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- Giller Prize long list unveiled - CBC News
New novels from Austin Clarke, David Adams Richards and Rawi Hage are in the running for one of Canada's top literary awards, organizers of the $50,000 Giller Prize revealed Monday. Past Giller winners Clarke and Richards made the cut for their ...
- 'Bird's Nest' Ballads: Olympic National Anthems (NPR)
As medal-winners step up to the podium in this year's Summer Olympics, commentator Miles Hoffman says, we're bound to hear quite a few national anthems, some of which come equipped with bad poetry and stilted music.
- Playing with words for Poetry Day - Bolton News
Playing with words for Poetry DayBolton News, UK - 30 minutes agoTHE pupils of Bolton Muslim Girls School ensured they were well-versed in rhyme when it came to marking National Poetry Day. The girls got creative as they ...
- GCSE poem dropped over knife fear - BBC UK News
An exam board is removing a poem about a knife-carrying violent loner from its anthology for GCSE English because of fears over teenage knife crime. The AQA exam board has decided to withdraw the poem Education for Leisure written by Carol Ann Duffy ...
- Understands why her father loved Northern Nevada - Nevada Appeal
My father, Larry Fitzpatrick, passed away in December 2007. He lived in Washoe Valley for more than 30 years. I often wondered why he did not move back to Oregon to be with his family, especially after the birth of his grandchildren. In December we ...
- Tribute paid to Adam Nayyar for services to culture - Daily Times
Tribute paid to Adam Nayyar for services to cultureDaily Times, Pakistan - 10 hours agoThey sung poetry of Bullha Shah, Baba Farid Ganj Shakar, Waris Shah and Shah Hussain. The participants highlighted life and works of Nayyar and termed him ...
- National Post Editorial Board on The Street News: Toronto’s ... - National Post
National Post Editorial Board on The Street News: Toronto’s ...National Post, Canada - 2 hours agoFor filler there is poetry, an advice column and some incomprehensible film criticism. There are ads for David Icke, the itinerant author-lecturer who ...
- Robert X. Cringely - Wired
"There's nothing wrong with blogging or podcasting, but they feel to me a bit like CB radio. What I think will happen is that the best bloggers and podcasters will eventually be subsumed into the professional media. After all, every blogger I know is ...
- The Fairy Tale Fairy - Bookslut
The Fairy Tale FairyBookslut, IL - 35 minutes agoAnd after publishing some poetry and finding success with short stories, he was two years shy of 30 when the king himself gave Andersen a travel grant to ...
- Immersed in the Music - Litchfield County Times
Immersed in the MusicLitchfield County Times, CT - 32 minutes agoMs. Bloom teaches music and movement to young children and the elderly; writes poetry and draws; plays with her band, "Love At Work," during church worship ...
- Stalin, the poet and life’s choices (Online Journal)
“I regard class differences as contrary to Justice.†(Albert Einstein in a personal statement of his credo.) “The Russians have proved that their only aim is really the improvement of the lot of the Russian people.â€
- Jessy J: Balancing Serious Skills and Sexy Image (All About Jazz)
How you react to Jessy J depends a great deal upon whether you see her or hear her first.
- Female doctor writes of life in Saudi Arabia (The MetroWest Daily News)
Most job contracts don't include mentions of the death penalty, but when Dr. Qanta A. Ahmed agreed to a new job in a Saudi Arabian hospital she became subject to the laws of that country which, as she writes in her memoir, can include decapitation.
- Teacher gives pupils gift of life - The Times
Teacher gives pupils gift of lifeThe Times, South Africa - 16 minutes agoShe also inspires pupils through her poetry. One of the children, Kabelo Matlhare, 14, was invited to visit Nelson Mandela this week after he entered one of ...
- Starbucks' Way to Feel Better About Yourself While Overpaying for Drip - Jossip
JossipStarbucks' Way to Feel Better About Yourself While Overpaying for DripJossip, NY - 3 hours agoWhy not a poetry slam? Acoustic guitar mandatory. But if for a second you thought this was an out-of-left-field move for Starbucks — which slaves away to ...
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