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- Award-winning poet Al Purdy celebrated at Madoc event - Belleville Intelligencer
Award-winning poet Al Purdy celebrated at Madoc eventBelleville Intelligencer, Canada - 1 hour agoJeff Seffinga, wearing a white Jack Kerouac T-shirt (Kerouac, who died in 1969, was an American writer and poet of the so-called Beat Generation), ...
- Religion Calendar: 10/11/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Religion Calendar is published weekly by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Information may be mailed to Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; fax to 946-8632; e-mail gmurray@record-eagle.com. Items should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
- Library plans teen reading activities - Billings Gazette
• Oct. 15: Teen Book Discussion Group, 7 p.m. in the Teen Pit. Join in on the discussion of "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer. To register for this group and receive a free copy of the book, call 657-8258 or come to the desk on the second floor ...
- Karadzic: One of world's most wanted men - Turkish Daily News
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested on Monday, saw himself as a defender of Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war but ended up a fugitive wanted on genocide charges. His 11 years at large had long been a stumbling block to ...
- GOP strategists: Attack Obama hard (The Washington Times)
John McCain and Barack Obama slug it out again (tonight, 9 p.m. EST) at a showdown debate in McCain's favored town-hall setting, which gives him his best chance to jump-start his sputtering campaign.
- John D McHugh/AP - Egypt Today
I WAS SLIGHTLY ANNOYED as I walked down a pitch-black stairwell at St. John’s Church in Maadi with only my cell phone backlight to illuminate my way through an unexpected power outage that had interrupted my interview with Terry Waite. It’s ...
- Poem of the week: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau - Guardian Unlimited
William Blake was no enemy of science, but he also recognised the limits to Enlightenment rationality, as this poem shows Seeing through the eye ... stained glass image of William Blake in St Mary's Church, Battersea. Photograph: The Art Archive "We ...
- Obama Candidacy Reminiscent of Civil Rights Struggles - NPR
Obama Candidacy Reminiscent of Civil Rights StrugglesNPR - 10 hours agoI never thought I would live to see the day when an African-American would be accepting the nomination of one of our two major parties to be President of ...
- Phil Sheridan: Jamaican Lightning - Philadelphia Inquirer
BEIJING - It's impossible to take your eyes off Usain Bolt, even if you're Usain Bolt. The fastest man in history held up his hand at the start of the news conference to discuss what it was like last night to smash Michael Johnson's granite-etched ...
- Culture With A Capital ‘C’ - Hamptons.com
Hamptons.comCulture With A Capital ‘C’Hamptons.com, NY - 1 hour agoNow for the literary crowd - in for the Writers Conference at Stonybrook Southampton – to plunk down their weighty tomes, volumes of poetry, and scripts in ...
- Shortlist for Glen Dimplex writers award announced - Irish Times
Shortlist for Glen Dimplex writers award announcedIrish Times, Ireland - 9 hours agoThe awards, now in their third year and organised in association with the Irish Writers' Centre, have five different categories: fiction, poetry, ...
- Community read-along planned for spring (The Bellingham Herald)
- The early years: An unhappy childhood - CNN
(CNN) -- Before he became the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II was Karol Jozef Wojtyla. Friends in Wadowice, a town of 8,000 Catholics and 2,000 Jews 35 miles southwest of Krakow, called Wojtyla "Lolek." He was born in 1920, the ...
- Authors grieve over Wallace's apparent suicide (Post-Bulletin)
NEW YORK -- The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work,
- Writing like painting (The Daily Iowan)
Tarek Eltayeb is a cultural smorgasbord. Born and raised by Sudanese parents in Cairo, Egypt, he spent his college years and the first portion of his adult life in Vienna, Austria. Now, after a diverse background of languages and countries, he adds another location to his life's belt, coming to Iowa for the International Writing Program.
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