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TORONTO — Scott Griffin is shaking up the Canadian poetry landscape for the second time in a year, lending his name to the Writers' Trust poetry prize and more than doubling its purse.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. But it is also, if I check the clock, Mario Time. “The Super Mario Bros.

SEATTLE (AP) — A plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a half-century, to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound thrilled those who have long advocated for her to be freed from her tank at the Miami

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett and Ling Ma, already two of the year's most honored writers , are among eight winners of the lucrative Windham-Campbell Prize.

Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, has died after a brief illness, according to a family statement. He was 70.

OTTAWA — When a lumber baron first built a home for his wife at 24 Sussex Drive, he described it as a place of peace. Now, it has become a place of rodents.

NEW YORK (AP) — Yiyun Li's novel “The Book of Goose,” the story of two mischievous teenage girls in post-World War II France and their improbable literary success, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

OTTAWA — Canadian R&B singer Jully Black was celebrated by the Assembly of First Nations on Monday for her meaningful one-word change to the lyrics of O Canada at the NBA All-Star Game earlier this year.

TORONTO — Lovable loser Michael Cera is getting dolled up for the new "Barbie" movie, in which he'll portray a discontinued and long-forgotten character in the toy line. The Brampton, Ont.

As “General Hospital” marks its 60th anniversary , much remains the same for the longest-running scripted series in production in the United States.