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- Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize (Miami Herald)
Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday.
- Entertainment Calendar Updated 8-07-08 - Petoskey News-Review
Entertainment Calendar Updated 8-07-08Petoskey News-Review, MI - 1 hour agoPoetry course — The Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, announces its annual summer course on the master poets of the world. Led by poet and island summer ...
- James Castle: A Retrospective - HULIQ (press release)
James Castle: A RetrospectiveHULIQ (press release), NC - 18 minutes ago... art from a variety of perspectives, examining his life, modes of depiction, working methods and materials, and the "visual poetry" of his text works. ...
- Israeli president pens poetic tribute to Beijing Olympics - Xinhua News Agency
JERUSALEM, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday greeted the upcoming debut of the Beijing Olympic Games with a poem glorifying "the same dream, of glory, of harmony, of peace." The poem reads: "Birds of all feathers come and ...
- Readers wrtie: Rodeo doings (Sierra Sun)
The second weekend of August will once again find McIver Arena filled with rodeo excitement. The 34th annual Truckee Championship Rodeo and Western Week are set for Aug. 7-10. Kids Day and Cowboy Poetry kick off the excitement on the Aug.
- The resurrection of hope - Guardian Unlimited
"Approaching Ivor Gurney in fictional form . . . is a clever way of sidestepping the complex problems that await his biographers," observed Ruth Scurr in the Daily Telegraph, reviewing Robert Edric's In Zodiac Light. "He has been variously diagnosed ...
- Obama Confirms Relationship with CPUSA Member - Family Security Matters
Family Security MattersObama Confirms Relationship with CPUSA MemberFamily Security Matters, NJ - 10 minutes agoThe report attempts to play down instances in which Obama soaks up Davis’s anti-American thoughts and pro-communist “poetry.” But if the relationship were ...
- STARGAZING | Escovedo has his moment; Dr. Quinn may get a brief one - Kansas City Star
STARGAZING | Escovedo has his moment; Dr. Quinn may get a brief oneKansas City Star, MO - 2 hours ago... 625 Minnesota Ave., which is showing “All That Glitters: A Celebration of Prose, Poetry and Lyrics,” an exhibit of works by Elaine Mills. ...
- South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
August Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings. Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler ...
- Lord Tweedsmuir: Novelist and son of John Buchan who inherited his father's talent but was disappointed of literary fame (Independent)
If all John Buchan's children had it hard, his second son, William, had it hardest. Endowed with his father's literary talent, he yet could not hope to match John Buchan in his other occupations of strategy, high policy, business, sport, action. Lacking his father's industry, he was burdened with his ambition, his restlessness, his romance of spirit and his weakness for tobacco. Though ...
- Prose watch: Obama acceptance speech - Politico
Seattle Post IntelligencerProse watch: Obama acceptance speechPolitico, DC - 40 minutes agoHere’s Politico’s past-due look at those points in his speech where the poetry and prose diverge on closer examination. Of course McCain will be coming in ...Video: Democratic Convention: Recapping Obama's Acceptance Speech WSJDigitalNetworkall 2,125 news articles
- Celebs, politicians, best-selling authors at National Book Festival, Sept. 27 (Canoe Travel)
WASHINGTON - Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival.
- The Dark Before The Dawn Will Warm Your Heart -- New Poetry Book Emphasizes Love in Countless Ways (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
BRANDFORD, Conn., Aug. 6, 2008 -- There is no doubt that the greatest thing any person can learn is just to love and be loved in return. For author Donald E. Robinson, love is the greatest gift that God gave to humanity.
- Oakland's two summers - San Francisco Chronicle
Oakland's two summersSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoGiven the expensive lines of his poetry, it was probably a jar from the Ming dynasty. We added a simple birdbath to our backyard, bought for $10, and, ...
- Second Hand Wedding Makes No. 7 Of All Time (Scoop.co.nz)
Pork Pies And Wedding Cake… Paul Murphy Joins Father Geoff In Top 10 Kiwi Films Of All Time!
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