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- Education briefly - LubbockOnline.com
Education brieflyLubbockOnline.com, TX - 3 hours agoA Texas Tech English professor has received the 2008 Donald Justice Poetry Prize for his second collection of poetry, "Two Men Fighting with a Knife. ...
- Nigeria: The Nollywood Revolution (AllAfrica.com)
The Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles, was in 2005 having a pulsating match with the Zimbabwean national team in Harare, and the Zimbabwean supporters had one big banner in the stands on which was written in bold red: "Nigeria - Good only for Films!"
- Book Review: God of Speed by Luke Davies - Blogcritics.org
Book Review: God of Speed by Luke DaviesBlogcritics.org, OH - 47 minutes agoTaking on Hughes’ life is no small task for a novelist, especially for a writer so used to working in the micro sphere of poetry. Davies is up to it. ...
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - Variety
A Midsummer Night's DreamVariety, CA - 4 hours agoTim Supple's athletic, exotic-erotic "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a mixed bag. Created two years ago for the British Council in India, the staging is ...
- Andrew Lycett's essential Dylan Thomas - guardian.co.uk
Andrew Lycett's essential Dylan Thomasguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoOccasioned by his father's blindness and imminent death, this is a craftsman's poem, all the more powerful for its tight villanelle form.Dylan Thomas guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- Helping Abigail to heal - Pasadena Star-News
Helping Abigail to healPasadena Star-News, CA - 47 minutes ago"We needed to show her there is a life of love out there." Here's where poetry and the students at McKinley School in Pasadena come in. ...
- Happiness at Hope - ChristianToday
Happiness at HopeChristianToday, UK - 14 hours agoShe became a single teen-mother herself when her baby’s father abandoned her. She struggled to survive with no home, food or support from anyone, ...
- Last Call: Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest: Deadline ... - Gather.com
Last Call: Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest: Deadline ...Gather.com, MA - 2 hours agoby Andre W. The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves to express their innermost thoughts and feeling into the beautiful art ...
- 'How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone' (San Francisco Chronicle)
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone By Sasa Stanisic; translated by Anthea Bell Grove Press; 345 pages; $24 "A good story," writes Sasa Stanisic in his first novel, "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone," "is like our river Drina: never calm, it doesn't...
- Listen Up: Windsor for the Derby - Seattle Post Intelligencer
There's nary a band that can craft more contemplative and bittersweet songs than the cross-continental duo of Dan Matz and Jason McNeely, also known as Windsor for the Derby. Their trick is in repeating themselves, layering lilting, confessional ...
- Fiction and poetry on display at UW’s Castalia Reading - UW Daily Online
The final installment in this quarter’s Castalia Reading Series will take place May 13 at the Hugo House and will again feature five UW graduate students. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the reading begins at 8:00. Admission is free. Last week ...
- Poetry contest winners are fine specimens of insincerity - Democrat and Chronicle
If you want a good poem and a good apology, ask a kid. Young people, fourth-graders to be exact, have emerged as the stars of the first-ever Connections Contrition poetry contest. The first-place winner, drumroll please, is Leah Warth, 10, of ...
- Paralyzed Achebe Mourns Nigeria 50 Years After Seminal Novel - Bloomberg
June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Chinua Achebe , Nigeria's most famous writer, lives in a modest ranch house with beige siding at the end of a quiet road on the campus of Bard College in New York's Hudson Valley region. He has been teaching literature and ...
- Big day for small book publishers (East York Mirror)
"It's a real cool thing for us to be part of," said Liisa Ladouceur, one of the many small publishers - and authors - who will be on hand this Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. at the Toronto Small Press Book ...
- Read the Summer's Heat Away... - About - News & Issues
Read the Summer's Heat Away...About - News & Issues, NY - 55 minutes agoEmily Dickinson wrote: "To see the Summer Sky / Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - / True Poems flee." Ada Louise Huxtable wrote: "Summer is the ...
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