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- Griffin Prize honours two octogenarian poets (The Globe and Mail)
83-year-old Robin Blaser takes $50,000 Canadian award; John Ashbery, 81, grabs international honours
- CRITIC'S CHOICE (East Bay Express)
Crockett Library Book Club In the days when Chinese girls' feet were still forcibly bound, opportunities for those girls to learn about life outside the family circle were slim. In Lisa See's novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, two close friends grow up together until ...
- Volunteer says taking first step is the hardest (The Doings Hinsdale)
One friend asking her to be involved kick-started a 20-plus year volunteer career for Hinsdale's Lisa Wilhelm Haag. "Start where you can to help a cause and say, 'What else can I do,' " she said. "Someone is going to call you about a volunteer opportunity." Since the 1980s, she has been involved with the YWCA of Metro Chicago, where she is the treasurer of the board and chairman of the finance ...
- My Denver (Rocky Mountain News via Yahoo! News)
Drive past that chain restaurant.
- Emily Dickinson - guardian.co.uk
Emily Dickinsonguardian.co.uk, UK - 47 minutes agoThough known as something of a poet to her friends and family, circulating poems in letters and hand-sewn manuscript books, Emily Dickinson had only a ...
- Young Guns: A new brand of gangster grows up in a killing culture - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"I stabbed about three people," he says, his angular face betraying no particular emotion. He mentions it offhandedly, like a kid trying to be modest about something in which he takes great pride. Now 18, Danger, has been a dedicated gang member for ...
- Indexed: Shocking Moments - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsIndexed: Shocking MomentsNew York Times Blogs, NY - 7 hours agoForgive me for bringing up the TV show Mad Men again but — well, I do love it. I blogged recently about a book of Frank O’Hara’s poetry that appeared on the ...
- Bolt strikes another record - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bolt strikes another recordMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 5 hours agoThe stride, it is poetry in motion. "He's blessed with a unique anatomy, a huge competitive heart, and he's having a good time." Bolt posed before the start ...
- Brosnan dreams of Springsteen musical - Irish World News
Irish Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has revealed he would love to take the lead role in a musical about Bruce Springsteen. By Madeline O'Connor - 04/07/08 Brosnan must have got a taste for the genre after his first on-screen singing role in the Abba ...
- Poet slams at Daggy - The Daily Evergreen
Poet slams at DaggyThe Daily Evergreen, WA - 3 hours agoHis poetry included everything from the duties of a Scottish superhero, to an open letter to Neil Armstrong, and many of his poems hummed a theme of love ...
- About the Author - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
About the AuthorChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 57 minutes agoPainting’s Edge clarified for me that we live in a time when painting’s true sister is, once again, poetry—not because of any similarity in the mediums ...
- The Rise and Fall of the “Butcher of Bosnia” - Transitions Online
The Rise and Fall of the “Butcher of Bosnia”Transitions Online, Czech Republic - 50 minutes ago... to surrender “for the sake of your family.” Also that year, Karadzic publishes a book of poetry in Serbia, titled Under the Left Breast of the Century. ...
- The many ages of Herodotus - Times Online
The many ages of HerodotusTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoSince our earliest source for the sequence of events before and during Thermopylae is the seventh book of Herodotus’ Histories, Snyder must mean that his ...
- Sex' wasn't THAT long - AZ Central.com
AZ Central.comSex' wasn't THAT longAZ Central.com, AZ - 5 hours agoThat experimental film includes footage of a poetry reading spliced with X-rated material and rock videos. It's trickier to gauge the average length of a ...
- Car-Free Day festivities down on Denman - Georgia Straight
Car-Free Day festivities down on DenmanGeorgia Straight, Canada - 15 minutes agoThere was plenty going on: two stages at either end of Denman with bands playing, salsa dancing, double-dutch skip rope, spoken word poetry, ...
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