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- Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of 'people's poet' Al Purdy (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO - Eurithe Purdy sat at the feet of her late husband, renowned poet Al Purdy, on Tuesday as a statue of him was unveiled at Queen's Park.
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NEW YORK - With his flowing black hair, bushy beard and slight paunch, Behroush Sharifi hops off his bicycle and bounds into an expensive restaurant on the Upper West Side.
- Chipper Jones homers in Braves' 7-4 win over Florida - CBS Sportsline
Chipper Jones' season is going so well he fulfilled both of his birthday wishes. Jones celebrated his 36th birthday with a home run and a perfect 3-for-3 night at the plate to lead Atlanta past the NL East-leading Florida Marlins 7-4 on Thursday. "I ...
- Prose and poetry: Random thoughts on the Gratiaen award - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
For the first time since the inception of the Gratiaen award, not a single work of prose was short - listed. Poetry had a field day, five collections of poems being nominated. This was worrying and it prompted me to clarify my ideas on writing ...
- Remembrance season ends on a superb note - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Remembrance season ends on a superb noteSeattle Post Intelligencer - May 13, 2008... was set to poems of Mordecai Gebirtig, who was shot to death in 1942 in Krakow, Poland, for refusing to be deported to a concentration camp. ...
- Superior partners: High school students pair up with first-graders for ... - Missoulian
Jo Stevens' yearbook students at Superior High School and Diana Campbell's first-graders at the elementary school teamed up for a poetry project. To begin the poetry unit, the first-graders listened to the language of poetry and discovered that poems ...
- What's the story? - Guardian Unlimited
Michael Frayn's new play, Afterlife, like Democracy and Copenhagen, takes a real historical incident as its starting point. Like Copenhagen it cycles deftly through the years, each cycle getting at something new, some different layer of meaning, like ...
- James Joyce's Poems Get a Musical Facelift - NPR News
All Things Considered , June 21, 2008 - In 1907, shortly after publishing a book of love poetry titled Chamber Music , Irish writer James Joyce penned a letter to his brother Stanislaus: "Some of the verses are pretty enough to be put to music. I ...
- Katy Guest: A Week in Books (Independent)
As May ticks over into June, three things are predictable in the literary calendar. There will be apocalyptic downpours at the Hay Festival. Someone will say that the Orange Prize isn't fair on men. Then someone will say no, it probably isn't, but never mind, because it encourages people to read.
- San Bernardino County/Pass Briefs - 5/08/08 - Press-Enterprise
San Bernardino County/Pass Briefs - 5/08/08Press-Enterprise, CA - 8 hours agoStudents were judged on visual arts, poetry, essays, photography, musical score and class performance. The West End group is a consortium of school ...
- Excerpts from the finalists of Seattle's Youth Speaks poetry ... - Seattle Times
Excerpts from the finalists of Seattle's Youth Speaks poetry ...Seattle Times, United States - 9 hours agoBy Marian Liu "This is my apology to anyone who says I can't be a poet, because I don't know how to spell. Well, you're wrong. Not only do I write, ...
- Teens who trashed Frst home to take poetry class (The Nashua Telegraph)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- After more than two dozen young people trashed a former residence of poet Robert Frost during a drinking party, the dilemma was how to punish them. A jail term might be too harsh, community service too easy. ... - By JOHN CURRAN The Associated Press
- Translation captures irony of original - Daily Item
This superb new English version of Flaubert’s masterpiece at last makes it possible to understand how Flaubert could say of his heroine, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi!” The mystery here for many readers has been how Flaubert managed to make his ...
- Religion calendar (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Grief ministry workshop: Laura Grayson will be speaking on “Loss and Chronic Illness: How the Family Structure Is Affected” from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Calvary Baptist Church in the Paul McKee Fellowship Hall, 719 Cesar E. Chavez Parkway. Information: (619) 233-6487.
- Outskirts Press Announces Dark Lilly E., the Latest Highly ... - PR.com (press release)
Outskirts Press Announces Dark Lilly E., the Latest Highly ...PR.com (press release), NY - May 19, 2008Oakland, CA, May 19, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Dark Lilly E. by VL Sullivan, which is the author’s most recent book to date. ...
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