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- Obituaries in the news (Boston Globe)
Hayden Carruth, an award-winning poet who wrote about the people and places of northern Vermont, died Monday. He was 87.
- Bin Laden's prowess as poet examined (Moldova.org)
Osama bin Laden's pre-Sept. 11, 2001, popularity and prowess as a poet is the subject of an upcoming academic work, a California professor says. Before he was the world's most infamous terrorist, bin Laden was in great demand in the 1990s as a speaker at wedding banquets and other feasts, reciting skillfully written poems that were tape-recorded and passed around like pop music, The Times of ...
- Glass artists plan a friendly contest - Toledo Blade
Glass artists plan a friendly contestToledo Blade, OH - 43 minutes agoThe gallery is at 1811 Adams St. An after-party with poetry and music will be at 11:30 pm in the basement of Frankie's Inner City at 308 Main St. ...
- Gordon-Reed, Matthiessen win book prizes - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeGordon-Reed, Matthiessen win book prizesBoston Globe, United States - 33 minutes agoIn poetry, the winner was Mark Doty for "Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems." A professor at the University of Houston, Doty has published seven previous ...Texas native, UH poet win National Book Awards Houston ChronicleBook Prizes Awarded With Nod to History New York TimesUS National Book Awards go to slave, outlaw books ReutersThe Associated Press - USA Todayall 351 news articles
- Writer-performer promotes Oklahoma City as spoken-word venue - NewsOK.com
Writer-performer promotes Oklahoma City as spoken-word venueNewsOK.com, OK - 10 hours agoA: We are known nationally as a scene that each year produces a solid slam team for the National Poetry Slam (www. poetryslam.com). ...
- Triangle Club's Homage To Edgar Allan Poe 'STARK RAVEN MAD' - Broadway World
Triangle Club's Homage To Edgar Allan Poe 'STARK RAVEN MAD'Broadway World, NY - 6 hours ago... the American Master of the Macabre, poet and author Edgar Allan Poe, to mark the occasion of his 200th birthday, with its newest show Stark Raven Mad! ...
- Matt Auda wins design contest - Suburban News
Matt Auda wins design contestSuburban News, NJ - 2 hours agoHe also takes piano lessons and enjoys writing poetry. Honorable mentions in the contest went to Madelyn Ostrander, Melissa Rasahl, Emma Rogers, ...
- WOMAN DROWNS IN SORROW OF MAN'S DRINKING BINGES - Yahoo News
DEAR ABBY: My ex and I have been dating since our divorce in 2000, trying to put things back together. But every six months or so, he comes to my house drunk and raises Cain in front of the kids. He never says he's sorry for anything he does or says ...
- Lemon's Hood - Valley Advocate
Lemon's HoodValley Advocate, MA - 2 hours agoBy Chris Rohmann Lemon is a star of hip-hop performance poetry. Like most of his colleagues on the spoken-word stage, he came up through the Nuyorican Poets ...
- Let These Poems Touch You Deep Inside -- New Book Contains Poems ... - MarketWatch
Let These Poems Touch You Deep Inside -- New Book Contains Poems ...MarketWatch - 46 minutes agoHer inspiration is a combination of life's challenges as well as life's rewards. Poetry fills her empty spaces and gives her poetic thoughts places to go. ...
- Literary journal moves to Ark. university - Pine Bluff Commercial
Literary journal moves to Ark. universityPine Bluff Commercial, AR - 29 minutes agoThe publication, best known for its annual music edition, publishes short fiction, poetry, and articles that center on Southern culture. ...
- 'Stylista' premiere: Catty? Yep. Stylish? Meh. Hate Megan and Kate? Yes! (Portsmouth Herald)
According to Anne Slowey, there is no greater crime in fashion than being boring. Arnaldo, an Ivy League graduate who just wanted to write and really didn’t belong there, was found guilty of this crime and sent home on the series premiere of “Stylista.”...
- Local student makes history: Woodward's book had help from V'land grad - Vineland Daily Journal
Local student makes history: Woodward's book had help from V'land gradVineland Daily Journal, NJ - 7 minutes ago"The poetry crowd. We had fun at the library, though -- it's a good place for dorks." In college, a George Washington University drama group produced ...
- The young generation: Burroughs and Kerouac - an unpublished collaboration (Independent)
Fans of the Beat generation have known for years about The Novel That Kicked It All Off, but they've had to wait until the death of a journalist at United Press International for it to be published. The appearance in print of And the Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks by William S Burroughs and Jack Kerouac is a literary event, not only because it drew two of the three leading Beat writers into ...
- Asia's hottest new spaces - Sydney Morning Herald
Standing out from the crown in Tokyo Midtown. WHAT IS IT? It was New York that first transformed its meatpacking district into a style hub, and now Shanghai has been applying finishing touches to its own former slaughterhouse locale. Together the ...
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