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- Epic purse for scribes of verse - Toronto Star
Epic purse for scribes of verseToronto Star, Canada - 5 hours agoColomé wore her skinny tie with a white shirt open at the collar; also a dark suit cut sharp as a knife, and stylish black pumps with sheer black stockings; ...
- Gowdy, Zolf win Trillium Awards - Jam! Showbiz
TORONTO - Authors Barbara Gowdy and Rachel Zolf were named winners Thursday of the 21st annual Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's top literary prize. Gowdy won for her novel "Helpless" (HarperCollins) while Zolf won the poetry award for her collection ...
- Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of ’people’s poet ... - Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal
TORONTO - Eurithe Purdy sat at the feet of her late husband, renowned poet Al Purdy, on Tuesday as a statue of him was unveiled at Queen’s Park. "His pose to me looks so natural, as if he could almost walk away from where he’s reclining," she ...
- Alicia Keys expands her repertoire beyond music - Providence Journal
Providence JournalAlicia Keys expands her repertoire beyond musicProvidence Journal, RI - 1 hour agoA: Poetry is something that comes naturally for me and something I love to do. It’s just another way for me to express myself, so I definitely see myself ...
- Campaigning here, Clinton goes over Culinary’s head - Las Vegas Sun
Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigns Thursday in a largely Hispanic Las Vegas neighborhood represented by Assemblyman Ruben Kihuen, who is backing her. Just beneath the smiles and the hugs and the flash of cameras, Sen. Hillary Clinton played in-your-face ...
- First Pakistani student obtains MBA degree from prestigious Peking ... - Associated Press of Pakistan
First Pakistani student obtains MBA degree from prestigious Peking ...Associated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - Jul 8, 2008Prof Alam himself has written several books on Pakistan as well as on Urdu poetry. Alam said Peking University which was established in 1898 was recognized ...
- John Updike - guardian.co.uk
John Updikeguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoIn his novels Updike tracks the small tragedies of middle-class America with precision and poetry; his often unlikeable male heroes, such as Rabbit and Bech ...
- Church born again as library, community center - Sun and Press
Karol Proppe of McDonough remembers the town's little white Calvary Episcopal Church as part of her childhood: sitting in its wooden pews, marveling at the artistry of its stained glass, dusting its windowsills. Her great-great-grandfather, William ...
- Award entries overflow with a rural theme - Central Western Daily
THERE’S something about the country which has been inspiring the Central West’s wordsmiths over the past few months. Judges of the 2008 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards have reported strong rural themes in many of the entries received in this year ...
- National Arts Centre 'Legend' dies (The Globe and Mail)
Hamilton Southam, diplomat, founding visionary of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and many other cultural and historical institutions, died quietly Tuesday in Ottawa
- A pure thrush word - guardian.co.uk
A pure thrush wordguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThis interest in naming, which recurs throughout Thomas's poetry, is picked up here by UA Fanthorpe in a poem of Gloucestershire placenames. ...
- THE OTHER QUEEN (Kirkus Reviews)
Gregory (The Boleyn Inheritance, 2006, etc.) makes a return trip to Tudor England, focusing on the period when Mary, Queen of Scots, fleeing from rebel Scottish lords, found herself imprisoned in England by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
- Flight of the Red Balloon - Philadelphia Inquirer
Flight of the Red BalloonPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 11 hours ago... exercised speeches and anxious physicality become a little too much. But just a little, and then the sublime poetry of Hou's film kicks in again. ...
- Festivities to mark Israel's 60th birthday - Charleston Post Courier
Festivities to mark Israel's 60th birthdayCharleston Post Courier, SC - 51 minutes agoThe series this year has as its theme "Israel at 60" and will feature a poetry reading by Ambassador Reda Mansour, consul general of Israel in Atlanta, ...
- The Three Of Us: A Family Story, by Julia Blackburn - Independent
The Three Of Us: A Family Story, by Julia BlackburnIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoHer father, so contemptuous of the women to whom he was attracted, was invariably kind to her, teaching her poetry and answering the barrage of questions ...
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