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- A grim reminder of ocean’s danger - Daily News
The drowning of a 17-year-old Kinston High School student at Atlantic Beach on Sunday is the kind of news that every parent dreads. Jamerson Hawkins Jr., a young man described as a good kid by teachers and friends at his high school, was apparently ...
- Liu's Injury Shocks China Jeff Jacobs - Hartford Courant
Liu's Injury Shocks China Jeff JacobsHartford Courant, United States - 4 hours agoWe would never use it in its literal definition, but rather in the classic sense, in the poetry of athletics. For China cried on this day for its sports ...
- Bringing words from page to stage - Irish Times
Bringing words from page to stageIrish Times, Ireland - 26 minutes agoPat Boran, poet and publisher at Dedalus Press, says that, since being presented with the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry in the US in April, ...
- Famed Palestinian poet Darwish dies in Houston (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
By DIAA HADIDAssociated PressGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and i ...
- News round-up - Whitehaven News and Star
William Wordsworth’s love of Grasmere inspired some of the Romantic movement’s most memorable poetry. Wordsworth spent his happiest years there. Tourists today travel from across the globe to marvel at the fells and bask in its beauty.Steve is ...
- 5 under $5 - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools 1 The funky beach town goes ga-ga for geckos on Saturday at the lively Gulfport Gecko Fest, starting at noon in the Beach Boulevard area of Gulfport. There will be live music on three stages, street performers, costume contests, vendors ...
- CRITIC'S CHOICE (East Bay Express)
Crockett Library Book Club In the days when Chinese girls' feet were still forcibly bound, opportunities for those girls to learn about life outside the family circle were slim. In Lisa See's novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, two close friends grow up together until ...
- A new face at Stevenson museum - Napa Valley Register
In mid-May Dorothy Mackay-Collins walked into the Robert Louis Stevenson Silverado Museum hoping to become a docent. She walked out as the St. Helena museum’s new director and archivist. “I was retired,” she said last week, and laughed, a trace ...
- Reading Reads festival returns - Pottstown Mercury
Reading Reads festival returnsPottstown Mercury, PA - 2 hours agoPoetry workshops and open mike sessions, children reading to dogs, programs ranging from vampires to ghosts to the reconciling of religion in the public ...
- Jamaican Poet Stars In New Guinness Ad - Caribbean World News
CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Oct. 1, 2008: Jamaican-born poet and performer, Ainsley Burrows, is heating up the screen with the new Guinness Caribbean ad. Burrows is the lone star of the new Guinness journey of greatness ad, according to his ...
- Obituary: Elizabeth Bartlett - Guardian Unlimited
The poet Elizabeth Bartlett, who has died aged 84, drew upon her experience working in the NHS and cash-strapped social services to create a body of work characterised by uncompromising honesty in its confrontations with physical and mental illness ...
- Street Scene, Young Vic, London (Independent)
Kurt Weill called Street Scene "a Broadway opera", but there aren't too many operas with a wild jitterbug that segues into a slutty blues or a children's chorus who chant, "My father's name is Rockefeller./He shovels diamonds in the cellar." Into his 1947 musical version of Elmer Rice's 1929 play, Weill emptied a cornucopia of influences – Wagner, Puccini, folk song, jazz, operetta, and his ...
- The character in her head - St. Catharines Standard
The character in her headSt. Catharines Standard, Canada - 43 minutes agoSlean, also an accomplished artist, has just released her second collection of poetry, also entitled The Baroness. She collected these pieces from a "very ...
- WestConn plays host to literary festival - Danbury News Times
WestConn plays host to literary festivalDanbury News Times, CT - 42 minutes agoThe writers represent every part of the literary spectrum -- fiction, nonfiction, screenplay and poetry -- and many are writers-in-residence or writing ...
- Half-dozen young writers to vie for $120K Dylan Thomas Prize (CBC)
A half-dozen young writers hailing from three continents are in the running for the Dylan Thomas Prize, organizers announced in London on Tuesday.
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