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- Ex-Roundhay girl in running for poetry prize - Yorkshire Evening Post
Ex-Roundhay girl in running for poetry prizeYorkshire Evening Post, UK - 6 hours agoAged 13, she wrote her first book of poetry, Looking Through Letterboxes, and also picked up her first prize – the Poetry Society's Simon Elvin Young Poet ...
- Mary J. Blige, Robin Thicke Team For Tour - Billboard
Mary J. Blige, Robin Thicke Team For TourBillboard, NY - 2 hours agoThicke is also penning his own screenplay ("a spy thriller love thing like 'The Bourne Supremacy'," he says) and writing a book of poetry.
- Bumbershoot literary lineup to include Edmund White, Joshua Ferris (Seattle Times)
Some top-notch authors are slated to appear at Bumbershoot this year. Among the out-of-towners: Edmund White, the preeminent gay novelist...
- Bolt strikes back in 200 - Post-Star
BEIJING - Once you blow away the world, simply running wondrously isn't enough. The question becomes: When will you blow us away again? Usain Bolt on Wednesday nipped two-hundredths off Michael Johnson's 19.32 mark in the 200 meters set at the 1996 ...
- Captivating culinary experience - Sun.Star
Captivating culinary experienceSun.Star, Philippines - 7 hours agoI for one (who’d rather delve in the arts of music and poetry) took the time to appreciate the art, effort and taste our local chefs and restaurateurs spent ...
- Playwright's own story adds a personal touch to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Sarah Ruhl turns around the tale of Eurydice and Orpheus by seeing it from the point of view of Eurydice, and what she finds in the underworld and perhaps the real reason Orpheus looks back.
- GRATEFUL DEAD - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphGRATEFUL DEADCalcutta Telegraph, India - 18 minutes ago... John Ruskin and George Eliot were born, and the stethoscope was invented — he was excitedly starting a life of poetry and not serenely ending it.
- U.N. troops offer lessons in peace in Lebanon (Los Angeles Times)
Yoga, French poetry, pizza making -- the international forces stationed there give war-weary residents a respite from their cares. The yoga instructor chuckles, and the three dozen or so women follow along, giggling nervously before bursting through some invisible layer of restraint or sorrow and laughing with abandon. Grins widen into smiles, tentative squeals bloom into full-bore howls.
- United we stand, divided we fall (Coeur d'Alene Press)
The huge redwood trees in California are considered to be the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are 300 feet high and more than 2,500 years old. One would think that trees so large would have a tremendous root system reaching down hundreds of feet into the Earth. Not true.
- Debut novel shortlisted for Montana (Stuff)
A Wellington writer's debut novel has been shortlisted in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
- Funny and sad tribute to lost wife is the Book of the Year (icWales)
A DIARY written by one of Wales’ leading poets, chronicling life after his wife’s death in a car crash, was last night named Wales Book of the Year 2008.
- Mahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, dies - Reuters UK
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. A hospital spokeswoman in Houston said the 67-year-old poet died ...
- Humble beginnings, curiosity drive Pastides - The State
Humble beginnings, curiosity drive PastidesThe State, SC - 1 hour agoIf he had come from a more privileged background, the University of South Carolina’s newest president might have studied poetry. Instead Harris Pastides ...
- 'From a Child's Mind to an Adult's Heart': Author Recalls Simplicity of Childhood, Impact of Adults on a Child's ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
For anyone who has ever looked back on the simplicity of childhood with fondness -- and for those who are seemingly too busy to take the time to do so -- comes the nostalgic, heartfelt new book from author Thop Brown, "From a Child's Mind; To an Adult's Heart" .
- Children remember father’s pride, care in his work - Rapid City Journal
Children remember father’s pride, care in his workRapid City Journal, SD - 42 minutes agoThey said he tended to keep his work life separate from his home life. Swanson grew up on a farm and was always a hard worker, they said, ...
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