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- Author talks culture, religion in new book - Haddon Herald
Author talks culture, religion in new bookHaddon Herald, NJ - 7 hours agoPrior to "Whispers of Truth," Burgo, 62, penned poetry, which she eventually hopes to "put together" and publish. She holds a BA in English and values the ...
- Then and Now - Times Online
Then and NowTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoThomas Hardy died in January 1928, aged eighty-seven; his last collection of poetry, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, was published later the same ...
- Urban Planner: December 2, 2008 (Torontoist)
THEATRE: Calgary troupe One Yellow Rabbit give their opening performance of Sylvia Plath Must Not Die . The play looks at the lives of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath using the poets' own words.
- Gluck receives Wallace Stevens Award (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
NEW YORK -- Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Gluck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced recently. Gluck, who served as poet laureate in 2003-04, is known for such books as "Averno," "The Seven Ages" and "Vita Nova." Previous winners of the Stevens award include Adrienne ...
- Author! Author! back at Elms - Akron Beacon Journal
Author! Author! back at ElmsAkron Beacon Journal, OH - 2 hours agoIntruder is Bialosky's newest book of poetry. Russ Vernon sat in his family-owned West Point Market in Akron and flipped through a cookbook. ...
- Artists pay tribute to late Poet Laureate - yorkshirepost
The exhibition at St Michael's Church Hall runs until tomorrow and features the work of more than 20 local artists who have used Hughes's poetry to inspire traditional and contemporary artworks. It is being staged as part of The Ted Hughes Festival ...
- Friday To-Do: Fred Eaglesmith - Arkansas Times
9 p.m., White Water Tavern. $15 adv., $20 d.o.s. Canadian singer/songwriter Fred Eaglesmith has been compared to Bruce Springsteen, John Prine and Woody Guthrie. Like those icons, Eaglesmith makes his bones on plainspoken, literate lyrics that strive ...
- Fables of the Self - San Francisco Gate
As a literary critic, Rosanna Warren likes to be coy. Or so it seems from her "Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry," a book of essays that the author - also a classics scholar, translator and an award-winning poet - calls an "occult ...
- Heber Cowboy Festival Concludes with Cowboy Church Concert (FOX 13 Utah)
On Sunday, the Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair in Heber concluded with a free concert-- The Cowboy Church. Festival goers were dressed like cowboys and sang to gospel music. FOX 13's Max Roth has the story.
- Arnold Arboretum happenings (West Roxbury Transcript)
Here are the latest updates from the Arnold Arboretum:
- Life in a picture (Al-Ahram Weekly)
After the smashing success of Taha El-Qurani's mural Friday Market , which hung at the Al-Hanager Art Centre last year in an event that caught the interest of art lovers, critics and media alike, another mural, The Moulid , was unveiled yesterday at the same venue.
- 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.
- Back-country cowboy turns acclaimed poet (The Dalles Chronicle)
Editor’s Note: Waddie Mitchell performs Saturday night, Nov. 29, 2008 as part of the Cowboy Gathering at The Dalles Civic Auditorium. Performance starts at 7 p.m. The Chronicle’s Rodger Nichols visited with Mitchell by phone about his life as a working cowboy, and as a famed cowboy poet.
- William E. Clarke Jr. - Staunton News Leader
William E. Clarke Jr.Staunton News Leader, VA - 5 hours agoHe loved opera and poetry and was widely read. Family members include a daughter and son-in-law, Julie Ann Clarke and Mike of Florida; a brother, ...
- The poet laureate should be freed from the dreary royals and sent off ... - Guardian Unlimited
Up and down this green and drizzly isle, the poets are getting nervous. Nibs, once tranquil, are shaking. Wendy Cope is stocking up for a long siege. Craig Raine is exploring the possibility of moving to Mars. Linton Kwesi Johnson and Liz Lochhead ...
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