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- Blogger jailed for 20 years over poem that mocked Burmese dictator - Times Online
Times OnlineBlogger jailed for 20 years over poem that mocked Burmese dictatorTimes Online, UK - Nov 11, 2008A young blogger and a writer who disguised an attack on the country’s dictator in the form of a love poem have received heavy jail sentences, in the latest ...Burma activists get 65 years' jail The AustralianBlogger jailed 20 years Straits TimesBLOGGER JAILED FOR 20 YEARS, POET GETS TWO YEARS IFEXBBC News - United Press Internationalall 120 news articles
- Medieval literary treasures to go online - The Independent
Manchester University's John Rylands Library will be digitising much of its renowned collection of medieval manuscripts, including parts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The project, funded by the the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), will ...
- Scenes from Speakers Corner - Al-Arabiya
Al-ArabiyaScenes from Speakers CornerAl-Arabiya, United Arab Emirates - Nov 15, 2008You had what is referred to in American English as crazy 'Church ladies,' an unpleasant term used to describe over-enthusiastic Christian evangelists. ...We have 50 words for ‘love’ – and we risk losing them all The Nationalall 3 news articles
- Award-winning poet coordinates recycling at CSB - The Record
Award-winning poet coordinates recycling at CSBThe Record, MN - 1 hour agoNow, years later, he has won a $25000 Loft Award from the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, and he has four books of poetry in publication with ...
- Style Over Substance - The Silhouette
Style Over SubstanceThe Silhouette, Canada - 6 hours agoHip hop’s main creative focus was for the producer to create beats and have the rapper, usually a close friend or most often a family member, ...
- Slaves in the Family - Newsweek
NewsweekSlaves in the FamilyNewsweek - 44 minutes agoSo Dave's poetry and his penchant for signing his work signals not only his own bravery but at least some modest enlightenment on the part of his owners. ...
- Today in Montreal: Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote as Kids - Martiniboys.com
Today in Montreal: Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote as KidsMartiniboys.com, Canada - 24 minutes agoUncovering journals, poems, love letters, and art projects, participants bear their adolescent souls for all to hear. Self-humiliation is a wonderful thing, ...
- Young readers can vote for favorite book (St. Tammany News)
Following the recent historic presidential election, youngsters across St. Tammany Parish can cast a vote of their own for the Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Award.
- Byng grad plans book signing in Ada - Ada Evening News
Byng grad plans book signing in AdaAda Evening News, OK - 3 hours ago... editor on a poetry book scheduled to be released in November. “I am interested in all aspects of the Industry, writing as well as publishing,” she said. ...
- UI presents 'Writing Science at the Writing University' Oct. 7-10 - Media Newswire (press release)
UI presents 'Writing Science at the Writing University' Oct. 7-10Media Newswire (press release), NY - 14 hours ago... scientific issues, has been praised by the New York Review of Books as "one of the most gifted and multifaceted and original of American poets. ...
- Leonard Cohen - Somekind of a Story - Artline
Leonard Cohen - Somekind of a StoryArtline, Romania - 18 minutes agoAt the same time as being a musician, Cohen continued writing and publishing, both poetry and prose, with great succes, with volumes such as Flowers for ...
- Free Banville book taster online - BBC News
Fans of Booker Prize-winning author John Banville can read the first chapter of his forthcoming novel free of charge. The extract of The Sinking City has been made available on a new online literary journal launched by the University of Manchester ...
- Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon prepares for 50th birthday - Sunday Mercury
Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon prepares for 50th birthdaySunday Mercury, UK - 1 hour agoAs band legend has it, Le Bon turned up for the audition wearing a pair of pink leopard-print trousers, and carrying a notebook containing poetry he had ...
- Lots of Milligan memorabilia - Chortle
Lots of Milligan memorabiliaChortle, UK - 7 hours agoOriginal poetry, private correspondence, original Goon Show recordings and even furniture such as a piano and a director’s chair with ‘Spike Milligna’ ...
- Writing for life: James Harms reflects on his art - Daily Anaeum
For James Harms, after teaching for more than a decade, writing is still more than just a profession – it remains a hobby too. A professor at WVU for 15 years, Harms’ work has established a creditable list of critically acclaimed works. A native ...
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