story and news writer currently narrowing down his major in school to journalism or English with a creative ...
- Should "A Lover's Complaint" be kicked out of the canon? - Slate
Should "A Lover's Complaint" be kicked out of the canon?Slate - 5 hours agoI began badgering Dmitri Nabokov back in 2005 to make a decision about publishing The Original of Laura (his father Vladimir's final unfinished work, ...
- Reaching out to young readers (Sentinel & Enterprise)
LEOMINSTER --Some teen girls like books better than boys and like art better than shopping at the mall, according to 14-year-old Catherine Brow.
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