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- LATEST HEADLINES (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.
- Catskill Confidential: Arts center’s loss is Bethel museum’s gain (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
"It was awesome," summed up Marlene Castelow, who drove up with her family from the state of Delaware.
- Scots author hits back at Paxman over his attack on Burns’s poetry - The Herald
Scots author hits back at Paxman over his attack on Burns’s poetryThe Herald, UK - 13 hours agoO'Hagan, who believes Burns is the greatest poet the world has seen, was speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He was reacting to Paxman's ...
- Checkered Tartan - Wall Street Journal
For such a small country, Scotland seems to have more than its share of myths, heroes and fantastical legends. Stories of historical figures such as Robert Bruce or "Braveheart" William Wallace can feel as embroidered as those of the Loch Ness ...
- Wiggins is perfect spot to celebrate Juneteenth - Cherry Hill Courier Post
Wiggins is perfect spot to celebrate JuneteenthCherry Hill Courier Post, NJ - 3 hours agoThe event commemorates the day -- June 19, 1865 -- that Union soldiers told slaves in Texas that they were free, 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation ...
- Stand-Ins stands out - Edmonton Sun
Stand-Ins stands outEdmonton Sun, Canada - 4 hours agoWith a voice that could be described as exhausted, Sheff sings words that read like good fiction outside of poetry on paper: "And this thing you once did ...
- A flight attendant went after the Osteens in court, bringing on trials ... - Houston Press
The world is a bleak place in Mac Wellman's hilarious invective A Murder of Crows , now in the hands of Mildred's Umbrella. The apocalyptic tale imagines a landscape ravished by pollution and the empty desires of man. The ocean is "like a big bowl of ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - Ynetnews
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish diesYnetnews, Israel - Aug 9, 2008His poetry is considered to have given voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting. "Exile," he said in a 2001 interview, ...
- What's Happening for Book Lovers (The Plain Dealer)
September means that more writers can be spotted in Northeast Ohio, returning like migratory birds. Some of the exciting ones in the week ahead includes Brad Meltzer, Mary Monroe, Erin McGraw and poet Ali Kazam. Most events are free.
- Cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell to appear in lecture series - Carlsbad Current Argus
Cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell to appear in lecture seriesCarlsbad Current Argus, NM - 5 hours agoHis common sense approach to life and the art of Cowboy Poetry have delighted and inspired audiences across the country. Mitchell will perform at Tydings ...
- Sharp Teeth, By Toby Barlow - The Independent
A novel in verse – about werewolves. Hmm. It's a great elevator pitch, but would anyone actually want to read it? Well, they ought to. The verse is free verse of the loosest kind, often recognisable as verse only by the typography, but the ...
- The Poet Laureate must have the X Factor - Telegraph.co.uk
The Poet Laureate must have the X FactorTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoIf she really has ruled herself out of the running then the nation is the poorer, for Wendy Cope is that very rare thing in the poetry world: a good poet ...
- National Arts Centre 'Legend' dies (The Globe and Mail)
Hamilton Southam, diplomat, founding visionary of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and many other cultural and historical institutions, died quietly Tuesday in Ottawa
- How to live a braver, wilder life - New Statesman
New StatesmanHow to live a braver, wilder lifeNew Statesman, UK - 2 hours agoHe lies down among the clouds, pure human poetry, flirting crazily with death. The cops clumsily bundle him into a police van after he has conquered the ...
- So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, adieu - San Mateo Daily Journal
So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, adieuSan Mateo Daily Journal, CA - 8 hours agoI have yet to learn hatred and why it is appealing when love is so much nicer. I have yet to learn all of the poems, stories and songs in the world. ...
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