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- Poetry winners announced (Cowra Guardian)
The winners of the 2008 Cowra Guardian sponsored World Peace Day competition received their awards at the World Peace Day ceremony last Tuesday evening.
- Bin Laden's prowess as poet examined (Moldova.org)
Osama bin Laden's pre-Sept. 11, 2001, popularity and prowess as a poet is the subject of an upcoming academic work, a California professor says. Before he was the world's most infamous terrorist, bin Laden was in great demand in the 1990s as a speaker at wedding banquets and other feasts, reciting skillfully written poems that were tape-recorded and passed around like pop music, The Times of ...
- IACSP Counter-terror Association Presents Updated Web Site And 9 ... - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)IACSP Counter-terror Association Presents Updated Web Site And 9 ...PR Web (press release), WA - 1 hour agoThe IACSP has also made download availability of the 9/11 Memorial Tribute and Poem for use by print, broadcast and online media for the 2008 the seventh ...
- Column: Show No Mercy - Pitchforkmedia.com
Column: Show No MercyPitchforkmedia.com, IL - 2 hours agoInspiration comes from the murky side of my mind, sometimes induced by films, poetry, music, nocturnal landscapes, literature, drugs-- sometimes for ...
- Local writer made it big in Hollywood - The Gazette (Montreal)
The Gazette (Montreal)Local writer made it big in HollywoodThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 8 hours agoLenkov tells the class he has been bitten by the writing bug since he was a kid. He wrote poetry and short stories, then he branched out into screenplays. ...
- Director of Community Centers to resign - Greenwich Time
Director of Community Centers to resignGreenwich Time, CT - 8 hours agoShe was hired in 1957 as coordinator of the agency's teen program. Coming from New York City, where she was working as a social worker, she had little ...
- Britain's Poet Laureate Has Writer's Block - Huffingtonpost.com
British poet laureate Andrew Motion is planning to resign next year. And while he has long professed his desire to leave the lifetime appointment early, he is more anxious than ever to get back to living without the laurels. Motion, it seems, has ...
- Casper Calendar for September 17, 2008 - The Casper Star Tribune
Casper Calendar for September 17, 2008The Casper Star Tribune, WY - 3 hours agoSeveral panels, readings, and a daylong book fair, along with a banquet, poetry slam and workshops at the NIC, Casper College and around Casper. ...
- Robert Giroux, 94, editor and publisher who guided prominent author, dies (Arizona Daily Star)
Robert Giroux, an editor and publisher who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century and ultimately added his name to one of the nation's most distinguished publishing houses, died Friday in Tinton Falls, N.J. He was 94.
- Bob Dylan''s greatest inspiration was Robert Burns'' poetry - Kerala Next
Legendary singer Bob Dylan has revealed that renowned poet Robert Burns and his much-appreciated verse 'A Red Red Rose' has been the greatest inspiration behind his acclaimed work. Dylan, who has written songs for five decades, revealed to HMV as a ...
- Lives Remembered: Gerry Sanderson (Independent)
Gerry Sanderson, who has died aged 55, was the classic English eccentric, whose talent was as deep as his love of life. His frequent balls and bashes, he declared, were the perfect antidote to the often clinical, calculating world of architecture in which he made his name. The party venues were his own country homes – Bucklebury Place in Berkshire and The Manor House at Petty France, ...
- Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka - Bookslut
Trouble and Honey by Jilly DybkaBookslut, IL - 1 hour agoThere are prose-poems and poems in columns that can be read both across and down. There’s even some free verse. Dybka embraces and often acknowledges her ...
- Award-Winning Nigerian Writer Chris Abani to Read From His Work - Hamilton College News
Award-Winning Nigerian Writer Chris Abani to Read From His WorkHamilton College News, NY - 42 minutes agoChris Abani, a Nigerian writer and professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, will read from his fiction and poetry on Thursday, Nov. ...
- Anais Nin Journals Inspire Poetic Connection - NewsBlaze (press release)
Anais Nin Journals Inspire Poetic ConnectionNewsBlaze (press release), CA - 1 hour agoAward winning writer Diana Raab's new poetry collection, Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems for You, is dedicated to famed diarist Anaïs Nin. ...
- Angel of Grozny (The Christian Science Monitor)
Åsne Seierstad is a journalist with a moth-to-flame-like attraction to the world’s hot spots. Famed for her bestselling “The Bookseller of Kabul†(based on three months she spent there in 2002), she has also written about Baghdad and Serbia.
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