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- What did I learn at uni? Sorrry, it's all a bit of a blur (Times Online)
Last week, 430,000 freshers made their way to university, an event that The Daily Telegraph would normally have marked with a photograph of an 18-year-old exposing a tantalising stretch of midriff as she ferried crockery on to campus, but this time honoured with an article asking famous people to proffer advice to new undergraduates.
- First work - Telegraph
Michael Down, 24, has loved poetry since he first got interested in it at age 15 - the same age he began writing poetry. "Once I fell in love with poetry, I immediately began writing my own, and hope one day to become a well-known writer," Down said ...
- Memorabilia sought for World War I exhibition - This is West Country
PRECIOUS diaries, medals, photographs, letters and poems from World War One are being sought for a special free event being held at Exeter Central Library. 1918 - 2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance will be held on Saturday, November 8 from 10am to 3 ...
- Poetry review: Armitage maintains colloquialism - San Francisco Chronicle
Poetry review: Armitage maintains colloquialismSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 36 minutes agoAfter one labored reading, I held the poem, "Learning by Rote," up to a mirror and gleefully deciphered the story of young Armitage being ordered to write ...
- Newcomer touched by community warmth - Polson Lake County Leader
Newcomer touched by community warmthPolson Lake County Leader, MT - 10 hours agoI spy with my little eye, someone who holds compassion in her hands, poetry on her tongue, adventure in her hair, timidity in her smile, curiosity in her ...
- Local therapy dog visits schools, hospitals - StarNewsOnline.com
Local therapy dog visits schools, hospitalsStarNewsOnline.com, NC - 8 hours agoAmadeus' experiences are documented in a book of poetry and photographs titled 'Friendship Rules.' Amadeus also visits children in hospitals and patients in ...
- Alice McDowell wins Dan Davin Award - Southland Times
Southland TimesAlice McDowell wins Dan Davin AwardSouthland Times, New Zealand - 10 minutes agoMarion McLean won the poetry competition with her poem A Pantoum for Autumn 1964. The short story award for school-aged aspiring writers has run since 1995, ...
- Non-trad freshman young at heart (Advance Titan)
Patricia Goetz’s two oldest grandchildren go to college in Wisconsin. Like most grandmas, Goetz listens to her grandchildren when they talk about classes, professors and exams. But unlike those other grandmas, Goetz can compare notes.
- Literary happenings: Political campaigns from a child's perspective - Ventura County Star
Literary happenings: Political campaigns from a child's perspectiveVentura County Star, CA - 2 hours agoPoetry Reading 7 pm Saturday. Featured poets are Adrianne Marcus, Jackson Wheeler and Chryss Yost. Artists' Union Gallery, 330 S. California St., Ventura. ...
- Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies at 75 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Poet and screenwriter Konstantin Pavlov, who became one of Bulgaria's most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country's communist regime, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75.
- Yours Sincerely: A Poet on Fish, Bulls and Love (New York Times)
Ted Hughes?s letters contain some splendid perceptions and useful biographical material among a mass of interminable explication.
- Love, Your Ted - New York Times
Love, Your TedNew York Times, United States - 36 minutes agoIt’sa pity not only because many people might enjoy the poetry if they were to read it on its own merits, rather than for the customary vicarious frisson, ...
- Authors grieve over Wallace's apparent suicide (The Oklahoman)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 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, including his 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest" and the essay collection "Consider the Lobster." Wallace, who wrote with an explosive, ironic, but deeply serious passion about ...
- Oklahoma doctor enjoys creating cowboy poetry (High Plains Journal)
ENID, Okla. (AP)--Lynn Phillips sits in the living room of his home dressed in his hospital scrubs waiting to be called back to the hospital, as he talks about his new CD of cowboy poetry.
- Writers welcome a literary president-elect (Seattle Times)
For Toni Morrison and other writers, the election of Barack Obama matters not because he will be the first black president or because the vast majority of writers usually vote for Democrats. Writers welcome Obama as a peer, a thinker, a man of words — his own words.
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