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		<title>Rare George Washington letter and Edgar Allen Poe poems set world records at NYC auction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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George Washington, Poe auction records set in NYC

NEW YORK — A letter by George Washington has sold for $3,218,500 at auction in New York City, setting a world record for a letter by America&#8217;s first president, according to Christie&#8217;s.
Washington&#8217;s 1787 letter to nephew Bushrod Washington argues for the ratification of the newly drafted Constitution.
The letter .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/rare-george-washington-letter-and-edgar-allen-poe-poems-set-world-records-at-nyc-auction-240180/">Original article on Gaea Times at  &nbsp;: Rare George Washington letter and Edgar Allen Poe poems set world records at NYC auction</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico&#8217;s Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes Prize, Spanish-speaking world&#8217;s top literary honor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Mexican Pacheco wins Cervantes literary award

MADRID — The Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world&#8217;s highest literary honor, Spain&#8217;s Culture Ministry said Monday.
The 70-year-old poet, novelist, journalist, essayist and literary critic said he was overwhelmed by the award.
&#8220;It&#8217;s like being hit by a punch that doesn&#8217;t hurt you immediately, ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/mexicos-jose-emilio-pacheco-wins-cervantes-prize-spanish-speaking-worlds-top-literary-honor-237655/">Read this article on Gaea Times at  : Mexico&#8217;s Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes Prize, Spanish-speaking world&#8217;s top literary honor</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic tests show remains don&#8217;t belong to Argentine poet Gelman&#8217;s disappeared daughter-in-law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — DNA testing has determined that skeletal remains found last year in an Uruguayan cemetery do not belong to the daughter-in-law of Argentine poet Juan Gelman.

A forensic examiner had recommended that the remains be examined. But Supreme Court spokesman Raul Oxandabart says tests done in Spain and Argentina came up negative.
Argentine officials say ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/genetic-tests-show-remains-dont-belong-to-argentine-poet-gelmans-disappeared-daughter-in-law-151802/">Read more : Genetic tests show remains don&#8217;t belong to Argentine poet Gelman&#8217;s disappeared daughter-in-law</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Sergei Mikhalkov, Stalin-backed author who wrote Soviet, Russian anthems, dies at 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mansur Mirovalev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — Sergei Mikhalkov, an author favored by Stalin who wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems, persecuted dissident writers as part of the Soviet propaganda machine and fathered two noted film directors, has died at age 96.

Mikhalkov died in a Moscow hospital on Thursday, said Denis Baglai, a spokesman for his ... Original source on Gaea Times at  : <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/sergei-mikhalkov-stalin-backed-author-who-wrote-soviet-russian-anthems-dies-at-96-151276/">Sergei Mikhalkov, Stalin-backed author who wrote Soviet, Russian anthems, dies at 96</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Unlike his brothers, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy grew old in public spotlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Espo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy&#8217;s fellow senators asked whether the Massachusetts senator had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation&#8217;s capital. No, he said shaking his head in reply, and mentioned something about visiting his brothers&#8217; gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery.

In his half-century in .... Source article &nbsp;: <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/unlike-his-brothers-sen-edward-m-kennedy-grew-old-in-public-spotlight-149888/">Unlike his brothers, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy grew old in public spotlight</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Unlike his brothers, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy grew old in public</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy&#8217;s fellow lawmakers asked whether he had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation&#8217;s capital. No, the Massachusetts senator said with a shake of his head, and mentioned something about visiting his brothers&#8217; gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery.

In his half-century ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/unlike-his-brothers-sen-edward-m-kennedy-grew-old-in-public-149858/">Read the original article on Gaea Times at  : Unlike his brothers, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy grew old in public</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Christoph Waltz is Tarantino&#8217;s mouthpiece in 4 languages for &#8216;Inglourious Basterds&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Germain</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Christoph Waltz has mastered Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s linguistic legerdemain in four languages.

Waltz won the best-actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival and is an early prospect for a supporting-actor nomination at the Academy Awards for the World War II saga &#8220;Inglourious Basterds,&#8221; in which the Austrian-born performer hurtles through Tarantino&#8217;s rapid-fire dialogue in ... Read more <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/christoph-waltz-is-tarantinos-mouthpiece-in-4-languages-for-inglourious-basterds-141565/" title="Christoph Waltz is Tarantino&#8217;s mouthpiece in 4 languages for &#8216;Inglourious Basterds&#8217;">>>></a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Patch, last British veteran of World War I trench battles, dies at 111</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Harry Patch, Britain&#8217;s last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war, and a symbol of a lost generation.

