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- Book-award finalists unveiled (Salem Statesman Journal)
The finalists for the 22nd annual Oregon Book Awards were announced by Literary Arts on Monday.
- Nimrod workshop attracts writers - The Collegian online
Nimrod workshop attracts writersThe Collegian online, OK - 8 hours agoMaster classes cover fiction, poetry, memoir, fantasy and science fiction, writing for children and travel writing. TU students are encouraged to take ...
- Renown Bulgarian Poet Konstantin Pavlov Dies at 75 - Sofia News Agency
Renown Bulgarian Poet Konstantin Pavlov Dies at 75Sofia News Agency, Bulgaria - 12 minutes agoBetween 1966 and 1975 the communist regime banned Pavlov from publishing his literary works. In 2000 Konstantin Pavlov was awarded the National Poetry Award ...
- Poetry: Is poetry's future as bright as its past? (The Evening Sun)
Editor's Note: Guest poet columnist Allen Taylor is webmaster of http://www.world-class-poetry.com and writes a daily blog at http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com . He spent 2005 in Iraq with his National Guard unit and is revising a book of poems he wrote during that time.
- National Poetry Day - Work - CV5 Communities
National Poetry Day - WorkCV5 Communities, UK - 12 hours agoYesterday was National Poetry Day and we asked for your verses on this year's theme of "work". The day encourages young and old to enjoy poetry and to have ...
- Offering up a unique pint of view - Edinburgh Evening News
Offering up a unique pint of viewEdinburgh Evening News, UK - 2 hours agoHowever, with smokers being forced outside, Stuart, who has also written 18 history, poetry and children's books, believes an exciting new pub culture has ...
- Truth-Telling Solzhenitsyn Remained Great to the End - RedOrbit
Truth-Telling Solzhenitsyn Remained Great to the EndRedOrbit, TX - Aug 6, 2008One biographer, Joseph Pearce, ("Solzhenitsyn: A Soul on Exile," 1999), asked him shortly before his 80th birthday how he'd like to be remembered. ...
- The poet and the colonel - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeThe poet and the colonelBoston Globe, United States - 25 minutes agoHigginson replied with questions about her life and suggestions that gently attempted to guide her poetry into more established patterns. ...
- Library celebrates freedom of speech (Newport News-Times)
Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager forced into hiding during the Holocaust, spent 25 months during World War II secreted away above an Amsterdam office. When she, and others hiding with her, were betrayed to the Nazis, they were arrested and deported to concentration camps.
- Sharp Teeth, By Toby Barlow (Independent)
A novel in verse – about werewolves. Hmm. It's a great elevator pitch, but would anyone actually want to read it? Well, they ought to. The verse is free verse of the loosest kind, often recognisable as verse only by the typography, but the compression of language, the absence of all those little prose discourse markers such as "because" and "so" and "nevertheless", and the vividness of the ...
- The Three-Eyed Watchman: Survival tips and counselling for Sudan ... - New Sudan Vision
New Sudan VisionThe Three-Eyed Watchman: Survival tips and counselling for Sudan ...New Sudan Vision, Canada - Jul 22, 2008Or in case you are dropped out of power prematurely, dash into the dark and join Mr. Bin Laden at Tora Bora, or consult Mr. Joseph Kony on how to coexist ...
- OPERA OVERLOAD (Express India)
Tanushree Shankar lets us on the secret of a stunning act
- Poem of the week: The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew - Guardian Blogs
"Shy as a leveret" ... Mew's life and work was also evasive, fragile and slender. Photograph: Lynda Richardson/Corbis Charlotte Mew's work had already attracted the interest of Ezra Pound when, in 1912, Alida Monro spotted the poem, "The Farmer's ...
- As state shies away from Husain’s art, Jamia steps forward to show - Livemint
As state shies away from Husain’s art, Jamia steps forward to showLivemint, India - Aug 29, 2008... shot surrounded by oil paints and in the backdrop of his favourite places, traversing diverse themes from Urdu poetry to peace in Indian history. ...
- Actor Paul Newman Dies At 83 - Free Internet Press
Paul Newman, the legendary movie star and irreverent cultural icon who created a model philanthropy fueled by profits from a salad dressing that became nearly as famous as he was, has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday at his home near Westport ...
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