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- Little things mean a lot - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphLittle things mean a lotCalcutta Telegraph, India - 31 minutes agoKabita was a new voice as it was exclusively meant for Bengali poetry. The poetry of Jibanananda Das, Sukanta Bhattacharya and Samar Sen added a new ...
- Let's put City Hall to a vote - Boston Globe
Let's put City Hall to a voteBoston Globe, United States - 2 hours agoPlenty of important art, like Lucien Freud's portraits or Allen Ginsburg's poetry, also manages to offend standard sensibilities, but no one is forced to ...
- World writers decry censorship at Swedish literary meet - Local
Bangladeshi novelist-in-hiding Taslima Nasreen joined international writers gathered at a literary conference in Stockholm on Tuesday to deplore how censorship and persecution affect their work. Controversial author offered refuge in Sweden (2 Jun 08 ...
- Getting club open no laughing matter - Lancaster Newspapers
Getting club open no laughing matterLancaster Newspapers, PA - 16 hours agoIn keeping with its name, the Ad Lib Cafe will offer home-grown entertainment, including poetry slams Tuesday nights, comedy Wednesday nights, ...
- Three Days To Hone Craft, Meet Agents And Talk Shop - Evening Bulletin
Three Days To Hone Craft, Meet Agents And Talk ShopEvening Bulletin, PA - 27 minutes agoParticipants will have the opportunity to explore many topics including novel, magazine, poetry, memoir, nonfiction books, short story and juvenile writing. ...
- Anne d’Harnoncourt dies (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Anne d’Harnoncourt, leader of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1982, died unexpectedly this morning at age 64.
- The house where Al Purdy lived is on the block (The Globe and Mail)
You can find his widow, Eurithe, on the roof, caring for the Eastern Ontario cabin in which her husband morphed from tortured writer to poetic icon
- Retreats offered at Sinsinawa Mound - East Dubuque Register
Retreats offered at Sinsinawa MoundEast Dubuque Register, IL - 2 hours agoAt the "Poetry and Spiritual Landscapes" retreat at Sinsinawa Mound July 11-13, we will consider ways of entering a poem and will allow poets, old and new, ...
- Poet Kay Ryan is named poet laureate of US - Straits Times
NEW YORK - KAY Ryan, an award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described 'modern hermit,' has been named the next US poet laureate. The Library of Congress announced on Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical ...
- Melinger learned craft of writing from best - Baytown Sun
While helping to run The Style Shoppe, a family-owned business on Texas Avenue, Al Melinger wrote a guest column every now and then for The Baytown Sun. When his columns did appear, under the standing headline “Sporadically,” they were well worth ...
- Historian and history maker - Guardian Unlimited
When a friend dies, a part of you dies too. When Bronislaw Geremek was killed in a car accident on Sunday, a part of Europe was lost as well. I remember him once turning to me in a corridor of the Polish parliament, which he had helped to make again ...
- Time for festival Betjeman evening - Morley Observer
Time for festival Betjeman eveningMorley Observer, UK - 54 minutes ago"As well as coming along to listen to the poetry readings, we hope members of the audience will volunteer to read out their own favourite Betjeman poem. ...
- Dining out: More than java to Cafe Eclectic - commercialappeal.com (subscription)
Dining out: More than java to Cafe Eclecticcommercialappeal.com (subscription), TN - 2 hours agoThe friend I split this sandwich with wrote in an e-mail, "I can confidently say that it is one of the best sandwiches I have ever eaten. ...
- Kate Clanchy's workshop - guardian.co.uk
Kate Clanchy's workshopguardian.co.uk, UK - 21 minutes ago... poetry prize (best poetry collection of the year) and won a Scottish Arts Council book award. Her latest collection is Newborn, a collection of poems ...
- C. D. Wright's 'Rising, Falling, Hovering' - International Herald Tribune
A quick glance at C. D. Wright's resumé confirms her position as a major American poet - a dozen critically praised books; the requisite laundry list of awards, grants and prizes; a day job teaching literature at Brown University - but in her case ...
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