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'Thomas Wolfe, The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings 1971-19

See all stories on this topicThe Magical Campus collects for the first time the earliest published writings of Thomas Wolfe, the Asheville native son once called “the most promising writer of his generation.” He would have been 109 on October 3. This collection includes poetry, plays, short fiction, essays, speeches and orations, and news articles from his days as a student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...

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 550,000 grant boosts war poet campaign: The archive includes Sassoon's journals, pocket notebooks compiled on the Western Front, poetry books and photographs, love letters to his wife Hazester, and letters sent to Sassoon by writers and oth...
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 Pat Robertson calls hate crime law a "noose" around Christian necks (Video): In the Traditional News:

Yesterday televangelist Pat Robertson put in his two cents on the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, decrying the whole thing is an attack targ...
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 Book About Mattie Stepanek's Life to Be Released Tomorrow: Mattie Stepanek, who was dubbed a "peacemaker" died in 2004 at the age of 13. He lost three siblings to the disease that eventually killed him (his mother was not diagnosed with the disease until adul...
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 Reading Poe: Poems and Stories: An Evening of Poets and Writers Reading Edgar Allan Poe's Works and Their Own, featuring Martín Espada (Poet and Professor, English Department, UMass Amherst), John Crowley (author Little Big), and E...
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 Weekly poetry site seeks poems: Poetry News: The Weekly Poet seeks "well-rounded" poetry that demonstrates both depth and formal competence.

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 Simple poem about the comma lands top spot for Woodbridge teenager: Edmee, a 14-year-old Woobridge resident, snagged first place for her poetry entry titled Silence. "It is a poem written in the perspective of a comma. It is basically about how the comma is, in the .....
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 'Hamlet performance' -- Romney slams W.H. on war: In the Traditional News:

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney went after President Obama Monday for not moving more quickly to make a determination about war strategy for Afghanistan....
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 Grayson: FOX News is stalking me: In the Traditional News:

Rep. Alan Grayson, the Florida Democratic congressman who made headlines recently with his provocative partisan comments, told supporters Friday he's being stalked by FOX N...
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 Writers Festival: Last night was also Transgress with Mariko Tamaki, with comic tales from Chapters bookstore clerkdom, Derek McCormack with surreal stories from inside carnival hall of mirrors with a vampire fashion d...
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 Award-winning poet and novelist Mohja Kahf to appear for evening of poetry and s: Mohja Kahf, author of The Girl and the Tangerine Scarf (2006), and other emerging artists will be reading their work at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Friday, October 30th at 7:00pm...
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 SLAM! An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry: SLAM! An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry
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 Raising the literary bar: Anwar has been writing for some 40 years. His first writings, mainly poetry and essays, were published in 1970 when he was a Malay Studies undergraduate at Universiti Malaya. ...

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 Poetry was my lifeline all along: Gulzar: Poetry News: New Delhi, Oct 24 : He is equally known for his directorial ventures as he is praised for his poems and lyrics but lyricist-director Gulzar says he cut down on wielding the megaphone due ...
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 Biblio File: Paradise Town Manager find his muse in poetry: Poetry News:

Chuck Rough, Paradise Town Manager for more than a dozen years now, is also a creative artist.



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 Poetry Workshops in Merida, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico January 2-9, 2010: U.S. Poets in Mexico to host their second event in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico this coming January 2-9, 2010 featuring a renowned faculty of poets, readings, Spanish lessons, thrilling day trips to Mayan...
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 UrbanEye Video: Rock Out the Lazy Way: Melena Ryzik reports on the CMJ music festival from the Bowery Poetry Club....


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 Lyrics of the mascaret: Poetry News: 'One' by Serge Patrice Thibodeau speaks to the seasonal shift in all of us. G6 Review by Heather Craig In 2007, New Brunswick's Serge Patrice Thibodeau won the Governor General's Award fo...
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 Dayton Poetry Slam lets poets be heard: Poetry News: Calling all poets. Looking for an outlet for your personal expression? The Dayton Poetry Slam is Dayton's main event for poets.

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 Poetry analysis: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden: Robert Hayden's tribute to his foster father demonstrate the effectiveness of understatement, brevity and artful imagery. Mingled with respectful memories of the father figure is his realization of th...
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 After the Poetry Form Writing workshop at Tom Collins House ...: Poetry News: Today's workshop went well, even if it was lightly attended. We looked at sonnets from Shakespeare to Tranter, villanelles, pantoums, Dream Songs, syllabic verse, concrete poetry, and wro...
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 "Overshoot" Pilots Were on Their Laptops: NTSB: In the Traditional News: No, according to the pilots of the Northwest Airlines Airbus A320 that overshot their Minneapolis, Minn. destination by 150 miles, they weren't napping. Rather, they were on t...
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 Halloween Candy Demonic: CBN: In the Traditional News: To be honest, it's true that many consider Halloween a pagan holiday, but come on. It's truly a darned excuse for children to go out and get some candy. In fact, do you know o...
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 Kalima to provide Zayed University with world translated books: Kalima has also recently published number of poetry books by some of America's leading and modern contemporary poets - including Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Dr Ali Bin Tamim said "the agreement is ...
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 Ifoa XXX: The Writing Scotland Q&a, with Martin MacIntyre: This year, the International Festival of Authors has joined forces with the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Scottish Government to present Writing Scotland, a celebration that coincides ...
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