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- Young takes on old in Costa Book Award shortlist - MSN UK News
LONDON (Reuters) - Youth takes on experience in the shortlist for this year's Costa Book Awards, announced on Tuesday, with a debut writer pitted against a veteran author in her 90s in the best biography category. A record number of entries were ...
- Poetry comes alive for Bostian Heights students (The Salisbury Post)
Staff report BOSTIAN HEIGHTS — Donna Rymer, who teaches academically-gifted classes at Bostian Heights Elementary, said students these days don't know ...
- Tarkington and Trockadero are on tap for Christmas (AP via Yahoo! News)
The holidays are almost upon us and for those of you who have seen enough versions of "A Christmas Carol" or "The Nutcracker" to last for several seasons, there are alternatives.
- Lala Lajpatrai remembered on his martydom day - Zee News
Lala Lajpatrai remembered on his martydom dayZee News, India - 4 hours agoThe special feature this time to mark the occasion was the holding of poetry symposium where six top Punjabi and Urdu poets from Pakistan participated. ...
- Showing entries for Category: National-Book-Award - San Francisco Examiner
The nominees for the National Book Award were announced on Wednesday. in Chicago. This year 200 publishers submitted 1,258 titles to be considered for the National Book Award. This year the subject of war (both Civil and the war on terror) holds ...
- Rollerblading librarian reaches out to teens - Vallejo Times-Herald
In the chorus of lamentation that there is nothing for teens to do in Vallejo, Gayle Morrow's voice stands out as one also shouting a solution. Morrow is the young adult librarian at John F. Kennedy Library on Santa Clara Street. She dedicates her ...
- Claws for celebration: Ohio cat home after 7 weeks - Louisville Courier-Journal
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio woman has found her Hope. That's Norma Meece's three-legged cat. The cat went missing nearly seven weeks ago in the Cincinnati area, prompting Meece to hire a pet detective and plaster her neighborhood with "missing ...
- How not to pick a team (again) - Economist
How not to pick a team (again)Economist, UK - 15 hours agoNot least, this novelist and bard will bring poetry to the Pentagon. Mr Cohen will be the only newcomer in an otherwise reshuffled foreign-policy team. ...
- The Poets' Corner: Making Poetry a Tradition at the Thanksgiving Table (Sierra Sun)
Because I have has so many requests from readers to reprint my selection of poems for the Thanksgiving table, I graciously offer them once again.
- Public to be given say in selection of poet laureate - Daily Telegraph
Ministers will this week announce changes to the selection process for the prestigious post, previously held by John Betjeman and Ted Hughes. In a break with tradition, ordinary poetry readers will be encouraged to play a major part. Andrew Motion's ...
- Library cards reach historic high -- and many go for the CDs, movies, Internet access (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
The slumping economy continues to drive Americans to one place that is tried and true -- the library. And they're going there for more than books.
- In 'Promised Land,' Jay Parini weighs in on 13 books that changed America (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
NONFICTION The Promised Land By Jay Parini. Doubleday, 385 pp., $24.95. How many of these titles have you read? I'm a fairly bookish fellow but have perused only five of them, each assigned to me long ago and far...
- Danny Cosgrove Turns 91 - New Haven Independent
New Haven IndependentDanny Cosgrove Turns 91New Haven Independent, USA - 3 hours agoThere was dinner for more than 50 people and a chocolate birthday cake. The event was held at the Branford Hospice, the first in the nation and a place he ...
- The accidental author - Toronto Star
One of the publishing year's most surprising success stories is a novel about a man who confronts his demons while holed up for the weekend in a ramshackle cabin in the woods with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The Shack , written by first-time ...
- 'Language poetry'? It's all words - Philadelphia Inquirer
Since the '70s, Ron Silliman has been writing a monumental cycle of poems called Ketjak . The title may or may not derive from the name of a ritualistic monkey dance in Bali, one often used in exorcism ceremonies. Make of that what you will. Ketjak ...
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