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- Signature School sophomore among poetry finalists (Evansville Courier & Press)
Chyna Cheaney, a 16-year-old sophomore at Evanville’s Signature School, is among finalists from 10 schools in the state competing in the Indiana Poetry Out Loud competition. She is the only in the region competing in the finals, which will run from noon to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 8, in the Indiana Historical Society’s Frank and Katrina Basile Theatre in Indianapolis.
- Review: 'Resistance' by Owen Sheers (Newsday)
RESISTANCE, by Owen Sheers. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 306 pp., $23.95
- Maya Angelou Announces Contest Winners (CW Arkansas)
World-renowned poet Dr. Maya Angelou was in Little Rock Monday to announce winners of Alltel's "Words of Wisdom" essay contest. Ten students were chosen out of hundreds from across the country for their answer to "What will you do to contribute to a brighter future?"
- Leave the teens to their eyeliner and angst - Yale Daily News
Leave the teens to their eyeliner and angstYale Daily News, CT - 1 hour agoThey’re awkward, travel in packs, loiter in public, write bad poetry and desperately seek affirmation from fellow teens. They’re also gawky and full of teen ...
- Dear John: the people's poet - Guardian
GuardianDear John: the people's poetGuardian, UK - Apr 17, 2008John Betjeman made poetry popular again and his collected works have sold two million. What does he speak to in us? Teddy bear to the nation: Sir John ...
- Ministers in the Spanish Government - Euroresidentes
Ministers in the Spanish GovernmentEuroresidentes, Spain - 5 hours agoHe has published more than 30 books including plays, prose and poetry many of which have been translated into different languages. ...
- Review: REMinding Us of Greatness—Accelerated Parables of the ... - Interference.com
Review: REMinding Us of Greatness—Accelerated Parables of the ...Interference.com - 12 hours agoLike Ben Harper’s “Black Rain” and Arcade Fire’s “Windowsill” (both scathing indictments of the Bush-Katrina chapter in our history), this potent piece ...
- Pocket a Verse to Celebrate Poetry Month - NPR
Pocket a Verse to Celebrate Poetry MonthNPR - 41 minutes ago... of a poem they'll try to share with family and friends and all others who dare to listen to poetry in celebration of Poetry Month across the nation. ...
- John Banville on Seamus Heaney (Guardian Unlimited)
Great poets:John Banville on the high seriousness and wide appeal of Seamus Heaney
- “Yemen’s heritage is precious and deserves tremendous care ... - Yemen Times
Yemen Times“Yemen’s heritage is precious and deserves tremendous care ...Yemen Times, Yemen - 16 hours agoWhile I don’t yet know enough about Yemen’s literary culture, Yemeni writers or the importance that literary culture and poetry in particular holds in the ...
- Entertainment briefs
Charleston Daily Mail - Admission is $5 adults, $4.50 seniors, $1 children 6-12 years old, children 5 and under free. Poet and historian hosting workshop An adult poetry workshop will be held at 10 a.m.
- Grace in the air - News & Observer
Grace in the airNews & Observer, NC - 9 hours agoTo see unexcelled poetry in motion on these warming evenings, look into the skies for the darting blue-black forms of swallows flashing in the fading ...
- Lifting the veil - The Times
Lifting the veilThe Times, South Africa - 22 minutes agoThe apologists for this book might say, “Ah, but Breyten is a poet,” — and it is true he pulls from the hat the occasional glorious line — but poetry ...
- Vendler’s Yeats - Saudi Gazette
The critic is the only artist who depends entirely upon another art form, which means that part of his job is to determine the nature of that relationship. Should he be an advocate? A policeman? A curator? A hanging judge? A mostly loyal but ...
- $1000 for the First Chapter of a Novel? Now That's a Writing Contest - Emediawire (press release)
$1000 for the First Chapter of a Novel? Now That's a Writing ContestEmediawire (press release), WA - 12 hours agoRecent podcasts have focused on writing dialog, the state of poetry today, writing miniseries, and psychological aspects of writing. ...
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