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- Art, the universal language of religion - News4all
Art, the universal language of religionNews4all, Netherlands - 1 hour agoThe Holy Qur'an was revealed in an Arabia that was alive with the richness of Jahiliya (pre-Islamic) period poetry. The miracle of the Qur'an was not only ...
- Essays on forgotten women in the arts stir good memories - San Francisco Chronicle
Essays on forgotten women in the arts stir good memoriesSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour ago1364-1430, supported herself and her children writing poetry, essays and stories in France in an era when education for women, let alone using it, ...
- Canadian singer Leonard Cohen to tour the world
France News - Leonard Cohen was made famous by songs such as Suzanne, So Long Marianne and Bird on a Wire but he had enjoyed success before this with his poetry in The Spice-Box of Earth (1961) and a novel The Favourite Game (1963)
- Isaac Rosenberg: the making of a Great War poet, by Jean Moorcroft ... - Independent
Isaac Rosenberg: the making of a Great War poet, by Jean Moorcroft ...Independent, UK - 36 minutes agoBernard Kops wrote a poem, remembering that "The door of the library was the door into me." Michael Kustow commemorated the library and the Whitechapel Art ...
- LitTO: February 26–March 5 (Torontoist)
This week is Freedom to Read Week , a national event that encourages Canadians to value their right to choose what they read, and to recognize the individuals who fight to protect that right.
- All tied up in knots - Evening Standard
The Bernard Sunley Room of the National Gallery is shrouded in sepulchral gloom. In it and its ante-room hang seven pictures of white drapery, the stuff of shrouds, grave cloths and winding sheets. All but one are big, some more than two metres ...
- Young Love on the Italian Screen (The New York Sun)
Contemporary films from Italy seem overshadowed by other European cinemas. Fellini, Antonioni, and Wertmüller became household names for American moviegoers in the 1960s and '70s, shorthand for whole sensibilities and ways of perceiving the world. But in 2008, even astute, Englishspeaking cineastes might have a hard time naming three notable Italian filmmakers whose careers began in the last ...
- Too flashy for its own good - Vancouver Sun
Too flashy for its own goodVancouver Sun, Canada - 3 hours agoLush Life has the flash, the sequinned skin, of a good movie. Wait for it. Brian Brett is a much-published writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. ...
- Director examines the penalty for patriotism - Akron Beacon Journal
Director examines the penalty for patriotismAkron Beacon Journal, OH - 48 minutes agoRita Dove to judge Akron's national poetry book competition this year. Former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer winner will judge the Akron Poetry Prize. ...
- Prime Time TV Tonight: Gnarls Barkley on "Saturday Night Live" (Asheville Citizen-Times)
TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "The Memory Keeper's Daughter," 9 p.m., Lifetime; reruns Sunday and Monday.
- Former NFL player Bo Eason tackles the Play House stage in 'Runt of ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fictional football player Jack Henry describes how he kicked his brother's butt in an NFL playoff game. Bo Eason, the author of and solo actor in "Runt of the Litter" (seen here in its off-Broadway production), used to play in the NFL, as did his ...
- Pitt’s Contemporary Writers Series Hosts “Writing and Social ... - University of Pittsburgh News (press release)
Pitt’s Contemporary Writers Series Hosts “Writing and Social ...University of Pittsburgh News (press release), PA - 34 minutes agoPatricia Jabbeh Wesley describes her award winning poetry as an outcry against the devastation of her war-torn homeland of West Africa. ...
- Kadammanitta dies at 73 (Express India)
Poet M R Ramakrishna Panikkar, who gave a powerfully earthy...
- Live Discussion Excerpt: Dirda on Poetry - Washington Post
The Free Lance-StarLive Discussion Excerpt: Dirda on PoetryWashington Post, United States - 1 hour agoAnd, are there poets writing today that you think might last? Michael Dirda: I suppose that once literacy was extended to all classes, poetry started to ...A month of bringing introverts out of their shells Toronto Starall 3 news articles
- Leonard Cohen - LiveDaily
One of the most fascinating and enigmatic -- if not the most successful -- singer/songwriters of the late '60s, Leonard Cohen has retained an audience across four decades of music-making interrupted by various digressions into personal and creative ...
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