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- Community news: VT English professors win national awards (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
Bob Hicok (top) and Paul Sorrentino (bottom), faculty members in the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, were both awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships. Hicok has also garnered the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry.
- Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrors (The Evening Sun)
In part, most poets are chroniclers. They record truthfully, though maybe not realistically, the times in which they live. They couch their stories in metaphor and allusion. They compare and refer, rather than state directly.
- Saturday, July 19, 2008 (Fort Worth Weekly)
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- In Your Schools - June 2, 2008 - Lynchburg News and Advance
In Your Schools - June 2, 2008Lynchburg News and Advance, VA - 1 hour ago... Steffi Wells, Elizabeth Ware and Seneca Tisdale, honorable mentions, Walter Storozum Awards for poetry; Karl Speer, first place, Catherine Burnett, ...
- Edinburgh Art Festival 2008 Builds on Previous Years - EdinburghGuide.com
Edinburgh Art Festival 2008 Builds on Previous YearsEdinburghGuide.com, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoAlongside the exhibitions there will be over 120 associated events including artists' talks, screenings, debates, tours and family projects - with ...
- Translations from the underground - The Daily Yomiuri
Translations from the undergroundThe Daily Yomiuri, Japan - 3 hours ago"I devoted a lot of time to translating the poems in a proper and elegant way," he says. "So I'd like to publish just the poetry of 'Genji' in a special ...
- Bush wrong about appeasement - La Crosse Tribune
The current occupant of the White House recently revealed to the world the big sacrifice he has made in solidarity with our 4,000 dead and 35,000 or more seriously wounded U.S. soldiers in Iraq — he decided to give up playing golf. While many ...
- Performing arts groups converge in F/town - Republic of Botswana
Performing arts groups converge in F/townRepublic of Botswana, Botswana - 5 hours agoThe dreadlocked outfit stunned the crowd with their carefully arranged verses notably the stanzas from the free-styled poem Who Are You They combined Tswana ...
- Iranian Writer Porochista Khakpour in Contention For $115000 Dylan ... - Payvand
PayvandIranian Writer Porochista Khakpour in Contention For $115000 Dylan ...Payvand, Iran - 49 minutes agoCaroline Bird, 21, is the youngest writer on the list with her second poetry collection, Trouble Came to the Turnip. The books cover a broad range of issues ...
- Pablo Picasso in the United Arab Emirates - Focus on Travel News
Pablo Picasso in the United Arab EmiratesFocus on Travel News, Turkey - 18 hours ago... prints and illuminated manuscripts that reveal, for the first time, Picasso’s development of a calligraphic poetry on the border between text and image. ...
- The Lost Plays of Tennessee Williams - Los Angeles Weekly
Jack Heller portrays the eponymous geezer, much like the aging Tennessee Williams himself, in “Mister Paradise,” the first in a trio of beautifully staged and acted slice-of-life one-acts about the ravages of growing old, taken from a collection ...
- To go or not to go? - New Statesman
New StatesmanTo go or not to go?New Statesman, UK - 2 hours agoI talked to writers about how British poetry had been revived in the 1970s by translations from eastern European poets struggling with censorship - which ...
- Latino Book Month Monday May 5th Pick : Loving in the War Years ... - VivirLatino
Latino Book Month Monday May 5th Pick : Loving in the War Years ...VivirLatino, NY - 1 hour agoCherrie Moraga's book Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso por sus Labios, originally published in 1983, is a collection of poetry and essays that ...
- Love bugs: Some of the most charming characters in movies and books ... - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Some of the most charming movie and book characters are insects. Here’s a look at some of our favorites and ways for your kids to take a swat at learning about ’em. OK, OK, the robots are super-cool, but there is an overlooked star of the movie ...
- As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap - San Diego Union-Tribune
KIEV, Ukraine – A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower. Filipp Pishchik says this and similar cartoons, depicting the former president as a corrupt leader who stifles free ...
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