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- Stephen Moss interviews novelist Joanna Kavenna on her seven unpublishable novels, and eventual success (Guardian Unlimited)
Joanna Kavenna wrote seven unpublishable novels before winning the Orange new writers award with her eighth. She talks to Stephen Moss about perseverance
- cold snack wins 2008 Montana NZ Book Award for Poetry - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
cold snack wins 2008 Montana NZ Book Award for PoetryScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 45 minutes agoJanet Charman’s cold snack, published by Auckland University Press, has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and $5000. ...
- The opinion pages: mostly a man's world (San Francisco Chronicle)
When it comes to the opinion pages of some of the most influential American newspapers, it's far too often a man's world. One reason for the disparity is obvious: Women are still breaking through glass ceilings in business, government and academia. But...
- Online Jihadists: Give Us Lightning Guns! - Wired News
Online Jihadists: Give Us Lightning Guns!Wired News - 5 hours agoOther recent tidbits include a mortar-making manual, militants' new web video push, and the poetry of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (“If it wasn’t for defending the ...
- A chip off the old rock block - Sun Chronicle
The Ancient Marinere, 7-9 Mechanic St., Foxboro. 508-543-5564. The Anvil Pub, 303 Sheers St., Wrentham. 508-384-3752. Chieftain Pub, 23 Washington St., Plainville. 508-643-9031 or www.chieftainpub.com . City Oasis, 50 Pleasant St., Norton. 508-223 ...
- NZ Poet Laureate to MC celebration of Kiwi poetry - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Scoop.co.nz (press release)NZ Poet Laureate to MC celebration of Kiwi poetryScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 2 hours ago... and the book-and-CD anthology New New Zealand Poets in Performance, edited by poets Jack Ross and Jan Kemp. The programme features poetry readings by ...
- About this Entry (Arts Journal)
"Uh Oh" I thought to myself as Dana Gioia stepped on stage at The Merchants Exchange in San Francisco yesterday evening: The National Endowment for the Arts Chairman and former poet laureate was wearing a custard yellow knitted tie with a square end.
- Milpitas library honors two young Fremont poets - Fremont Bulletin
Milpitas library honors two young Fremont poetsFremont Bulletin, United States - 1 hour agoThe winners each received a $25 check, a certificate, a printing in the countywide Santa Clara County poetry book and entry into the VOYA magazine national ...
- BOOK REVIEW: Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process (New England Journal of Medicine)
Aristotle famously asked, "Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry, and the arts are melancholic?" The question persists today, as investigators in the ...
- Potpourri of topics explored at poetry fellowship (The Jamaica Observer)
Poets blasted Cash Plus and Kern Spencer whilst discussing gay politics and sex-worker taxation, Tuesday at the Poetry Society's monthly fellowship at the Edna Manley College - part of the Kingston on the Edge Festival.
- Nomination period extended for state poet laureate honor - Daily Oklahoman
Nominations will be accepted from universities, poetry societies and other cultural organizations only, not from individuals. "Nominees should be distinguished poets who are residents of Oklahoma and who are committed to outreach and the promotion of ...
- New Miss Black USA Crowned in Las Vegas - Black Press USA
LAS VEGAS (NNPA) - Kristen Elizabeth White of Georgia has been crowned Miss Black USA. Receiving the crown following a seven-day competition between 50 women in Las Vegas June 23, she remained hunched over praying as people handed her flowers. Among ...
- Badge of Honour: author Joel Yanofsky blogs about Montreal's Blue Met ... - CBC News
I didn’t just miss my high school prom; I missed it by a mile. I bought no corsage, had no date to give it to in any case, no tux was rented, no limo reserved, and I have no idea, to this day, how that landmark event unfolded. Teen movies, like ...
- Arts calendar for 7/6-7/12/08 - Daily News Tribune
Arts calendar for 7/6-7/12/08Daily News Tribune, MA - Jul 5, 2008Tonight at 8, it's "Men & Masculinity Revisited: An Exploration in Poetry and Song," featuring Franklin Abbott, Steven Riel, Rick Goldin and Willie Sordillo ...
- City receives $1 million in art for its birthday - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteCity receives $1 million in art for its birthdayPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 49 minutes agoIt was written by poet Wendy Walters of the African-American poetry collective Cave Canem. Another project, modeled on President Franklin Roosevelt's 1930s ...
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