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- Gowdy, Lee up for Trillium prize (CBC)
Barbara Gowdy and Dennis Lee are among the finalists for this year's Trillium Book Award.
- Only question about D-Rose: Will suit match red Bulls cap? (Chicago Sun-Times)
As the media crowds were shooed from the locker room, Derrick Rose didn’t move from his chair. He still had something important to say to the columnist from Chicago. Did it involve crushing UCLA? Being the best player on the court in the most significant game of his young life?
- 'Port Authority,' by Conor McPherson, celebrates what might have been (Jam! Showbiz)
NEW YORK - Is there anything more heartbreaking than what might have been?
- Guest column: Inspirational lives of two poets - News Enterprise
Guest column: Inspirational lives of two poetsNews Enterprise, KY - 2 hours agoRed Hen Press in Los Angeles is releasing her upcoming book of poetry, “Seed on Snow,” in 2009. Driskell was also recently nominated for two Pushcart Prizes ...
- ASK THE AUTHOR A QUESTION - The Coast.ca
ASK THE AUTHOR A QUESTIONThe Coast.ca, Canada - 30 minutes agoWhat would you ask a lady who was just notified by the Library of Poetry that her writing is now in circles with, and discussed like "The greatest writers ...
- Author nominate the books they would like to see back in print (Guardian Unlimited)
Is there an old favourite you'd like to see back in print? Thanks to Faber and Faber, now's your chance. Here, writers tell us which books they will be requesting
- COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD - The Winchester Star
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARDThe Winchester Star, VA - 14 minutes agoAn entry could take the form of a fiction or nonfiction story, prose or poetry. At the awards reception on May 1, David Mullins, WVPT president and general ...
- Sailing into the past - Baltimore Sun
Sailing into the pastBaltimore Sun, United States - 4 hours ago"I love the poetry of motion, the challenge of it," says John Dickey, an avid sailor and NASA engineer from Houston. "And the nature. I just love it."
- Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary (Arts Journal)
At Metropolitan Museum press lunches , I always manage to find someone at my table who's interesting to talk to. That's because everyone who works at the Met is, by definition, interesting.
- Cowboy poet gathering set (Billings Gazette)
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS - "Motherin' Up, A Gathering of Cowboy Poets and Pickers" is scheduled for this weekend. All performances are at the White Sulphur Springs High School.
- People's Hall of Fame - MiamiHerald.com
People's Hall of FameMiamiHerald.com, FL - 3 hours ago''There probably won't be more than a handful of people at the ceremony who have ever been to a poetry slam or encountered a performance poet, so it's great ...
- Service has turned print into sound for blind for 30 years - The Patriot Ledger
Service has turned print into sound for blind for 30 yearsThe Patriot Ledger, MA - 6 hours agoThe 3:30 am slot offers night owls a half-hour of poetry. Two programs, “Turn the Page” and “Off the Shelf,” offer hour-long installments of current books. ...
- Young Ripley poets showcase free verse - Post-Journal
RIPLEY — Ripley Central School sixth-graders wowed parents and faculty this past week with a presentation of original poems. "The students worked very hard on this," said Susan Hammond, secondary school principal. "It is all their own original work ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney - Farm Weekly
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone. Friends, relatives and police officers from the Cowra ...
- Memorial service to be held for Syed Farooq Hussaini (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
A memorial service will be held on Sunday for Syed Farooq Hussaini, who served as director of interfaith relations for the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh before his death on May 18 at the age of 50. ...
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