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- Prize winning poet Hayden Carruth dies - Newsday
not win a Pulitzer. SUBS graf 4 with Carruth a Pulitzer finalist in 1987 and a National Book Award finalist in 1974 and 1992. MUNNSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) _ Hayden Carruth, a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry who wrote about the ordinary folks ...
- V for Vixen - Hour.ca
Hour.caV for VixenHour.ca, Canada - 10 hours agoI've been invited to a lot of sexy events in my life, from burlesque shows with lube wrestling to raunchy poetry nights, and it occurs to me that while I'm ...
- Cobblestone Festival revives play about turn-of-century Paris ... - Brantford Expositor
Cobblestone Festival revives play about turn-of-century Paris ...Brantford Expositor, Canada - 3 hours agoAn eccentric figure, West performed waltzes and marches, sang and recited poetry at garden parties and Sunday school picnics. The son of Scottish immigrants ...
- At Vermont writing summit, schlepping goes with scholarship (Boston Globe)
It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s.
- Saudi Child Marriages Draw Media Attention, Outcry - Tampa Bay Online
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - An 11-year-old boy gave out invitations to his classmates for a big event his family was planning this summer - and it wasn't his birthday party. It was his wedding to a 10-year-old cousin. Muhammad al-Rashidi's marriage was ...
- Cubans Greet Fidel Castro on His Birthday - La Prensa Latina
Havana, Aug 13 (Prensa Latina) Cubans and the social movements of different parts of the world sent on Wednesday sincere and warm messages of gratitude to leader Fidel Castro for his teachings and examples, on the occasion of his 82nd birthday. Cuba ...
- Waipio Valley, Hawaii: Lost World - OCRegister
Waipio Valley, Hawaii: Lost WorldOCRegister, CA - 39 minutes agoA great choice is the Library, an upstairs room filled with poetry, philosophy and history books (and a few beach-tome potboilers). ...
- Back to poetry, after a year promoting it (Concord Monitor)
Let's get one thing straight right off the top: Charles Simic was not George Bush's poet laureate.
- Event to revive Copacabana experience (Miami Herald)
Young Patronesses of the Opera will transform the ballroom of The Inter-Continental Hotel Miami into the famed Copacabana nightclub at its upcoming Nov. 1 black-tie ball.
- 'Real Housewives' live large in new city (CNN)
NEW YORK (AP) -- How do the ladies of "Real Housewives" measure success? In New York co-ops, gated McMansions, fairy-tale weddings, Rolex watches and shameless social climbing.
- Proposal aims to foster live entertainment in Baltimore - Baltimore Sun
Baltimore's night scene, from dance clubs and karaoke bars to stand-up comedy and poetry slams, could get a boost under a bill expected to be introduced today in the City Council. The proposal, sponsored by City Council President Stephanie C ...
- The spy who loved books - Scotsman
The spy who loved booksScotsman, United Kingdom - 21 minutes agoAnd, it seems, for writing. The book includes dashes of his own poetry and prose, including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Horse, in which he recalls the ...
- Writers read in USI's RopeWalk series (Evansville Courier & Press)
Guest writers from California and Pennsylvania will share their verse and prose in readings at the University of Southern Indiana this month as part of the RopeWalk Reading Series.
- 9/11 tributes by churches, Wadleigh (The Cabinet)
William Bonner and his daughter Emily at the 2002 Sept. 11 remembrance on the Milford Oval. MILFORD — From the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001 some good things have evolved, including a renewed interest in this country’s ideals and its place in the world.
- Mid-Michigan students plant pinwheels for peace - Lansing State Journal
OKEMOS -- The messages written on the tiny pinwheels are equally tiny, but powerful. "Love." "End War." "Peace." Those are some of the messages scrawled on more than 100 pinwheels students at Chippewa Middle School in Okemos planted in the ground as ...
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