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- Two new board members elected for Sheikh Zayed Book Award (Middle East Online)
Dr. Carmen Ruiz Bravo Villasante, Dr. Mohammed appointed as new members of Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s advisory board.
- Literary journal provides outlet for medical students - The Southern
Literary journal provides outlet for medical studentsThe Southern, IL - 1 hour agoHe prevents that by writing prose and poetry. Eubanks recently snared first place for his short story, "Eggs," and second place for his poem, "Acquiescence. ...
- Cooked and Eaten has 13th reading; Guest authors read from their ... - Peterborough Examiner
Cooked and Eaten has 13th reading; Guest authors read from their ...Peterborough Examiner, Canada - 40 minutes agoThe winner of the Sandburg-Livesay Anthology Prize, and the national Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Award -for her fourth collection, States of Matter (Black ...
- Pig Iron festival set for July 19 - Vindicator
YOUNGSTOWN — Artists, vendors and entertainers are being sought for the annual Pig Iron Literary & Art Works Community Street Festival set for July 19 on North Phelps Street, downtown (between Commerce and Federal streets). Hours will be 10 a.m. to ...
- Hometown homage - Guardian Unlimited
There's a wonderful line from Guy Maddin's tragicomic 2003 film The Saddest Music In The World, which states, "Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass." If Maddin were to use this to describe his latest film, the autobiographical My Winnipeg, let ...
- Rant in D Minor: Detroit Dispatches - hotpress.com (subscription)
Rant in D Minor: Detroit Dispatcheshotpress.com (subscription), Ireland - 6 hours agoChristine is part Stephen King heroine, part libertarian pioneer woman who sells poetry sculpture online and does her own carpentry – when not tending to ...
- Is Your Child in Trouble? - American Chronicle
Is Your Child in Trouble?American Chronicle, CA - 7 hours agoThe Orlando, Florida native is currently writing a collection of original poetry, a novel, short stories, and various articles for news media, ...
- Regional Briefs - Tribune
Poetry book released: After studying more than 200 books in Persian, Urdu and Arabic, Jagjit Kaur Jolly has come out with “Ghari di tik tik”, which is based on the work of renowned Pakistani Punjabi poet Ahmed Salim. Jolly received her PhD degree ...
- Writing is Nicolai's all-consuming passion (The Globe Gazette)
RICEVILLE — Dianna Nicolai thought she started writing creatively while in high school.
- County speech contest winners named (Mount Vernon News)
MOUNT VERNON — From Shakespeare to original oratory, from poetry to chamber theater and humorous recitations, talented students from around the county showcased their speaking skills at the 2008 Knox County Speech contest held April 29 at the First Presbyterian Church.
- Al-Baradoni, the last great Arab classical poet (Yemen Times Online)
Yemeni poet, intellectual and writer Abdullah Saleh Al-Baradoni was born in Dhamar governorate’s Al-Baradon village in 1929. Having contracted smallpox at age 4, by age 6, he had lost his vision entirely.
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- TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86 (AP via Yahoo! News)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.
- Ailing Editor Set To Close the Book on Venerable Yiddish Journal - Forward
Ailing Editor Set To Close the Book on Venerable Yiddish JournalForward, NY - 23 hours agoKoral, the child of Holocaust survivors, has herself published Yiddish poetry in Heshbon. Now, she said, there will be one outlet fewer in an already ...
- Another Wooden masterpiece unveiled (Los Angeles Daily News)
DEDICATION: Legendary UCLA coach honored with mural at namesake school.
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