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- Toronto writer's The Outlander wins First Novel Award (CBC)
A debut novel about a 19-year-old widow fleeing her ruthless brothers-in-law through the Rockies in the winter of 1903 has won the $7,500 First Novel Award.
- Tuned In to Yoav - 6abc.com
Tuned In to Yoav6abc.com, PA - 1 hour ago"I'd written poetry since I was a little kid and there were always melodies in my head, I just had to learn how to bring them together. ...
- Ryan reading to kick off literary season (Moldova.org)
Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate consultant in poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, has agreed to open the library's 2008-2009 literary season with a reading.The library said the event is to take place Oct. 16 in the Mumford Room of the James Madison Building in Washington. Sponsored by the library's Poetry and Literature Center in the Office of Scholarly Programs, the reading is free and open ...
- Blogging Brobdingnagian Blowback: Khody Akhavi - Antiwar.com
Blogging Brobdingnagian Blowback: Khody AkhaviAntiwar.com, CA - 3 hours agoEngelhardt's work – and those he selects from the blog – read like poetry. In the rapid-fire blogger world, he breaks the mold by sticking to the old ways: ...
- Freeland's Art-in-the-Park event features music, working artists, wine ... - MLive.com
A "village of tents" will set the scene when the third Freeland Arts-in-the-Park outing takes place in Tittabawassee Township Park, 9200 Midland Road. "Food, music, wine, art ... what more could you ask for," says Brian Kischnick, the township ...
- Royal Oak man's videos help deaf people connect to pop culture - Detroit Free Press
The girls would smile, and ask for more, and that's when Sean Forbes realized he was on to something good. The 26-year-old Royal Oak resident, partially deaf since infancy, had a can't-miss party trick: interpreting hit songs for his friends, using ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died after heart surgery - Arab Monitor
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died after heart surgeryArab Monitor, Italy - Aug 9, 2008Mahmoud Darwish, born 1942 in the Galilee, published some 25 books of poetry and prose deeply inspired by his life as Palestinian exilé. ...
- Programs about poets - Central Maine Morning Sentinel
Programs about poetsCentral Maine Morning Sentinel, ME - 1 hour agoMariani has published extensively, including his own poetry collections and biographies of Robert Lowell (Lost Puritan, Norton, 1996). ...
- End the Diffusion - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsEnd the DiffusionOpEdNews, PA - 26 minutes agoLet’s start by doing away with the hyphenates – African-American, Hispanic-American, Native-America, et cetera – that persistently divide us and put ...
- Chilean Poet Wins Pablo Neruda Award - Prensa Latina
Chilean Poet Wins Pablo Neruda AwardPrensa Latina, Cuba - 2 hours agoSantiago de Chile, Jul 30 (Prensa Latina) President Michelle Bachelet handed on Wednesday the 2008 Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award to Chilean poet ...
- A defense lobbyist who favors an ax - The Hill
A defense lobbyist who favors an axThe Hill, DC - 2 hours agoBy Roxana Tiron The leather cowboy boots should be the first hint. And then there’s the almost unnoticeable piercing in his left ear  not exactly a ...
- The Hunters Lullaby: Flying Solo with Our Lady Peace's Raine Maida - Deadbolt
DeadboltThe Hunters Lullaby: Flying Solo with Our Lady Peace's Raine MaidaDeadbolt - 1 hour agoI had a bunch of these ideas and I kind of got back into poetry and heavily into the whole spoken word movement that’s been going on for a little while now. ...
- 'Anathem' - Neal Stephenson takes lofty aim - San Francisco Gate
With the 900-some page philosophical adventure epic "Anathem" now in stores and "Rock 'n' Roll," a chronicle of the Prague Spring and its aftermath currently playing at the American Conservatory Theater, the following analogy is worth serious ...
- Controversial Stitching Extends Off-Broadway to Aug. 2 ... - Playbill.com
Controversial Stitching Extends Off-Broadway to Aug. 2 ...Playbill.com, NY - 5 hours agoThe visceral poetry and physicality between the lovers creates a surprisingly tender, often humorous, brutal romance. Stitching challenges the notions of ...
- In Downtown Brooklyn, a Sort of Circus in Celebration of Everything Literary (New York Times)
The third Brooklyn Book Festival drew a crowd of 20,000, and 150 authors, on Sunday.
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