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- Fall Preview: Poet John Ashbery Makes His Elliptical Way into ... - Village Voice
Fall Preview: Poet John Ashbery Makes His Elliptical Way into ...Village Voice, NY - 3 hours agoBy Giles Harvey For better or worse, John Ashbery looms overthe downtown of contemporary American poetry like a gaudy skyscraper: Wherever you wander, ...
- MEET EL NUEVO BOSS - New York Post
TO hear him speak about his accomplishments with quiet modesty, you'd never guess that in the Spanish-speaking world, Juanes is el Jefe - the Boss - a Latin American rocker who's part Bruce, part Bono. Those references are easy to make after hearing ...
- Palestine mourns death of poet icon - Brisbane Times
Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry helped make him one of the leading cultural voices for the Palestinian experience, has died in Houston, Texas, after undergoing open heart surgery. He was 67. Darwish was revered in the occupied Palestinian territories ...
- Palestinians mourn their national poet - Financial Times
BBC NewsPalestinians mourn their national poetFinancial Times, UK - 1 hour agoDarna, a restaurant frequented by Ramallah’s social elite, flew a black flag. Just around the corner, the shop window of the humble al-Wahhan shoe shop was ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishPalestinian Darwish is laid to rest The Press AssociationPalestinians bury poet in emotional funeral SwissinfoThe Associated Press - Kurdish Globeall 656 news articles
- And the Emmy goes to? See the list of winners - Detroit Free Press
Television's stars were shining at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards today in Los Angeles. • Drama Series: “Mad Men,” AMC. • Comedy Series: “30 Rock,” NBC. • Actor, Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad,” AMC. • Actress, Drama ...
- Has Anyone Seen My (All-Time Favorite) Hyperbole? - The Windy Citizen
Has Anyone Seen My (All-Time Favorite) Hyperbole?The Windy Citizen, IL - 2 hours agoRugged individualism, a classic American value, is at the core of our current state. Unless it directly affects us, we don’t want anything to do with it; ...
- Why Evan Tanner Was Important - MMAFrenzy.com
Why Evan Tanner Was ImportantMMAFrenzy.com, PA - 2 hours agoEvan Tanner rocked a papa smurf beard in the scalding Las Vegas sun, he lived in shambles and wrote obscure poetry to pass the time, and he admitted every ...
- PHOTO CALL: Shanley and Krieger's Romantic Poetry in Rehearsal - Playbill.com
Playbill.comPHOTO CALL: Shanley and Krieger's Romantic Poetry in RehearsalPlaybill.com, NY - 21 minutes agoBy Matthew Blank The cast of Romantic Poetry, the new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger, is currently rehearsing prior to a Sept. ...
- Who wrote 'Dreams From My Father'? - WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDailyWho wrote 'Dreams From My Father'?WorldNetDaily, OR - 14 minutes agoWith no known prior writing except, by his own admission, "a journal of daily reflections and very bad poetry," Obama is alleged to have sat down and ...
- Calligraphic work of a goldsmith - VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet BridgeCalligraphic work of a goldsmithVietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - 5 hours agoAfter sawing the words, he took two big boards of wood, attached velvet material and stuck lines of poetry into them. He had carpenters in Kim Bong Village ...
- Spotted: Farentina Burton - Hattiesburg American
Spotted: Farentina BurtonHattiesburg American, MS - 4 hours agoIt gives me a chance to break away from writing poetry and focus on politics. Do you follow politics? Yes, and I've been watching the presidential race a ...
- Plenty of events to bookmark at Wisconsin Book Fest (The Capital Times)
In Madison, if you're patient, your favorite author is likely to stop in the city for an in-person reading. And the chances are strong that this reading will occur at the annual Wisconsin Book Festival. This year's festival, which runs Oct. 15-19 and is free and open to the public, has adopted the theme "Changing Places," a description that the event's director, Alison Jones Chaim, says covers a ...
- No Shame Theatre to kick off in Lincoln (Daily Nebraskan)
As a high school student in Waterloo, Iowa, Gail Gallagher was a regular attendee of No Shame Theatre at the nearby University of Northern Iowa. No Shame is an independent, somewhat underground series of performances whose first show was performed out of the back of a pick-up truck in 1986.
- The Antidote to Violence - Scoop.co.nz
The Antidote to ViolenceScoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 13 minutes agoThey began acting out their feelings in creative drama, writing about them in stories and plays and poetry, and releasing them in art and music. ...
- Failing Darwish's legacy - Electronic Intifada
Electronic IntifadaFailing Darwish's legacyElectronic Intifada, IL - 3 hours agoIn a 2002 interview, Darwish stated: "I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is ...
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