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- Biography by Anna Porter among winners of Canadian Jewish Book Awards (CBC)
Anna Porter is one of the Canadian authors whose works have been acclaimed this year for excellence in writing on Jewish themes and subjects.
- Centuries-old Shakespeare volume recovered - Daily News
London - It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of pounds after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C. and asked to have it ...
- Buzz Briefs: R. Kelly, Prince - The ShowBuzz.com
The Illinois Supreme Court has denied news organizations' emergency motion seeking sealed court records and transcripts related to R. Kelly's pornography case. The court denied the motion without comment Monday. The 41-year-old R&B singer's trial is ...
- Damon Albarn and His Adventurous Honest Jon's Label (The Village Voice)
The most mysterious song I've heard all year is by a Londoner named Ben Simmons. Appropriately, the track shows up on iTunes as "[Blank]," as if technology itself couldn't figure out just how to classify this inscrutable sound: He starts off seemingly emulating Dada sound poetry, huffing and puff...
- Finding a place in poetry - Grand Island Independent
Finding a place in poetryGrand Island Independent, NE - 30 minutes agoShe's only an occasional poet, but she said it's more natural for her than writing papers. "With poetry, it easier to show your passion for a topic, ...
- 'The Importance of Music to Girls' by Lavinia Greenlaw - Los Angeles Times
'The Importance of Music to Girls' by Lavinia GreenlawLos Angeles Times, CA - 20 minutes agoShe is best known as a poet, and her memoir has the precision and intensity of prose poetry. Her mother's madrigal choir fills a room with "a noise that ...
- William Buchan - Liverpool Daily Post
William BuchanLiverpool Daily Post, UK - 1 hour agoOther novels, including the Blue Pavilion (1966), and volumes of poetry followed. The memoir of his father (1982) was regarded as his best book, ...
- Art: Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008: The optimist who used a bald eagle to challenge America's idea of art (The Village Voice)
The optimist who used a bald eagle to challenge America's idea of art (By R.C. Baker)
- Whistler's Velvet Revolution - Slate
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, the first American to achieve international prominence as an artist, died at the age of 69 in London on July 17 * , 1903. Barely a dozen mourners attended the graveside service—by that time, scarcely any of those he ...
- South Florida's Finesse Mitchell more than just jokes - MiamiHerald.com
South Florida's Finesse Mitchell more than just jokesMiamiHerald.com, FL - 2 hours agoHis coffee table is covered with books, including the late Tupac Shakur's poetry collection, The Rose that Grew from Concrete and Barack Obama's Dreams of ...
- CD Wright's 'Rising, Falling, Hovering' - International Herald Tribune
CD Wright's 'Rising, Falling, Hovering'International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoBut the fragmentary forms and skittering attention of her poems suggest that 21st-century activist poetry may face some novel challenges, ...
- Two-year budget OK'd, cuts suggested - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Two-year budget OK'd, cuts suggestedInland Valley Daily Bulletin, CA - 4 hours agoSeveral Inland Empire high school students won prizes at a poetry slam contest Saturday at Arroyo High School in San Bernardino. First-place winners won ...
- Have you missed me? - HamptonRoads.com
In case you’ve wondered where I’ve been it’s actually pretty simple. I’ve been depressed. Actually, not so much depressed as just plain sad. Even though I no longer have my uterus I still tend to get those monthly blues and bloating. We’ll ...
- Plea to Queen for female Poet Laureate - Statesman
LONDON, May 22: Ever since the Royal household crowned John Dryden as the first official Poet Laureate in 1668, the honour has been bestowed on pre-eminent wordsmiths from William Wordsworth to Ted Hughes. No woman, though, has ever held the position ...
- PeaceSmiths to hold "Making Music Together" (Babylon Beacon)
On Friday, June 6 at 8 p.m., the PeaceSmiths Monthly, Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse will hold its last coffeehouse of the season, with a drum circle to cap off the evening. The Coffeehouse is held at the First United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway/Rt. 110 (southmost end near Merrick Road Montauk Highway) in Amityville.
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