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- EGYPT: Sex and a feminist novelist - Los Angeles Times
EGYPT: Sex and a feminist novelistLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour ago... upon her intellect and sought to crush her talent for poetry. "That was a moment in my real life that I lived with all its details,†recounted El-Mougy. ...
- Cleveland teen wins national filmmaking contest - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Timothy Kay, an 18-year-old from Cleveland, gambled when he invested all of his $3,000 in college money in his movie. But he hit a big payoff: a full tuition-paid scholarship to Regent University's School of Communication and the Arts. He was among ...
- Community bids a fond farewell longtime Carmel principal - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
Members of the Carmel Catholic High School family said goodbye Sunday to their longtime spiritual leader and beloved administrator. The Rev. Robert Carroll will leave the Mundelein school at the end of June, after serving as principal since 1994. "I ...
- Gary Snyder Wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize - Earthtimes
CHICAGO, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Poet Gary Snyder is the winner of the 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 and presented annually by the Poetry Foundation, the award is one of the most prestigious given to American poets ...
- Remembering ‘The Rose Man’ Mr. Lee Nixon - St. Louis American
Remembering ‘The Rose Man’ Mr. Lee NixonSt. Louis American, MO - 2 hours ago“Everything he did was about love - even his poetry,†she said. “No matter what people did to him, he would find himself loving them. ...
- Ethan Coen quietly hits off-Broadway - Kingston Daily Freeman
Ethan Coen quietly hits off-BroadwayKingston Daily Freeman, NY - 2 hours agoEven though he's published poetry and short stories and has now written plays, Coen says he doesn't particularly want to work on his own. ...
- Jaime Courtney preferred 'well-traveled' to 'gypsy' - Dowagiac Daily News
Jaime Courtney preferred 'well-traveled' to 'gypsy'Dowagiac Daily News, USA - 40 minutes agoI remember when her four-woman writing group came away from an August Cranbrook Writers' Guild summer conference with a $125 poetry prize and a nickname. ...
- First Unsung Hero is Nova Scotia poet - The Chronicle Herald
KENNETH LESLIE was an award-winning Nova Scotia-born poet and a political activist in the U.S. during the tempestuous 1930s and ’40s but his story is not well-known. Fittingly, he’s the first subject of Vision TV’s Unsung Heroes summer series ...
- The man who heard the woodwind in the willows - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentThe man who heard the woodwind in the willowsIrish Independent, Ireland - 2 hours ago... the poetry of Alfred Edward Housman, a turn-of-the-century English romantic, whose verse was all about nostalgia for a rural way of life that was gone ...
- Music note: Billy Bragg takes brave stand against fascists and bad tea - Twin Cities Planet
Music note: Billy Bragg takes brave stand against fascists and bad teaTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 17 minutes agoCR Avery (Bragg’s opening act, who combines beat-boxing with beat poetry): cravery.com. Upcoming shows at the Cedar Cultural Center: thecedar.org. ...
- Kay Ryan, UCLA graduate in English, named 16th poet laureate of U.S. - UCLA News
With poetry's lofty reputation, the uninitiated might think that humor and poetry overlap only in dirty limericks. For UCLA alumna Kay Ryan, who was named poet laureate of the United States on July 17, "much of the best poetry is funny." In an essay ...
- Jason Shinder | Literary innovator, 52 - Philadelphia Daily News
Jason Shinder, 52, a poet, anthologist and teacher who founded the YMCA National Writer's Voice program, one of the country's largest networks of literary-arts centers, died April 25 at his home in Manhattan. He also lived in Provincetown, Mass. His ...
- On the write track (Cleveland Jewish News)
Ohio publishing houses may not have the name recognition of McGraw-Hill or Oxford University Press, but they’re leaving an impressive imprint nonetheless.
- Skirmishes with life - Deccan Herald
Seance On A Sunday Afternoon, with its 22 short stories, makes for light reading, though a stray story or two can be disturbing enough to settle down in your head for a bit. What can be a bigger dampener than a book of short stories where characters ...
- SHARP TEETH - WeeklyDig.com
WeeklyDig.comSHARP TEETHWeeklyDig.com - 2 hours agoDo you think epic poetry is making a comeback? I hope some form of the written word makes a comeback. Books are trying to fight for attention against other ...
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