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- UB to salute its faculty, staff authors (UB Reporter)
The university will salute more than 70 faculty and staff authors today at a reception being held from 3-5 p.m. in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare.
- Wednesday Writing Essentials: Frances Hodgson Burnett and The ... - Gather.com
Gather.comWednesday Writing Essentials: Frances Hodgson Burnett and The ...Gather.com, MA - 3 minutes agoAccording to the original definition of Writing Essentials that group owner Jennifer Hodge originally set, the group description included: Fiction, Poetry, ...
- Pantsuits giving Hillary a leg up? - Joliet Herald News
Pantsuits giving Hillary a leg up?Joliet Herald News, IL - 18 hours agoPoetry in motion: You don't often hear poetry at business functions. But transportation consultant Jim Giblin included Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in his ...
- Newspaper and Magazine - Hartford Courant
It's been a hellish week for employees of The Courant, especially those of us who camp in the news department. It's nothing new — shrinking revenue, shrinking staff, shrinking number of newspaper pages devoted to the journalism we hold dear. But ...
- Regina, West win at WordMasters - Iowa City Press Citizen
Regina, West win at WordMastersIowa City Press Citizen, IA - 8 hours agoThe contest is a national competition for high school students requiring reading and analysis of different kinds of prose and poetry.
- Playing for Keeps - San Francisco Gate
The Bay Area is packed with brainiacs; there are the obvious ones - Steve Jobs, Jerry Yang, the Google guys. But what about the lesser-known, yet enormously talented ones? Daniel Naroditsky ranks first in the world in chess for boys ages 12 and under ...
- Newark's exclusive latte is running out of steam - Bridgeton News
The Starbucks on Broad Street, a meeting place for business people and poets, is among the stores the coffee chain plans to close. Shaliele Hunt, a regular who favors iced coffee with skim milk and caramel syrup, grumbled Thursday night in reaction ...
- The Darkness of This House Has Got the Best of Us - Common Dreams
I’m thinking old Mike Ahmadinejad may not be such a bad guy. I call him Mike (which he might not appreciate, either in its overfamiliarity or because his name is actually Mahmoud), because Mahmoud is hard for me to pronounce well, and because it ...
- Keeping history alive in Raymond City - Putnam Standard
Keeping history alive in Raymond CityPutnam Standard, WV - 12 hours agoSo far it is a compilation of about 80 written pieces of stories, genealogy, poetry, pictures and jokes, reflecting his history in Raymond City. ...
- As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap - Forbes
As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gapForbes, NY - 10 minutes agoDuring the past two years, Belarusian expatriates have held an annual "Belarusian Spring" festival, featuring fare banned back home - movies, poetry ...
- Brickbats - but mostly bouquets - for The Times redesign - Times Online
Brickbats - but mostly bouquets - for The Times redesignTimes Online, UK - 7 hours agoYou miss the poetry in times2, still want Business and Sport as a separate section, are warming to the leaders on page 2 (although one reader helpfully ...
- LE graduate publishes book of poetry - Circleville Herald
LE graduate publishes book of poetryCircleville Herald, OH - 30 minutes agoFaulkner, a mechanic for the US Postal Service, said people are often shocked when they hear he has written a book of poetry, because they don't expect a ...
- Renowned poet/activist says she's accomplished a lot, but there's ... - Toronto Star
Two months after her 80th birthday, grace is foremost in Maya Angelou's mind. "How blessed I am and how blessed I've been," she says, on the phone from her home in North Carolina. The celebrations have been magnificent for this woman, revered for her ...
- Poetry is like ... - La Crosse Tribune
Part of the value of the La Crosse Public Library National Poetry Month contest is that it forms community, said William Stobb, associate professor of English at Viterbo University. “(Poetry) tends to be such an intensely private pursuit,†Stobb ...
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