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- SELANGOR INCULCATES READING HABIT THROUGH BOOK FEST (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
SHAH ALAM, July 30 (Bernama) -- Realising that good reading habit is an innate feature of a knowledge society, the 2008 Selangor Book Fair was launched on last Saturday to promote reading habit in the society.
- First for sculpture and Blake Prize (The Australian)
DAVID Tucker's pregnant work has become the first sculpture to win the top $20,000 award in the Blake Prize for religious art.
- Etisalat opens eSummer programme for children (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI - Etisalat Academy on Thursday announced the opening of '8th eSummer', the academy's fun summer programme taking place at its sports and recreation complex until July 31.
- Counter-culture: Sonic Youth tour Europe - cafebabel.com
Counter-culture: Sonic Youth tour Europecafebabel.com, France - 16 minutes agoTo some extent, this ‘accidental poetry’ resembles Jack Kerouac's literature, half way between hallucinogenic art and the world's reality. ...
- William Rockhill Nelson Awards honor Kansas, Missouri writers - Kansas City Star
William Rockhill Nelson Awards honor Kansas, Missouri writersKansas City Star, MO - 8 hours agoGlancy won the poetry award for Asylum in the Grasslands, and Katz was named the nonfiction winner for Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend ...
- Club wields power of the pen - Simi Valley Acorn
Club wields power of the penSimi Valley Acorn, CA - 18 hours ago"I've been trying to write poetry, and sometimes I read it in women's groups or coffee houses." Not all the stories are taken from real-life situations. ...
- On the cusp (Cleburne Times-Review)
Scott Johnson wants to change the world. The 33-year-old Cleburne lyricist has been stringing together rap rhymes for years, but unlike most of the acts heard on mainstream radio, he’s not trying to simply entertain.
- John Lundberg: Poetry, Underground (HuffingtonPost)
Spreading an appreciation for poetry isn't easy in a country that doesn't read as much as it used to and doesn't value the arts as...
- The Fish Schticks/ Bob Hay & The Jolly Beggars/ Allison Weiss ... - Athens Exchange
The Fish Schticks/ Bob Hay & The Jolly Beggars/ Allison Weiss ...Athens Exchange, GA - 1 hour agoBob Hay clearly comes from the old Southern storytelling tradition, and his covering and toying with the poetry of Robert Burns' 16th century Scottish ...
- Poet Al Mahmud - New Nation
Bangladesh's veteran poet Al Mahmud's 72nd birthday was celebrated on 11th July. He was born in a business family in 1936, in Kasba, Brahamanbaria. The night was full of showers when he came down on earth to colour Bengali poetry. He came to Dhaka ...
- Germany films life of critic Reich-Ranicki - Monsters and Critics
Hamburg - Filming begins in July on a biopic depicting the Holocaust years of one of Germany's most extraordinary literary figures: an intense, finger-wagging critic whose judgement about new books has been akin to law for the past 35 years. Marcel ...
- New U of M boss wants more men on campus (Winnipeg Free Press)
There is a motherlode of potential students for Canadian universities despite declining birthrates -- which is why the University of Manitoba is "looking for men," new president David Barnard said Wednesday. Look at any Canadian campus, Barnard said three hours into starting work as U of M's 11th president: "There are three women undergraduates to every two men.
- Sunday at the Skin Launderette, By Kathryn Simmonds - Independent
Sunday at the Skin Launderette, By Kathryn SimmondsIndependent, UK - 3 hours agoSimmonds incorporates life's bits and bobs into her poetry: changing mats, Yellow Pages, a jumbo marker. But what raises her book above the average — it has ...
- Community read-along planned for spring (The Bellingham Herald)
- Life-long bonds emerge from Minneapolis bridge tragedy (USA Today)
On Aug. 1, 2007, the Interstate 35W bridge plunged into the Mississippi River and forever altered the lives of 145 people who were injured, and families and friends of the 13 who died. Since then, dozens of people touched by the tragedy help each other heal, sharing memories of that day and the nightmares that stalk them.
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