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- Some Good Amid The Bombs? - CounterCurrents.org
Some Good Amid The Bombs?CounterCurrents.org, India - 10 hours agoSince the devastating riots of 2002, all of us who hail from the soil of Gujarat have pointed at its forbearing past, towards the poetry of Narmada and the ...
- Merrick Bay preserve named for murder victim Schiffman (Newsday)
Nicole Schiffman was on the cusp of adulthood, a 19-year-old on the brink of experiencing all the joys life had to offer.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston.
- Yes, You Can Think and Still Blow Things Up - Cape Breton
Remember when summer action movies were content just to blow things up? And they blowed things up real good. Now, along with stuffing our faces with popcorn, summer action epics want us to start pondering philosophical conundrums as well. The second ...
- Putting Antigone's World in Context - Wall Street Journal
Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, is making his opera directing debut in London with "Burial at Thebes," which is the Antigone story retold by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney -- who himself won the Nobel prize in 1995. The ...
- GRSF sonnet winners announced (Winona Daily News)
The Great River Shakespeare Festival announced July 26 the winners of its first ever City-Wide Sonnet Contest at the Acoustic Café.
- African musician to visit Dereham - Eastern Daily Press
The sounds of Africa will be coming to Dereham Library this month. Musician Seikou Susso, who was born in the Gambia, will be visiting the library as part of Black History Month. Mr Susso is from a family of griots, western African singer ...
- Mayes and Strickland To Star In 'Play It Cool' At NYMTF - Broadway World
Mayes and Strickland To Star In 'Play It Cool' At NYMTFBroadway World, NY - 7 hours ago... with Shania Twain, with jazz musician Kevin Mahogany at the Spoleto Festival and appeared as 'Spirit of the Child' in the festival's opera "CURLY RIVER. ...
- Muddling through has always been my highest ambition - Liverpool Daily Post
Muddling through has always been my highest ambitionLiverpool Daily Post, UK - 45 minutes agoThis was not a time for an appreciation of romantic poetry or daisy chains. If a bull elephant had been raging through her underwear drawer at that moment, ...
- Down to the well - VietNamNet Bridge
Down to the wellVietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - 3 hours agoThe village well is an important symbol in fairy tales poetry. It is considered to be not only the “eye” but also the “heart” or the soul of the village. ...
- Religion Calendar: 09/27/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Religion Calendar: 09/27/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 27 minutes agoMothers of Preschoolers group (MOPS), 9:15-11:15 am second and fourth Friday of each month, child care and registration are free; Zion Lutheran Church, ...
- Rachel Weisz's risky business - Daily Telegraph
Rachel Weisz's risky businessDaily Telegraph, Australia - 24 minutes agoShot in Memphis, the movie has been acknowledged in the US for its poetry, as much as for its over-sentimentality. Critics said Wai Wong's gamble in using ...
- To Damascus, the Verses of Love - Alarab online
To Damascus, the Verses of LoveAlarab online, UK - 1 hour agoBy Bahija Massri Adelbi Between Damascus and Bucharest, there is a distance where poetry filled it with passion since poetry becomes a crossing bridge where ...
- Barbara Gowdy among finalists for Toronto book award - Toronto Star
TorontoistBarbara Gowdy among finalists for Toronto book awardToronto Star, Canada - 13 hours agoBarbara Gowdy's novel Helpless, winner earlier this year of the Trillium Book Award, is also a finalist for the $16000 Toronto Book Award. ...The Literati: Unsurprising Shortlist Revealed, Going to Bed Early ... Torontoistall 9 news articles
- Star power meets philanthropy with celeb charities (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Bono battles the AIDS epidemic.
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