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- Redhill named Griffin Poetry Prize judge - Jam! Showbiz
TORONTO - Michael Redhill, a noted Canadian novelist, poet, and playwright and publisher, will be among the judges for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. The English-language award hands out $50,000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50,000 ...
- The 'Do' List - Eagle-Tribune
Autumn brings the celebrated musical, "Les Miserables," to the Ogunquit Playhouse stage through Oct. 12, with a once-in-a-lifetime, all-star cast. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the show details the trials of France's lower class and exemplifying ...
- Library ready to start The Big Read - Huntsville Item
Library ready to start The Big ReadHuntsville Item, TX - 6 hours agoDr. Melissa Morphew of Sam Houston State University will host a series of three workshops on poetry and prose writing starting Oct. 11 in Room 251 of the ...
- Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guests - San Jose Mercury News
Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guestsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 6 hours agoThat afternoon, there would be a discussion of the mystical, reverent 13th-century poetry of Rumi, a key figure in Sufism. Whatever your tradition ...
- Texas & Neighbors: Halloween hotel package in New Orleans (Dallas Morning News)
Want to be spooked? Hotel Monteleone, a New Orleans French Quarter hotel with many stories about mysterious occurrences, is offering a Haunted Weekend package for Halloween.
- Ever thine. Ever mine: How romantic are today's authors - The Independent
The latest collection of historical love letters shows that authors were a romantic lot, finds Emma Hagestadt. But are today's writers as handy with a pen? There's a memorable moment in the recent movie, Sex and the City, when Carrie lugs out an ...
- A forgotten voice - Times Online
On December 11, Alexander Solzhenitsyn will be eighty-one. He survived Civil War, World War and Cold War; he suffered Stalin's camps and Brezhnev's repressions; he fought cancer when exiled without possessions in remote Kazakhstan, and resisted ...
- What's New On Disc - TheDay
What's New On DiscTheDay, CT - 4 hours agoHis bare-knuckled, barroom poetry takes the point of view of hard-bitten losers and boozers, and it's shot with blue-collar authenticity. ...
- Refuge begins work on conservation plan (The Record)
San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex, headquartered in Los Banos, has begun a multi-year process to develop a Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the San Luis and Merced National Wildlife refuges and the Grasslands Wildlife Management Area.
- Theatre review - Beetle Graduation, Brink Productions - Adelaide Independent Weekly
Theatre review - Beetle Graduation, Brink ProductionsAdelaide Independent Weekly, Australia - 2 hours agoCantwell and Johnson both give strong performances, working with challenging material: writer Susan Rogers’s words often feel more like poetry than ...
- Palisade High senior mixes music into everything - Grand Junction Sentinel
Palisade High senior mixes music into everythingGrand Junction Sentinel, CO - 11 hours agoHe recites poetry to himself when he reads it. And when he practices viola, he does so in the bathroom to hear the echo. “I love hearing how sounds come ...
- JACK WHITE AND ALICIA KEYS TEAM FOR “QUANTUM OF SOLACE” THEME SONG] - Punk.bz
JACK WHITE AND ALICIA KEYS TEAM FOR “QUANTUM OF SOLACE” THEME SONG]Punk.bz - 21 hours agoA love of early delta blues inspired him to take a minimalist approach to the music, one which included a simple drumming style by Meg as well as a red, ...
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music (The New Yorker)
OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA Last season’s opening-night attraction was Mary Zimmerman’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor,” whose combination of fantasy and verisimilitude delighted the daring but left traditionalists unmoved. Diana Damrau (who could definitely give 2007’s Lucia, Natalie Dessay, a run for her money) takes the title role . . .
- No peace prizes in prospect on the literary scene - Slate
No peace prizes in prospect on the literary sceneSlate - 13 hours agoAnother Fray with no fights came on Ron Rosenbaum's "Spectator" on blurbing poetry: The best efforts by posters will feature in the column, ...
- Sunday in the Parks with Fred: Chappell, UNCG Celebrate City’s ... - UNCG University News
Sunday in the Parks with Fred: Chappell, UNCG Celebrate City’s ...UNCG University News, NC - 50 minutes agoFor his poetry, he has been awarded the Bollingen Prize and the Aiken Taylor Prize. He served as Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002. ...
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