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- POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES: Kay Ryan - San Francisco Gate
Though she calls herself "a proud mono-tasker," Kay Ryan was making toast for her nephew Thursday morning while fielding calls about her appointment as 16th poet laureate of the United States. From now on, the 62-year-old poet and English teacher ...
- Historian and history maker - Guardian Unlimited
When a friend dies, a part of you dies too. When Bronislaw Geremek was killed in a car accident on Sunday, a part of Europe was lost as well. I remember him once turning to me in a corridor of the Polish parliament, which he had helped to make again ...
- David Hammond - RedOrbit
David HammondRedOrbit, TX - 2 hours agoHe was described by Pat Loughrey, Director of Nations and Regions at the BBC, as "a man of poetry, song, of film and of a thousand stories. ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK : Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections "The ...
- Handle with care - Guardian Unlimited
Few of us have forgotten the lyrics, books, lines of poetry and movies that struck us most as teenagers. For me, they were Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin' and Albert Camus' The Outsider . I remember retelling the Camus story in my own world ...
- You must remember this: how the mind works - guardian.co.uk
You must remember this: how the mind worksguardian.co.uk, UK - 24 minutes agoHe couldn't enjoy poetry, for instance.' Maybe in future, I say, we'll all just take a pill. 'I suspect it's not too far ahead that treatments will be ...
- To Infinity And Beyond - Cleveland Free Times
To Infinity And BeyondCleveland Free Times, OH - 2 hours ago... the situation in Colombia, women's issues, the beauty of life and "the upliftment of it all" - fit the format well, so she got into slam poetry. ...
- Drowning death is second for family - Columbia Missourian
Drowning death is second for familyColumbia Missourian, MO - 2 hours agoWhen Stephen died, Jared began writing poetry, and several of his poems can be found on the Web site Poetry.com. In his poem, "Gone Forever," he described ...
- Easton calendar - Easton Journal
Easton calendarEaston Journal, MA - 2 hours agoEvery other Saturday, 7:30 pm open mic sign up, 8 pm open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam, Universalist Unitarian Church of ...
- Gaia Online Completes $11 Million Series C Funding (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----Gaia Online, the leading online hangout for teens, today announced an $11 million Series C round of venture funding from Institutional Venture Partners . At a time when eMarketer is predicting the number of teen internet users visiting virtual worlds will jump from the reported 8.2 million users in 2007 to 20 million in 2011, Gaia Online is dedicated to bringing this growing ...
- Highland Museum starts Wednesday series with Robert Nathan - Wicked Local Wellfleet
Highland Museum starts Wednesday series with Robert NathanWicked Local Wellfleet, MA - 4 minutes ago6; poetry and art with Keith Althaus and Susan Baker on Aug. 13; the story of Jobi Pottery on Aug. 20; and art and a slide talk from Twenty-One in Truro on ...
- Luke Wright - musicOMH.com
musicOMH.comLuke WrightmusicOMH.com, UK - 1 hour agoHe curates and hosts the Latitude Festival's poetry arena and his first book, Who Writes This Crap? was published in November 2007. ...
- the road less traveled - Wire
the road less traveledWire, NH - 2 hours agoThis was Hall’s first reading from “Fall of Frost†in New Hampshire, where Frost wrote the bulk of his most well-known poetry. ...
- Madison spoken word artists on home turf at National Poetry Slam - The Capital Times
Madison spoken word artists on home turf at National Poetry SlamThe Capital Times, WI - 1 hour agoJeanne Bergmann, another poet at Genna's, said in a later interview, "There's a funny little noise that the audience makes when things hit home, ...
- Latest Reviews: July 3, 2008 - LA City Beat
Latest Reviews: July 3, 2008LA City Beat, CA - 37 minutes agoSuspenseful but tiresomely withholding in hopes of a shock ending, Tornatore’s movie works to earn our tension and assumes our emotions are free. ...
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