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- Alicia Keys isn't just about music anymore — she's on a mission - Miami Herald
When we first heard Alicia Keys' velvet voice and masterful piano strokes in 2001, she was a beautiful tomboy singing about falling in and out of love. Hers was a pure, unapologetic sound - authentic, magical, enriched by yesterday - that returned ...
- DeRosier's dedication to education recalled at memorial service (Billings Gazette)
Longtime Rocky Mountain College President Arthur DeRosier Jr. was remembered with personal tributes, poetry and music during a soulful memorial service Friday morning. DeRosier, 76, died of pancreatic cancer in November at his son's home in Louisville ...
- The worst assault against English - Star
Edinburgh, Scotland - The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating, but a collector paid £6 600 on Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language. Up for ...
- East, West, gazing through the veils (Denver Post)
"We are their dream, and they are ours," muses a character in Salman Rushdie's latest novel, "The Enchantress of Florence."
- Visiting Conan's show (Chicago Tribune)
- Whartscape 2008 Kicks Off at the Charles - Baltimore City Paper
Whartscape 2008 Kicks Off at the CharlesBaltimore City Paper, MD - 9 hours agoSo much attention, in the indie press and online, was lavished on last year's festival and the advance hype for this year's installment that you get the ...
- So much for expert advice about weather - Vacaville Reporter
A recent letter writer stated that man-made global warming is an accepted fact by all credible individuals in the scientific community ("Plenty of evidence about global warming," The Reporter, April 30). This is not quite accurate. At least a couple ...
- New in Paperbacks - News & Observer
New in PaperbacksNews & Observer, NC - 1 hour ago(New Directions) A Uruguayan woman who calls herself the "mother of Mexican poetry," tells an increasingly hallucinatory as she hides in a ladies' room from ...
- RR Knudson, a Writer Whose Subject Was Sports, Dies at 75 - New York Times
RR Knudson, a Writer Whose Subject Was Sports, Dies at 75New York Times, United States - 2 hours agoIt was at York that Ms. Knudson’s writing career began. She had assembled an anthology of sports poetry in an effort to spark the interest of her students. ...
- Writing, painting, rallying and beyond: Litchfield County Writers ... - Waterbury Republican American
Writing, painting, rallying and beyond: Litchfield County Writers ...Waterbury Republican American, CT - 1 hour agoVerstandig, who stands at 4-feet-10-inches, has published two books of poetry, "Pieces of the Whole" and "Provisions." She recently finished a novella and ...
- Tennessee Mountain Writers announces contest winners - Oak Ridger
Six Oak Ridgers received awards at the Tennessee Mountain Writers 20th annual conference in March. Contest winners were announced and awards were presented during the conference banquet. The contest attracted approximately 175 entries from five ...
- Beacon Bits - July 17, 2008 - The Beacon
Beacon Bits - July 17, 2008The Beacon, OH - 2 hours agoThere was a seminar on Civic Tourism in Fremont recently and the textbook used was "Civic Tourism, the Poetry and Politics of Place," by Dan Shilling. ...
- Thrilling New Novels by Renowned Women Writers - NPR News
All Things Considered , May 5, 2008 · Three renowned women writers have books of fiction out this spring and each one asks the reader to take a leap of imagination. Joyce Carol Oates reimagines the deaths of five authors; Jeanette Winterson takes a ...
- No mystery in writer's return (The Daily Iowan)
It won't be the shady Miss White in the Study with the Candlestick. It won't be the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew figuring it out, either. And despite Mr. Green's shifty eyes, it will in fact be Martha Grimes in the Dey House with Novel in hand. While a murder-in-question is not anticipated for the discussion, anecdotes and advice are expected to occur during the author's reading today at 8 p.m.
- Garrett, prodigious writer and professor, dies at age 78 - Charlottesville Daily Progress
Garrett, prodigious writer and professor, dies at age 78Charlottesville Daily Progress, VA - 2 hours agoGarrett, 78, won 14 prestigious awards for his writing, had published nine novels, seven collections of short stores, eight poetry collections, ...
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