Patch, who died Saturday at 111, was wounded in 1917 in the Battle of Passchendaele, which he remembered as &#8220;mud, mud ... Read more : <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/harry-patch-last-british-veteran-of-world-war-i-trench-battles-dies-at-111-120612/">Harry Patch, last British veteran of World War I trench battles, dies at 111</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;May God bless you, honey&#8217;: World offers tweets, blog tributes to slain Iranian protester</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William J. Kole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

One Twitter user hails her as &#8220;Neda the Divine.&#8221; Another vows: &#8220;You&#8217;ll be .... Source article on Gaea Times at  &nbsp;: <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/may-god-bless-you-honey-world-offers-tweets-blog-tributes-to-slain-iranian-protester-92577/">&#8216;May God bless you, honey&#8217;: World offers tweets, blog tributes to slain Iranian protester</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Arise, Sir Dracula! Queen awards knighthood to veteran horror actor Christopher Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — The Lord of the Undead is now a knight of the British Empire.

Christopher Lee, whose sonorous voice and burning black eyes made him a memorable arch-villain in films from &#8220;Dracula&#8221; to &#8220;Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,&#8221; was given one of Britain&#8217;s highest honors Saturday by Queen Elizabeth II.
Golfer Nick Faldo, captain of ... Original source on Gaea Times at  : <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/arise-sir-dracula-queen-awards-knighthood-to-veteran-horror-actor-christopher-lee-80364/">Arise, Sir Dracula! Queen awards knighthood to veteran horror actor Christopher Lee</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Angel Island, the &#8216;Ellis Island of the West,&#8217; threatened by California budget cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliana Barbassa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANGEL ISLAND STATE PARK, Calif. — Schoolchildren crowd into the barracks of this former immigration station, poring over poems of sadness and longing carved into the walls by the million-plus immigrants who passed through the &#8220;Ellis Island of the West&#8221; decades ago.

Some of their ancestors were among the mostly Chinese immigrants detained on this island ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/angel-island-the-ellis-island-of-the-west-threatened-by-california-budget-cuts-74049/">Read : Angel Island, the &#8216;Ellis Island of the West,&#8217; threatened by California budget cuts</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea silent about US journalists&#8217; trial amid tensions over regime&#8217;s nuclear defiance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea stayed silent Friday about the fate of two U.S. journalists who were supposed to go on trial a day earlier on charges they entered the country illegally and engaged in &#8220;hostile acts&#8221; — allegations that could draw a 10-year sentence in a labor camp.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/north-korea-silent-about-us-journalists-trial-amid-tensions-over-regimes-nuclear-defiance-72648/" title="North Korea silent about US journalists&#8217; trial amid tensions over regime&#8217;s nuclear defiance">Source &nbsp;: Gaea News Network</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>20 years after bloodbath, Tiananmen democracy movement battles a state-enforced amnesia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Hutzler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — As a young poet, Cui Weiping was not much interested in politics. But she says she could never shake the image of her husband returning home on a June night 20 years ago, his pants mottled with the blood of people shot by the Chinese army.

Now Cui is speaking out, trying to rescue .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/20-years-after-bloodbath-tiananmen-democracy-movement-battles-a-state-enforced-amnesia-68283/">Original article &nbsp;: 20 years after bloodbath, Tiananmen democracy movement battles a state-enforced amnesia</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Slain men in alleged Bolivia assassination plot: mercenaries or victims?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 22:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola Flores</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Airlifted in from Bolivia&#8217;s western highlands, some two dozen elite officers in green helmets and flak jackets entered the Las Americas Hotel just before 4 a.m., disabled its surveillance cameras and stealthily made for the fourth floor.

A bomb exploded. After 15 minutes of gunfire, three men were dead in their underwear ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/slain-men-in-alleged-bolivia-assassination-plot-mercenaries-or-victims-49205/">Original article on  : Slain men in alleged Bolivia assassination plot: mercenaries or victims?</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, English poet inspired by hospital work, dies at 79</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Barr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, has died at age 79.

