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- Louise Glueck wins $100,000 poetry prize (CBC)
Louise Glueck, a former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, has won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
- Book of the day: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño - Daily Telegraph
Translated into English for the first time, the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño’s prize-winning book portrays a lost generation. It opens in Mexico City in 1975 with the diary of Juan GarcÃa Madero, a 17-year-old devotee of the “visceral ...
- Read all 'social media' posts in Webware - Webware.com
Its name might be wacky, but some investors with deep pockets think it's the real thing: SodaHead.com , a polling and answers site, announced Wednesday that it has raised $8.4 million in Series B venture funding. The money comes from new lead ...
- Summer literature and arts events in Achill - Mayo Advertiser
Summer literature and arts events in AchillMayo Advertiser, Ireland - 1 hour agoThe Achill Heinrich Böll Association are continuing their series of readings on Thursday evening July 17 with a reading of poetry by Dublin Poet Gerard ...
- Start your beach reading at York Public Library (The York Weekly)
A character in Philip Roth's novel "Goodbye, Columbus" describes his cousin, the ultimate summer reader: "Doris? She's the one who's always reading 'War and Peace.' That's how I know it's summer, when Doris is reading 'War and Peace.'"
- Fairfax woman's wild ride as national poet laureate - Marin Independent-Journal
Fairfax woman's wild ride as national poet laureateMarin Independent-Journal, CA - 37 minutes agoRyan's collections "The Niagara River," "Say Uncle" and "Elephant Rocks" top Amazon.com's list of best-selling poetry books and are out of stock. ...
- WEDNESDAY (20th) - San Francisco Guardian
Chinese Bookie, Songs for Moms, Squeeky Rice Parkside. 9pm, $6-20. Benefit for Wiretap. Disastroid, Big Blue Whale, Ninja Panther Red Devil Lounge. 8pm, $3. Fabulous Thunderbirds Yoshi's SF. 8 and 10pm, $24. *Get Back Loretta, Man Without Way, Th ...
- Celebrate the Word: Los Angeles Poetry Festival - Metromix
Celebrate the Word: Los Angeles Poetry FestivalMetromix, IL - 1 hour agoNominated for three Helen Hayes Awards (production, writing, ensemble). Starring writer-performer Steve Connell (2003 LA. Champion) and developed/directed ...
- Dance parties, concerts to mark the Dead Science's Villainaire Fest - Seattle Times
As the Bumbershoot music and arts festival wraps up, there will be another fest — the Villainaire Festival of Culture, Sept. 1-7. The event includes dance parties, concerts, visual-art installations, lectures and film screenings — all curated by ...
- Last Friday is First Friday - Topeka Capitol-Journal
So Topekans don't have to choose between fireworks and fine art, the First Friday Art Walk for July will take place today on the last Friday of June. Organizers of the monthly self-guided exploration of Topeka's art galleries and museums moved the ...
- Protection: it's not open and shut - The Age
Protection: it's not open and shutThe Age, Australia - 1 hour agoOf publishers and imports, prizes, premiers and prime ministers — not to mention human rights and a bath full of poems. Jason Steger on what's going on in ...
- Writer vows to get children reading - expressandstar.com
Writer vows to get children readingexpressandstar.com, UK - 12 hours agoMr Ahlberg, a Baggies fan, has most recently released Collected Poems, a collection of his favourite children’s poetry.
- The Return of the Old - China International Business
China International BusinessThe Return of the OldChina International Business, China - 54 minutes agoIn Daoism it is retreating to a mountain, perhaps to read poetry; it’sa much more individualistic idea. In Confucianism it is in your social relationships. ...
- Iran announces programs in commemorating Rudaki in Tajikistan (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (MNA) -- Iran’s Cultural Office in Tajikistan announced the arranging Iran’s programs to commemorate the 1150th anniversary of the birth of Rudaki.
- Triumphant Trio - VoiceofDance.com
Triumphant TrioVoiceofDance.com, CA - 4 hours agoBut Kaleidoscope is a reduced version of a longer piece made for the Black Choreographers Festival, and, in the current form, it looks a bit patchy and ...
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