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- Not your average poet: Award-winning writer/recycling coordinator is ... - St. Cloud Times
ST. JOSEPH — Larry Schug always has something to write about. It’s how he knows he’s alive. “People say, ‘I don’t know what to write about,’ and I say, ‘What, did you wake up dead this morning?’ ” he said. “Turn off the TV every ...
- Identity in the East End - Guardian Unlimited
Sometime in the late 60s, the novelist and poet Emanuel Litvinoff took a trip back to Whitechapel in the East End of London, where he had grown up in the 1920s and 1930s. He expected to find some version of the Jewish neighbourhood that had formed ...
- Style inspired crime novelists - Chicago Tribune
James Crumley, 68, whose poetic and violent tales of crime in the American West made him a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel, died of complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases Tuesday in Missoula, Mont., where he lived. Mr ...
- Q & A with Dana Gioia - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
In 2003, poet Dana Gioia was plucked from his literary life — and his home on a Santa Rosa ridgetop — to become chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. For the past six years, he has spoken up for artists across the country. Associated ...
- At Your Library: Savor a taste of summer - Portsmouth Herald News
At Your Library: Savor a taste of summerPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 14 hours agoAt 10:30 am Wednesday, July 23, Lawrence Clark will share his one-man show blending music, original poetry, storytelling and drama. ...
- Death of Solzhenitsyn : A dazzling flame extinguished - New Nation
Not for a split of a second time freezes, not for a micro millimeter the Earth wobbles off its trajectory at the deaths of thousands of people everyday. But, at times news of death of a single luminary sends people the world over into fits of ...
- Poet of Reason - The Weekly Standard
Poet of ReasonThe Weekly Standard - 18 hours ago... and certainly she is adept with a variety of forms; but another trait is more important. The formal property most distinctive in Salter's poetry ...
- Susie Davidson brings 'In Gratitude and Hope' to the German-Jewish ... - Somerville News
Susie Davidson brings 'In Gratitude and Hope' to the German-Jewish ...Somerville News, MA - 2 hours agoThe winner of the Ibbetson Street Press Poetry Contest award (must be a Massachusetts resident) will receive a $100 cash award, a framed certificate, ...
- SIUC college of liberal arts hires 24 new faculty members - Southern Illinoisan
CARBONDALE -- With the fall semester beginning today, Southern Illinois University Carbondale's biggest college has more than 20 new faculty members who have been hired. The college of liberal arts has24 new faculty members this academic year into ...
- Fashionably late - Guardian Unlimited
In the year before he died, Beethoven somehow constructed in the silence of his mind a fiendishly difficult string quartet, the Grosse Fuge. (He was by then unable to hear anything he composed.) Shakespeare, in the last of the plays that academic ...
- Half-dozen young writers to vie for $120K Dylan Thomas Prize (CBC)
A half-dozen young writers hailing from three continents are in the running for the Dylan Thomas Prize, organizers announced in London on Tuesday.
- What's happening - Bothell Reporter
“East of Eden” fall literature class at the parish hall of Emmanuel Church, to continue Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Registration at the Library $20. Deer Harbor Women’s Auxiliary, first meeting of the 2008-2009 year. Noon at the ...
- Drawing from life - Globe and Mail
Drawing from lifeGlobe and Mail, Canada - 29 minutes agoAd slogans, sentence fragments, lists of names and random words become a sort of poetry, interspersed with product advertisements clipped from old ...
- Witty playwright known to live hard - Miami Herald
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays like Butley , Otherwise Engaged and Quartermaine's Terms about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon himself ...
- Theater in the Open tackles 'Peer Gynt' - Georgetown Record
Theater in the Open tackles 'Peer Gynt'Georgetown Record, MA - 3 hours agoA few characters bite the dust along the way, and Peer’s penchant for poetry also takes a hit, but there’s still plenty of story left — and characters, ...
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