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- Cold Snack Devoured by Poetry Award Judges (Scoop.co.nz)
Janet Charman has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards poetry category in a tough contest, one that marked a bumper year for New Zealand poetry. Charman took the prize for her poetry collection Cold Snack.
- City return for Cohen - Manchester Online
City return for CohenManchester Online, UK - 7 hours agoAs dark as it gets, you still feel that beauty is truth. “He makes something beautiful out of this blackness. He finds shades in the blackness that feel ...
- Lonely life as commoner for Nepal's former king (TODAYonline)
File photo of ex-kKing Gyanendra of Nepal. With few friends coming to visit and his son and one-time heir now living in Singapore, the new life of Nepal's ousted king as a commoner is by all accounts a lonely, meditative one.
- At Tanglewood, a modernist oasis - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeAt Tanglewood, a modernist oasisBoston Globe, United States - 8 hours agoOne relatively new and gorgeous vocal work was "In the Distances of Sleep," a 2006 setting of Wallace Stevens poetry, cogently led on Tuesday by Jeffrey ...
- Ursula K Le Guin (Guardian Unlimited)
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
- Global majority deem "war on terror" a failure - Open Democracy
Global majority deem "war on terror" a failureOpen Democracy, UK - 6 hours agoOsama bin Laden's poetry surfaces in academic journal. Somali pirates discover 33 Russian-made tanks on captured vessel. And much more in today's briefing. ...
- A decade of Dutt magic - Business Line
Business LineA decade of Dutt magicBusiness Line, India - 4 hours agoGuru Dutt’s romance with the film’s heroine, Waheeda Rehman, who plays the role of Gulabo, the streetwalker with a penchant for poetry, has been well known. ...
- Young Asian writers work with Sundra - Journal Live
Young Asian writers work with SundraJournal Live, UK - 1 hour agoThe aspiring writers, aged between 13 and 18, were asked to develop their own poetry and short stories on the theme of home, for a unique publication, ...
- Cleveland's WCLV to air complete 'Ring' cycle to salute Olympics - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Many music lovers consider Wagner's "Ring" cycle an event of Olympian proportions. After all, the saga contains almost 15 hours of music and requires singers of heroic accomplishments, not to mention a conductor and orchestra of inspired gifts. Peter ...
- Yeh hai Hinglishtan meri jaan! - Hindustan Times
Yeh hai Hinglishtan meri jaan!Hindustan Times, India - 36 minutes agoHe said, "All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry." Thomas Hardy was not convinced. He felt it bore the terrible marks of the beast. ...
- God is a Writer -- Dios es Escribo -- Writer’s Conference - HuntingtonNews.Net
Experience the Harlem Renaissance revisited and remixed southern style in the beautiful autumn hills of Huntington, WV. Chapter’s Advertising presents the first annual Dios Es Escribo (God is a Writer) Writer’s Conference held at the Pullman ...
- Livermore man, 84, writes of Brooklyn boyhood (Contra Costa Times)
Gifts from aunt led to career at laboratory, author recalls
- USC's Poetry Initiative accepting manuscripts for chapbook contest - Orangeburg Times Democrat
USC's Poetry Initiative accepting manuscripts for chapbook contestOrangeburg Times Democrat, SC - 2 hours agoCOLUMBIA -- The South Carolina Poetry Initiative at the University of South Carolina is accepting entries for the state's fourth annual chapbook contest. ...
- Simon Callow: My first love (Independent)
I was sixteen. I was always falling in love. This very natural state of affairs was rendered complicated by the fact that the year was 1965 and boys weren't suppose to fall in love with boys. I felt no guilt about the direction of my desires, but I was loth to express them, partly because I knew that if I picked the wrong person to make my declaration of love to, I could get punched on the ...
- Kinsley: Correction, Please! - Slate
Does it matter if the NY Times , Time and NBC News don't report it if mid-level metropolitan papers and bloggers do? I'd say a fair test is whether Jay Leno's audience gets his John Edwards jokes. He told one last Tuesday. It bombed--it was clear ...
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