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- Religion notes - River Forest Leaves
Religion notesRiver Forest Leaves, IL - 30 minutes agoThe New Jersey Rainbow Poets are sponsoring a religious poetry contest with a $1000 grand prize. There are 50 prizes in all totaling almost $5000. ...
- LeapFrog launches summer reading program - TheChronicleHerald.ca
LeapFrog launches summer reading programTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 46 minutes agoAtwood has published more than 25 volumes of poetry, fiction and non-fiction and has won prestigious awards including Britain’s Booker Prize in 2000 for The ...
- Joss stars in mini festival - North Devon Gazette & Advertiser
FOR three nights this month, West Mill in Welcombe plays host to one of England's smallest festivals. Run by Briony Lawson, the West Mill Festival will witness a night of poetry, classical music and jazz. Alongside the music by international artists ...
- There Reigns Love - Variety
A Stratford Shakespeare Festival presentation of a play in two acts devised by Simon Callow from the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Directed by Michael Langham. With: Simon Callow. Ever since an afternoon in 1979 when he performed all 154 of ...
- Lumley attacks 'obscure' new poetry - The Observer
Lumley attacks 'obscure' new poetryThe Observer, UK - 50 minutes agoReaders of the new collection by Cowley, an advertising copywriter who has been writing poetry since she was a girl for herself and her family, ...
- Music can be path to language and math - The Associated Press
Music can be path to language and mathThe Associated Press - 2 hours ago... with the tough task of building teen confidence. He noted one sophomore was painfully shy at the start of the year but secretly loved writing poetry. ...
- Community Briefs - BlueRidgeNow.com
Community BriefsBlueRidgeNow.com, NC - 1 hour agoAt 10 am, John Akers will be playing classical guitar reciting Sandburg's poetry. At 11 am, Jon Shain, a traveling professional musician, graces the stage ...
- Tribute to a mate (Wingham Chronicle)
Killabakh bush poet Roderick Williams has returned from the Henry Lawson Festival at Gulgong with a prize for a very personal poem he wrote as a tribute to one of his mates.
- Music for a New Depression: Songs of a Native Oracle Now in Release (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Debut album from a new label slices the election scene to shreds. Blue-Loves.com offers politics and poetry in a blues voice in four-long-song CD.
- Speaker to examine environmental health threats today - Ithaca Journal
Sandra Steingraber will be presenting her speech “Contaminated without Consent: Environmental Threats to Human Health.” At 7:30 p.m. today in the Melvin Community Room at the Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg ...
- Mohamed El-Makhzangi - Egypt Today
The art of short story writing is, arguably, increasingly marginalized aside the more popular novel. So it came as a surprise when Mohamed El-Makhzangi’s latest book, a collection of short stories called Hayawanat Ayyamna (Animals of Our Days ...
- Jonathan Franzen - New York Observer
Robert McCrum, literary editor of the UK Sunday paper The Observer , stepped down this month after a decade on the job. Yesterday he deployed a parting shot both wistful and sober-minded. "When I joined The Observer in 1996, the world of books was in ...
- Nigeria: 'Mediocres Are Killing Country's Publishing Industry' (AllAfrica.com)
Sam Asowata is a poet, journalist and book editor.
- Mariah 'over the moon' about wedding (Stuff)
Newlywed popstar Mariah Carey is "over the moon" about her marriage. The singer’s friend Andre Leon Talley, the editor of America’s Vogue magazine, revealed the 38-year-old singer is "so happy" following her nuptials to rapper Nick Cannon.
- Cicely Nichols, writer/editor, activist, dies at 70 (The Villager)
Cicely Nichols, who came to the Village from her native Seattle as a dancer to join the Robert Joffrey Ballet in the mid-1950s and went on to become a writer/editor and activist, died on April 5 at Cornell Hospital at the age of 70.
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