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- Bob Dylan receives honorary Pulitzer Prize (MSNBC)
It was the first time Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive.
- Posted 46 mins ago - Standard Freeholder
Posted 46 mins agoStandard Freeholder, Canada - 57 minutes ago... Wordsworth (1770-1850) took up mid-life residency in a cottage in his birthplace county whose surroundings inspired his nature-praising Romantic poetry. ...
- Bringing beauty to all through surprisingly unrefined language (The Japan Times)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the one most translated into other languages. Yet, until now, no one has gathered into one volume, translated into English, the complete works. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the... Read the full story.
- Area author Wilma Shulman (pen name: Willa Stewart) - Daytona Beach News-Journal
Area author Wilma Shulman (pen name: Willa Stewart)Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL - 4 minutes agoAuthor bio: Shulman has published poetry, short stories and children's books. She has worked in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York before returning to ...
- Orange County Calendar - Los Angeles Times
Orange County CalendarLos Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago(949) 640-5800 Literature: "Live From UCI: Hear the Future; Poets and Novelists" features master of fine arts students from UC Irvine reciting their poetry ...
- Passion and poetry in Seville - PerthNow
Passion and poetry in SevillePerthNow, Australia - 1 hour agoThe place is simply colossal: the world's largest Gothic building. Some say that Christopher Columbus is buried here, though many dispute the claim. ...
- Tony Harrison tells of Nansen's adventures in new verse play Fram - Times Online
Tony Harrison tells of Nansen's adventures in new verse play FramTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoEven now, he retains a keen sensitivity to popular perceptions of theatre and poetry. “When I'm writing, I like to know what all the stresses are in the ...
- First-time writer to sign her book (Erie Times-News)
Sonya Arrington will sign copies of her "Poetry From the Heart Meaning from the Soul" (Xlibris) after a reading from the book April 18 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Erie Book Store, 137 E. 13th St.
- Ascend: Special Edition (IDW Publishing) - Play by Play
Play by PlayAscend: Special Edition (IDW Publishing)Play by Play, MO - 12 hours agoThere's a poetry in it that all too often catches writers and threatens the complexity of their characters. Readers find themselves lost in epic statements ...
- The Borough of Writers WH Auden In Brooklyn - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The Borough of Writers WH Auden In BrooklynBrooklyn Daily Eagle, NY - 22 minutes agoEncouraged to write poetry, and publishing his first few works in Public School Verse in 1924, Auden offered, “words so excite me that a pornographic story, ...
- "... the movement doesn't stop.' (Las Cruces Sun-News)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was world famous by the time he made his prophetic "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis April 3, 1968. The speech included his words, "I may not get there with you..."
- Revenge of the ladies' man
Calgary Herald - There was the long-awaited publication of Book of Longing -- a work so long in coming that friends called it Book of Prolonging, which nevertheless became the first volume of poetry to top the Canadian bestseller list, in 2006.
- Review: Stew's 'Passing Strange' on Broadway - Newsday
NewsdayReview: Stew's 'Passing Strange' on BroadwayNewsday, NY - 5 minutes agoAlong the way, there will be a sly detour into musical-theater expectations, winks of bad poetry about "brother Al Camus and little Jimmy Baldwin," a ...
- Booked (The Reader)
*Love’s Jazz & Art Center, 2510 N. 24th St., will host “Poetry In Motion” Thursday, Feb. 28 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. performed by The Langston Hughes Players , nationally known for their dramatic readings of Hughes’ classic works.
- Robin Blaser in the running for the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize - The Canadian Press
Robin Blaser in the running for the lucrative Griffin Poetry PrizeThe Canadian Press, TORONTO - 2 hours agoRounding out the Canadian short list is Toronto author David McFadden for "Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden" (Insomniac Press/4 am ...Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal poets vie for Griffin Prize CBC.caGriffin Prize shortlist announced Toronto Starall 14 news articles
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