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- Four to receive honorary doctorate degrees from UI - Iowa City Press Citizen
Four to receive honorary doctorate degrees from UIIowa City Press Citizen, IA - 5 hours agoHe was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. • Hultin, who received a medical degree at UI in 1953, gained international recognition for his ...
- Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
Of George Bush's many sins, one has remained unnoted. He and his aides are so absurdly inept at most of what they do that they have diverted attention from the fact that America's collapse began well before Bush came into office and has continued under ...
- Last updated: 10:30PM ET - KUER
Last updated: 10:30PM ETKUER, UT - 1 hour agoHe's won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, chairs the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton and is Poetry Editor for The New Yorker Magazine. ...
- A response to Ismail Lagardien’s “We do not have to apologise for ... - Thought Leader
A response to Ismail Lagardien’s “We do not have to apologise for ...Thought Leader, South Africa - 18 minutes agoI hasten to add that I apply this standard of simplicity and clarity to objective, polemical writing, not poetry and literature in general, where creativity ...
- CARES is hosting juried art contest - Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- CARES (Community AIDS Resource and Education Services) is holding a juried art contest on Dec. 5 as part of the December Art Hop. The exhibit will be displayed in the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo's offices in the Epic Center, 359 S ...
- Amica Awards grant to Starr, R.I. Writers’ Circle (The Block Island Times)
A grant from Amica Mutual Insurance Co. in Lincoln will support a creative initiative by the nonprofit Writers’ Circle and Rhode Island Poet Laureate Lisa Starr. The program, “Power to the Poets,†will present free readings and workshops to groups across the state.
- Vying for prize at Hughes festival - Huddersfield Examiner
Vying for prize at Hughes festivalHuddersfield Examiner, UK - Oct 17, 2008... the daughter of Ted Hughes, during the event to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the former Poet Laureate. A separate Yorkshire Poetry Prize, ...
- Conference for writers is tomorrow in Towson (Baltimore Sun)
Towson University will host the 2008 Baltimore Writers' Conference from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. tomorrow in the University Union. The keynote speaker will be Larry Doyle, a one-time writer for The Simpsons and author of I Love You, Beth Cooper . The conference brings together aspiring writers from around the Mid-Atlantic to learn about writing from published authors, agents and editors. Panel ...
- Teen programs resume at library (The Standard-Times)
MIDDLEBORO  As teens head back to school this fall, the library is gearing up for a year of diverse teen programming. The library's teen room, Teen Scene, reopened Sept. 8 and will remain an after-school space for teens throughout the school year,...
- Author based poetry on imagined experience (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
Published: Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 7:44 p.m. Poet Jon Thompson will read at Wofford College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday during a free event in the Olin Theatre.
- Best Compassionate Yogi - LA Weekly
Best Compassionate YogiLA Weekly, CA - 6 hours agoA favorite expression of his is “we take turns,†as in we take turns falling in love, mending broken hearts and busted shoulders; we take turns flying high ...
- Patrick Lane's Violent Memory (in Tyee Books) (The Tyee)
The author of 'Red Dog, Red Dog' on bloody mayhem, denial and how the Okanagan used to be.
- Vortex of visual Texas poetry - Denton Record Chronicle
Denton Record ChronicleVortex of visual Texas poetryDenton Record Chronicle, TX - 22 minutes ago“When I was a kid, my grandmother and my family lived next door to each other, and was also catty-corner to an aunt,†Iles said. “My aunt lived across the ...
- Since 1789, inauguration has held special symbolic place in civic life - IdahoStatesman.com
Since 1789, inauguration has held special symbolic place in civic lifeIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 6 hours agoMany have touched the soul with poetry; one included an assassin in the audience, stalking his prey. They're the inaugurations of the American president, ...
- National Book Award finalists announced (The Charlotte Observer)
NEW YORK -- Talk about second chances: Peter Matthiessen, 81, received a National Book Award nomination Wednesday for “Shadow Country,†an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s. Others in the fiction category included Marilynne Robinson for “Home,†a companion novel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning “Gileadâ€Â; Aleksandar Hemon for “The Lazarus Projectâ€Â; and debut ...
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