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- First writer (The Prague Post)
Margaret Atwood was quite pleased with her hat. After sitting down to a bright courtyard table at Prague's Hotel Josef, she took her time putting it on, shaping the green, floppy brim and commenting on its superior packability.
- Overreacting to a Computer Beating Poker Pros - New York Times Blogs
Newspapers trumpeted a landmark event last week: a computer program beating professional poker players head-to-head at Limit Hold-Em. Parallels have been drawn to Big Blue ’s victory over Gary Kasparov roughly a decade ago. Those parallels are not ...
- A Festival of Words sonnet (Times Herald)
It’s not a “vase” with the poem inside,    Rather, a structurizing “skeleton.
- Fantasy novel turns dreams into reality - Leader-Telegram
Fantasy novel turns dreams into realityLeader-Telegram, WI - 19 minutes agoStories or poetry, she's always writing something." Kimberly, a business professor at UW-Stout in Menomonie, contacted literary agents but encountered ...
- Latino Writers to Hold Conference (HispanicBusiness.com)
Award-winning poet Martn Espada, sometimes called the Pablo Neruda of North American authors, and California novelist-literary editor Helena Mara Viramontes are among faculty at the sixth annual National Latino Writers Conference.
- Poetry workshop (Guardian Unlimited)
The Welsh poet hosts a special Hay festival edition of the Poetry Workshop
- CD COMBINES CHORAL, SPOKEN WORD - Guelph Mercury
CD COMBINES CHORAL, SPOKEN WORDGuelph Mercury, Canada - 4 hours agoThe centrepiece is Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written, a poem by Margaret Atwood set to music by Timothy Cortis. The large-scale choral piece ...
- Literary prize worth $67,481 - HometownAnnapolis.com
Emma Sovich, of Towson, won the Sophie Kerr Prize with a portfolio that includes critical essays, poetry and essays posted to her blog and based on her experiences at the college's printshop.
- Literary late-bloomers (The Christian Science Monitor)
Of course we all know that if at first you don’t succeed you’re supposed to try, try again, but frankly I don’t know how most authors stand the rejection.
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance - Newsday
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost 's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Music shares space with museum's art - San Francisco Chronicle
Music shares space with museum's artSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 3 hours agoEach story, which revels in the "strange poetry" of fragmentary conversation and memory, is underscored by music written by Chicago composer Mark Greenberg. ...
- 'America's poets' take their place in the Hall - My Tennessean.com
'America's poets' take their place in the HallMy Tennessean.com, TN - 3 hours agoThese men were honored for poetry and for harmony, for songs that sprang from extraordinary minds and wound up in the minds of millions. ...
- Cannes Q&A: Terence Davies - Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterCannes Q&A: Terence DaviesHollywood Reporter, United States - 48 minutes agoDavies talked to The Hollywood Reporter's UK bureau chief Stuart Kemp about turning his hand to documentary filmmaking, letting other people read his poetry ...
- Religion is poetry - Salon
SalonReligion is poetrySalon - 6 hours ago"What these critics are attacking is not religion, but a hasty caricature of it," he writes in his new book, "The Religious Case Against Belief. ...
- Mandela's 90th b'day celebrated (HT via Yahoo! India News)
Anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday was celebrated at Springdales, Dhaula Kuan, on Friday. The event, which concluded the school's Africa Week celebrations, began with a speech by Principal Jyoti Bose welcoming all the dignitaries, including Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma; South African High Commissioner to India ...
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