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- National Book Award nominees announced (Seattle Times)
Peter Matthiessen, Marilynne Robinson, Aleksandar Hemon, Salvatore Scibona, Rachel Kushner, Jane Mayer, Annette Gordon-Reed, Richard Howard, Mark Doty and Laurie Halse Anderson are nominated for the National Book Award.
- Old World Deli hosts World AIDS day event - Corvallis Gazette Times
Old World Deli hosts World AIDS day eventCorvallis Gazette Times, OR - 10 hours ago7 Odd Fellows, the event will feature live music by Beyond Reproach and Friends, poetry readings by Dinaz Rogers, Chris Gray and Roger Weaver and a panel of ...
- Is Obama Good For Business - Edubourse.com (Communiqués de presse)
Is Obama Good For BusinessEdubourse.com (Communiqués de presse), France - Nov 5, 2008“To borrow a phrase suffused with poetry from US president-elect Barack Obama, if there’s any owner manager out there who still doubts that all things are ...
- Hage, Thompson to vie for literary honours - CBC News
Rawi Hage and Judith Thompson are among this year's nominees for this Governor General's Literary Awards, organizers announced in Toronto Tuesday morning. Hage and his sophomore novel Cockroach — already up for other literary honours this fall ...
- Patrick Lane's Violent Memory - TheTyee.ca
Patrick Lane's Violent MemoryTheTyee.ca, Canada - 3 hours agoI wanted to start writing again, but I was afraid of writing poetry, and I was afraid of writing short fiction. I'd done them both before, and I was worried ...
- Wednesday's Child - Katherine - WTNH
Wednesday's Child - KatherineWTNH, CT - 5 hours agoShe even writes poetry - when there's time. "I come home, do homework, music, read and basically that's it. Then I go to bed. But if I don't read, ...
- Ricci, Blatchford, Ibbitson win $25,000 G-Gs - Globe and Mail
Two Globe and Mail writers were named winners of 2008 Governor-General's Literary Awards at an announcement ceremony in Montreal yesterday, while Torontonian Nino Ricci won his second G-G for English-language fiction. Columnist Christie Blatchford ...
- Poet to lead Writers' Retreat - Leelanau Enterprise
Poet to lead Writers' RetreatLeelanau Enterprise, MI - 7 hours agoShe asks writers to send in poetry samples and will choose participants if necessary. However, she emphasizes that the retreat is intended for all poets, ...
- 'August 4, 1964’ boldly captures the urgency of a complex time (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By CHRIS SHULL DALLAS — August 4, 1964 , a "secular oratorio" by American composer Steven Stucky, with the libretto by Gene Scheer, was performed for the first time Thursday by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The piece is coherent, dramatically gripping, thematically relevant and musically accessible. August 4, 1964 uses the combined orchestra, large chorus and four vocal soloists conducted ...
- College celebrates poetry day - Malvern Gazette
College celebrates poetry dayMalvern Gazette, UK - 2 hours agoMALVERN College enjoyed a feast of words when they celebrated the National Poetry Day on Thursday. Storyteller Alec Williams held workshops throughout the ...
- Chanson musicians bring a little warmth to a Japanese winter (The Japan Times)
As a genre, chanson is difficult to pin down. In French, it simply means "song," and for most of France's history the word described anything from madrigals to romantic poetry. Since the end of World War II, it has come to represent a pop style that places a premium on the fluidity of the French language. Though chanson enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity in the United States in the 1960s thanks ...
- Poetry in the thick of the commuter rush (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines—With more and more people amusing themselves by surfing the Internet or tinkering with their iPods, cell phones or PlayStations, today’s generation has little time to read stories, much less poetry.
- Students salute vets - Arizona Daily Sun
History, and appreciation for veterans, stays alive through DeMiguel Elementary School sixth-graders. On Monday, Lyn Truettner's class presented its ninth annual salute to veterans with a program full of poetry, songs and speeches as veterans from ...
- Quotes of the day - 2 October 2008 - Independent
Quotes of the day - 2 October 2008Independent, UK - 5 hours ago"No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it. ...
- 'Doctor Atomic' set to explode across the big screen - Anchorage Daily News (registration)
'Doctor Atomic' set to explode across the big screenAnchorage Daily News (registration), AK - Nov 13, 2008Peter Sellers, who wrote the script, has filled it with pre-existing poetry, like John Donne's sonnets. This gives Adams the chance to let the soloists have ...
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