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- Porter's Kasztner's Train wins Jewish Book Award (The Globe and Mail)
Book earlier won the Nereus Writers' Trust Award for non-fiction
- 102-year-old Bickleton High grad is last of her class (Tri-City Herald)
Neva Reiman will have a seat of honor today in Bickleton, where she will be honored as the last surviving graduate of the high school's Class of 1923.
- Arizona arts organizations receive more than $1 million from NEA (The Business Journal of Phoenix)
The National Endowment for the Arts announced that 13 Arizona arts organizations received more than $1 million in funding, with more than $77.4 million going to groups across the U.S.
- John Lundberg: Trouble At The Poetry/Prose Border (HuffingtonPost)
Recognizing a poem as a poem used to be as easy as waiting for the predictable chime of a rhyme (no rhyme intended). But since...
- Storyteller La'Ron Williams: Funny thing happened on his way to career ... - MLive.com
Courtesy Photo La'Ron Williams will return to the Flint area as part of the 28th annual Michigan Storytellers Festival on Friday, July 18, and Saturday, July 19, on the grounds of the Flint Public Library . FLINT, Michigan -- La'Ron Williams may not ...
- Shakespeare sonnets hit the stage - Jam! Showbiz
For while the latter's legacy is certainly defined in large part by works like David and the Pieta and the former's by his roster of works for the stage, when it comes to Michelangelo's artistic contributions, if one overlooks the bit of painting he ...
- SFR Talk: Western Civility (Santa Fe Reporter)
Craig Barnes is a former trial lawyer who spent more than a decade as a negotiator dealing with international issues and ethnic and environmental conflicts in and around the former Soviet Union. He is a co-founder of and the dramaturge for the Santa Fe-based theater group Red Thread Collective.
- 60th anniversary of historic boat journey to Britain - BirminghamMail.net
60th anniversary of historic boat journey to BritainBirminghamMail.net, UK - 19 minutes agoTHE 60th anniversary of an historic day when hundreds of immigrants from the Caribbean arrived in Britain in a bid to start a new life is to be remembered ...
- A Woman Who Broke Poetry's Glass Ceiling - Huffingtonpost.com
Hillary Clinton's eloquent endorsement of Barack Obama last Saturday included some reflection on what her campaign, which had achieved so much success, meant for women: "Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this ...
- Father, daughter reunion - Idaho State Journal
Kenneth Call, a retired painter from Pocatello, arrived at Salt Lake City International Airport Wednesday night to pick up his 45-year-old daughter, Carolyn. The last time he'd seen her, she was in diapers. The Pocatello man waited for Carolyn in the ...
- MOVIE REVIEW: 'Jellyfish' (Miami Herald)
A beautifully strange movie, "Jellyfish" - from the Israeli author, and now director, Etgar Keret - tracks the perambulations of three Tel Aviv women. Though they are unrelated, and their paths cross by chance, they share a common bond: a profound sense of disconnection - from family, from loved ones, from themselves.
- Obituaries in the news (The Charlotte Observer)
Eugenio Montejo CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Eugenio Montejo, a Venezuelan poet and essayist who won the 2004 Octavio Paz prize, died Thursday. He was 70. The poet's publishing house said he died of natural causes. Montejo's poetry is known for its rich texture and was published in numerous books in Spanish. His work also reached a wider audience thanks to the 2003 film "21 Grams" by Mexican ...
- Summer reading lists just got longer with new books - Cape Cod Times
"Happy Trails to You: Stories," by Julie Hecht (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 13-978-1-4165-6425-6, 209 pages, $24) Nantucket summer resident Julie Hecht is a literary star, author of three previous books ("Do the Windows Open?" "Was This Man a Genius ...
- Considerate despot - Examiner
Considerate despotExaminer, Australia - Jun 23, 2008His opposite number, Stalin, wrote poetry as a young man, and Mussolini was influenced by Italy's avant-garde futurist movement. ...
- When it comes to the Charles, the words just keep flowing - Boston Globe
When it comes to the Charles, the words just keep flowingBoston Globe, United States - 13 minutes agoIf the Charles River can't inspire love and support by itself, perhaps prose and poetry can help. That's the hope of the Charles River Conservancy, ...
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