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- Gowdy, Lee up for Trillium prize - CBC News
Barbara Gowdy and Dennis Lee are among the finalists for this year's Trillium Book Award, Ontario's premier literary prize. The winners will be announced on June 12. Gowdy, winner of the Marian Engel Award in 1996, which recognizes the complete body ...
- God's Red Poet had local roots (The News)
PICTOU – A Pictou County man who once dined with movie stars and was watched by the FBI is now having his life story told in a documentary airing next week.
- 400-year-old Bard book recovered - Globe and Mail
LONDON — A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued $30 million has been recovered after a man walked into a library and asked to have it authenticated. Police in Durham, northeast England, said Friday they had ...
- Ten things to do at the 2008 National Poetry Slam in Madison - Isthmus Daily Page
Ten things to do at the 2008 National Poetry Slam in MadisonIsthmus Daily Page, WI - 2 hours ago... the ASL reading is an open mic presented in American Sign Language, the Mosaic is an open mic for poets of color...and the list goes on. ...
- 'Reluctant Environmentalist' Learning to Go Green (Fairfield Citizen-News)
Mariann Regan is retired and couldn't be happier. After 40 years as a professor of English at Fairfield University, where she met and married her husband, Richard, also a professor of English, she now has the time to devote herself to writing books, especially her memoir.
- Musicians to rock, roll, raise money for homeless kids (Holliston Tab)
Tom Driscoll, Katie Frassinelli, and Ruthann Baler of Holliston are among fourteen musicians from the Greater Boston area who will participate in "Strike a Chord Concerts for Charity" fundraiser to benefit School on Wheels of Massachusetts on Saturday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m., at the Oliver Ames High School auditorium, 100 Lothrop St. in North Easton.
- Naipaul’s compass - Saudi Gazette
Ways of Looking and Feeling: An Essay in Five Parts. By V. S. Naipaul. 189 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95. ALL my life,” V. S. Naipaul writes in the introduction to “A Writer’s People,” his dense, dry, frustrating new memoir, “I have had to ...
- Legends and lore: Secrets of North Texas - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
A glamorous Prohibition-era casino buried deep in a hillside in Arlington. Bonnie and Clyde. The inspiration for the Hollywood sign? This summer, explore hometown legends and lore.Spend a summer day tracking local legends We’re no dummies. We know ...
- Lady Lazarus Andrew Foster Altschul - Sacramento News & Review
Lady Lazarus Andrew Foster AltschulSacramento News & Review, CA - 6 hours agoWhen she begins to speak, it’s in poetry. Calliope narrates some chapters, while others are filled in by her biographer, an alt-weekly journalist who met ...
- The sonnetmeister - Press & Sun-Bulletin
The sonnetmeisterPress & Sun-Bulletin, NY - 2 hours agoNow 65, he retired in 2005 after teaching poetry and literature (in several languages) for more than three decades. Since his retirement, Bidney decided to ...
- Health Care - Another California 11th Hour - OpEdNews
Health Care - Another California 11th HourOpEdNews, PA - 2 hours agoBorn that way. My love of poetry pretty much ended with Rupert Brooke, who died in WWI. "Ah, a romantic at heart," you might say. Yes, but a realist. ...
- Reflect during solstic, shaman tells 30 at event (The Daily Item)
SUNBURY — Red and blue streamers fastened to wooden stakes snapped in the breeze 360 feet above the Susquehanna River Saturday as a shaman and his audience welcomed summer at the Shikellamy State Park overlook.
- Tuface is not my lover, I don’t even have a boyfriend - Uru Onunaku ... - Punch
Uru Onunaku may not be making as much waves as her younger brother, Ikechukwu, the rap artiste, but she is fast becoming a phenomenon in the US where she resides. Uru, who is rumoured to be dating Tuface Idibia, came to Nigeria recently to launch her ...
- Robin Williams to play World's Greatest Dad - Paste Magazine
When not dispelling the notion of any involvement with the forthcoming Donnie Darko sequel, S. Darko , Richard Kelly and Co. have been brewing new material over at Darko Entertainment HQ. Darko folks Sean McKittrick, Ted Hamm and Kelly himself are ...
- Nixon and Moore Join Fiennes, McGovern and Neeson July 26-27 in Gate ... - Playbill
Julianne Moore (pictured in The Vertical Hour ). photo by Paul Kolnik A starry line-up has been assembled for the July 26-27 readings of the poetry and prose of Samuel Beckett, part of the current Gate|Beckett production presented by the Lincoln ...
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