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- Kay Ryan named US poet laureate (Guardian Unlimited)
News: A quiet writer of compressed poetry has been given America's top honour for poets
- Forward Back GMTV Weather Presenter Quits (Waveguide TV and Radio News)
Weather presenter Andrea McLean is to quit GMTV after 11 years to appear on ITV's lunchtime show Loose Women. Mclean has a year-long contract to appear on the programme and plans to pursue other broadcasting opportunities.
- Palestinians mourn beloved 'national poet' - Ottawa Citizen
Palestinians mourn beloved 'national poet'Ottawa Citizen, Canada - Aug 10, 2008Mahmoud Darwish's poetry was embraced by his fellow Palestinians as the voice of their suffering and his life and words were tightly bound up in a struggle ...
- 'To Be, Or Not To Be' Sam & Jim's 'Hamlet' to be in Houma - Tri Parish Times
'To Be, Or Not To Be' Sam & Jim's 'Hamlet' to be in HoumaTri Parish Times, LA - 18 hours ago"Almost every line is poetry. It has the most outstanding language." "Hamlet" is probably the source of more phrases that have become part of the common ...
- Cape Fear Profile: Neil Donnell Ray touches lives with poetry - Fayetteville Observer
On a surprisingly cool Tuesday night, Neil Ray arrives at an open mic night at Big Shots, a bar and nightclub off Yadkin Road. It’s 8 p.m., and Ray, the evening’s host, is setting up his instruments — congas, xylophone and an African tongue ...
- Del Martin, 87, pioneering lesbian activist (San Jose Mercury News)
Del Martin, a strident and eloquent voice in the early gay and lesbian civil rights movement in America, died Wednesday in San Francisco not long after enjoying perhaps the hardest-won prize of her lifelong cause -- legal marriage to Phyllis Lyon, her longtime partner. Martin was 87.
- The practical side of book awards - Corsavoo.com
The practical side of book awardsCorsavoo.com, France - 20 hours ago... nonfiction or poetry, you have many titles from which you can choose. Nevertheless, a title that has entered a competition like the book awards is ...
- Love Your Local launches in London (Publican)
Stella Artois has launched a major new campaign to celebrate pubs as the heart of the community. The Love Your Local initiative will see one lucky pub win ÂŁ8,500 in prize money, as well as a holiday for the licensee plus a ÂŁ5,000 bursary to be invested in a community project of their choice.
- I've had 30 lovers, Carla Bruni tells world - and it's music to Sarkozy's ears (Times Online)
Carla Bruni, the chanteuse wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, is to release a new album on which she sings of 30 past lovers and compares one of them to taking hard drugs. But rather than embarrass her husband, her work is likely to give him a boost.
- 200th anniversary of the birth of Norway's National Poet - Norway Post
Norway Post200th anniversary of the birth of Norway's National PoetNorway Post, Norway - 2 hours ago... including concerts and poetry readings. Wergeland was a child of the European Enlightenment and grew up in a time of momentous change for Norway. ...
- Wordsmiths Books’ One-Year Blowout - AccessAtlanta
June 15 is the one-year anniversary for Wordsmiths Books, the Decatur store that has re-defined aggressive scheduling of author appearances and funky ways of courting the reading public. Never ones to hide their booklight under a bushel, they’re ...
- Quantum poetics (Guardian Unlimited)
A friend emailed months ago and asked me to contribute to an anthology of "space poems". He was pairing up poets with astronomers in the hopes that new poetry would result, and my counterpart was Paul Murdin, the treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- French 'contemporary circus' show blends music and acrobatics - Jakarta Post
French 'contemporary circus' show blends music and acrobaticsJakarta Post, Indonesia - 5 hours agoIt is often original with a touch of poetry and a lot of acrobatics. It's a show for the whole family." Perez said the show from Cie O Ultimo Momento would ...
- Rumi and Sufism - The New Nation
Rumi and SufismThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 15 minutes agoI have written about this quite a bit and in fact I have a recent book of poetry which is called "Life is a pilgrimage: In conversation with Rumi" in which ...
- Calendar of Events - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
"THE BOY FRIEND" PLAY: 7:30-9:30 p.m. Tonight and Saturday, City Park Players, Bringhurst Theatre, 1802 Sylvester Drive, Alexandria. Tickets are $12 general admission, $10 seniors (over 65), $5 students. For more information, call (318) 442-1800 ...
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