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- Obituaries in the news - Seattle Post Intelligencer
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Eugenio Montejo, a Venezuelan poet and essayist who won the 2004 Octavio Paz prize, died Thursday. He was 70. The poet's publishing house said he died of natural causes. Montejo's poetry is known for its rich texture and was ...
- Beaverbrook story takes 2 Atlantic Book Awards - CBC News
Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy by Jacques Poitras won two awards. (Goose Lane) New Brunswick author and CBC reporter Jacques Poitras has won both the Booksellers' Choice Award and the Best Atlantic Published Book Award for his investigative account ...
- Meeting of laureates - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
There’s a sparseness to Gertrude Halstead’s work, a delicacy of image and language that seems to be lost on many younger poets today. Halstead, the poet laureate of Worcester, is celebrating her 92nd birthday by reading alongside Boston poet ...
- All Observer Stories - Guardian Unlimited
Brown sets out plan for UK pull-out from Iraq Madeleine police chief to launch 'explosive' book Gangs have made Dublin 'like Chicago in the 1920s' US tells lies about torture, say MPs Tory hope for Watford fades as candidate is forced to quit New ...
- 5th Althorp Literary Festival - 13-15 June 2008 - Independent
5th Althorp Literary Festival - 13-15 June 2008Independent, UK - 3 hours agoOn Sunday 15, Andrew Motion talks about poetry and his touching memoir 'In the Blood' (11am), while Helen Dunmore (left) shares the love of Catullus which ...
- La vie d'une poete:French major wins Ralph Emmons poetry contest - Channels Online (subscription)
La vie d'une poete:French major wins Ralph Emmons poetry contestChannels Online (subscription), CA - 1 hour agoDespite her surprise Catherine Estrada, 22, placed first in this year's Emmons poetry contest held by the English department at City College. ...
- 'Poetrix' had ballerina ambitions, but then ... - Montreal Gazette
We are getting a most instructive lecture on some lingo from Down Under. The subject is "pashing," which is Kiwi/Aussie talk for French kissing. Our lecturer is not merely content to pontificate on pashing, but has also penned a sensitive poem, I Am ...
- Thunder and Lightning on the Keys, With Some Intermittent Sunshine - New York Times
New York TimesThunder and Lightning on the Keys, With Some Intermittent SunshineNew York Times, United States - 50 minutes agoBut these moments seemed not to engage Mr. Rose nearly as much as the feistier, flashier ones, and in retrospect, most seemed less like poetry than like ...
- Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc. and Other Top Black Book Publishers to Receive The Wheatley ... (BlackNews.com)
National (BlackNews.com) - Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc. and Executive Director/Co-Founder of the African American Pavilion at BookExpo America has been selected to receive the prestigious Wheatley Book Award.
- Waltzing Maltida a little ditty, historians say - ABC Online
Waltzing Maltida a little ditty, historians sayABC Online, Australia - 1 hour agoHe says people have always extracted their own meanings from poetry but believes Paterson could have been pursuing two goals. "It'd be almost impossible for ...
- Why a Cultural Boycott is Necessary - Arabic Media Internet Network
At what point does rhetoric stop and effective action begin? For Palestinians, decades of dialogue and supposed peace overtures have proved fruitless, only serving to protect the status quo: sixty years of continual dispossession, forty years of ...
- Saqiba Rahimuddin's new books launched in Pakistan - Pakistan Daily
Saqiba Rahimuddin's new books launched in PakistanPakistan Daily, Pakistan - 48 minutes ago... caring for limitations of prose and poetry. Prof Pareshan Khattak said Saqiba was a great writer and poetess as she belonged to a literary family. ...
- Breathing literary life into 1950s Cuba - Los Angeles Times
Breathing literary life into 1950s CubaLos Angeles Times, CA - 26 minutes agoKushner -- who was raised in San Francisco's Haight district by poetry-loving scientist parents and moved to LA in 2003 -- made three long visits to Cuba ...
- It's good old rhyme time - OCRegister
It's good old rhyme timeOCRegister, CA - 4 hours agoSerious poetry will not receive serious consideration. You must be 50 or older to enter. Put your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and age on ...
- Old-fashioned timers are new-styled art in our gardens - Moncton ThisWeek
Old-fashioned timers are new-styled art in our gardensMoncton ThisWeek, Canada - 23 minutes ago... carry cheerful little mottos like "I count only the sunny hours," but ancient sundials had deeper thoughts and poetry and philosophy carved into them. ...
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