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- U.N. troops offer lessons in peace in Lebanon (Los Angeles Times)
Yoga, French poetry, pizza making -- the international forces stationed there give war-weary residents a respite from their cares. The yoga instructor chuckles, and the three dozen or so women follow along, giggling nervously before bursting through some invisible layer of restraint or sorrow and laughing with abandon. Grins widen into smiles, tentative squeals bloom into full-bore howls.
- Hendrix's burnt guitar fetches half-million dollars at sale - AFP
AFPHendrix's burnt guitar fetches half-million dollars at saleAFP - 4 hours agoAlso in the auction was Jim Morrison's last notebook, which contains lyrics, poetry and musings from The Doors frontman, fingerprints of Elvis on a gun ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' (GMA News)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates: Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Portsmouth peace group gives voice to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims - Foster's Daily Democrat
Portsmouth peace group gives voice to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victimsFoster's Daily Democrat, NH - 8 hours agoJim Splaine and poetry readings by former city poet laureate Marin Tirabassi and Vietnam veteran and poet Neil English. Event coordinator Macy Morse of ...
- The Death Rales of Democracy? - OpEdNews
The Death Rales of Democracy?OpEdNews, PA - 2 hours agoRafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running ...
- Beatniks and Hollywood Royalty Descend Upon Edmonton Edmonton Festivals Create International Flavour (Hospitality Net)
Edmonton Festivals bring life to the streets for poetry lovers. If to you poetry means the stuff you did in high school English, think again: this is combat in the form of "blink poetry," a yell-a-thon with megaphones, a funkified jazz soundtrack, and multiple battles to the (poetic) death. It's nicknamed "The Word Party in Downtown E-Town" for good reason: it's three days of manic, comic, ...
- Prime Time Calendar the week of Sept. 3, 2008 - Independent Press
Prime Time Calendar the week of Sept. 3, 2008Independent Press, NJ - 1 hour agoThe workshop is free to the public. Reserve to attend. Call 973-442-6400. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month for poetry workshops, ...
- Award-winning poet gave voice to plight of Palestinians - Chicago Sun-Times
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Mahmoud Darwish, whose writings gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more ...
- Who wrote 'Dreams From My Father'? - WorldNetDaily
For years, I had a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging on my living room wall. I had painted it while in high school in New York at a salon overseen by Helen Farr Sloan, the widow of famed American painter John Sloan and herself a painter of no small ...
- Words to cringe by -- and laugh about - News & Observer
Words to cringe by -- and laugh aboutNews & Observer, NC - 3 hours agoSo one night, she went to a friend's house, and over box wine, she read a few selections. Her friend laughed hard. And even though sharing her youthful ...
- Young 'Riley' to visit festival - Indianapolis Star
Young 'Riley' to visit festivalIndianapolis Star, United States - 1 hour ago... as they're introduced to him, and the older folks smile in recognition and can often recite right along with me since they grew up with his poetry. ...
- art Till September 12 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #24752275, 24618812; 3 pm - 8 pm: (The Telegraph)
Rater Katha: Ek Chitrakarer Bhabna , an exhibition of the work of Pradosh Paul. Till September 13 (weekdays) at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road, #30534053; 11 am - 7 pm: 4th Dimension , a group exhibition of sculptures Till September 13 at G.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 Chittaranjan Avenue, 1st floor, #6521 6931; 1 pm - 7 pm: Love and Lovers , an ...
- Fixtures and Forces and Friends - Wiscasset Newspaper
Fixtures and Forces and FriendsWiscasset Newspaper, ME - 30 minutes agoYou pour everything you have into them, all the knowledge and conscience and poetry you've accumulated, together with just enough of your lonely fears and ...
- Dermie rates the top three (Perth Now)
AFTER this weekend, half the clubs in the AFL turn their thoughts to the draft. Dermott Brereton analyses the top three prospects.
- Chalk Talk: San Mateo County teen poet makes anthology - San Mateo County Times
Chalk Talk: San Mateo County teen poet makes anthologySan Mateo County Times, CA - 1 hour ago"It is hard enough to decide to grapple with current events in poetry. It's even harder to do it well, which is exactly what she's done. ...
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