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- Nobel laureate Walcott mocks Naipaul in verse - Express India
London, June 2: For years Nobel prize-winning poet Derek Walcott has traded insults with Sir VS Naipaul. Now, he has upped the ante by slamming his old sparring partner in a poem that mocked the Indian-origin author as a "mongoose". The St Lucian ...
- BC Book Prizes awarded - Georgia Straight
The 24th annual BC Book Prizes gala took place April 26 at the Fairmont Waterfront hotel, where a total of $19,000 in prize money was handed out. Mary Novik took home the $2,000 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Conceit. The $2,000 ...
- Maine sails: A briny breeze and way too much good food (Miami Herald)
We've been stuffed with fresh blueberry pancakes and perfectly-crisped bacon, tempted with salads and pork in barbecue sauce and home-baked focaccia, sated with all the steamed lobster and corn-on-the-cob we can manage in a single sitting.
- Dear Readers ... (Gloucester Daily Times)
Do you write poetry? Would you like to contribute to the new Poets Corner in the Gloucester Daily Times? Just e-mail your original work to gdt@ecnnews.com, or bring or mail it to "Poets' Corner," Gloucester Daily Times, 36 Whittemore St., Gloucester, MA 01930. We'd be glad to share your work with readers throughout the community in the Poets Corner each Friday morning in the Gloucester Daily ...
- Film, Art Fest back in town - Foothills Focus
Film, Art Fest back in townFoothills Focus, AZ - 1 hour agoTalented residents from across the state are encouraged to submit entries in film, visual arts, poetry, short stories, photography and original song through ...
- Near Mantua, Italy - guardian.co.uk
Near Mantua, Italyguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoVirgil's influence saturates English poetry: high points of inspiration include Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece, Milton's Paradise ...
- Yahoo adds 94 newspapers to online ad consortium (The Washington Times)
Yahoo Inc. says 94 newspapers have joined its online advertising consortium, bringing the total to nearly 800.
- Iqbal the enchanter - Saudi Gazette
GHAZAL singing, the most popular and versatile poetic-musical art form in the Indian subcontinent, has traveled to the different parts of the world with Indian diaspora. Last week, Khalid Iqbal, an Indian ghazal singer, presented a unique and ...
- I Thought I Missed My Pre-Mom Business Trips, Until I Took One Again - North Star Writers Group
I Thought I Missed My Pre-Mom Business Trips, Until I Took One AgainNorth Star Writers Group, MI - 11 hours agoI have a feeling that when he decides he’s too cool for this activity, I’ll switch to poetry instead of novels. I guess it took a botched business trip to ...
- Cowra mum robbed of everything she loved (Daily Telegraph)
LYING in her hospital bed yesterday, her physical pain was nothing compared with her emotional turmoil.
- India, literature and culture - Telegraph.co.uk
India, literature and cultureTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoHe cashed in on the late 19th-century revival of medieval Bengali poetry by inventing an alter ego, "Bhanusingha", a medieval poet who wrote convincingly in ...
- British universities are losing out as big bucks are leading ... - guardian.co.uk
British universities are losing out as big bucks are leading ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoThere are plenty of poets, in particular, who'll make more out of their archives than they have from writing." Sheppard is also chair of the Group for ...
- The Poetry that Grows in the Brazilian Jungle - Brazzil Magazine
Poetry mixed with Lebanese origins, memories of childhood and of Amazonian legends. Jorge Tufic had a meeting with poetical inspiration at an early age, in the city of Sena Madureira, in the state of Acre, in northern Brazil, with the arrival of the ...
- Good Day Baltimore: Gang Gang Dance brings it to the Ottobar (Baltimore Examiner)
With sweet, girly vocals and sexy percussion that teeters between bright and sunny and dark and sultry, Brooklyn, N.Y., trio Gang Gang Dance brings on the beat with interesting instrument combinations that'll make you want to get up and get down. 10 p.m. $10. The Ottobar, 2549 N. Howard St., Baltimore. 410-662-0069.
- Free Speech In China? Text Me - NPR News
NPR.org , July 2, 2008 · If Romeo and Juliet lived in modern China, their dialogue would probably be in 70-character text messages. That's how college student Wong Lei's boyfriend courted her. "He told me his experiences from the time he was born ...
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