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- Glen Balfour-Paul - Guardian Unlimited
Glen Balfour-Paul, who has died aged 90, was a soldier, archaeologist, colonial administrator, scholar and poet. He served as British ambassador to three Arab countries, and was the author of an elegant collection of memoirs that detailed his ...
- Kay Ryan, a Laureate Worth Lauding (The New York Sun)
Yesterday's announcement from the Library of Congress that Kay Ryan will be the country's next poet laureate is a cause for celebration. In part, this is because Ms. Ryan is an excellent poet, and in poetry it is rarer than it should be for merit and recognition to find one another. But it is also because Ms. Ryan has advanced to the top rank of American poets while keeping a principled distance ...
- Playing a Gotham game of 'Give & Take' (Baltimore Examiner)
The road to New York City, where I was introduced to a new board game in Union Square and bumped into the great Ray Davies at an Italian restaurant, began over drinks with Chief Low Dog - warrior poet of the Monrovia Tribe - at Howard's Subway Inn in Linthicum.
- US publisher pays $1.25 million for Winnipeg writer's debut novel - The Kingston Whig-Standard
US publisher pays $1.25 million for Winnipeg writer's debut novelThe Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - 1 hour agoDavidson - who had written poetry, stories and plays since age 16, but "never had a story that deserved a novel" - was teaching English in Japan when the ...
- Catch Tucson's poetry slam team (Arizona Daily Star)
Tonight's the first of a few opportunities to cheer on Tucson's poetry slam team as it gets ready to meet the competition at next month's National Poetry Slam in Madison, Wis.
- Recital -- Sara Wilson (Midland Reporter-Telegram)
Today Recital ODESSA -- Sarah Wilson, an instructor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin and principal cellist for the Midland-Odessa Symphony and amp; Chorale, will perform at 4 p.m. today on campus in J. Conrad Dunagan Library Lecture Hall 001. She will be accompanied by guest pianist Jacob Frasch.
- Voices of the Verde at the Sedona Museum on Oct 4 - Sedona.biz
Sedona.bizVoices of the Verde at the Sedona Museum on Oct 4Sedona.biz, AZ - 35 minutes agoIn his 50+ minute presentation, he weaves humor, song, cowboy poetry, and historical narrative into an informative and entertaining experience. ...
- Poet laureate celebrates birthday with stories (Boston Globe)
Former New Hampshire and U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall celebrated his 80th birthday with, what else, poetry and stories.
- Thousand Expected At Cemetery Service - VOCM
Thousand Expected At Cemetery ServiceVOCM, Canada - 11 hours agoDohey says cemeteries have becomes places of research for genealogy , iconography, poetry and language. Dohey says around 700 researchers a year pass ...
- Waray poetry lives - BusinessWorld Online
Waray poetry livesBusinessWorld Online, Philippines - 1 hour agoHis honesty is arresting: "The poems... were never easy to write because I had always been uncomfortable writing in my mother tongue. ...
- NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute - New York Sun
NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteNew York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoPianist Fabio Gardenal and soprano Stela Brandão give a concert inspired by the writer's poetry, and Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos discusses ...
- Winery prepares for festival - Kentucky New Era
Bravard Vineyards and Winery has plenty to celebrate at this year’s annual harvest celebrations on Oct. 11 and 18. “This year we had an abundance of grapes, a good late harvest,†Janet Bravard, owner and operator, said Saturday morning at the ...
- Author has passion for spiders, storytelling - New Richmond News
Author has passion for spiders, storytellingNew Richmond News, WI - 1 hour agoAs far as his lyrics, “that’s sort of where my poetry went. That’s my biggest unfulfilled ambition.†There isn’t any avenue of writing that Grice hasn’t ...
- Champagne spotting - Age
I arrive at St Pancras International railway station in London, new home to the Eurostar terminal, without a trans-chunnel ticket to the continent in my back pocket. I don't have any fancy matching luggage, either. I do have a dog-eared return ticket ...
- Cleveland Museum of Art names new chief curator - Cleveland Plain Dealer
C. Griffith Mann, director of the curatorial division of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, will take up his new duties as chief curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art in September. The Cleveland Museum of Art has appointed a new chief curator to ...
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