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- Kay Ryan named poet laureate (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to that of Emily Dickinson, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate, starting in the fall. The ...
- by The Bug (metacritic)
The third album for the artist/music producer Kevin Martin as The Bug. All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review.
- Leader sent to war crimes court (Sydney Morning Herald)
A SERBIAN judge has decided to hand over the arrested former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
- Concert forZimbabwe - Green Left Weekly
Concert forZimbabweGreen Left Weekly, Australia - 6 hours agoThere will also be reading of poetry from Brecht, Wordsworth and Stuart Rees. The concert will take place against a background of films depicting the ...
- Top 5: Posthumous legends - Washington Times
Washington TimesTop 5: Posthumous legendsWashington Times, DC - 44 minutes agoMiss Plath was the first posthumous recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 3. Vincent van Gogh — The ultimate "sufferer for art," Van Gogh sold only ...
- Helpless, Soucouyant nominated for Toronto Book Award (CBC Toronto)
Barbara Gowdy's novel Helpless, which earlier this year won the Trillium Book Award, and Soucouyant, a debut novel that also was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Literature, are both finalists for the Toronto Book Award.
- DICK HELLER: Kahn recalls stories of summer - Washington Times
I encountered an old literary friend recently, and you can, too. His name is Roger Kahn , and he promptly reaffirmed his status as one of the best baseball writers ever to apply pen, typewriter or word processor to the erstwhile national pastime ...
- 'After Nature,' and 'On the Natural History of Destruction' by W.G ... - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Readers of contemporary literature may be divided into two groups: those who have read the mesmerizing books of W.G. Sebald and those who have not. Like one of the dislocated characters in his sui generis "novels," which read like hybrids of fiction ...
- Web sites offers teen writers publishing, critiques and more (The Press-Enterprise)
Words, when they stand alone, form anything but meaning. Rather, they are like truncated segments of a larger plan, senselessly drifting and floating in space.
- I get distracted by the Internet when I try to write (Salon.com)
Every time I start to do my assignment, I find myself surfing the Web instead!
- Revamped school house revives history (The Wahpeton Daily News)
TRAVERSE COUNTY, MINN. — Students from Campbell-Tintah School stepped back in time Friday and got a taste of education inside a one-room school house.
- August 2008 - Weblogs.baltimoresun.com
After a summer slumber, Baltimore’s literary scene will pick up this month. Some events that you should place on your calendar now : One Maryland One Book. In the first statewide reading program, Marylanders are being asked to read and discuss A ...
- The Sky Crawlers - Screendaily.com (subscription)
The Sky CrawlersScreendaily.com (subscription), UK - 20 minutes agoThe whole becomes a neat metaphor for the absurdity of war and a paean to the poetry of the lone pilot in the skies. Oshii really has no need to insist on ...
- School honors life of education legend (Asbury Park Press)
The 500 pupils of the H.&M. Potter School celebrated the life of Mildred W. Potter by dedicating the elementary school's media center in honor of the educator, who died on Jan. 30 at the age of 101.
- England: In praise of the north (Guardian Unlimited)
Ten writers explain why everything about life in the north is the best in Britain
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