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- Harry Potter ‘is too boring and grown-up for young readers’ - Times Online
They may have sold more than 375 million copies in 65 countries around the world, but J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are boring and inappropriate for young readers, according to the Children’s Laureate. Michael Rosen, 62, the poet and author ...
- Oxford pupil wins Amnesty International poetry competition award ... - Amnesty International UK
Oxford pupil wins Amnesty International poetry competition award ...Amnesty International UK, UK - 10 hours ago... Jack Mapanje in Malawia, and a number of detainees at the infamous American-run prison camp Guantánamo Bay - all of whom produced moving poetry, ...
- The Invention of Scotland - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalThe Invention of ScotlandWall Street Journal - 2 hours agoOssian's poetry caused a sensation across Europe and was devoured by everyone from Goethe to Napoleon -- though Trevor-Roper himself dismisses Ossian's ...
- Hay podcast: Michael Rosen (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: The children's laureate talks poetry and politics, while Will Self gets satirical with John Crace.
- Waggle Receives Editor's Choice, Reader's Choice Awards - NewsBlaze (press release)
Waggle Receives Editor's Choice, Reader's Choice AwardsNewsBlaze (press release), CA - 4 hours agoJoe Redden Tigan has had poetry published in The High Plains Literary Review and other literary journals. He once caddied in the Western Open, one of golf's ...
- Twist of fate - Mas
Twist of fateMas, CA - 8 hours agoBut being a pregnant teen in high school is not a glamorous situation, Treviño said. “I knew I had to face what I didn’t want to face, but I did think for a ...
- Iva Caruso (The Falmouth Enterprise)
Iva (Barstow) Caruso of Weymouth, who leaves family in Bourne, died on June 22. She had battled heart disease for more than 18 years.
- Analysis: Obama winning the Hispanic vote - United Press International
Analysis: Obama winning the Hispanic voteUnited Press International - 4 hours agoJesse Jackson failed 24 years ago in forging a genuine "Rainbow Coalition" of black, white and Hispanic voters that could carry him into the White House. ...
- Transgender characters from - Times of Malta
Times of MaltaTransgender characters fromTimes of Malta, Malta - 50 minutes agoA comic character actor and a playwright, he often draws on poetry, the Bible and other texts as well as extensive interviews to inspire his work. ...
- 3 authors to speak at Myerstown library - Daily News
Three authors with Myerstown connections will be featured at a “Meet the Authors” event at the Myerstown Community Library, 199 N. College St., from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 10. Robert Trout, Ron Yeakley and Robert Vogel recently published their ...
- Poem on the boardwalks makes a new kind of beach read - The Salem News
Poem on the boardwalks makes a new kind of beach readThe Salem News, MA - 44 minutes agoMost poetry is read top to bottom, beginning to end. Michaels and Dumont knew most beachgoers were unlikely to spend that much time before spreading their ...
- From Christianity to Sin and Back Again - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
From Christianity to Sin and Back AgainPR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - 27 minutes agoMr. Thompson was usually in some kind of depression and found expression in poetry at an early age. He continued to write poems while in college and on into ...
- The longtime teacher who wrote poetry was her church’s historian. - Fort Worth Star Telegram
The longtime teacher who wrote poetry was her church’s historian.Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 1 hour agoBy AMAN BATHEJA Ruby Peters starting writing poetry as a teenager. It was a practice she would continue throughout her life. At her funeral Friday, ...
- Defending Much Maligned Sci Fi - Utne Reader Online
Utne Reader OnlineDefending Much Maligned Sci FiUtne Reader Online - 3 hours agoThe settings are dark, the outcomes gloomy, and the boundaries between reality and illusion often indistinguishable”), and space opera (“Big ideas, ...
- Bobolinks make long trek to summer in northern tier - Morning Sentinel
Bobolinks make long trek to summer in northern tierMorning Sentinel, maine - 9 hours agoThe Bobolink song has inspired poetry. The American poet, William Cullen Bryant, based his poem "Robert of Lincoln" on the song of the Bobolink. ...
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