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- Canadian author Margaret Atwood wins Spanish literary award - International Herald Tribune
The jury has praised the 68-year-old for work that covers several genres "with sharpness and irony." It says in a statement Wednesday that Atwood "defends the dignity of women and denounces situations of social injustice." Atwood has published more ...
- Insurers give worn flags a final salute - Lynnwood Enterprise
Insurers give worn flags a final saluteLynnwood Enterprise, WA - 1 hour ago... Will Rogers Medallion for cowboy poetry, the Washington State Book Award for poetry and the cowboy poetry book award by the Western Music Association. ...
- Some prime ministerial homes are more equal than others - Business Standard
Some prime ministerial homes are more equal than othersBusiness Standard, India - 1 hour agoThis is an annual poetry festival that Vajpayee, a poet, used to attend for years until poor health prevented him. The two southern prime ministers of India ...
- Okanagan Falls author Longworth publishes his sixth book - BCLocalNews
Okanagan Falls author Longworth publishes his sixth bookBCLocalNews, Canada - 1 hour agoAnd his poetry efforts will be taking him to Satary Stables in Osoyoos on August 16 where he will be reading some of his cowboy poetry at an annual event ...
- COOCH BEHAR CALLING - The Statesman
COOCH BEHAR CALLINGThe Statesman, India - 2 hours agoFollowing the death of a number of tortoises of the Shiv Dighi the agitated locals has organised demonstrations including bandhs and roadblocks in the past ...
- Some back-to-school kid books for the beach bag - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Add some back-to-school buzz to your fun-in-the-sun summer by throwing Yoko, Splat or Wiggles into the beach bag for your kids, especially those prone to first-day jitters. In addition to new and familiar characters to soothe and prepare is a two ...
- Women celebrate with pampering and poetry - The Times
Women celebrate with pampering and poetryThe Times, South Africa - 41 minutes agoShe looked radiant in a red and black ensemble, including a matching hat and blouse, that would not have been out of place at the Durban July. ...
- Community briefs 6/23 - Daily News Tribune
Leonard FourHawks will be at the Waltham Public Library, 735 Main St., on Wednesday, June 25, 2:30 p.m. FourHawks is a member of the Northern Cheyenne and Mohawk nations. He will share his heritage though stories. Ideal for grades 2-5. To reserve a ...
- Our view: Famous 1884 speech offers a memorial to war dead (Public Opinion)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He delivered a famous Memorial Day address -- entitled "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire" -- on May 30, 1884, at Keene, N.H., before John Sedgwick Post 4, Grand Army of the Republic.
- Local interest in poet Robert Frost reinvigorated - Addison Independent
RIPTON — Writers traveling the flood-damaged Route 125 to the Middlebury College Bread Loaf campus last week passed a familiar landmark on their way to the annual writers’ conference: the cozy white Homer Noble farmhouse, where poet Robert Frost ...
- Reno celebration marks belated end of slavery - Reno Gazette
James Barnett, a Reno resident, visited Wingfield Park on Sunday to enjoy some music and good times. And to mark an important moment in history. "The freedom from slavery is historic," Barnett said as Reno's 19th annual Juneteenth celebration got ...
- Love Story 2050 - Sify
SifyLove Story 2050Sify, India - 4 hours agoShe’s quite the boring sort—into plays and poetry, who writes a diary and gives soft toys names like WinkyTinks. The lovebirds separate and then reunite ...
- Kay Goldstein: A Guided Meditation for Kids Who Aren't Feeling Well (HuffingtonPost)
Recently, I had an opportunity to teach an introductory meditation class to a small group of pediatric nursing students. After the class, I had...
- Poetry: Is poetry's future as bright as its past? - Evening Sun
Editor's Note: Guest poet columnist Allen Taylor is webmaster of http://www.world-class-poetry.com and writes a daily blog at http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com . He spent 2005 in Iraq with his National Guard unit and is revising a book of poems he ...
- Ex-reporter offers help for the grieving (Monroe County Clarion)
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