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- Star power meets philanthropy with celeb charities (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Bono battles the AIDS epidemic.
- Baby daughter made it a 'Red Letter Year' for Ani DiFranco, who is set ... - MLive.com
Courtesy photo A "red-letter year" is one that is memorably happy, which makes this a fitting title for new mother Ani DiFranco's latest album. The musician will be appearing at Royal Oak Music Theatre on Tuesday. ROYAL OAK, Michigan -- As the ...
- Bunny's tale is a lesson for kids - Park Ridge Herald Advocate
Bunny's tale is a lesson for kidsPark Ridge Herald Advocate, IL - 2 hours ago"Then, gradually I put it in the form of poetry," he said. "Hippie wanted to go out and play with the other bunnies and his mother wouldn't let him," ...
- Paisley sets the tone for a big-tent party - Philadelphia Inquirer
Paisley sets the tone for a big-tent partyPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 2 hours agoWhatever the calculations behind it, her roots revival has curbed the grating excess of her prolix poetry, the baby-croak. ...
- War and sex: Who's afraid of Sarah Kane? - International Herald Tribune
War and sex: Who's afraid of Sarah Kane?International Herald Tribune, France - 7 hours ago"I try to take the burden off myself to communicate the metaphorical poetry of the play. I remember it's not actually my job. I just function within the ...
- Philip Pullman: how I chose my top 40 - Times Online
Philip Pullman: how I chose my top 40Times Online, UK - 1 hour agoThe Radio 4 programme With Great Pleasure lets you do the same sort of thing with prose and poetry, but again, because it lasts for only 40 minutes, ...
- Poet begins contemporary writers series this year - Mills Campanil
Poet begins contemporary writers series this yearMills Campanil, CA - 26 minutes agoWith 11 books of poetry, work with The Firespitters, writing translated into 28 different languages, an American Book Award and fellowships from the ...
- It takes four to make a Dream Poetry Team (Contra Costa Times)
La Pena Cultural Center hosts a night of powerful poetry
- High school students invited to UWSP Writers Workshop (Stevens Point Journal)
High school juniors and seniors are invited to submit writing samples for a chance to qualify for the writers workshop held at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP). The one-day workshop will give students the opportunity to discuss their writing with UWSP English faculty members and guest speakers, and senior participants will compete for five $1,000 scholarships to attend UWSP. The ...
- Mahmoud Darwish: Palestinian 'poet of the resistance' - The Independent
The poet Mahmoud Darwish was the voice of the Palestinian odyssey, whose stark writing reflected the desperation and alienation of the Palestinian people. He published more than 20 collections of poetry, which have been translated into many languages ...
- The Translator’s Paradox - Commentary Magazine
My first paid translation went unpaid. It was commissioned by an Israeli writer named Matti Megged, who, in 1959 or ’60, toured America on a grant from a U.S. foundation and ran into me on the Columbia University campus, where I was an ...
- Columbia loses author, activist - Myrtle Beach Sun News
Columbia loses author, activistMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 38 minutes ago"I loved her poetry, and I had a great admiration and deep affection for her." Nickens began having poems published in the 1980s. ...
- Solzhenitsyn in Search of the Russia That Always Eluded Him - New York Times
Solzhenitsyn in Search of the Russia That Always Eluded HimNew York Times, United States - 9 minutes agoJoseph Brodsky, another great literary exile, once told me that writing poetry in Russian became difficult for him in America after the language ceased to ...
- Nigh-No-Place, By Jen Hadfield (Independent)
The work of Ted Hughes has only recently begun to influence poets in significant numbers, most notably Alice Oswald and now Jen Hadfield, whose Nigh-No-Place is in the running for this year's Forward Prize. Not that Hadfield's restless eco-poetics sound especially like Hughes. There is a backpacker feel to the volume's twin locations of Canada and Shetland, yet the writing is rooted in both ...
- Scoopy's Notebook (The Villager)
Cracked: The L.E.S. Slacktivists’ sound-permit flap spilled over to the recent HOWL! Festival, causing some howls of frustration from festival organizers.
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