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- Colm TóibÃn, the award-winning Irish writer, on crafting prose - McGill Tribune
Colm TóibÃn, the award-winning Irish writer, on crafting proseMcGill TribuneHe began writing poetry at age 12 and had a few of his poems published as a teenager. But by the time TóibÃn got to university, other students' verse was ...
- An era of anxiety - San Diego Union Tribune
An era of anxietySan Diego Union TribuneIn the middle was Hurricane Katrina, the largest natural disaster in American history. And at the end came the worst economic recession in more than 70 ...
- Lucille Clifton, award-winning poet, dies at 73 - Los Angeles Times
When Lucille Clifton was a girl in the 1940s, she saw her mother burning poems in their furnace. A grade-school dropout who loved words and wrote traditional verse, her mother had an offer to publish her work in a book, but her husband and children ...
- An evening of poetry and fiction at Riverfront Readings (Kansas City InfoZine)
Riverfront Readings with Eugene Bales and Jane Wood
- From a mobster to a public icon - star.com.my
Having made his fortune in the opium and gambling business mobster Du Yuesheng wanted to be a member of the gentry and sought to enter its ranks via theatre. BY 38, Du Yuesheng had made it big in the opium and gambling business. The most feared ...
- Students Read, Believe Achieve at Neuqua Valley - Chicago Press Release Services (press release)
Students Read, Believe Achieve at Neuqua ValleyChicago Press Release Services (press release)... History Month by participating in the National African-American Read-In 2010, a celebration of the poetry, prose and lyrics of African-American writers. ...
- Hertford writers group aims at honing the wordsmith's craft - The Daily Advance
Hertford writers group aims at honing the wordsmith's craftThe Daily AdvanceWordsmiths, a writers group composed of scribblers from all genres, fiction, poetry, journalism and non-fiction, concentrates on honing its members' writing ...
- Wanted: heir apparent for local poet laureate - Colorado Springs Gazette
Wanted: heir apparent for local poet laureateColorado Springs GazetteThose who have their poems chosen get free copies of the book. The group also is seeking a new poet laureate to take over for Aaron Anstett, the first poet ...and more »
- Is Book Of Eli A Christian Movie? We Ask The Hughes Bros. - io9
Is Book Of Eli A Christian Movie? We Ask The Hughes Bros.io9You shouldn't have to explain anything — poetry, art on the wall, a movie, whatever it is. You shouldn't have to explain yourself. But here I am, ...and more »
- All about the 67th Lake Placid High School Winter Carnival - The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
All about the 67th Lake Placid High School Winter CarnivalThe Adirondack Daily EnterpriseJessica's hobbies include writing poetry and short stories. She is on the staff of the Blue Bomber Times and has been published in TeenInk. ...and more »
- Friday's 5: a Valentine's playlist - Columbia Daily Tribune (blog)
Friday's 5: a Valentine's playlistColumbia Daily Tribune (blog)It's a love song of the first order without an ounce of sap, and containing a poetry so impure it could only be pop music.†A five-minute treatise on ...
- Making out is its own reward - Chicago Sun-Times (blog)
Making out is its own rewardChicago Sun-Times (blog)Until then homosexuality had been witnessed by me only in novels, poetry, vague scenes in films, and rumor. I knew lots of "queers," by which I meant ...
- Courtney Love Tributes Daughter at Oxford Address - Spinner
Courtney Love Tributes Daughter at Oxford AddressSpinnerShe also noted that the poetry of Rilke and YouTube videos of quantum physics have influenced her music. Of Cobain's death, Love said, "That action had a ...and more »
- Subject, language meld into poetic voice - Winnipeg Free Press
Subject, language meld into poetic voiceWinnipeg Free PressIn Slide, Myers' discrete poems flip back and forth through years, topics and voices in an effort to locate an ever-present steady centre. In the title poem ...
- Baseball, summer feeling closer TOWN SQUARE A place to be heard - Allentown Morning Call
Some of Romond's poems are specific tributes to players, broadcasters and venues, but there also are pieces that use the game to evoke simpler days of childhood or to offer his observations about baseball and life. With Romond's permission, I'll ...
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