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- Angelou celebrating 80th birthday in Atlanta - WRAL.com
Angelou celebrating 80th birthday in AtlantaWRAL.com, NC - 1 hour agoShe's written five memoirs, published volumes of poetry and crafted music, plays and screenplays. She's been in movies and on television, toured the country ...
- Iranian Writer Porochista Khakpour in Contention For $115,000 Dylan Thomas Prize (Payvand Iran News)
Porochista Khakpour, who was born in Tehran, Iran in 1978, is one of the nominated writers for her first novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA from Johns Hopkins University.
- River Project book beautiful work of art - London Free Press
River Project book beautiful work of artLondon Free Press, Canada - 3 hours agoCornelia Hoogland's Love Poem for a Smelly River provokes thought, not laughter -- but you'll get plenty of smiles by following the twists and turns ...
- Changing world of commencement speakers - San Francisco Gate
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of ...
- Kingsolver to speak at festival - Salina Journal
Kingsolver to speak at festivalSalina Journal, KS - 4 hours agoKingsolver, a National Humanities Medal recipient in 2000, has written several novels and collections of poetry and prose. Her latest book, "Animal, ...
- Help schools at the Forum 35 book fair - Baton Rouge Advocate
You can get a good book to read and help improve local schools at the same time. Forum 35 was founded in 1993 when the Baton Rouge Area Foundation allocated seed money to form a nonprofit organization for young men and women of our community. The ...
- Art off the beaten path - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerArt off the beaten pathJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 12 hours agoBooks are also on sale, covering topics ranging from poetry to art to the Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead. Perusing the titles alone is an exercise ...
- Most Editors Are Failed Writers, But So Are Most Writers - Pinstripe Alley
Most Editors Are Failed Writers, But So Are Most WritersPinstripe Alley, NY - 3 hours agoPete A talks about Springsteen, Joe Posnanski uses asterisks to launch rambling tangents, I make parenthetical reference to modernist poetry. ...
- Paperback Row - New York Times
New York TimesPaperback RowNew York Times, United States - 39 minutes agoLevi, who died, perhaps by suicide, in 1987, is best known for his powerful memoirs, beginning with “Survival in Auschwitz” (1947), but he also wrote poetry ...
- Proud peafowl crossings (MLive.com)
Peacocks and peahens originally came to the Western world from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and the Himalayas, where the birds have mystical significance.
- More News - Citizens Voice
More NewsCitizens Voice, PA - 43 minutes agoPick up a game board, learn about teen summer programs, have fun, snacks and prizes. Ages 11-18. Poetry Workshops with Wilkes University’s Jim Warner this ...
- If food is the thought of love, eat on! - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerIf food is the thought of love, eat on!Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 4 hours agoExcerpt from I Just Want To Say, poem by Lennox Raphael from his poetry book, Word for Three Stories. Poems in Word & Yarn.
- 'Mine is a survivor's tale' - Portsmouth Herald
It began with a jarring, painful memory and within months Elizabeth Kirschner had written "My Life As a Doll," her most recently published book of poetry. The spark was a recollection of an incident of abuse at age 3 at the hands of her mother. That ...
- British universities are losing out as big bucks are leading ... - guardian.co.uk
British universities are losing out as big bucks are leading ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoThere are plenty of poets, in particular, who'll make more out of their archives than they have from writing." Sheppard is also chair of the Group for ...
- A Defence of Religion - OpEdNews.com
Certain western thinkers use irrationality as a ground for the superiority of western civilisation, a ground that gives them the moral authority to look down upon, and manipulate, the irrational. It may come as a shock to them to learn that we are ...
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