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- Santa Clara University: SCU Alumnus Wins Elite George J. Mitchell ... - PR Inside
www.scu.edu - Neil Ferron, a 2005 magna cum laude graduate of Santa Clara University, poet, and playwright, was named Saturday one of 12 George J. Mitchell Scholars for the 2009-10 academic year by the U.S.-Ireland Alliance. The scholarship will ...
- Readers' tributes to Ian Tyson - Edmonton Journal
Readers' tributes to Ian TysonEdmonton Journal, Canada - 1 hour agoHe continues to build his legacy, his poetry, his music. Each piece has a special nugget, a phrase, an inflection, a riff, that says "Ian Tyson. ...
- Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday - Phillyist.com
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. We posted a link to an xkcd comic a while back wherein a character created a virus that would force commenters on YouTube to listen to any comments they tried to make by reading their ...
- Lola Montes - Boston Globe
Certain artifacts represent the outer limits of their form - they may or may not be the best but they're unquestionably the most. Modern art has its "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" and Monet cathedrals; the piano has Beethoven's 32d Sonata. Rock 'n' roll ...
- Writing in the Dark, By David Grossman - Independent
Writing in the Dark, By David GrossmanIndependent, UK - 16 hours agoThe Israeli novelist David Grossman has always written from a position of impassioned embattlement. Born in the 1960s, he has matured as man and writer ...
- Writing contest deadline approaching - Miramichi Leader
Writing contest deadline approachingMiramichi Leader, Canada - Nov 20, 2008Choose from five categories: Novel, Short Story, Poetry, Writing for Children and YA Novel. There is a $15 fee per entry or $10 for WFNS members, ...
- Book reviews: Unpacking the Boxes and Delta Blues (International Herald Tribune)
"In childhood nothing happened." So Donald Hall says in his enchanting memoir, writes the reviewer Peter Stevenson. What Hall is getting at, of course, is that "nothing" is a perfectly appropriate way to describe how the unfolding of life - particularly a child's life - can feel. He is hinting at that uncanny sensation one can have as a child when something vividly alive and unfathomable, which ...
- Digital Doomsday - New York Observer
You know the Evolution of Man chart? The drawing in biology textbooks illustrating our progress from knuckle-dragging monkey to upright, intelligent marvel? (Well, at least a few men turned out that way.) One of the most popular spoofs of the much ...
- Events: Author, professor Juan Cole to discuss national security - Tampabay.com
Events: Author, professor Juan Cole to discuss national securityTampabay.com, FL - 13 hours agoThe interactive poetry venue invites poets, authors and musicians to participate. Donation is $5; the studio is at 620 First Ave. S, St. Petersburg. ...
- Hemings book wins national award (UPI)
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The National Book Award for non-fiction was bestowed on Annette Gordon-Reed in New York Wednesday night for her book, "The Hemingses of Monticello."
- Classical music: Columbia Orchestra - Explore Howard County
Classical music: Columbia OrchestraExplore Howard County, MD - 8 hours agoThe works were written in 2002 and incorporate poems in Spanish and Yiddish - as well as one by American icon Emily Dickinson. Area soprano Ah Young Hong ...
- Author Paavo Haavikko Dies at 77 - YLE News
YLE NewsAuthor Paavo Haavikko Dies at 77YLE News, Finland - 4 hours ago... which have been translated into 12 languages. In addition to poetry, he wrote prose, drama, opera librettos, as well as television and film scripts.
- Grant-writing workshop planned - The Spokesman Review
Grant-writing workshop plannedThe Spokesman Review, WA - 2 hours agoRay McGinnis, author of "Writing the Sacred: A Psalm-Inspired Path to Appreciating & Writing Sacred Poetry," will, beginning Thursday, offer a series of ...
- SF State professor documents the undocumented - Golden Gate [X]Press
SF State professor documents the undocumentedGolden Gate [X]Press, CA - 7 minutes agoby Kate Lemley, staff producer Peter Orner, a creative writing professor and fiction writer at SF State, read from his new novel, “Underground America: ...
- Jessye Norman, Still a Diva Beyond the Classical Canon (Washington Post)
Jessye Norman has long ceased to be a soprano: She is now simply a Figure. And for some years now, Norman appears to have been searching for the best way to display that figure -- looking for some outlet that the conventional presentation formats of classical music do not offer.
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