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- Breakfast at Mona's worth the wait (Rocky Mountain News)
It's breakfast time at Mona's, and the dining room is a blur of bodies. Even if the coffee isn't always warm and the weekend waits incite near-hysteria, people are happy here.
- Black lawmakers emotional about Obama's success (The Politico)
At least five African-Americans before Obama have mounted serious campaigns for president, and Obama's win has stirred emotions for black politicians.
- Woman celebrates 100th birthday - Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- Wilda Dillon, the grandmother and great-grandmother of several Huntington area residents, will celebrate her 100th birthday on Saturday, July 19. She was born in 1908 at Kirk and is a resident of Radnor in Wayne County, according to ...
- New Frame story published in The New Yorker - Radio New Zealand
New Frame story published in The New YorkerRadio New Zealand, New Zealand - 1 hour agoShe says proceeds from the sale of rights to the literary works will fund grants for New Zealand writers of poetry and imaginative fiction.
- Poetry comes alive at the Bean Cycle | By Alexandra Bartz Loveland Reporter-Herald (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Poets month after month willingly strut their shaky hands, slipped-up syllables and stumbled-over sentences in front of strangers; slam poetry can be far from pretty, perfect or profound. Yet, it’s this imperfection that gives the Fort Collins Poetry Slam a sense of rawness and what gives Northern Colorado an added element of culture. “Fort Collins is a college town where poetry is something ...
- Poet Gabriel Back - radiovop.com
Poet Gabriel Backradiovop.com, Zimbabwe - 7 hours agoGabriel told RadioVOP that she was back and happy “I missed this place and have new poetry to spit to my fans. It Is a welcome feeling to see that I was ...
- Colleges Explore Alternative Revenue Streams (BusinessWeek)
To supplement tuition income, colleges are looking at everything from high-demand graduate courses to real estate deals
- Obama's "guilty" associations - renewamerica.us
Obama's "guilty" associationsrenewamerica.us, DC - 9 hours agoThe United States Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without ...
- Abu Dhabi hosts dates festival next month - Middle East Online
Middle East OnlineAbu Dhabi hosts dates festival next monthMiddle East Online, UK - 3 hours agoThe Liwa Mazayin Al Ratb Festival this year will include a group wedding, an evening of poetry, religious lectures, a special session to educate children on ...
- 826michigan offers summer writing programs - The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
826michigan offers summer writing programsThe Ann Arbor News - MLive.com, MI - 11 hours agoPrograms, dates and times of activities at its location, 115 E. Liberty St., follow: • Creative writing workshops in journalism, poetry, story telling and ...
- Our History Across the Landscape: The Architecture of Dartmouth (Dartmouth Review)
Dartmouth ranks among the oldest colleges in America, and the deep sense of history and loyalty shared by alumni for their College over the centuries reflects this. Yet in terms of physical buildings, little remains that connects the students of today with Eleazar Wheelock’s wooden college.
- Poet’s first collection a remarkable beginning - The Chronicle Herald
I MUST BEGIN my review of Johanna Skibsrud’s Late Nights with wild Cowboys (Gaspereau Press, $18.95), her debut poetry collection, with two disclosures: 1) she was once my student in a class at the University of Toronto; 2) her publisher is also my ...
- Canadian novelist, poet Margaret Atwood wins Spanish literary award (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
MADRID, Spain - Canadian author Margaret Atwood has won Spain's Prince of Asturias literary prize. The jury praised the 68-year-old writer for work that covers several genres "with sharpness and irony."
- Chalk Talk: San Mateo County teen poet makes anthology (San Mateo County Times)
Justine Drennan's parents often read stories to her as a young child."So it seemed natural to think of my own stories to write," said Drennan, 19, a graduate of Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough going into her second year at Princeton University.
- Win rekindles poet's passion - Auckland stuff.co.nz
Auckland stuff.co.nzWin rekindles poet's passionAuckland stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 44 minutes agoHers was one of 70 poems submitted to the competition, which was launched to continue Mr Gadd’s support of poetry in the city. It is designed to give people ...
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