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- The Voice of Mahmoud Darwish (Middle East Online)
Wherever Mahmoud Darwish was, words in his hands were a magic lamp that set free the genie of the Arabic language. He knew the heart of the Palestinians. He knew that they had only one wish for the genie, one yearning request of their language – ‘home’, says Ibtisam Barakat .
- 'Encounters' offers glimpse of nature at Earth's end - MLive.com
Courtesy Photo The big picture: "Encounters at the End of the World" is being featured at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. Filmmaker Werner Herzog was straight with the National Science Foundation when it approached him to make a film about ...
- Where Do You Find Inspiration? - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Where Do You Find Inspiration?St. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 39 minutes agoThis year’s festivities also featured a poetry slam with local performers speaking freestyle rhymes while our photos were projected on a wall in the outdoor ...
- A Van Cliburn anniversary: From musician to folk hero (The Star)
If cultural gods tell us more about us than about themselves, Van Cliburn holds a particularly warped and smoky mirror up to the classical-music world he intermittently dominated over the last half-century - one that shows much about the strange price of being a folk hero.
- Fairfield war hero buried with honors - Connecticut Post
Fairfield war hero buried with honorsConnecticut Post, CT - 3 hours agoHe was, she said, "poetry in motion, a legend, a giant of a man." For the Rev. Samuel Scott, meeting Michael Daly in 1995 as a newly ordained priest was a ...
- Events calendar - Monterey County Herald
Events calendarMonterey County Herald, CA - 20 hours agoFiddle and guitar performance by John Weed and Stuart Mason; Poetry by Robinson Jeffers and William Butler Yeats read by Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts. Free. ...
- Famed Palestinian poet critical after surgery: friend - AFP
AFPFamed Palestinian poet critical after surgery: friendAFP - 54 minutes agoDarwish has published more than two dozen books of poetry and prose rooted in his experience of Palestinian exile and the bitter Middle East conflict in a ...
- Poetry in motion - Calgary Sun
Since I don't see any hands in the air, I'll fill you in. Ashley Harkleroad is the 72nd-ranked player on the WTA tour. She has never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam singles event and has exactly zero career titles to her credit. She ...
- The First Person and Other Stories, By Ali Smith - The Independent
Short stories and love affairs, as this collection shows, have certain inescapable similarities. Each has a beginning, a middle and an end - though they don’t always appear in that order. Both contain multitudes of fictions. Some stories, like some ...
- A poet dwelling in the shadows - Daily Telegraph
The narrator of Robert Edric's In Zodiac Light is a young psychiatrist at Dartford Asylum, in south-east London, in 1923. The novel opens as he takes a party of inmates to see a beached whale in the Thames estuary. The corpse is disappointing: "There ...
- Joyce Carol Oates' 'My Sister, My Love': mesmerizing, long - Austin American-Statesman
Joyce Carol Oates' 'My Sister, My Love': mesmerizing, longAustin American-Statesman, TX - Aug 2, 2008The way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that — her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Playwright's scripts are a departure from Mormon morality tales - Mormon Times
Playwright's scripts are a departure from Mormon morality talesMormon Times, UT - 13 minutes agoThe late Eugene England once said the natural art form for Mormon writers isn't poetry, fiction or even drama. It's the essay. I think the natural Mormon ...
- One rancher's solution to the 'Mexican invasion' - Orangeville Citizen
One rancher's solution to the 'Mexican invasion'Orangeville Citizen, Canada - 2 hours agoCowboy Poets — males and females of all ages — tell about everyday life on ranches throughout their poetry. The tales can be funny, sad, or philosophical, ...
- Free events set to inspire a nation of culture vultures - Herald.ie
Free events set to inspire a nation of culture vulturesHerald.ie, Ireland - Aug 13, 2008Among the highlights are painting classes at the National Gallery of Ireland; open mic poetry at the Unitarian Church on St Stephen's Green in Dublin; ...
- Italian singer adds new facet to Rabindra Sangeet (New Kerala)
By Madhusree Chatterjee, New Delhi, Aug 21 : Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's music transcends geography and culture. For Italian singer Francesca Cassio, a blue-blooded Roman, it is both a passion and vocation.
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