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- Biteback: Why Simon Armitage should be the next Laureate - Times Online
Biteback: Why Simon Armitage should be the next LaureateTimes Online, UK - 15 hours agoBut one reason Motion got the job was that the government wanted to boost interest in poetry, which he has done. Early next year, the culture secretary, ...
- Youth equisterian: Meet in Mystic - Norwich Bulletin
- Evergreen Hunter: Chippa Sunshine ridden by Marissa Sylvester 1st, 1st, 3rd, 1st = Champion. - Modified Adult Equitation Joanne Dawley 3rd, 4th, ---; Marya Monte 4th, 1st, 4th = Reserve Champion; Pam McChesney ---, ---, 3rd. - Modified Adult Hunter ...
- Tracking a Mass. murder mystery (Boston Globe)
In 2005, a 20-year quest to track down one of Massachusetts's longest-wanted criminals, Norman Porter Jr., came to an end. As ends often do, it opened a new chapter - the "now what?" phase - that gets a careful investigation in Rowley director-producer Susan Gray's new film, "Killer Poet."
- `Gurgitators' race: Eating contest this week (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
'Gurgitators' race Some call it gross. Some call it down-right ridiculous.
- Asian connection (The Star)
HERE’S a trick question for the fashionista: What do Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and John Galliano all have in common? Well, yes, they all have ties with the House of Dior, but the answer this time is that their designs have been inspired by Asia at one time or another.
- Area writers win library's writing competition - Pembroke Daily Observer
Area writers win library's writing competitionPembroke Daily Observer, Canada - 3 hours agoLibrary hosted the presentation ceremonies for its poetry and prose contest, held in partnership with the city to mark the 180th anniversary celebrations. ...
- Alt Text: The Sci-Fi Rejection Letter That Time Forgot (Wired News)
Dear Author, We appreciate your submission of your short story, "In the Year 2008," to Astonishing Chronicles magazine. However, we regret to inform you that we cannot publish your story. As the premier science-fiction periodical, Astonishing Chronicles publishes stories ranging from the merely hypothetical to the completely outlandish, but you should not infer from this that we ...
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- New book -- The White Guy: A Field Guide - Belleville Intelligencer
New book -- The White Guy: A Field GuideBelleville Intelligencer, Canada - 1 hour agoHunt attended graduate school at the University of British Columbia, and said the ideas that lead to the book were born there in a poetry class. ...
- Report Finds Racial Disparities in the Severity of Punishment (Washington Post)
The nation's juvenile justice system metes out harsher punishment to black and Latino youths, locks up thousands of children for relatively minor offenses and ultimately makes them more dangerous, according to a national study released yesterday.
- Two wheels - Guardian Unlimited
One night, my friend Paul and I were admiring our bikes as they leaned against the pub railings. "Beautiful, aren't they," he said fondly. "Two triangles and two circles." Marcel Duchamp might have agreed: the first of his "readymades", created in ...
- Nico Muhly's many 'Tongues' - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesNico Muhly's many 'Tongues'Los Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoFor Muhly, however, there’s poetry in all that data. “If you ask someone to name all the phone numbers you can off the top of your head, it’s going to be ...
- Raised in cane - The Columbus Dispatch
L OS ANGELES -- When Americans think of 1950s Cuba, they tend to picture Fidel Castro ranting in tattered fatigues about the revolution. But a new novel paints a different picture: United Fruit Co. executives in starched linen suits, daughters who ...
- A dream come true - Bancroft This Week
A dream come trueBancroft This Week, Canada - 1 hour agoHer book of poetry Kaleidoscope of Praise went on sale in October and within two months she sold out of 250 copies sending her back to her publishers ...
- London Poetry Festival (London SE1)
As its signature presentation the 4th London Poetry Festival will present this year's five Poets in Residence in all four of the evening events.
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