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- Eleanor O'Leary - prolific writer since her early days at Vassar - San Francisco Chronicle
Eleanor O'Leary - prolific writer since her early days at VassarSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 41 minutes agoThe voice itself, heard, with great poetry and feeling, yet with no straining to affect, and I suddenly understood the ecstatic, nostalgic praises of the ...
- The way Britain wages war - Mail & Guardian Online
The way Britain wages warMail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 2 hours agoThey had been hit by Nato bombs, American or British, and nurses are trying to peel away their roasted skin with tweezers. On the night of June 10, ...
- Prince George poet wins prestigious national award (Prince George Citizen Online)
Prince George poet Gillian Wigmore has won the eighth annual 2008 ReLit Award for her collection of poetry, Soft Geography (Caitlin Press), says Rob Budde, professor of creative writing at UNBC.The ReLit Award is, according to The Globe and Mail, “the country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses,” Budde said.Winners receive the ReLit Ring, designed by Christopher Kearney ...
- Sunday's child - Idaho Statesman - IdahoStatesman.com
Sunday's child - Idaho StatesmanIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 2 hours agoI think it would be cool to be in a family that has a couple of other kids. I like to read and I also write songs and poetry. I'm a pretty good artist, ...
- Fierly, fearless and funny - Beeld
Poet Napo Masheane turns pain, both personal and public, into art and makes people think as they laugh, cry and cringe. Pulse caught up with this warrior wordsmith on the heels of Women’s Day Napo Masheane – respected poet, playwright, producer ...
- There Reigns Love brings sonnet to stage (Woodstock Sentinel-Review)
Defining Shakespeare as 'just a playwright' is a little like defining Michelangelo as 'just a sculptor.'
- 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.
- Hill Canadianizes slave literature; Grant celebrates North Preston - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Hill Canadianizes slave literature; Grant celebrates North PrestonTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 13 minutes agoThough Hill recounts the typical horrors (mass murders, splitting up of families, the stench of slave ships, the death-march coffles, rape, etc. ...
- The passing of the Palestinian poetic conscience (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
He has been described as the Palestinian "poet of conscience," a reluctant visionary who once wrote "my homeland is my suitcase."
- Tropicalia boating: Sailor brings wicked boat to annual regatta (The News-Press)
Poet Robert Frost spoke of the road not taken. Roger Horton of North Fort Myers appears to have traveled it.
- 'Hyakunin' translations capture commission prize (The Japan Times)
In the same way that few British people have read all of Shakespeare's sonnets but many can quote at least a few lines of the lyric tradition, any adult who has gone through the Japanese school system is familiar with the Ogura "Hyakunin Isshu." This collection of 100 waka — a classic poetic form written in lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables — has been translated into English before. The first ...
- 'Namkeen': The tears are salty - Merinews
'Namkeen': The tears are saltyMerinews, India - 10 hours agoAll three daughters are unique -- Shabana very literally as the girl who can write exquisitely beautiful poetry but cannot speak; the spunky Kiran Vairale, ...
- You must remember this: how the mind works - guardian.co.uk
You must remember this: how the mind worksguardian.co.uk, UK - 24 minutes agoHe couldn't enjoy poetry, for instance.' Maybe in future, I say, we'll all just take a pill. 'I suspect it's not too far ahead that treatments will be ...
- Sami Al-Arian: From Exoneration to Criminal Indictment - Center for Research on Globalization
Sami Al-Arian: From Exoneration to Criminal IndictmentCenter for Research on Globalization, Canada - 6 hours agoOn the web site maintained for him (yassinaref.com), Aref responded to the Appeals Court decision in prose and poetry. Below are extended excerpts. ...
- Italy: First Muslim country singer performs in Rome (Adnkronos)
Italy: First Muslim country singer performs in Rome (AKI) - America's first Muslim country music singer has shown that Middle-Eastern and Western music can form an exciting new hybrid that builds bridges between cultures.Kareem Salama, born and raised in Ponca City, Oklahoma in the southern US, is the son of Egyptian immigrants. He began to get into country music while studying in ...
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