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- Nigeria: latest on Nigerian stock exchange - Global Voices Online
Nigeria: latest on Nigerian stock exchangeGlobal Voices Online, MA - 14 hours agoKenyanPoet announces that the winner of the last Poetry Slam event in Nairobi was Tim Mwaura. On a previous post, he offers a rough guide to poetry ...
- After tragedy, former beauty queen writes poetry - MiamiHerald.com
After tragedy, former beauty queen writes poetryMiamiHerald.com, FL - 9 hours agoHowever, she spent more time in class writing poetry than studying law. After a year and half, she came back home to Miramar for summer break and decided ...
- Love, death, music and art - Chicago Tribune
T he subject of Frank Bidart's new collection, "Watching the Spring Festival," is the construction of artifice, and the poems tackle some of art's largest themes. Bidart never takes his eye off the high poetic material of desire and destiny. His ...
- Diversions for June 26, 2008 (Evansville Courier & Press)
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- Opportunity Knocks for Grimshaw (TVNZ)
Opportunity Knocks by Charlotte Grimshaw has taken out New Zealand's most coveted book award, the gold award at the Montana Book Awards. The book is a series of short New Zealand stories, all written in the first person, that delve into a diverse range of lives which are interlinked.
- Poetry focuses on biblical story of Job to challenge reader (The Oklahoman)
In "Not Exactly Job” (Mongrel Empire Press, $14), Nathan Brown of Norman has created an extraordinary work of poetry that challenges the reader. The challenges come in the questions created in the book's format. All of Brown's poems in this collection focus on some aspect of the Bible's book of Job. At times, the narrator uses first-person to communicate with God and Job; other times, he uses ...
- Serenity prayer stirs up doubt: Who wrote it? - International Herald Tribune
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change." Now ...
- Clipper Round the World Race: Nova Scotia leads Clipper fleet into ... - BYM News (press release)
Clipper Round the World Race: Nova Scotia leads Clipper fleet into ...BYM News (press release), Spain - 4 hours agoThere is poetry in returning to the land of your forefathers by the same means that they did—by sea. We are certain that everyone onboard Nova Scotia, ...
- R. Kelly's fate in the hands of a jury; Britney Spears is trying for ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
After six years, the R. Kelly child pornography case is in the hands of the jury. Closing arguments were heard yesterday. The prosecution painted it as a slam-dunk case, not a "whodunit" but a "he-did-it." The defense, meanwhile, insisted it wasn't ...
- Organization seeks talented local teens - Commercial News
DANVILLE — Vermilion County teens will have an opportunity this summer to compete on stage for money and a trophy. The Project Success Teen REACH talent contest takes place the evening of Aug. 1 at Lincoln Park. Any youth age 8 to 17 are eligible ...
- Tokens of love stitched together - Toronto Star
Tokens of love stitched togetherToronto Star, Canada - 44 minutes agoThe quilt's name comes from a line of poetry that describes a mother's delicate stitching of her son's shirt for the long journey into adulthood. ...
- Much Ado About A Stolen Shakespeare Folio (CBS News)
Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of dollars after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C., and asked to have it authenticated.
- Craig briefs for May 26 - Craig Daily Press
Craig briefs for May 26Craig Daily Press, CO - 1 hour agoThe group will read books across the genres — new and old fiction, science writing, creative non-fiction, mysteries and may even take a peek at poetry. ...
- Long Meadow News - June 7 - Fort Morgan Times
Dorothy Kopetzky attended the memorial service at the Hoyt Cemetery on Monday. Afterwards she stopped to visit Frances Blauer. The Rhoades family mowed the grass for Dorothy Kopetzky on Monday afternoon. Norman and Barbara Troudt, Norman Jr. and ...
- '07 graduate receives prestigious fellowship - Inside BU
'07 graduate receives prestigious fellowshipInside BU, NY - 10 minutes agoGraduating senior Rachel Woodward, recipient of the Andrew Bergman Creative Writing Scholarship for 2008, has received national recognition for her poetry. ...
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