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- Award-winning poet searches for surprises in 474 TDN contest entries (The Daily News)
A public poetry reading will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, June 2, at the Cowlitz PUD Auditorium, 961 12th Ave., Longview.
- Shaikh Mohammed orders launch of Dubai International Poetry Festival - Khaleej Times
DUBAI — His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday directed the launch of 'Dubai International Poetry Festival' as an annual calendar event celebrating Arabic ...
- Allan Fakir’s son performs at AF - The News - International
Allan Fakir’s son performs at AFThe News - International, Pakistan - 8 hours agoHe received thunderous applause from the audience by singing Sufi songs in Sindhi, Punjabi, Seraiki and Urdu. He sang the poetry of Shah Latif, ...
- Metal band Glass Halo rocks Alaska with new album - UAA Northern Light
Metal band Glass Halo rocks Alaska with new albumUAA Northern Light, AK - 2 hours agoProctor first started writing poetry before music, he said. His lyrics deal with life and various aspects of it, but interpretation is up to the reader. ...
- Ontario author to be published - Ontario Argus Observer
Ontario author to be publishedOntario Argus Observer, OR - 4 hours agoONTARIO — Raymond F. Call, Ontario, had many experiences in his life that led to writing poetry. He was born on a small farm in southern Idaho and was ...
- Uni students assess Winehouse's merits (The Australian)
AS spoken verse, it may scan a little awkwardly, and the rhymes could be considered somewhat laboured. But Amy Winehouse might argue her lyrics were never intended to be scrutinised by the poetry brains of Cambridge University.
- The play's the thing - Shields Gazette
The play's the thingShields Gazette, UK - 7 minutes agoAnd his next poetry collection, Love-Lines, will be launched in February 2009 and is to be published by Red Squirrel Press. A new, CD Down By The River, ...
- Several staff members to leave Paly - Paly Voice
Several staff members to leave PalyPaly Voice, CA - 4 hours ago"She was also able to make poetry interesting." Math teacher Colin Hawkins is leaving at the end of this year to spend a year in Hawaii with his three ...
- Students express their lives in poetry - 6abc.com
Students express their lives in poetry6abc.com, PA - 15 minutes agoLife in the 'hood is crazy. My poem is called, Life in the Hood." The students recording all attend CEP--a school for at-risk children here in Hunting Park. ...
- In Box: Epiphanies: Elie Wiesel - Foreign Policy (subscription)
Foreign Policy (subscription)In Box: Epiphanies: Elie WieselForeign Policy (subscription) - 6 hours agoI believe in the power of poetry, and yet in those places of malediction, a simple soldier once had the power to kill a thousand poets with no one ...
- Dylan Thomas Prize Finalists Announced (The New York Sun)
The 14 finalists for the Dylan Thomas literary prize were announced yesterday, the BBC reported. The award honors English-language works by authors under 30, and is one of the largest literary purses an author can receive. At a press conference in Swansea, Wales, the late poet's hometown, actor Michael Sheen read the names of works of fiction and poetry that will vie for the $115,000 prize, to ...
- Letter: Allan Rodway - Guardian Unlimited
Brian Lee's suitably affectionate memories of academic and writer Allan Rodway (Other lives, 3 July) caught his personality beautifully. As a history student at Nottingham University in the 1960s, I can confirm that Allan's inspirational qualities ...
- A Sea of Tranquillity? - bbc
President Sarkozy has greeted the 43 world leaders for a summit that at least looks more successful than many of us expected. He welcomed Mrs Merkel with a hug, Gordon Brown with what could have been a joke and the Turkish leader very quickly ...
- Tribute: Mary Lois Shepp had a way with words - Kansas City Star
Love of words: When Mary Lois Shepp had a hysterectomy in 1987, she did what she always did in moments that needed uplifting: She wrote a limerick — this time, as a goodbye to her womb. “For every occasion, normal occasions and invented occasions ...
- Ajax writer claims Pulitzer - Newsdurhamregion.com
Ajax writer claims PulitzerNewsdurhamregion.com, Canada - 4 hours agoShe's a writer, "mostly on-line," but she also has two unpublished novels and has had poetry published. "This is the first competition for non-journalist ...
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