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- Rawi Hage makes short list for Quebec Writers' Federation - Canada East
MONTREAL - Literary star Rawi Hage is among the authors shortlisted for prizes by the Quebec Writers' Federation. The Montreal-based writer is up for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction, for his novel "Cockroach" (House of Anansi Press ...
- Peek at the Week (Niles Herald-Spectator)
Submissions for Community Calendar are required 10 days preceding the date of publication. Send to: Niles Managing Editor, Pioneer Press, 3701 W. Lake Ave., Glenview IL 60026. Information may be faxed to (847) 486-7495 or e-mailed to mbottari@pioneerlocal.com.
- Urban chickens ruffle feathers (Helena Independent Record)
WHITEFISH  Chicken champions ran afoul of city bureaucrats this week, when the Whitefish planning board balked at allowing household hens.
- Concerts (Times Leader)
Live Music in the Cafe with solo acoustic artist Jinko Latour. Barnes & Noble Wilkes-King’s Bookstore, 7 South Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Tonight at 7:30. 208-4700.
- Urban Voices brings poets to Jozi - Joburg
Urban Voices brings poets to JoziJoburg, South Africa - 2 hours agoPresented in association with The African Diaspora Forum, Mutabaruka and Mattera will present poetry talks at Altrec Sports Complex in Alexandra, ...
- Poet laureate strives to build poetry fans (The Eagle-Tribune)
NORTH ANDOVER  It's Gayle Heney's mission to show people that anyone can be a poet. So it is no surprise that Heney has turned her own reception as the town's newest poet laureate on Sunday into a public poetry reading.
- New courses by CBSE fail to impress students - Chandigarh Newsline
New courses by CBSE fail to impress studentsChandigarh Newsline, India - 2 hours agoFurther, students will also be introduced to the nuances of language and techniques needed for different genres such as short stories, screenplays, poetry, ...
- Food for thought: St. Thomas Academy English teacher honors food, family, roots through poetry (South St. Paul - Inver Grove Heights Sun-Current)
Through the art of poetry, Donna Isaac of Inver Grove Heights expresses her roots, family and memory. Isaac recently had one of her poems, "Thursday Dinner," published in an anthology, "Hunger and Thirst."
- School News - Dailyrecord.com
School NewsDailyrecord.com, NJ - 1 hour agoIt is part of the national program made possible through the funding and leadership of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. ...
- 11/08 Church Notes (The Daily Sentinel)
The 139th anniversary of Salem CME Church will be celebrated in the 3 p.m. service with the Rev. Gary Weaver and members of Greely CME Church in Mount Enterprise as guests.
- Future Primitive: Kimbo Slice's Cruelest Cut - Popmatters.com
Slice, whose fortunes were at once torn asunder and radically refigured by a hurricane, constitutes a perfect storm of racial stereotypes himself. Like Pussy Galore, Ebenezer Scrooge, or Fat Bastard, Kimbo Slice is among those whose name seems to ...
- 'I love the NHS and England' - The Sun
Mohammed Asha, 28, said he loved England, the NHS he worked for and was totally committed to his medical training. Speaking in his defence for the first time, Asha said nothing would make him risk losing his wife and young son. Woolwich Crown Court ...
- Prof. Ian Jack: Literary scholar who moved from Butler and the Brontës to the definitive edition of Browning (Independent)
Ian Jack, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, was the author of a series of masterly studies and editions of English writers between 1660 and 1860. His critical discussion was careful and decisive, his editing learned and lucid. There is no reader of Keats, or of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, or of Robert Browning, but must reckon a debt to Ian Jack.
- Four to receive honorary doctorate degrees from UI - Iowa City Press Citizen
Four to receive honorary doctorate degrees from UIIowa City Press Citizen, IA - 5 hours agoHe was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. • Hultin, who received a medical degree at UI in 1953, gained international recognition for his ...
- Markers worried that pupils are studying 'dark' films (Stuff)
NCEA English markers are disturbed that secondary school students are studying "very dark" films and literature and are warning teachers to be more careful about showing younger students films with R16 and R18 ratings.
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