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- The funny side of life (Mail and Guardian)
There's a note for the postman pinned to the front door of Marina Lewycka's functional, foursquare house in the rowdy university quarter of Sheffield in northern England. "If no answer," it says, "please put packages behind the wheelie bin. Don't worry -- they're only foreign books."
- Al Purdy: an uncommon poet memorialized - CBC News
In a writing career that spanned more than 50 years, Al Purdy came to be known as the nation's "unofficial poet laureate.” This week a statue of Purdy was unveiled in Toronto's Queen's Park. The statue was commissioned from sculptors Edwin and ...
- One Walnut formal, with fabulous food - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Have you been to One Walnut? E-mail us your review of the food, service and atmosphere. Please include your full name and the town you live in. We'll publish a sampling on Cleveland.com and in The Plain Dealer. Click here to sound off . At 8:30 p.m ...
- Behind the scenes and beyond the speeches at the Tonys (Chicago Sun-Times)
NEW YORK — When playwright Tracy Letts thanked his backers for producing a new American play and casting it with "theater actors" he hit on one of the more intriguing aspects of Sunday night's Tony Awards.
- Devotion to the Strange: Jonathan Williams and the Small Press - Bookslut
Devotion to the Strange: Jonathan Williams and the Small PressBookslut, IL - 13 minutes agoIn a letter to the editor of The New York Times Book Review, Williams once claimed that poetry readers could be counted “somewhere between the number of ...
- Pacman Jones Is Black; Joshua Packwood Is Not - New York Times Blogs
The latest bout of racial consternation in our great land includes: I am always surprised at how easily, and cheaply, we humans lie. Have you ever been in a conversation about, say, a particular book and been tempted to say you’ve read it even ...
- I'll Take the Manhattan (Las Cruces Sun-News)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
- Hannah Walker's family reaches out to Matayah in daughter's memory (The Brockville Recorder and Times)
From the depths of the personal "hell" in grieving the loss of her daughter this year, Shelley Saunders reached out to another family Saturday in hopes their journey will have a happier ending. Saunders hugged 10-year-old Matayah Tuck tightly after presenting the Mallorytown girl's family with a cheque for [...]
- Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care? - Newsweek
Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?Newsweek - 4 hours agoJust as I was a good athlete who detested the parallel bars, I was an avid reader who despised rhymed and rhythmic writing. Plowing through tangled symbol ...
- Poets Schevill, Garcia, Starck Read Monday at Moe’s - Berkeley Daily Planet
Poets James Schevill and Luis Garcia, both Berkeley natives, will be joined by Clemens Starck from the Oregon coast range to read at Moe’s Books on Telegraph, 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 2, as part of the Monday At Moe’s series. Admission will be free ...
- Across the nation - Jamaica Gleaner
The Percy Junor Hospital in Manchester continued to demonstrate why it was nominated the most customer-friendly hospital in Jamaica as well as the most creative and innovative public sector agency islandwide, when it held its fifth annual Customer ...
- Gannon poet digs for her inspiration (AUDIO) (Erie Times-News)
Berwyn Moore keeps a compost pile in her office. It doesn't smell, doesn't help the environment and doesn't leak all over her floor. But it does provide the fodder for much of her poetry.
- Mark Speight 'could not live without fiancee' - Daily Telegraph
His body was found in a remote part of Paddington railway station three months after his fiancee and fellow presenter Natasha Collins died in their flat following a cocaine binge. The pair had taken the drug together. On the day he went missing Mr ...
- Break-in at Anne author's birthplace - CBC News
The New London home where Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables , was born was broken into on Monday night. The incident was part of a string of break and enters in the area that night. The board that runs the museum and bookstore says ...
- EUR MOTHER'S DAY WEEKEND EXCLUSIVE: Kevi... - Eurweb.com
EUR MOTHER'S DAY WEEKEND EXCLUSIVE: Kevi...Eurweb.com, CA - 35 minutes ago*Author, activist, essayist, politician and poet, Kevin Powell recently published a new book of poetry called "No Sleep Till Brooklyn: New And Selected ...
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