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- National poetry prizes awarded - Jam! Showbiz
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced over the weekend at a festival and conference held ...
- Profile: Leonard Cohen - Times Online
Leonard Cohen’s habit of going into every concert with a prayer on his lips is hardly surprising. He believes that someone took a shot at him long ago at a concert in France that was attended by rowdy Maoists. As he reflected later: “They’re ...
- Bolton residents graduate from Lawrence Academy - Bolton Common
Bolton residents graduate from Lawrence AcademyBolton Common, MA - 6 hours agoA finalist in his junior year poetry recitation competition, Chris also appeared on stage in the one-act Black Comedy, the musical Strike Up the Band, and, ...
- Sophomore's story published in magazine (North Journal)
When Steven Mueller started writing "Pink," he considered a complex backstory involving a government conspiracy, but it didn't make it into the story.  read more »
- REVIEW: Jarvis Cocker on Song - Littlehampton Gazette
REVIEW: Jarvis Cocker on SongLittlehampton Gazette, UK - 7 hours agoHis musical tour took us through the importance of lyrics, whether they should rhyme, if lyrics are poetry, "unsayable" lyrics and asked whether the art of ...
- Celebrations, lights, action: World Refugee Day 2008 - Reuters AlertNet
Celebrations, lights, action: World Refugee Day 2008Reuters AlertNet, UK - 1 hour agoThere will also be quizzes, drawing and essay-writing competitions, tree planting, seminars, workshops, speeches, public awareness campaigns and poetry ...
- Story of a Dalit poet in India (Express India)
Kanwal Bharti was a son of a Dalit cobbler but now his poetry is being prescribed during Post-Graduate studies.
- That economic squeeze you feel isn't your imagination (Las Vegas Business Press)
Americans feel squeezed now and economist Jared Bernstein senses why. He says the costs of many basic items in their market basket -- health care, education, child care -- have risen steadily although wages haven't kept up.
- Poet's Corner: Fried things and tattoos - Joplin Independent
Poet's Corner: Fried things and tattoosJoplin Independent, MO - 4 hours agoAmerican Life in Poetry is edited by Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate, 2004-06. He offers these two poems: Texas poet RS Gwynn is a master of the light touch. ...
- Hussein Al Jismi sings Muhammad Bin Rashed’s poetry (Al Bawaba)
Emirati singer Hussein Al Jismi finished recording the opening and closing songs for the new Bedouin drama series “Siraa Ala Al Rimal†(Conflict on the Sand).
- GO: A fortunate coincidence - Standard Freeholder
GO: A fortunate coincidenceStandard Freeholder, Canada - 2 hours ago"I was always interested in languages, and this is the perfect job for me as I work with language, poetry and voice. "You don't get that when you're ...
- Reversing the Tide: Professor Gives Due to Self-Taught Poets - Illinois Wesleyan University
Illinois Wesleyan UniversityReversing the Tide: Professor Gives Due to Self-Taught PoetsIllinois Wesleyan University, IL - 22 minutes agoIn Prandi’s latest book, The Poetry of the Self-Taught: An Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon (Peter Lang Publishing, May 2008), she adopts the term “self-taught ...
- Review of 'Poems 2008,' by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. - Cybergolf
We all know that Robert Trent Jones, Jr. (Bob to his friends) is one of the greatest names in golf course design. But did you know he's also an accomplished poet? With an education from Harvard and Stanford, you can bet he couldn't avoid classical ...
- The Ultimate Frontier: Darius Shahinfar for Congress - Payvand
PayvandThe Ultimate Frontier: Darius Shahinfar for CongressPayvand, Iran - 14 hours agoMore specifically, the Iranian-American Community is increasingly fortunate to benefit from the wise foresights of several non-partisan political action ...
- Aiwan-e-Iqbal at Sialkot Murray College demanded - The Post
Aiwan-e-Iqbal at Sialkot Murray College demandedThe Post, Pakistan - 30 minutes agoThey said Prof Asghar Saudai had said he wrote the poem Pakistan ka Matlub Kia? during his college days to minimize the anti-Islam and anti-Pakistan ...
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