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- Blessing of the pets - Alpine Sun
Blessing of the petsAlpine Sun, CA - 56 minutes agoALPINE - A $1000 grand prize is being offered in a special poetry contest sponsored by Christian Poets Guild, free to everyone. There are 50 prizes in all ...
- Creative writing conference covers 'mirror of words' (Saint George Spectrum)
CEDAR CITY — High school teachers have the opportunity to explore teaching various genres of English to students at “The Mirror of Words: A Mosaic of Self-Portraits” creative writing conference, which continues today, sponsored by the Southern Utah University English Department.
- Writers read passages about 'sex and private schools,' fear, depression (University of Connecticut Daily Campus)
A small but appreciative crowd turned out Wednesday afternoon at the UConn Co-op to hear Lynn Z. Bloom and Margaret Gibson recall the pains and pleasures of girlhood. For Gibson, better known for her poetry (the latest volume of which, "One Body," recently took home the gold at the Connecticut Book Awards), tackling the memoir was an act of love.
- Wales: Trace the steps of the tumultuous Dylan Thomas (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Going on the trail of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas easily could turn into a pub crawl. But you'll find far more than bars when tracing the steps of this tumultuous bard - though admittedly the only writer who chalked up more favorite drinking holes was Ernest Hemingway.
- librarynotes (The Lincoln-Way Sun)
21119 S. Pfeiffer Road, (815) 469-2423. Knitters and crocheters: 7 p.m. first Tuesday of each month. Registration is required. Daily used book sale: The sale shelves are refreshed twice a week with titles for adults and kids.
- Delaware Book Festival Nov. 1 - Delaware Online
— In its 3rd year, the Delaware Book Festival again promises to deliver exciting, best-selling and up-and-coming authors to inspire a love of reading in children and give adults the chance to meet favorite authors and discover new ones. The ...
- Author earns 5th Colorado Book Award (Denver Post)
Boulder author Margaret Coel is going to have to make yet more room on her mantle. For the fifth time, one of Coel's books has won a Colorado Book Award for fiction.
- Three years later, poems are still putting the impact of Hurricane ... - New Orleans Times-Picayune Blogs
Poetry lends itself to all occasions, happy and sad, everyday and rare. It offers a multitude of forms -- the exquisite slenderness of a haiku, the sprawling pages of an epic, the rigor of a sonnet, the bouncing rhyme, the grace of free verse -- but ...
- Eminem's Mom Tells Her Side Of The Story In New Memoir - Mtv.ca
For his entire career, Eminem has reveled in his split personality, toggling between the more sensitive Marshall Mathers (his real name) and his mischievous alter egos, Eminem and Slim Shady. But in her upcoming memoir, "My Son Marshall, My Son ...
- Scholarly press trades on its future - The Australian
TIME was when a university press existed primarily for the purpose of serving the university or a broadly defined scholarly community. This model no longer applies to Australian university publishing, whose biggest houses are collectively pursuing ...
- Slams a chance to shine ... or come in last - Monterey County Herald
Slams a chance to shine ... or come in lastMonterey County Herald, CA - 1 hour agoThere is no real reason for me to perform at poetry slams other than to seek attention and maybe inspire someone to write a poem themselves. ...
- Timeline:The life of Radovan Karadzic (Times Online)
- June 19, 1945: Born in Savnik, Yugoslavia, in what is now the Republic of Montenegro.
- What is a species? (Provo Daily Herald)
33Earthly creators of painting, literature and poetry often reveal their state of mind in their creations, so he wanted to apply that principle to understanding the deity. Studying God's creations would reveal the mind of the Creator. Apparently, he did not consider the possibility of more than one such creative personality. The idea of multiple creators had pretty well died with the ancient ...
- Professor contributes to Web site project - Arizona State University
Professor contributes to Web site projectArizona State University, Tempe - 3 hours agoThere are sections for children’s literature, poetry, prose, travel accounts, tracts, essays, speeches and contemporary slave narratives, and visitors can ...
- Let's Step Outside - Slate
For some time now, a poet's life has been a lose-lose proposition of little fame and long struggle for a teaching post and a good pair of shoes. But last week poets across the nation rejoiced and then hurried to the fax machine. News had come that ...
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