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- UT grad captures Literature Prize - Austin American-Statesman
A playwright and recent grad of the University of Texas' James A. Michener Center for Writers has won the university's $50,000 Keene Prize for Literature. George Brant 's play, "Elephant's Graveyard," took the top honor out of 51 submissions, which ...
- Celebration to add spice to release of Kenilworth cookbook (The Star-Ledger)
Call it a taste of Kenilworth, with a glimpse into its homes, restaurants and schools. The cookbook "Culinary Kenilworth" is a compilation of residents' favorite recipes and will be available for purchase during a book release celebration tomorrow at the Kenilworth Veterans Center.
- Dylan Thomas Prize Finalists Announced (The New York Sun)
The 14 finalists for the Dylan Thomas literary prize were announced yesterday, the BBC reported. The award honors English-language works by authors under 30, and is one of the largest literary purses an author can receive. At a press conference in Swansea, Wales, the late poet's hometown, actor Michael Sheen read the names of works of fiction and poetry that will vie for the $115,000 prize, to ...
- Review: 'Sing Me Back Home' strikes personal notes - St. Petersburg Times
This book is one of the best things written about American music in the past two decades. Not since Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music in 1986 has a writer so deftly interwoven music history with the fabric of the daily lives of those who listen to ...
- Mother spoke of dreams for future (Forbes Advocate)
THE policewoman whose young children and mother were allegedly murdered in Cowra on Monday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- The Hold Steady: The best classic rock band you never heard of would ... - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
When bands like Hinder, Buckcherry or 3 Doors Down are heralded by pop culture pundits as being saviors of rock, returning the genre to prominence after a dominant run of pop starlets and hip-hop acts, you can’t help but wonder if the pundits ever ...
- Off the wall - Guardian Unlimited
It was raining in Londinium. The river's brown smear struck Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus as a sick, savage parody of the Tiber, so far away, so longed for. This province was a rotten place to find yourself suddenly unemployed. But some would say ...
- Poetry review: 'Work' interprets the world - San Francisco Chronicle
Poetry review: 'Work' interprets the worldSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoBy Elizabeth Bradfield Elizabeth Bradfield thinks hard about being a naturalist in her new book of poetry, "Interpretive Work." Many of Bradfield's poems ...
- One actor, one stage, nine Iraqi lives (Portland Tribune)
The pedigree of Heather Raffo’s “9 Parts of Desire†is beyond question. The one-woman play was both a critical and popular hit when it opened in New York in 2004, prompting The New Yorker magazine to call it “an example of how art can remake the world.†For ...
- Cool So Is Thriller This - Newsweek
Cool So Is Thriller ThisNewsweek - 7 hours agoIt's a gripping, utterly unexpected noir, glinting with bits of poetry and a hard, deadpan humor. And it goes backward. The entire movie. ...
- Playhouse Jr. clowns around with double feature - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Playhouse Jr. clowns around with double featurePittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 2 hours ago"Kids coming to the show are going to see a real kaleidoscope of colors ... and an alliteration of poetry," Vinski says. "They're learning lessons and a ...
- Sarah Slean back from the - Jam! Showbiz
Sarah Slean back from theJam! Showbiz, Canada - 8 hours agoAnd that, needless to add, is what keeps this sensitive artist going, expressing herself not only through music but also through poetry. ...
- America Back on Track... for Tuesday, June 17th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from W.F. Hightower who said, "Everybody does better when everybody does better." Some observations on the news... "Franco is rallying." That was a joke around the newsroom long after the Spanish dictator had died in 1975. For ...
- Poet laureate of American hymns dies at 89 - West Salem Coulee News
Poet laureate of American hymns dies at 89West Salem Coulee News, WI - 1 hour agoAt 18, Vajda began translating Slovak stories and poetry. “His interest in hymn writing came through his translation work,†said Barry Bobb, choral director ...
- Statehood party planning starts on the Kenai Peninsula - Kodiak Daily Mirror
KENAI, Alaska (AP) -- International Space Station astronauts orbiting high above Alaska on a dark January night early next year might suspect something terrible is happening below when they spy large fires erupting across the Kenai Peninsula. It won ...
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