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- Kay Ryan is the new poet laureate - Philadelphia Inquirer
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to ...
- Animal whisperers come out of the shadows - The Canadian Press
Animal whisperers come out of the shadowsThe Canadian Press, NEW YORK - 2 hours agoIt's a love-hate sister relationship." It was Lucy's turn next. Link said he could see her "strong, healthy body" and that she took offence when I told him ...
- Parade slated in salute to veterans - Toledo Blade
Parade slated in salute to veteransToledo Blade, OH - 47 minutes agoAT&T Gallery: Textural Rhythms - Constructing the Jazz Tradition Contemporary African American Quilts: through Aug. Hours: Tue., 9:30 am-8; Wed. ...
- Encore! Popular presenter plans another adventure - Post-Bulletin
Encore! Popular presenter plans another adventurePost-Bulletin, MN - 1 hour agoWhat: Students will come together to enjoy sessions ranging from character development, art making, poetry writing, cartooning, illustrating, ...
- Assets that can't be bought - Guardian Unlimited
Service user Bee Harries uses part of her personal budget for a care worker to join her on a pottery course. Photograph: Don McPhee "Our life doesn't have to be about going from one drop-in centre to another," says Bee Harries, a patient at the South ...
- Master class: How the National Gallery is turning children on to art - Independent
Master class: How the National Gallery is turning children on to artIndependent, UK - 2 hours agoThe poetry trees produced by eight- and nine-year-olds at Ruskin Junior School are an obvious enough idea. They've turned the content of Rubens's scene into ...
- Regional authors signing books today - Daily Independent
ASHLAND — Eight regional authors will be signing books today from noon to 2 p.m. at the Jesse Stuart Foundation on the corner of Winchester Avenue and 17th Street. Those appearing are: ‰John David Preston, an attorney from Paintsville, who wrote ...
- Nigeria: Okosuns Loses Battle With Colon Cancer - AllAfrica.com
A dark cloud fell on the landscape of Nigerian music and popular culture at the weekend with the death of Sonny Okosuns, one of the country's icons who established himself as a credible ambassador of the arts in his lifetime. Okosuns might have been ...
- Simmons, Graham combine talents in prairie book - Newton Kansan
Simmons, Graham combine talents in prairie bookNewton Kansan, KS - 1 hour agoSimmons has been writing poetry since he was a sophomore at Bethel College. He was first inspired when a teachers asked his class to go back to their rooms ...
- The only indigenous poetic justice - Kuensel Online
7 July, 2008 - Dasho Sherab Gyeltshen, currently a justice of the High Court, was a dzongda of Kurtoe and then a dzongda of Samtse. I am deliberately using the old form of referring to the district as Kurtoe and the dzong as Lhuentse to prevent the ...
- Walliams' stalker warned she faces jail - Wandsworth Guardian
A 29-year-old woman who stalked funny man David Walliams has been warned she faces jail. Sarah Bartholomew pleaded guilty to harassing the Banstead-born Little Britain star between October 2007 and this February at a hearing last month. She was ...
- Authors' summer reading lists full (Arizona Daily Star)
Richard Ford's summer reading list includes Richard Price's "Lush Life," Tobias Wolff's "Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories" and Gustave Flaubert's "A Sentimental Education."
- The 3-minute interview: Joan Deacon (The Washington Examiner)
Joan Deacon, senior librarian at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, has worked in libraries since 1972 - leaving the public library system for the prison library system in 1994. Last year, the American Jail Association named her the national Civilian Employee of the Year and Montgomery County named her a "Woman of Distinction" for her work encouraging inmates to read.
- Author Ananda Leeke Makes Literary Radio Appearances in May and June - PR Urgent
Author Ananda Leeke Makes Literary Radio Appearances in May and JunePR Urgent - 48 minutes agoThe book shows how a woman uses therapy, yoga, meditation, art, music, poetry, and support from family and friends to confront the effects of her poor life ...
- SRB: Ode to a Foreskin - Scoop.co.nz
SRB: Ode to a ForeskinScoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 46 minutes agoBy Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books Collectors of obscure Wellington poetry collections may remember a book by Israeli Historian Benny Morris's ...
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