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- Poet, novelists among winners of $25,000 US prize for women writers - CBC News
A poet from New Mexico and a nurse from Washington are among the six winners of this year's $25,000 US Rona Jaffe Foundation awards, given annually to emerging women writers in the United States. The awards, created by the author who wrote the 1958 ...
- More books on tribal issues - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphMore books on tribal issuesCalcutta Telegraph, India - 7 hours agoApart from books, she also has some collections of poetry. Her works include Vir Sattar me Chalne Lagi, Maen Ajad Huen, Aab Murakh Nahi Banenge Hum, ...
- Teaming up to give kids a special tour of the White House (The Herald-Mail)
Let's just say it flat-out: "Our White House" (Candlewick Press, $29.99) is a stunning gathering of children's-book stars, all with a single goal of illuminating a national treasure for young readers. In this new book, more than 100 of the best and brightest of children's-book creators offer their words and artwork as a way of demonstrating to children that American history indeed can be both ...
- A rather whacky chat - Boston Globe
I didn't think it was possible, but it turns out the con man formerly known as Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter is barmier than I thought. Did you read the interview he gave the Globe yesterday? I just sent sympathy cards to my colleagues John Ellement ...
- Al Purdy A-frame Trust established - Belleville Intelligencer
Al Purdy A-frame Trust establishedBelleville Intelligencer, Canada - 3 hours agoTypical of the response to the call for financial arms is that of an 80-year-old, who only started writing poetry at 70 and didn’t know the two-time ...
- Arts: Glass creations inspire project blending art, poetry - The State
Arts: Glass creations inspire project blending art, poetryThe State, SC - 1 hour ago... and there will be poetry readings and a discussion tonight at the museum. Workshops on connecting creative writing and art will be held Saturday. ...
- ‘A loss to all Palestinians and their cause’ (Gulf Times)
RAMALLAH: Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died yesterday after heart surgery in Texas.
- Tommy Lee Jones - Entertainment Online
"Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football." - Jones' response to "is making movies fun?" to Harvard ...
- Preparations for fair moving along - Register Pajaronian
Preparations for fair moving alongRegister Pajaronian, CA - 1 hour ago14 at 5 pm In this last-car-standing contest, junker cars will ram and collide into each other until only one is left running. ...
- Sandburg House gets gift from first lady - Asheville Citizen-Times
Sandburg House gets gift from first ladyAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 18 hours agoBush also was treated to a poetry reading by 12-year-old Fletcher resident Abbie Biberdorf and a performance of Sandburg’s “Rootabaga Stories†by a group of ...
- What we write about when we write about sports writing - Guardian Unlimited
My favourite sports book at the moment is a small, slim, hardback volume of Helenio Herrera's handwritten notes and diagrams of his tactical observations. It is an object of sublime beauty put together by his widow Fiora Gandolfi, who lovingly ...
- Step Brothers (Rolling Stone)
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, ... Review: Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. They riffed on the baby Jesus in Talladega Nights. Now they're goofing on grown men who stay babies. Are you ready to see Ferrell rub his hairy nut sack on Reilly's drum ...
- Tropic Thunder - Digital Spy
Tropic ThunderDigital Spy, UK - 1 hour agoGranted, this is hardly refined Shakespearean dialogue, but when delivered by a seething Tom Cruise it's pure poetry. As for his antics during the end ...
- Biennial at Liverpool - Times Online
Biennial at LiverpoolTimes Online, UK - 2 minutes agoAnd, if you are prepared to make a bit of a trip, Antony Gormley’s figures wading out into the tides have a haunting poetry.
- Edinburgh Festival 2008: return to the Fringe - Daily Telegraph
Clive James is convinced that one of the many sketches he directed for the Cambridge Footlights revue at the Edinburgh Fringe 40 years ago was at least the equal of Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch. 'I learnt a lot, usually by failure,' says Clive ...
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