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- Emory Professor Natasha Trethewey Named Georgia Woman of the Year (The Weekly)
ATLANTA, GA (July 28, 2008) - Georgia Woman of the Year Committee, Inc. announced today that Natasha Trethewey, Professor of English and Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair at Emory University has been confirmed as 2008 Georgia Woman of the Year! Nellie Dunaway Duke, Committee Chair, said that Trethewey was chosen as the 13th honoree by the Committee on their first ballot at their annual ...
- Slain daughter lives on in text messages to mother (New York Daily News)
A year after college student Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum was strangled, allegedly by an obsessive ex-boyfriend, her text messages are among the only records her mother has of her daughter's final days.
- Debating society - Southwest Virginia Today
Debating societySouthwest Virginia Today, VA - 4 minutes agoThe school’s first president Charles Collins helped establish the Calliopean Literary Society, named for the Greek epic poetry muse, in 1840. ...
- A one-word response to Engdahl (Guardian Unlimited)
Giles Foden: Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures
- The 'grouchy' Dubliner who never lost his sense of humour - Irish Independent
The 'grouchy' Dubliner who never lost his sense of humourIrish Independent, Ireland - 9 minutes agoBut in those early days there was a whiff of Guinness and poetry and other dangerous things about The Dubliners. There were the beards and probably what was ...
- Thousands of youth celebrate 25 years of nationhood - Sun St.Kitts/Nevis
Thousands of youth celebrate 25 years of nationhoodSun St.Kitts/Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis - 2 hours agoThe march climaxed the Youth Rally which saw expressions of national pride in song, dance, poetry and drama. Director of Youth Geoffrey Hanley said there ...
- Family Movies Reveal a Misty -- and Mystifying -- Past - Washington Post
Family Movies Reveal a Misty -- and Mystifying -- PastWashington Post, United States - 1 hour agoHe stayed for hours, dominating the conversation and reciting racy poetry. Another image: My brother sits in the stern of the dinghy with his hand on the ...
- Room with a view - MetroTimes
In a small room on the third floor of the Purdy-Kresge Library at Wayne State University, an important part of Detroit's literary and cultural heritage is being collected, sorted and archived. The library already holds a number of special collections ...
- Listening with the same face - Ballard News Tribune
Listening with the same faceBallard News Tribune, WA - 12 hours agoAlexie writes poetry and short stories in addition to his fiction and essays. He's working on the screenplay for "Absolutely True Diary" and revealed that ...
- Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'dundasstreet' (Torontoist)
Toronto Police have just announced [PDF] that the Yonge-Dundas scramble lights, which stop vehicular traffic in all four directions at the intersection simultaneously to allow pedestrians to cross in whatever direction they want, are going into effect as of 11 a.m. Thursday morning.
- Western Writers' Centre Deadlines and Poet-Search! - Indymedia Ireland
The Western Writers' Centre are already liaising with a prominent Irish-based poetry group to organise a possible Scotland exchange . . . .but there's a missing link The Western Writers' Centre's deadlines for submissions of events, news, books and ...
- Between the Gila River and Gila monster: Baxter Black performs Sept. show (Elko Daily Free Press)
ELKO - Baxter Black, described by the New York Times as “...probably the nation's most successful living poet,” is performing a rare non-Cowboy Poetry Gathering event.
- 'Miracle at St. Anna' Misses The Mark - Hartford Courant
'Miracle at St. Anna' Misses The MarkHartford Courant, United States - 6 minutes agoWhile Lee aimed to make this adaptation of James McBride's novel an epic of the African-American experience in the war, the flimsy material, ...
- Teens Who Write (The Hook)
Young poets ages 12-18 can celebrate Teen Read Week with a poem of their own submitted to the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s Teen Poetry Contest. Prizes are awarded in three age divisions, and poems will be submitted to another teen poetry contest sponsored by the Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) library journal. Contest forms and [...]
- The Inspirational & Creative Writing Website Writershideout.net now ... - PR Inside
The latest hideout for Creative Writers in India, www.writershideout.net is a platform for budding writers to showcase their creativity and thoughts in the form of adventure and short stories, musings, poems, travelogues, humour as well as ...
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