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- Poet Imlah wins £10,000 prize - BBC Entertainment
Scottish poet Mick Imlah has won the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry. The 52-year-old scooped the £10,000 award for his second collection, The Lost Leader, which delves into Scotland's rich history. Amongst the poet's subjects are iconic ...
- Meet the Mughals - Detroit News
"The Private World of India's Mughal Emperors," which opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts on Saturday, offers a visually stunning show of miniature paintings and exquisite calligraphy that illuminate royal life in a Muslim-ruled, ethnically ...
- From A to Zyxt - New York Times
From A to ZyxtNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoThéophile Gautier read the dictionary to enrich and exoticize his poetry. Walter Pater read the dictionary to keep his prose pure and marmoreal — to learn ...
- Education Calendar: 10/07/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
The Education calendar is published weekly. To submit information email awidmer@record-eagle.com ; fax (231) 946-8632; or mail to 120 W. Front St., P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632. Items should be received at least two weeks in advance.
- Laura Bush, Jenna Bush to Meet Book-Lovers at National Book Festival; Young Readers' Toolkit Available (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
First Lady Laura Bush and her daughter,
- Her Own Society (The New Yorker)
In April of 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to a stranger, initiating a fervent twenty-four-year correspondence, in the course of which they managed to meet only twice. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, thirty-eight, was a man of letters, a clergyman, a fitness enthusiast, a celebrated abolitionist, and a champion of . . .
- Media Monkey's Diary - guardian.co.uk
Media Monkey's Diaryguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours agoPoetry corner: 80 years after the publication of an AZ book of BBC-related poems, Wendy Cope has unveiled her updated version. ...
- Dinner Dream (Pittsburgh City Paper)
A poem by Leslie Anne Mcilroy.
- A few choice words from the guru - Guardian Unlimited
Cliff Yates has a tip for teachers: "To write poems, pupils need to read them." After a morning in Yates's enthusiastic, verse-stuffed company; after flicking through Jumpstart, his handbook for poetry in the classroom; and, above all, after reading ...
- Local musician releases CD with concert on Thursday - Summit Daily News
Jeremy Dion will release his new CD with a concert on Thursday at the Silverthorne Pavilion. Special to the Daily SUMMIT COUNTY — Local singer and songwriter Jeremy Dion said he grew up singing and playing the piano, but it wasn’t until he picked ...
- Paying to go on a publishing ego trip (The Times of India)
The easy, if expensive, way for an aspiring writer who just can't find a publisher to market and sell his books - do it yourself.
- Love is not the enemy (Metro Times Detroit)
Coming back to the city where you grew up is a profound kind of return. It's a reunion with part of yourself. There are memories, family and all the shapes and textures of experience — good or bad — that made their impressions on you and helped you dream of what you could be.
- UC Davis Scholar Analyzes Bin Laden Tapes - CBS 5
KCBSUC Davis Scholar Analyzes Bin Laden TapesCBS 5, CA - 4 hours ago"The last third of the speech is poetry," Flagg said. "Who ever would have ever thought bin Laden recites poetry or even is interested in it?"Tapes Offer a Look Beneath the Surface of bin Laden and Al Qaeda New York TimesArchiving an archenemy San Jose Mercury NewsResearcher Begins Study of Osama bin Laden Audiotapes Media Newswire (press release)all 9 news articles
- Friday, September 19, 2008 (Fort Worth Weekly)
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- New freedom unleashes an unrestrained madness (Miami Herald)
Haven Kimmel knows, as all writers do, that successful authors must approach their craft with as many useful tools as possible: patience, stamina, exemplary research skills. But in her case, she jokes, a healthy dollop of something else is helpful.
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