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- Canadian author Margaret Atwood wins Prince of Asturias prize - EiTB
EiTBCanadian author Margaret Atwood wins Prince of Asturias prizeEiTB, Spain - 53 minutes agoAtwood has published more than 25 volumes of poetry, fiction and non-fiction and won prestigious awards including Britain's Booker Prize in 2000 for The ...
- Pumped up through a volume of music - Newsday
Pumped up through a volume of musicNewsday, NY - 3 hours agoGreenlaw is best known as a poet, and her memoir has the precision and intensity of prose poetry. Her mother's madrigal choir fills a room with "a noise ...
- This funny thing called marriage (Sun Star)
MARRIAGE, someone once said, is a three-ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A Polish proverb states: The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
- NEWS BRIEFLY (The Daily Texan)
UT writing center alum wins Keene literature prize for play A recent graduate of the James A. Michener Center for Writers at UT was awarded this week with the Keene Prize for literature. George Brant received $50,000 for his play "Elephant Graveyard," which was one of 51 submissions in drama, poetry and fiction.
- Painting Istanbul red-pink in spring - Turkish Daily News (subscription)
Painting Istanbul red-pink in springTurkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - 1 hour agoThe possibility has been researched and it seems there is no evidence that they honored the tree, wrote poetry about it or dined under its shadow. ...
- Bookworms grab bargains - Centre Daily
UNIVERSITY PARK — Yeah, nobody reads much anymore. Sure. Craig Houtz Jessica Fenton browses through hobbies books at the first day of the 47th Annual AAUW Used Book Sale at Penn State's Snider Ag Arena on Saturday, May 10, 2008. The event runs the ...
- Dysfunction, hope make 'The Glass Menagerie' resonate today - Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Dysfunction, hope make 'The Glass Menagerie' resonate todayBarre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 8 hours ago"I think in some ways it's Williams' best play, in so far as he has gotten a lot of the pretensions and poetry and symbolism out of the way. ...
- Stray Questions for: Mary Jo Salter - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsStray Questions for: Mary Jo SalterNew York Times Blogs, NY - 41 minutes agoWhose books are generally shelved around yours in bookstores? How does it feel to be sitting between them? On the poetry shelf, I often come right before ...
- Cinemalaya 2008 presents 10 short films in competition (PEP)
The 2008 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival is slated to open with the Adolf Alix Jr. film Adela , which is dedicated to veteran actress Anita Linda.
- Classic lit lights student minds - DesMoinesRegister.com
Classic lit lights student mindsDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 1 hour agoStudents slouching on couches and easy chairs in a room decorated with inspirational graffiti took turns reading author Jack London's slim literary classic ...
- Arts around the Mid-coast; June 26, 2008 (The Times Record)
Boothbay Playhouse opens 'The Secret Garden' on July 2 BOOTHBAY — Based on the classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett and with an almost operatic score by Lucy Simon, "The Secret Garden," opening July 2 at the Boothbay Playhouse , creates a world where lost loves are found and lost lives are saved.
- Owen Wilson "Enormously Literate" And "Big Poetry Fan" - All Headline News
Hollywood, CA (CNS) - "You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts," said Owen Wilson's character in "Wedding Crashers." Wilson's character in the movie was only hoping to get lucky with a ...
- Derek Jarman, Glitterbox - GreenCine
GreenCineDerek Jarman, GlitterboxGreenCine, CA - 9 hours agoActors, including Tilda Swinton and John Quentin, also read from Jarman's journals and poetry. Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm ...
- Indian River County community connection: May 26 (Fort Pierce Tribune)
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- Family inspired by father-son team - Jonesboro Sun
JONESBORO — About four years ago Lee and Dana Hogue saw a video of an inspirational father-son team that participated in marathons, triathlons and numerous other challenging activities. Known as Team Hoyt, the duo was inspiring because the son ...
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