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- Prince George poet wins prestigious national award - Prince George Citizen
Prince George poet wins prestigious national awardPrince George Citizen, Canada - 2 hours agoPrince George poet Gillian Wigmore has won the eighth annual 2008 ReLit Award for her collection of poetry, Soft Geography (Caitlin Press), says Rob Budde, ...
- Slavery Apology Is A Political Gimmick - The Bulletin
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed a resolution apologizing to black Americans for slavery and the racial injustice of Jim Crow laws. As with most things Congress does, this action is completely meaningless, nothing more than political ...
- V.S. Naipaul's 'A Writer's People' - International Herald Tribune
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. An Essay in Five Parts. By V.S. Naipaul. 189 pages. $24.95, Alfred A. Knopf; £16.99, Picador. All my life," V.S. Naipaul writes in the introduction to "A Writer's People," his dense, dry, frustrating ...
- Hot Writer/Producer Billy Mann Has Hits With Jessica Simpson, Pink ... - SongwriterUniverse
Hot Writer/Producer Billy Mann Has Hits With Jessica Simpson, Pink ...SongwriterUniverse, CA - 3 hours ago“My songwriting really started with my sister, Karen, who was writing really bad, 12-year-old girl poetry, you know, ‘I really like him but he doesn’t know ...
- Tamil writer on Man Asia long list (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Chennai, Aug 4 (IANS) Rokkiah Malik who writes under the pseudonym Salma is one of the eleven Indian authors contending for this year's Man Asia Literary Prize with her book 'Midnight Tales'
- China's big, tiny win (Chicago Sun-Times)
Chinese blow out U.S. team, but is the victory worth it? BEIJING -- You have to watch ''women's'' gymnastics with one eye closed. Shut down your conscience and watch the beauty of the movements, the power and guts of the girls.
- Coffee houses offer relaxing atmosphere (Asbury Park Press)
With music playing softly in the background and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee in the air, there are many coffee houses in Monmouth and Ocean counties where people can gather and chat, enjoy open mic nights and eat in a relaxing atmosphere.
- TRIPS OUT OF TOWN: Florence's "English" Cemetery - Wanted in Rome
Wanted in RomeTRIPS OUT OF TOWN: Florence's "English" CemeteryWanted in Rome, Italy - 42 minutes agoCourses of book-binding and paper-marbling are offered and there are occasional readings of the poetry of Dante, Barrett Browning and Landor. ...
- Jessica: Outgoing type is into helping others - Louisville Courier-Journal
Jessica: Outgoing type is into helping othersLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 3 hours agoI love: to write poetry, and talk on the phone. The person I most admire is: my grandmother, because she is just a happy person. She doesn't let nothing get ...
- Holocaust survivor’s extraordinary story - WalesOnline
Holocaust survivor’s extraordinary storyWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 35 minutes agoProfessor Rapport’s re-telling of Anka’s story won her the 2007 Ethnographic Poetry Competition, sponsored by the US-based American Anthropology Association ...
- Idaho History: Joaquin Miller's imagination led to a colorful career - Idaho Statesman
Joaquin Miller claimed to know what the name Idaho meant.Generations of Idahoans believed that Idaho was an Indian word, and that it meant something like "light shining down on the mountains" or "gem of the mountains." Nearly all of these fanciful ...
- America Back on Track... for Friday, August 8th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Friday, August 8thOpEdNews, PA - 1 hour agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Community News Briefs - The Bridgeton News - NJ.com
Community News BriefsThe Bridgeton News - NJ.com, NJ - 14 hours agoParents must visit the library to register their teen and sign a permission slip. The trip is free, but a $5 deposit is required at registration. ...
- Religious retreats: Head to the Catskills - Yahoo News
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. - At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- No place like dome: the Emperor Hadrian's connection with the Pantheon - Times Online
It is still the most powerful building in the world. Every time I walk inside – its vast, silent, columnless dome always a surprise after the hubbub of the city – I get goosebumps. If an Ancient Roman were standing right next to you, living ...
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