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- Dorothy M. Gadbaw Steria, 87, Beaver Falls - WWNY TV
Dorothy M. Gadbaw Steria, 87, Beaver FallsWWNY TV, NY - Jul 18, 2008She enjoyed flower gardening, cooking and writing poetry. Surviving are eight daughters and six sons-in-law. Verna and Carl Schack, Betty and Ceyril Bush, ...
- Poetry of the pavement (The Columbian)
Marilyn Moelhman was reading around midnight when she accidentally smushed a fly within the pages of her book. After killing it, a sense of dread and smallness consumed her. “I felt really...
- Anecdote answers the origins of a Richard Hugo poem (The Oregonian)
You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago. You walk these streets laid out by the insane, past hotels that didn't last, bars that did, the tortured try of local drivers to accelerate their lives. Only churches are kept up.
- Art, Talent and Ethnicity - OhmyNews International
Art, Talent and EthnicityOhmyNews International, South Korea - 4 hours agoThe industry would categorize me in the African-American suspense novel genre or Hood Literature based on the story backdrop of The End Justifies the Means, ...
- Parting Words: The Poetry Of Mahmoud Darwish - NPR News
All Things Considered , August 9, 2008 · Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died Saturday in Houston after complications from open-heart surgery. He was 67. President Mahmoud Abbas has declared three days of national mourning in his honor. Darwish has ...
- PAT RICE: Five secrets to a successful Spout Off - The Northwest Florida Daily News
PAT RICE: Five secrets to a successful Spout OffThe Northwest Florida Daily News, FL - 9 hours agoWe'll be glad to consider publishing it. - No personal attacks. It's OK to write a Spout Off that's critical of decisions made by public officials or ...
- Alex Boyd, Anne Simpson win $1000 national poetry prizes - The Canadian Press
Alex Boyd, Anne Simpson win $1000 national poetry prizesThe Canadian Press, N.L. - 44 minutes agoJOHN'S, NL — Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, NS, have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald ...
- Gowdy's Helpless wins Trillium Book Award - CBC.ca
Gowdy's Helpless wins Trillium Book AwardCBC.ca, Canada - 2 hours agoPoet Rachel Zolf, also of Toronto, won the $10000 English-language poetry award for her collection Human Resources. Pierre Raphaël Pelletier won the $20000 ...
- Poet-doctor Jason Eubanks finds his healing through words - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Gus Chan/The Plain Dealer Dr. Jason Eubanks pauses after a morning of surgery at MetroHealth Medical Center in June, just before he completed his assignment as chief resident for orthopedic surgery. CREATIVE CLEVELAND / This ongoing series explores ...
- Tung-Hui Hu: Summer Poet in Residence - Daily Mississippian
Tung-Hui Hu: Summer Poet in ResidenceDaily Mississippian, MS - 5 hours agoPoetry was an unexpected turn for Hu, who began college as a computer science major. "I actually switched majors pretty radically," he said. ...
- Fourth annual writer's conference held at NU (Daily Northwestern)
Between Aug 13 and 16, fiction writers, editors, critics and other literary figures will meet at Northwestern for the fourth annual summer writers' conference, set to take place in University Hall, 1987 Sheridan Rd. The conference is designed around providing an understanding of the business and craft of writing to both new and established writers.
- Our Daily Bleg: Is Modern Literature Out of Compelling Quotations? - New York Times Blogs
Our Daily Bleg: Is Modern Literature Out of Compelling Quotations?New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- For retired Rutgers professor, new role not lost in translation (The Star-Ledger)
When it comes to corporate gobbledygook, William Lutz shares your pain. As a consultant to promote the use of plain English in financial documents, the retired Rutgers professor managed to plow through 58 mutual fund prospectuses before crying "uncle."
- Flowers and poems at the arboretum (Hunterdon County Democrat)
CLINTON TWP. -- On Sunday, June 29, the staff of the Hunterdon County Arboretum will welcome visitors to a special Garden Social and Poetry Reading from 1 to 3 p.m. The event is free but registration is required.
- A very grown-up book club - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukA very grown-up book clubguardian.co.uk, UK - 44 minutes agoMusic and poetry have a part to play, too, not least with those who have dementia or Alzheimer's, as two-thirds of those in the Nightingale do. ...
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