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- Poets on the shortlist for the Giffin Prize - Toronto Star
The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize is bestowed Wednesday during a gala in the Distillery District, with two awards of $50,000 going to the best Canadian and best international book of poetry published in English last year. The event is preceded Tuesday by ...
- Mohammed orders setting up centre for arabic poetry (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI — His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday directed the establishment of the House of Poetry, a centre for researching and documenting Arabic poetry and strengthening its presence and profile within the Arab world and beyond.
- Man arrested over theft of £15 million Shakespeare book from Durham University (Daily Mail: World News)
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the theft of a priceless book from Durham University ten years ago. It is believed to be worth at least £15 million.
- HERBIE HANCOCK - New York Post
June 22, 2008 -- Piano man speaks of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and how winning that Grammy really was all that jazz. Your impression of Herbie Hancock probably stems from when you grew up. If you're a child of the baby boomer generation, then you ...
- Yeats is poetry in motion as he equals Gold Cup feats of Sagaro - Times Online
Yeats is poetry in motion as he equals Gold Cup feats of SagaroTimes Online, UK - 5 hours agoMurtagh has had his dark times, struggling with weight and addiction to the point where he looked out of love with his career. ...
- Frank O'Hara in the Heaven on Earth Bldg - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Frank O'Hara in the Heaven on Earth BldgSeattle Post Intelligencer - 11 hours agoTime, inscribed upon O'Hara's brisk syntax and jaunty prosody, hastens every poem of his forward, but the world arrests him with marvels: a liver-sausage ...
- One Woman Standing , a Festival of Solo Works, Set for May 12-18 (Playbill)
Emerging Artists Theatre will present a week of one-woman plays, entitled One Woman Standing, in May.
- Literary Circle marks 125 years - Fairmont Sentinel
Fairmont SentinelLiterary Circle marks 125 yearsFairmont Sentinel, MN - 1 hour agoCook has won awards for her poetry since 1977, when she won the Collegiate Poetry Contest for “Lyric†magazine. She later joined the League of Minnesota ...
- The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch - North Coast Journal
The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss FinchNorth Coast Journal, CA - 9 minutes agoGaiman has developed a reputation both as a writer of comics and of prose fiction. His latest work, The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch, ...
- 'Shack' improbably houses unusual success, grace - Star-Gazette
A little novel written by an Oregon salesman and self-published by two former pastors with a $300 marketing budget is lighting up USA Today's Best-Selling Books list with a wrenching parable about God's grace. First-time author William P. Young's ...
- The Art of Travel (DVD Talk)
For some, traveling is defined as movement from location to location in as little time as possible. For others, traveling is merely the first step toward greater self-exploration, where adventures can teach and motivate the soul to higher plains of consciousness.
- Week of June 15 - Los Angeles Times
Week of June 15Los Angeles Times, CA - 8 hours agoSarah Maclayand Marsha de la O read their poetry, the Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, 8 pm (310) 316-6554 or www.redondopoets.com. ...
- Around Town - St. Petersburg Times
Nursing mothers class: St. Joseph's Women's Hospital presents a seminar on nursing mothers and breast-feeding. The session covers the basics of feeding, including how the body produces milk, proper positioning and latch-on techniques. 6 to 9 p.m ...
- Young and expressionable: Youth Speak poetry slams give a voice to teens (Seattle Times)
A spotlight shines down onto a crumpled piece of notebook paper, as a faltering voice utters words that couple into phrases and run into...
- Appreciation: Oakley Hall, writers' champion (San Francisco Chronicle)
With the death of Oakley Hall on Monday, the Bay Area - and, by extension, the United States - lost one of its greatest champions of literature. Novelist, librettist, instructor and administrator, Hall, who lived a robust 87 years, maintained an influence...
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