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- Alice's prizewinning poem - Worthing Today
Alice's prizewinning poemWorthing Today, UK - 1 hour agoA NINE year-old school girl's poem has been selected to be published in a poetry book. Alice Cooke, from Polegate, entered a national poetry competition she ...
- Atwood Wins Prince of Asturias Award - New York Sun
Margaret Atwood has won Spain 's Prince of Asturias Award for Letters, defeating 32 other nominees from 24 countries for the prize, worth $77,750. The Canadian author was rewarded for producing "outstanding literary work" that explores various genres ...
- Wildflowers on Charlotte Street, 1983. Photos by Lisa Kahane ... - CityLimits.org
Wildflowers on Charlotte Street, 1983. Photos by Lisa Kahane ...CityLimits.org - 2 hours agoWords In Your Face (Soft Skull Press, $17.95) is a delightful journey into the vibrant world of slam poetry. Written by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, ...
- Well-loved English teacher retires after almost 20 years (Westchester Suburban Life)
Over the past two decades, an endless number of students have sat at their desks, shooting dagger eyes at Lucille Perry while scrawling out her infamous punishment — a lengthy written apology dubbed “The Sentence.”
- Teachers get refresher on creativity - Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription)
Teachers get refresher on creativitySpartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - 59 minutes agoSome teachers planned to make them into photo albums, while others wrote poetry inside. Most said they would definitely be implementing the idea in their ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search - AZCentral.com
BOSTON - Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is ...
- Bay State Potty Among Top 10 - Boston Channel.com
Bay State Potty Among Top 10Boston Channel.com, USA - Aug 27, 2008It has been a setting, over the years, for music videos, business and political negotiations and even wedding photos, hotel officials said. ...
- Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (BBC News)
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Stalin's prison system, dies at the age of 89.
- Live - US Open first round (BBC News)
American Kevin Streelman drops a shot at the last for a three-under 68 to join countryman Justin Hicks in a share of the US Open lead.
- Young poets on parade... - Halifax Today
POETS were on parade at a schools festival. Children from 30 schools across Calderdale got together at the Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough, Halifax, to perform their poems and show off anthologies of work they completed throughout the year. They also ...
- Long may you run - Guardian Unlimited
David Boyd Haycock can remember "crying at the tragedy of death" at the age of five or six. His mother consoled him by saying that when he grew up everyone would live to be at least 120. And now he has written a book on the subject, covering 400 ...
- Poet Bareilwi gets first Firaq Gorakhpuri award (Calcutta News)
Agra, June 16 (IANS) Noted Urdu poet Wasim Bareilwi, a regular feature at poetry soirees since the 1960S, has been given the first Firaq Gorakhpuri International Award here.
- Sylvain Trudel's 'Mercury Under My Tongue' (International Herald Tribune)
Sylvain Trudel's acid novel "Mercury Under My Tongue," tartly translated from the French by Sheila Fischman, is a tale told by a 16-year-old named Frédéric Langlois who is dying of bone cancer in a Montreal hospital.
- 'Modern hermit' Kay Ryan the next U.S. poet laureate - Chicago Sun-Times
NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described ‘‘modern hermit,’’ will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical ...
- Pupil hopes to save the rainforests through poetry (Gazette)
A PUPIL from Alveston has inspired her colleagues with a poem about saving the rainforests. Ozioma Kamalu, 13, a year eight pupil from Marlwood School, penned her poem, entitled Save the Rainforests, as part of a school project.
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