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- UCR professor wins book award - Riverside Press Enterprise
Christopher Abani, a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside, has won the PEN/Beyond Margins Award for his novel "Song for Night." Abani said the award is a particular honor for him because it is from a prestigious writers' organization and is ...
- Taking the Kids: Youth art exhibit at the De Young Museum - Oakland Tribune
WHY IT'S COOL: San Francisco's famous de Young Museum is known for its collection of American art, native American, African and Pacific Rim art, but this week, the de Young showcases a distinctly different exhibition, the 22nd annual Young at Art ...
- Phoebe Snow is back, and playing in Peekskill - Lower Hudson Journal news
Phoebe Snow is back, and playing in PeekskillLower Hudson Journal news, NY - 14 minutes agoCelebrated for her powerful voice and vocal phrasing, she had a hit single with "Poetry Man," from her eponymous 1974 debut, which went gold on the strength ...
- Publicize Your Love - TheStranger.com
TheStranger.comPublicize Your LoveTheStranger.com, WA - 42 minutes agoIt's been a while since I read an entire book of poetry in rapture. After finishing Rising, Falling, Hovering, I was reminded of why I love the medium, ...
- People: Nancy Dell’Olio; John Motson - Times Online
The fusilli are flying after Nancy Dell’Olio claimed that Italian chefs in Britain cannot get their pasta right. “Giorgio at Locanda Locatelli, Giuseppe at Cipriano, Lorenzo at San Lorenzo — I think they all boil it too long,” the former ...
- School stages moors musical - Whitby Today
School stages moors musicalWhitby Today, UK - 3 hours agoActivities undertaken by children included poetry writing, singing and playing musical instruments including guitars, piano, wind and percussion. ...
- Leader sent to war crimes court (Sydney Morning Herald)
A SERBIAN judge has decided to hand over the arrested former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
- CULTURE-PAKISTAN: Afghan Refugee Poets Behind Pashto Revival - Inter Press Service (subscription)
CULTURE-PAKISTAN: Afghan Refugee Poets Behind Pashto RevivalInter Press Service (subscription), Italy - 8 minutes agoBy Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, May 28 (IPS) - Afghanistan’s tumultuous history of the last three decades is behind the incredible popularity of poetry in ...
- Carla Bruni: First lady of schmaltz - The Independent
Carla Bruni is a self-styled femme fatale. So it's a pity that on her new album, the French President's wife comes across as simpering and weedy, says Andy Gill Sometimes, a confluence of celebrity circumstance reaches such a critical mass of PR ...
- Memorial Day: Many Q-C residents might spend the holiday at home - Quad-Cities Times
Chloe, 6, from Viola, Il., volunteers with her mom Annalee as they place flags on the graves of soldiers at the National Cemetery on the Rock Island Arsenal. (John Schultz/QUAD-CITY TIMES) Buy this Photo! The Memorial Day weekend traditionally starts ...
- Poetic friendship blossomed from a shared love of words (Baltimore Sun)
New book celebrates the late poet Josephine Jacobsen and her 'gift for happiness' The poet Josephine Jacobsen, in an essay she wrote for The Sun almost 30 years ago, decried how hard it was to get inside things that should be easy to open (milk cartons, aspirin bottles), yet how quickly Americans seemed to expect personal intimacy.
- Festival facts - Reading Eagle
Festival factsReading Eagle, PA - May 19, 2008The art exhibit will be open daily from Monday, May 26, to Friday, June 6, from 11 am to 4 pm On Sunday, June 1, from 2 to 5 pm at the college there will be ...
- ABC Fawns: 'Amazing,' 'Ground-Breaking,' 'Historic' Clinton - News Busters
With Hillary Clinton's presidential run apparently over, ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday offered a love letter to the New York Senator. Well known Clinton fan Kate Snow and co-host Diane Sawyer rhapsodized about Clinton's "ground-breaking ...
- Salon's guide to summer music festivals - Salon
June 5, 2008 | "Peace, love, and music" was the rallying cry of 400,000 hippies who converged on Yasgur's farm in Bethel, N.Y., nearly two generations ago. Despite the overdosing and overcrowding (not to mention that odd moment when Pete Townshend ...
- Quardle, oodle, ardle... - New Zealand Herald
Quardle, oodle, ardle...New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 1 hour agoBy Jo McCarroll It is, in so far as such things can be judged, the best-known line in New Zealand poetry; the refrain of Denis Glover's poem The Magpies ...
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