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    Mar 14, 2013 |Story| Daily American

  1. UPJ to host award-winning poet

    Our Town Correspondent
    The 10th annual Esther Goldhaber Jacovitz Poetry Reading is scheduled to take place March 20 at the Whalley Memorial Chapel on the Pitt-Johnstown campus. This year’s featured speaker is George Bilgere, an award-winning poet whose work is...

    Tags: Library of Congress, Poetry, Garrison Keillor, University of Akron, NPR

    2. Feb 16, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Rae Armantrout's probing new collection

    The only time I met the poet Rae Armantrout, a few years ago, I escorted her from her hotel to the lecture hall at the University of Chicago where she was to read. We chatted, and she mentioned that she had a new book coming out. I asked her what it was called. “‘Money Shot,'” said this smallish, birdlike woman in her early 60s. The incongruity of hearing such a phrase issue from such a mouth (Google it if you don't know what it means; this is a family paper) strikes me now as an apt metaphor for Armantrout's career and work. 
    The only time I met the poet Rae Armantrout, a few years ago, I escorted her from her hotel to the lecture hall at the University of Chicago where she was to read. We chatted, and she mentioned that she had a new book coming out. I asked her what it was...

    Tags: Poetry, Wesleyan University, Entertainment Events, Chicago Tribune, University of Chicago

    3. Jan 28, 2013 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  3. Visiting Rollins: Karen Russell, N. Scott Momaday, Azar Nafisi, others

    It's time once again for Winter With the Writers, one of the literary treasures of Central Florida. Each year, Rollins College presents the program, subtitled "A Festival of Literary Arts," to the community without charge.
    It's time once again for Winter With the Writers, one of the literary treasures of Central Florida. Each year, Rollins College presents the program, subtitled "A Festival of Literary Arts," to the community without charge. The college is proud of the...

    Tags: Gatorland, Entertainment Events, University of Chicago, Awards and Prizes, David Henry Hwang

    4. Nov 30, 2012 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  4. 31st Key West Literary Seminar set for January

    Leading contemporary writers will offer insights into the lives and work of literary icons including Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway and Walt Whitman during the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar.
    Leading contemporary writers will offer insights into the lives and work of literary icons including Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway and Walt Whitman during the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar. Two...

    Tags: Jack Kerouac, Arts, Literature, Gore Vidal, Emily Dickinson

    5. Sep 28, 2012 |Story| SFL

  5. Best Bets: Literary Events

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    Tom Wolfe: The once-and-again “new journalist” and novelist will release his latest book, “Back to Blood,” on Oct. 23. What does this have to do with South Florida? Well, according to Wolfe himself, everything. “Miami is...

    Tags: Gainesville, Junot Diaz, Poetry, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Literature

    6. May 25, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  6. Poetry's Rock Stars Light Up Sunken Garden

    When hundreds of people showed up for a outdoor poetry reading in Farmington in 1992, causing a traffic jam, &quot;it dawned on us," said an organizer, "this was going to be a yearly thing." That was an understatement.
    When hundreds of people showed up for a outdoor poetry reading in Farmington in 1992, causing a traffic jam, "it dawned on us," said an organizer, "this was going to be a yearly thing." That was an understatement. That first blockbuster evening has...

    Tags: Poetry, James Merrill, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), Richard Wilbur, Mary Cassatt

    7. Jan 29, 2012 |Column| Orlando Sentinel
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    8. Oct 7, 2011 |Story| AP Broadcast

  8. Officer Dies Trying to Stop Fleeing Suspects in Miss.

    A Mississippi police officer was hit and killed Friday while trying to stop a car carrying two church burglary suspects as the vehicle sped toward a busy intersection.
    Associated Press
    A Mississippi police officer was hit and killed Friday while trying to stop a car carrying two church burglary suspects as the vehicle sped toward a busy intersection. Grenada Mayor Billy Collins said Capt. John Wayne Haddock, 50, was hit by the car...

    Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Theft, Crimes, John Wayne, Grenada

    9. Nov 22, 2011 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  9. Cheating Margarito deserves beatdown from Miguel Cotto

    Let's dispense with the cordial pat on the gloves before the bell, and let the fists fly from the get-go.
    Let's dispense with the cordial pat on the gloves before the bell, and let the fists fly from the get-go. Antonio Margarito doesn't deserve anybody's respect. He doesn't even deserve to be in the ring. He is boxing's dirty laundry, soiled and stained....

    Tags: Welterweight, Hospitals and Clinics, Boxing, Health, Human Interest

    10. Jun 20, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Poetry magazine well-versed in criticism

    Poetry makes nothing happen.
    Poetry makes nothing happen. So saidW.H. Auden. Who never lived in Chicago. Or knew Don Share. Share is the senior editor of Poetry magazine, the venerable Chicago-based literary institution. It turns 100 next year and has seen far more than nothing...

    Tags: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Michigan, Robert Frost, Human Interest, Radio

    11. Jun 17, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  11. Rollins College professor’s work on National Public Radio

    Orlando Arts Blog
    Rollins College houses a chorus of literary voices. There's Billy Collins, a former U.S. poet laureate who may just be one of the most visible versifiers in this country. There's the critic Terry Teachout, author of biographies on characters as ...
    12. Mar 24, 2011 |Story| Zap2It

  12. CBS' madcap 'Chaos' pits spy versus spy

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    In a pivotal moment of the Friday, April 1, premiere of CBS' "Chaos," CIA agent Rick Martinez eats a live scorpion. Surrounded by a band of machete- and gun-wielding rebels, in the middle of a desert, he's putting them on notice that he's crazy tough....

    Tags: Chaos (tv program), CBS Corp., NCIS (tv program), Tim Blake Nelson, James Murray

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