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- A poet's Yorkshire retreat (Independent)
Iovershot at first, missing the turn into Zion Terrace entirely and zooming up past the clog factory. Prevented by high stone walls from turning round, I soon found myself on top of Yorkshire moorland, iridescent green in the afternoon sun. So this was where Gerald Hughes took his younger brother camping, smoking out weasels and shooting rabbits. I executed a cautious turn and swung back down ...
- Exhibit an artistic response to book banning - Contra Costa Times
Exhibit an artistic response to book banningContra Costa Times, CA - 2 hours ago... installation and performance artist Victor Cartagena remembers El Salvadorian poet and soldier Roque Dalton by hanging text from his poetry books from ...
- Mr. Mayor, do you hear cries for change? (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The mayor is still silent about the spate of gang slayings involving youths in Seattle. Maybe he needs to listen to a new beat.
- A walk in the woods - Daily News & Analysis
A walk in the woodsDaily News & Analysis, India - 11 hours agoI think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business. ...
- A tale of love between three - Illawara Mercury
A tale of love between threeIllawara Mercury, Australia - 1 hour agoThe Edge of Love is a film for those who like sweeping period pieces and for people keen to hear Thomas' poetry in the context in which it was written.
- On the Floor: Phat heads up - Otago Daily Times
On the Floor: Phat heads upOtago Daily Times, New Zealand - 9 hours agoIn recent years he's been just as well known for his writing as for his music. He's reading next at the Octagon Poetry Collective get-together on August 20, ...
- Pakistan mourns poet of love and defiance - Gulf Times
LAHORE: Ahmed Faraz, Pakistan’s much loved poet, died in Islamabad on Monday night after a long struggle with a host of ailments, having taken ill in the first week of July while on a visit to the United States. He was 77. Faraz was buried ...
- Literary Happenings: Focus also on writers' rights in China (Ventura County Star)
With the Olympic Games opening in Beijing this week, the eyes of the world are focused on China. But athletics isn't the only topic under discussion. There are literary concerns, too.
- Stalin, the poet and life’s choices (Online Journal)
“I regard class differences as contrary to Justice.” (Albert Einstein in a personal statement of his credo.) “The Russians have proved that their only aim is really the improvement of the lot of the Russian people.”
- Gaps in a résumé need not be stigma - Ventura County Star
Gaps in a résumé need not be stigmaVentura County Star, CA - 2 hours agoSince his wife's death in 2002, he has focused on taking writing courses and working on poetry and fiction; he said he was lucky to have the financial ...
- Wessler: 'Merkle's Boner' part of baseball (Peoria Journal Star)
We practice the weirdest stuff," Illinois Valley Central baseball coach Jerry Rashid says. Then he punctuates his declaration with one more word. "Daily."
- Sibal recalls July 22 trust vote with poetic rage (Calcutta News)
Exactly a month ago, when some opposition politicians tossed wads of currency notes in parliament claiming they were bribed, they did not know that one of their tribe will freeze this moment of 'betrayal and trust' in his mobile and turn it into a poem.
- "The Worst Of The Worst" - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
That's how this administration has described all those detained in Guantanamo Bay. Some are. Many, many are not. And it's one thing to shepherd mistakes and innocents hors de combat; it's another thing to strip, abuse, humiliate and torture them as ...
- DR. HOYT ALLEN - Fort Dodge Messenger
DR. HOYT ALLENFort Dodge Messenger, IA - 4 hours agoIt was she who instilled in him a love of poetry that lasted a lifetime. His childhood changed quickly when his father died prematurely and Hoyt assumed a ...
- Jeff Biggers: Iran: Reading Tehran With Lolita (Time to Publish Iranian Writers) (HuffingtonPost)
While Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, chronicled her efforts to teach forbidden Western literature, most Americans would be hard pressed to recall a single novel from Nafisi's native country.
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