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- Inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize awarded (Guardian Unlimited)
Cambridge University graduate Kate Miller has won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for her poem After the Ban
- Jeffrey Hartgraves dies: SF theater figure - San Francisco Chronicle
Jeffrey Hartgraves dies: SF theater figureSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 7 hours agoBesides his plays, Mr. Hartgraves wrote poetry and fiction, and recently published "Bone Matters," a collection of his short stories and poems. ...
- China’s Falun Gong Practitioners Wish Founder a Happy Mid-Autumn ... - The Epoch Times
September 14 marked China’s Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday for family get-togethers. Over the past few days, Falun Gong practitioners from all around the world, especially those from mainland China, have sent greetings through ...
- Convention Shwag: Joint Juice, UPS Mints (The New York Observer)
DENVER—This morning at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Denver, convention volunteers distributed six-pound black canvas bags to accredited reporters. The bags are filled with guides, cans of Joint Juice (Glucosamine - Hydrate and Lubricate Your Joints), magnetic poetry from SEIU ("Si, Se Puede," and "Progress"), a "Protecting America" emergency radio ("Know Your Evacuation Plan"), a ringtone ...
- People’s artist - Thanh Nien Daily
Thanh Nien DailyPeople’s artistThanh Nien Daily, Vietnam - 4 hours agoHang also writes poetry and published an anthology titled 30 Nam Tap Tenh Lam Tho (a novice at poetry for 30 years). He also made a gigantic bronze copy of ...
- The Boss kicks birthday off on the right note - Nashville Tennessean
A few months ago, my husband asked me what I wanted for my birthday. "Bruce Springsteen," I thought. "Bruce Springsteen tickets," I said. Bruce, Tom Petty, the Marshall Tucker Band, The Fabulous Thunderbirds — they have been part of my soundtrack ...
- Ten things to do: Thursday 9/10 - Sheffield Telegraph
Ten things to do: Thursday 9/10Sheffield Telegraph, UK - 2 hours ago4 Roald Dahl Day, extra event hosted by Sheffield poet Matt Black who be talking about the writer, reading some of his poetry as well as two chapters of Boy ...
- Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
During the 15th and 16th centuries, Europe underwent an information revolution unprecedented in the history of mankind.
- P-i Editorial Cartoonist: Michelle Obama proves she's all-American - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Michelle Obama is as all-American as any one of us, but still she had to prove it in a speech that was the centerpiece of the Democratic National Convention's opening night. In a cogent post-speech analysis, CNN's John King said of the Obama ...
- Woody bombs ‘Barcelona’ - Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
There are few fans in moviedom more long suffering than Woody Allen’s faithful. They know they will have to suffer through three or four misfires or outright stinkers before they get the next great film. The Wood-man has made at least a dozen ...
- Dance company presents 'human herstory' - St. Catharines Standard
Dance company presents 'human herstory'St. Catharines Standard, Canada - 13 hours ago30 at Niagara Artists' Centre, located 354 St. Paul St. Doors open at 7:30 pm The evening's readers will include: Roo Borson, winner of the Griffin Poetry ...
- Alan Coren and the red dangly thing - Times Online
After 15 years as a professional writer, I have, finally, been asked to perform at The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. For the first time, a book on which I have spent months working has not disappeared instantly without trace. Indeed, tens of ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' (The Courier News)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable. And it's only the ...
- Madonna caps a year of change by turning 50 - Hindustan Times
It seems to be happening to everyone at the moment: Prince, Michael Jackson, Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin and Paddington Bear are all turning 50 this year with Madonna also blowing out her birthday cake candles next month. Indeed, the Material Girl ...
- All Observer Stories - Guardian Unlimited
Brown sets out plan for UK pull-out from Iraq Madeleine police chief to launch 'explosive' book Gangs have made Dublin 'like Chicago in the 1920s' US tells lies about torture, say MPs Tory hope for Watford fades as candidate is forced to quit New ...
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