“The teacher that was organizing it pulled me aside and said she wanted me to write my own poem. And I thought, 'Oh she thinks that I plagiarized.' That's when I thought this is something I could do.” She went on to receive her master's degree in creative writing from the University of Oregon. Braziel's
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The publisher of Kojien, Japan's most authoritative dictionary, has revised the definitions of two words, including LGBT, that appeared in its seventh edition released earlier this month. The new entries for LGBT and Shimanami Expressway have been posted on its official website and will be the only
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Though digitization has contributed to the disappointing results, publishers mainly point their fingers at online piracy. Over 5,000 titles like “One Piece,” “Dragon Ball” and “The Seven Deadly Sins” are available on the largest of these websites. After a sudden drop in manga sales last autumn, one
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“Manguso has won a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize for her work, and has taught writing at a number of schools, including Princeton, NYU and Columbia,” said Kevin Waltman, assistant director of the undergraduate creative writing program. “It's that combination, her
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