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- East News Briefs - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Elizabeth Area Community Development Corp. is seeking volunteers for RiverSweep 2008, scheduled for 8 a.m. to noon Saturday along the shoreline of the Monongahela River in Elizabeth Borough. RiverSweep is a riverbank cleanup that extends the ...
- Carol Guess: The write stuff - Western Front
Carol Guess: The write stuffWestern Front, WA - 3 hours agoGuess’s book "Tinderbox Lawn," which will be released Oct. 1, is a collection of prose poems—a kind of poetry printed as prose. Prose poems are compact and ...
- BRIEFS: NEWS NEAR YOU (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
This daily column features short news items from the 20 localities that make up the greater Richmond area.
- Michael Coren: G.K. Chesterton, an icon to too few - Nationalpost.com
The New Yorker magazine recently got into all sorts of trouble for its satirical front cover cartoon depicting Barack Obama as an orthodox Muslim and his wife Michelle as a terrorist. Some people, it seems, simply can't take a joke. G.K. Chesterton ...
- Religion Calendar - Winston-Salem Journal
Religion CalendarWinston-Salem Journal, NC - 1 hour agoRobert Vorsteg will be the host for a poetry reading at the 9 am pre-service forum. For more information, call 659-0331. Christ Moravian Church, 919 W. ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (Boston Herald)
HONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice...
- 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare recovered a decade after it was stolen; man in custody (Boston Globe)
It's a case of all's well that ends well. 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.
- Author signing books - Livingston Daily
Author signing booksLivingston Daily, MI - 1 hour ago... massages or writing she loves salsa dancing. She said her poems have been published before, but this is the first time she's released a poetry book. ...
- Around Town - Juneau Empire
Boys & Girls Club of Juneau, 2:30 p.m. every Monday, 8825 Mallard St., behind the Nugget Mall. Open noon-7 p.m. on days school is closed or dismissed earlier. Details: 790-4534, 790-4535. Alaska Youth Choir auditions, 5-7 p.m., Northern Light United ...
- Mahmoud Darwish: Life and work - The National
Wall Street JournalMahmoud Darwish: Life and workThe National, United Arab Emirates - 6 hours agoIf I write love poems, I resist the conditions that don't allow me to write love poems." 2001 Won the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom, ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishMahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, dies Reuters IndiaMahmoud Darwish, the greatest poet of our time, dies at 67 Palestine News NetworkOttawa Citizen - Sydney Morning Heraldall 449 news articles
- OTRE gets United Way grant - Cheraw Chronicle
OTRE gets United Way grantCheraw Chronicle, SC - 7 hours agoThe poetry contest is set for February 2009 with $300 in prizes for winners. “Thanks to the United Way and Founders Federal Credit Union, we will be able ...
- Step Brothers, X-Files invade multiplexes - Creative Loafing Sarasota
Step Brothers, X-Files invade multiplexesCreative Loafing Sarasota, FL - 42 minutes agoThe smoothly digestible freneticism of WALL-E's last act is a bit of a let-down after the near-minimalist poetry of the unconventional opening passages ...
- Author edited literary magazine - Chicago Sun-Times
Curtis L. Johnson, an author and longtime editor of a pioneering independent literary magazine, was found dead in his Highland Park home Monday after a long battle with lung cancer and other ailments. He was 80. Mr. Johnson wrote six novels, authored ...
- Celebrities, best-selling writers, politicians are set to appear at National Book Festival (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
WASHINGTON -- Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival for Sept. 27 on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady Laura Bush as a way to celebrate reading and books. The recently named poet laureate Kay Ryan is among the participants.
- Science and the irony of 'Us' - GulfNews
Science and the irony of 'Us'GulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 4 hours agoPoetry more often than not is all about peeling off layers and peering at the fresh view beneath. We were introduced to the 'otherness' of poetry - the art ...
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