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- 15 Questions with Jamaica Kincaid - Harvard Crimson
15 Questions with Jamaica KincaidHarvard Crimson, MA - 1 hour agoJK: I’m an American and an African-American. I’m an American. That becomes more and more the default of all of us. I love America the more the worse it gets ...
- Newmakers: Laura Davis and Margaret Bashaar - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Newmakers: Laura Davis and Margaret BashaarPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 21 hours agoThe free event will feature poetry readings, music, a silent auction and artwork by local artists to celebrate the release of the magazine's first issue. ...
- JOYCE G. TEETERS - Elkhart Truth
WAKARUSA -- Joyce Georgine Teeters, 87, of Miller's Merry Manor in Wakarusa, passed away Monday morning, Oct. 20, 2008, in Elkhart General Hospital of natural causes. Joyce was born on Oct. 11, 1921, in Frankfort, Ind., to the late Beryl and Grace ...
- Glittering line-up of authors for Jaipur Literary Festival - Thaindian.com
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) Bookworms can look forward to a carnival in January when Jaipur will play host to a galaxy of authors like Vikram Seth, Chetan Bhagat, Hari Kunzru, Micheal Ondaatje, Pico Iyer and Patrick French during the fourth edition of ...
- Briefs from Fayette (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Giving hurricane help Seven Lexington firefighters spent almost a week in the South as part of hurricane relief efforts by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Captains Rick Jordan, Chris Frontz, Chris Ward and Joe Madden, Lt. Ryan Hogsden and firefighters Corey Calloway and Wes Herald were staged in Columbia S.C., and later in Montgomery, Ala., where hurricanes were expected to ...
- Minnesota art groups awarded $718,000 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
T he National Endowment for the Arts has given $23,215,000 to American arts organizations for 1,951 cultural projects. The awards include 42 fellowships to poets, including Anna George Meek and Bryan Thao Worra of Minneapolis, who received $25,000 ...
- Authors to judge writing contest (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
AUGUSTA (AP) - Three Maine authors, including Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, will serve as judges for Journey Into Writing, a statewide writing contest for high school juniors.
- Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize winner and activist, dies at 96 - Ventura County Star
Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize winner and activist, dies at 96Ventura County Star, CA - Nov 1, 2008"Studs was very fond of his work," she said and would read his poetry on his radio show. Terkel won a 1985 Pulitzer Prize for "The Good War," remembrances ...
- Murder and Mayhem - Moscow News
Murder and MayhemMoscow News, Russia - 4 hours agoThis a sad and wonderful place to stroll, especially at this time of year between the gold trees and the stone crosses, and demands further exploration. ...
- Conversation With... Naomi Neuwirth, psychotherapist and fiction-writer (Jewish Ledger)
WEST HARTFORD - Naomi Neuwirth was already a seasoned psychotherapist when she decided to get her MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College in 2003. For four years, she commuted one day a week to Bronxville, N.Y. to hone her new craft, and has since written two books.
- Economy Takes Toll on Pure Breed Pets (R News)
When man's bills pile up, his best friend is often the first thing to go. Lollypop Farm says that isn't the case locally. Although donations are down, it says surrenders are too. Lollypop says adoptions are actually up.
- Harold Pinter, British Playwright, Nobel Laureate, Dead at 78 (Bloomberg)
Dec. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Harold Pinter , the British playwright and political activist who won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, has died. He was 78.
- Off my Rocker - Novato Advance
Off my Rocker Poetry at the jail helps heal the pain Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:08 PM PST Ellie Spence Sometimes I yearn to have a class where I can stand in front and shower raindrops of wisdom on eager students. It isn’t that way at the jail ...
- Citizens should be heard - La Crosse Tribune
I’d like to thank the many people who’ve taken time during this busy holiday season to sign my nomination papers and share their feelings about the upcoming mayor’s race. Talking to you has just reinforced my impression that La Crosse voters ...
- Lawsuit accuses woman of pilfering poetry program - Lexington Herald-Leader
CONCORD, N.H. -- It's all there in black and white: a poet's pain, her suffering, her emotional distress. Turn the page and find secrecy, shock and disappointment. But don't expect passionate verse. These are lawsuits, not poems. One accuses poet ...
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