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- Teen's poem wins top award - Evening News Norwich
A Norwich schoolgirl's poem describing her fears that the earth is slowly being destroyed has landed her a top regional award. Katie Furniss has won the top prize in the East of England Young Writers competition for her poem based on the theme of I ...
- Not Your Ordinary Joe - Chicagoist
ChicagoistNot Your Ordinary JoeChicagoist, IL - 1 hour agoThe entirely of "Hymn 101" is Dylan-worthy in its poetry, a captivating capsule of yearning, wanderlust, and Dust Bowl-reminiscent balladry: "The more I buy ...
- Literary contest winners announced (The Dodge City Daily Globe)
Writers receiving awards in the 2008 Literary Contest conducted by District 7 of the Kansas Authors Club were announced at a meeting held in Garden City on April 26. A total of 28 entries were received in Prose and Poetry Categories.
- Club's name is its goal for 110 years - Detroit Free Press
Club's name is its goal for 110 yearsDetroit Free Press, United States - 1 hour agoGabrielle Lewis Pelham invited five of her female friends to her Detroit home to discuss the poetry of Robert Browning. Such circles were fashionable in ...
- Panel exchanges tips for all kinds of writing - Idaho Statesman
I t was a shotgun approach, but two dozen of us sitting around tables at Shangri-La Tea House on Tuesday got a bead on the ever-moving target of making a career of writing. For nearly three hours, a panel of eight local authors and editors fired off ...
- Maya Angelou captivates Cleveland audience (The Plain Dealer)
In an age besotted with vacuous adolescent celebrity, 80-year-old Maya Angelou held a packed audience rapt at the Allen Theater in downtown Cleveland Monday night with nothing more than her voice.
- Council Will Examine Radiotherapy Concerns (Scoop.co.nz)
Recent revelations that Canterbury District Health Board patients are not getting radiotherapy within the mandatory eight weeks as prescribed by the government, concern the Cancer Control Council of New Zealand, Chair Dame Cath Tizard says.
- Animal whisperers say they can get a read on pets' well-being ... - The Olympian
Animal whisperers say they can get a read on pets' well-being ...The Olympian, WA - 2 hours ago... "Species Link: The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication," offering training opportunities, "plus prose and poetry transcribed directly from ...
- ‘Lahore unique among beautiful cities’ - Daily Times
‘Lahore unique among beautiful cities’Daily Times, Pakistan - Jul 5, 2008The air becomes misty when people recite their poetry. An old adage that reads that he who has not seen Lahore has not born yet, truly describes the ...
- German Scholars Reject Claim of Goethe's Secret Romance (Deutsche Welle)
Allegations of a secret love affair between a dowager duchess and Germany's greatest writer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, have been hotly rejected this week by German literary scholars.
- 'Freakish' online searches inspire play (CNN.com)
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo.
- Mixed bag at Latitude - This is London
This is LondonMixed bag at LatitudeThis is London, UK - 2 hours agoFrom noon to midnight, voices proclaimed from the poetry and literature tents. Hanif Kureishi's masterclass in writing in the film and music arena turned ...
- Germany films life of critic Reich-Ranicki - Monsters and Critics.com
Germany films life of critic Reich-RanickiMonsters and Critics.com - 1 hour agoMarcel Reich-Ranicki, 88, is in many ways an old-style European intellectual, part of a world that reveres sublime poetry and profound minds and sneers at ...
- Joss stars in mini festival (North Devon Gazette & Advertiser)
FOR three nights this month, West Mill in Welcombe plays host to one of England's smallest festivals. Run by Briony Lawson, the West Mill Festival will witness a night of poetry, classical music and jazz.
- Afghan political dislocation contributes to Pashto literary revival (The Daily Star Lebannon)
Afghanistan's tumultuous history of the last three decades is behind the incredible popularity of poetry in Pashto, the language of the majority Pakhtoons in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The Pakhtoons are ethnic cousins of the Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group. Both speak dialects of Pashto.
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