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- Spencer's famous library cat dies - Sioux City Journal
SPENCER, Iowa -- One of the world's most famous felines, Dewey Readmore Books, died Wednesday in the arms of librarian Vicki Myron who had acted as his "mother" for most of the last 19 years. Dewey was adopted as the library cat at the Spencer Public ...
- New on the Net: A 'Harry Potter' preview, Olympics and 'Freaks' for ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Want to monitor a politician's flip-flops, or the price changes on a product? The Web service Versionista will track revisions and edits to sites that you specify. There probably won't be any changes in this one, though: Radovan Karadzic, the former ...
- Pulitzer Prize winner named Va.'s poet laureate - WTOP Radio
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Tim Kaine appoints University of Mary Washington professor Claudia Emerson as Virginia 's new poet laureate. Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called "Late Wife." The book uses a collection of ...
- Sylvain Trudel's 'Mercury Under My Tongue' - International Herald Tribune
Sylvain Trudel's 'Mercury Under My Tongue'International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoCalling himself "a mall-rat rebel, a useless little bugger," Frédéric interrupts his scathing commentaries with snatches of nihilistic poetry that he hopes ...
- BOOK- MARKS - TheChronicleHerald.ca
BOOK- MARKSTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 1 hour agoThis year, nearly 200 writers from all four Atlantic provinces submitted novels, poetry, short stories, and works for children, said the federation in a ...
- Dogs and other gods - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphDogs and other godsCalcutta Telegraph, India - 2 hours agoIf the purpose of poetry is to educate and entertain, then this collection can be said to achieve its aim well. There are helpful poems on the ways of ...
- Common Lens series showing at Wealthy Theatre - MLive.com
"Today's Man" is a documentary by Lizzie Gottlieb about her brother Nicky, a child genius who was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, at age 21. The film is part of the Common Lens series screening at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Koning ...
- My Secret Life: Peter Serafinowicz, Actor and comedian, age 36 (Independent)
The home I grew up in... Not many people know that Liverpool has a big sign on a hill, much like the one in Hollywood. Our house was behind one of the big "O"s.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston.
- Queen's Personal Poet Hates His Job - Gawker
Queen's Personal Poet Hates His JobGawker, NY - 18 hours agoMaybe being a professional poet isn't a romantic escape from the drudgery of work and intellectual boredom. Being the Poet Laureate of the United States is ...
- Charles Van Doren - Hartford Courant
The annual summer lecture sponsored by the Litchfield County Writers Project will feature a talk called "Poems of Love, Poems of Loss' by Charles Van Doren on the life and works of Emily Dickinson. Van Doren has written more than a dozen books and ...
- Death of 'a humble man' - Gil Prewett - Chichester Today
Death of 'a humble man' - Gil PrewettChichester Today, UK - Jul 14, 2008He was an accomplished pianist, and his wife also helped instil in him a passion for poetry, art and drama, which became more central to his life as time ...
- Writing captures retiree's unique perspective (The Daily Review)
Poetry, prose reflect Hayward woman's experiences in South Korea, Vietnam
- Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimism - Financial Times
Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimismFinancial Times, UK - 16 minutes agoBy Kevin Goldstein-Jackson As well as writing this column, I am trying to meet the deadline for delivery of haiku for a small poetry magazine, ...
- Desire: A dangerous flame - Independent
Desire: A dangerous flameIndependent, UK - 3 hours agoYet most things in life have a prosaic meaning and a poetic meaning, and there are times when only poetry will answer. For me, when I have trusted my desire ...
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