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- Ryan Kost, fellow former intern at The Oregonian - U-Wire.com
I hired Kate Linthicum to be an intern at the Los Angeles Times this summer. Let me tell you what impressed me immediately about her application: the writing. It was vivid and punchy, the words skillfully chosen, the sentences carefully crafted ...
- The World's Greatest Moms - Thousand Oaks Acorn
The World's Greatest MomsThousand Oaks Acorn, USA - 30 minutes agoShe still writes poetry and essays today, at 94 years of age, and she still lives in a house by herself, cooks her meals and does most of her own shopping ...
- BEFRINGED AND BEWILDERED? (Orlando Weekly)
Dwarfs with flashing tools? Check. Red dildo in the hand of a randy senior citizen? Check. Devil's weed, racial jokes told in blackface, the politics of pee and the mysteries of the clit? Check, all four.
- Lynchburg icon, poet Anne Spencer’s works turned over to UVa - Lynchburg News and Advance
Lynchburg News and AdvanceLynchburg icon, poet Anne Spencer’s works turned over to UVaLynchburg News and Advance, VA - 55 minutes ago... of the late poet — the first black woman and first Virginian to have her work included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry — had become nomads. ...
- Cleveland Arts Prize announces 2008 winners - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Every year, the Cleveland Arts Prize highlights artists and leaders in the local culture whose work the judges believe brings pride to Northeast Ohio. Eleven people, including a young classical music composer and a bookseller with more than 50 years ...
- Karadzic: Behind the beard hid the angel of death - Scotsman
Times OnlineKaradzic: Behind the beard hid the angel of deathScotsman, United Kingdom - 7 hours agoHis privileged education, poetry and introduction of group therapy earned him a degree of celebrity. But his political career only really began in 1990 when ...Video: War Crimes Suspect to Fight Move to UN Tribunal AssociatedPressRadovan Karadzic: from small-time swindler to war criminal Telegraph.co.ukBosnia's butcher poet The AustralianTransitions Online - Independentall 4,278 news articles
- The worst assault against English - Daily News
Edinburgh, Scotland - The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating, but a collector paid ÂŁ6 600 on Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language. Up for ...
- New lit mag from Hamish Hamilton - The Bookseller (subscription)
The Bookseller (subscription)New lit mag from Hamish HamiltonThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoThe free monthly magazine, which launched on 21st June, will publish work from a variety of authors from all backgrounds, including new work by previously ...
- Five years down the road - Half Moon Bay Review
When Nancy Elliot pays one of her regular visits to the handsome Mexican rosewood cross on Highway 1 just south of Half Moon Bay, she picks up litter and, if it’s spring, tends the cheerful daffodils she planted there. Sometimes she is joined by ...
- Simplicity and repetition may explain staying power of songs (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
It only takes a single exposure, and in an instant, your whole day can change. The infection is rapid and feels potentially unending. One minute you're minding your own business and the next you find that you can't stop thinking, humming, or singing "Dancing Queen."
- Gary Snyder wins poetry prize - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Gary Snyder wins poetry prizeSeattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour agoGary Snyder, who spent his formative years in the Seattle area, has won the 2008 Ruth Lilly Prize for his body of work. The Lilly Prize, with a stipend of ...Gary Snyder Wins $100000 Poetry Prize New York TimesGary Snyder Wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize PR Newswire (press release)Former beat movement member Gary Snyder wins $100000 poetry prize The Canadian PressWLFI.comall 34 news articles
- The Expat Perpetual - Feministe
The Expat PerpetualFeministe - 2 hours agoNo small gift it is also to walk the streets of my neighbourhood at dusk, ducking to avoid the jasmine branches brushing my face, and composing bad poetry ...
- Robin Williams comedy filming in Wallingford (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Bobcat Goldthwait and Robin Williams are filming a comedy in Seattle.
- When Experience and Disaster Collide - New York Times Blogs
Iowans have taken to calling this week’s devastating flooding “ our Katrina .” Katrina does come to mind when you look at these photos of Cedar Rapids engulfed by the Cedar River . But Iowa is lucky to have been spared a Katrina-sized death ...
- Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimism - Financial Times
Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimismFinancial Times, UK - 16 minutes agoBy Kevin Goldstein-Jackson As well as writing this column, I am trying to meet the deadline for delivery of haiku for a small poetry magazine, ...
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