She died Tuesday in a hospice near her home in Wotton-under-Edge in western England, said her publisher, Peterloo Poets. No cause of death was given.
Her late-starting career was ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/ursula-askham-fanthorpe-english-poet-inspired-by-hospital-work-dies-at-79-47608/" title="Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, English poet inspired by hospital work, dies at 79">Read more >></a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Pithy, popular Carol Ann Duffy chosen as Britain&#8217;s first female poet laureate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 18:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — The centuries-old post of British poet laureate, bard to kings and queens, has been held by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes — but never, until Friday, by a woman.

Carol Ann Duffy said she hesitated before accepting the job, which brings a high public profile and an expectation to rhapsodize about ... Read more <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/pithy-popular-carol-ann-duffy-chosen-as-britains-first-female-poet-laureate-47371/" title="Pithy, popular Carol Ann Duffy chosen as Britain&#8217;s first female poet laureate">>>></a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Acclaimed poet Craig Arnold missing on Japanese island while writing about volcanoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 17:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mead Gruver</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE, Wyo. — An acclaimed poet who had been working on a book about volcanoes disappeared five days ago during a scouting expedition on a tropical island in southern Japan.

Craig Arnold, 41, is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wyoming. He went missing Monday during a visit to a volcano on the .... Original source &nbsp;: <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/acclaimed-poet-craig-arnold-missing-on-japanese-island-while-writing-about-volcanoes-47345/">Acclaimed poet Craig Arnold missing on Japanese island while writing about volcanoes</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>DNA tests confirm remains found in Utah wilderness those of vagabond poet who vanished in &#8217;30s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY — Researchers said Thursday that a skeleton found last year in Utah&#8217;s redrock country is that of a 20-year-old artist, poet and wanderer who disappeared in the 1930s and has been the stuff of Western lore and Navajo legend ever since.

The bones of Everett Ruess, a self-described vagabond from California, were discovered .... Read the original article &nbsp;: <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/dna-tests-confirm-remains-found-in-utah-wilderness-those-of-vagabond-poet-who-vanished-in-30s-46785/">here</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia professor suspected in shooting known for passion but seemed distant recently</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Brumback</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — Two people who knew college professor George Zinkhan early in his career described him as an ambitious and gifted academic with a promising future, but recent students at the University of Georgia said Zinkhan seemed disorganized and distant.

Police were searching Sunday for the 57-year-old marketing professor in the shooting deaths of his wife .... Source &nbsp;: <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/georgia-professor-suspected-in-shooting-known-for-passion-but-seemed-distant-recently-40107/" title="Georgia professor suspected in shooting known for passion but seemed distant recently">Gaea News Network</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston mayor, poet laureate to dedicate square to Edgar Allan Poe near his 1809 birthplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and poet laureate Sam Cornish are dedicating a square near Boston Common in honor of master of Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809. But the author of &#8220;The Raven&#8221; and &#8220;The Fall of the House of Usher&#8221; had an often bitter relationship with his ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/boston-mayor-poet-laureate-to-dedicate-square-to-edgar-allan-poe-near-his-1809-birthplace-40083/">Read the original article on Gaea Times at  : Boston mayor, poet laureate to dedicate square to Edgar Allan Poe near his 1809 birthplace</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Ukiah celebrates its name backward for Haiku festival, draws hundreds of poems from 10 nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UKIAH, Calif. — Rugged Ukiah.

Spelled backward, it reads haiku.
Poets congregate.
Things are taking a turn for the verse in this Northern California city as the local literati throw their annual bash celebrating all things haiku.
The one-day ukiaHaiku Festival, taking place Sunday at the Ukiah City Conference Center, drew more than 1,500 entries from 10 countries this .... Original article &nbsp;: <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/ukiah-celebrates-its-name-backward-for-haiku-festival-draws-hundreds-of-poems-from-10-nations-37658/">Ukiah celebrates its name backward for Haiku festival, draws hundreds of poems from 10 nations</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Poet Linda Gregg is the third winner of the $50,000 Jackson Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Poet Linda Gregg has won the third annual Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award given to an author who has written at least one book of &#8220;recognized literary merit,&#8221; but has yet to receive wide attention.

Gregg, 66, is the author of several books, including &#8220;All of It Singing&#8221; and &#8220;Things and Flesh.&#8221; .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/poet-linda-gregg-is-the-third-winner-of-the-50000-jackson-prize-32511/">Original source &nbsp;: Poet Linda Gregg is the third winner of the $50,000 Jackson Prize</a>.]]></description>
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