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- Pulitzer-prize winning poet Hayden Carruth dies at age of 87 - Jam! Showbiz
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y. - Hayden Carruth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world, has died. He was 87. Carruth, a Connecticut native who lived in Vermont in the 1960s and 1970s, died Monday at his home in ...
- Even After a War With Russia, Many Georgians Revere Stalin - New York Times
Even After a War With Russia, Many Georgians Revere StalinNew York Times, United States - 2 hours agoHe wrote frequently to his mother here, vacationed in Abkhazian sea resorts and retained an abiding love of Georgian wine, food, poetry and folk music. ...
- Sally Emerson's top 10 books of quotations - guardian.co.uk
Sally Emerson's top 10 books of quotationsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours ago... Funerals and Just Getting By, an anthology of poetry and extracts intended for reading at funerals. Here, she picks her favourite quotation books. 1. ...
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 - Metapsychology
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008Metapsychology, NY - 2 hours agoFond of a rather high-flown style of prose, he saves his most melodramatic turns of phrase for rhapsodizing about melancholy folk-- those "gloomy souls who ...
- American Poets Added to British Archive (New York Times)
Gwendolyn Brooks and Theodore Roethke are among the 14 influential 20th-century American poets whose recordings have been added to Britain?s free online poetry archive, the BBC reported.
- Ryan reading to kick off literary season (Moldova.org)
Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate consultant in poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, has agreed to open the library's 2008-2009 literary season with a reading.The library said the event is to take place Oct. 16 in the Mumford Room of the James Madison Building in Washington. Sponsored by the library's Poetry and Literature Center in the Office of Scholarly Programs, the reading is free and open ...
- Detroit Institue of Arts's latest exhibit explores 'Monet to Dali' - Grand Rapids Press
German expressionist painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff created this "Self-Portrait with Hat" in 1919. Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Rodin, Dali. They're the rock stars of the art world. Even people who know little about art are familiar with one or more of ...
- New York Museum Exhibits Works By Giorgio Morandi - HULIQ (press release)
New York Museum Exhibits Works By Giorgio MorandiHULIQ (press release), NC - 2 hours agoShown together, Morandi's paintings, watercolors, and etchings reveal his singular genius in seeking to evoke the poetry and monumentality in familiar ...
- No Escape: Marketing to Kids in the Digital Age - RedOrbit
No Escape: Marketing to Kids in the Digital AgeRedOrbit, TX - 11 hours agoHabbo Hotel - "a teen community where you can meet people, play games and create your own online space" - aggressively promotes itself as a marketing venue, ...
- Carleton to Commemorate the 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day with ... - Carleton College News
Carleton to Commemorate the 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day with ...Carleton College News, MN - 1 hour agoThe largest portion of exhibit is devoted to American sheet music, which helps to document the changing attitudes of the American public toward the war. ...
- ULI: Plans In Works For City Development - The Bulletin
Philadelphia - During the sixth annual urban issues forum Thursday, the Philadelphia Urban Land Institute (ULI) reassured more than 300 people the city's development projects and real estate options are heading in the right direction. Held at the ...
- Michael McCarthy: A summer this wet and windy just isn't natural - The Independent
I once arrived in Finland on May Day. As I walked into my Helsinki hotel, a big Finnish bloke attacked me. Luckily, it was with a balloon. However, the fear flashed through my panicking brain that even though he was not a gunman or a knifeman, merely ...
- Toronto writer's The Outlander wins First Novel Award (CBC Toronto)
A debut novel about a 19-year-old widow fleeing her ruthless brothers-in-law through the Rockies in the winter of 1903 has won the $7,500 First Novel Award.
- How and Where to Blow Your Cash (East Bay Express)
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- Great poet's grave stokes Civil War dispute (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets.
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