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- Hail to smartypants champ - The Sun Daily
Hail to smartypants champThe Sun Daily, Malaysia - 12 hours agoThe Times of London gave British poet Fanny Walker a whole page last week in which she made an impassioned plea that performance poetry be included in the ...
- The next chapter: Who'll be the bestsellers of tomorrow? (Independent)
There's something inescapably retro about the book trade. But then what do you expect from an industry in which the pastiche Victorian novel is still red-hot, the Knights Templar are big news and the biggest success of the last decade was a series about a boarding school? As persuasive visions of the future go, you still can't beat Russell Hoban's post-Apocalyptic Riddley Walker, and that came ...
- Upcoming Events - Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Upcoming EventsSmoky Mountain Sentinel, NC - Sep 16, 2008This free event is open to the public and features morning poetry readings by 2008 Brockman Campbell Book Award winner Becky Gould Gibson, Brockman Campbell ...
- 20 years into gun life, Salahuddin still popular in Kashmir - Rising Kashmir
20 years into gun life, Salahuddin still popular in KashmirRising Kashmir, India - 5 hours agoHe composed poetry in English, became an impressive debater, got first class in the 12th grade but could not get admission to any medical college. ...
- Communities give teens a voice - Daily Camera
Communities give teens a voiceDaily Camera, CO - 8 hours agoLast school year, the group hosted a middle school poetry slam. Mandy Perera, the city's liaison to the youth board, said attendance at events has been low, ...
- Ajmal Khattak nominated for Kamal-e-Fun Award - Nation
ISLAMABAD - Prominent writer and scholar Ajmal Khattak has been nominated for the ‘Kamal-e-Fun Award 2007’in recognition of his lifelong literary services. The decision was made public after a consultative meeting by the judges at the Pakistan ...
- Raise-a-Reader Part Five: Adult aboriginal literacy at a 'crisis level ... - Vancouver Sun
Moses Stewart always knew he was a good cook. His favourite dish to make is chow mein; he once cooked a Chinese feast for 800 people in his hometown of Greenville, a Nisga'a village in northwest B.C. But it took the better part of his life to get his ...
- DIVERSIONS for September 25, 2008 - Evansville Courier & Press
DIVERSIONS for September 25, 2008Evansville Courier & Press, IN - 18 minutes agoEVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — 579 Lincoln Ave., "Molineaux to Michael: African Americans in Athletics," through Oct. 14. ...
- TBA DIARY: Lemon Made Good Made Bad - Willamette Week
TBA DIARY: Lemon Made Good Made BadWillamette Week, OR - 1 hour agoWe learn this only when Lemon Anderson, best known from Russell Simmons's Def Poetry Jam, bursts into archaic flow and histrionic gesture before he has even ...TBA DIARY: Lemon Andersen—Another Perspective Willamette Weekall 2 news articles
- Darwish, poet of the Palestinian cause, dies after surgery - Independent
Darwish, poet of the Palestinian cause, dies after surgeryIndependent, UK - Aug 10, 2008By Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, is to get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West ...
- Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance Homosexuality, Gender ... - Fabula
FabulaQueer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance Homosexuality, Gender ...Fabula, France - 12 hours ago... including French translations of Boccaccio's Decameron, the poetry of Ronsard, works in praise of and satirising Henri III and his mignons, ...
- Celebrating a heritage of the arts - Desert Valley Times
Celebrating a heritage of the artsDesert Valley Times, UT - 17 hours agoFor example if you're looking for something to do on Oct. 3 you can take in a piano recital, a poetry and fiction reading, a "Dancing at Lughnasa" ...
- Doc shares her voice in poetry - Honolulu Advertiser
Doc shares her voice in poetryHonolulu Advertiser, HI - 1 hour agoGood thing Doc Shay wrote her own book. Sharon "Shay" Bintliff is medical director of the emergency department at Hale Ho'ola Hamakua Hospital on the Big ...
- Wednesday Chamber Music Series returns with four fall concerts - RIC News and Events
Wednesday Chamber Music Series returns with four fall concertsRIC News and Events, RI - 1 hour agoThe Aurea Ensemble performs Music and Poetry on Oct. 29. Actor Nigel Gore, violinist Charles Sherba, violist Consuelo Sherba, and harmonica virtuoso Chris ...
- Mary Washington teacher named Va. poet laureate - Richmond Times Dispatch
The Free Lance-StarMary Washington teacher named Va. poet laureateRichmond Times Dispatch, VA - 40 minutes agoShe received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 2006 for "Late Wife," her third book of poetry, and won a $10000 prize awarded by the Virginia State Library ...UMW professor is state's poet Poets laureate The Free Lance-StarMary Washington professor is named poet laureate Richmond Times Dispatchall 5 news articles
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