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- Famed Palestinian poet critical after surgery: friend - AFP
AFPFamed Palestinian poet critical after surgery: friendAFP - 54 minutes agoDarwish has published more than two dozen books of poetry and prose rooted in his experience of Palestinian exile and the bitter Middle East conflict in a ...
- Programs try to keep teens busy (Oak Park Leaves)
John F.S. Williams, director of Oak Park-River Forest Township Youth Services, says that if teens are getting into trouble, it's not for lack of constructive things to do.
- A palette full of color and a pocketful of stones - Artists say a lot about death�� (New Times Weekly)
09/24/2008: Editor's Note Momento mori: Remember that you are mortal. Consider the macabre theme our annual Autumn Arts edition not as a celebration of death, but as a reminder of vitality, a reminder that life,...
- A global tribute to a Scottish inspiration - Edinburgh News
ROBERT BURNS might have been at the heart of all the stories in last night's Storytelling Cafe, but there was a fully international flavour to the evening, with stories ranging far and wide across the globe. d by Stuart McHardy, a storyteller, writer ...
- Hendrix fire guitar 'to fetch £1m' - Croydon Guardian
A guitar set on fire by Jimi Hendrix during a live show is to go on sale, it was revealed. Hendrix famously covered his Fender Stratocaster in lighter fluid at the end of his March 1967 show at the Finsbury Astoria in London. He then ignited it ...
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 1918-2008 - San Francisco Gate
Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the reclusive icon of the Russian intelligentsia and chronicler of communist repression, died Sunday. He was 89. His son, Stephan Solzhenitsyn, told the Associated Press that his father died of heart failure in ...
- Words of Wisdom: Poem (Collier Citizen)
The word “symbol” comes to us from the Greek, “symbolon,” which originally meant “a token or sign of identity verified by comparing its other half.”
- Inside North Korea - CounterPunch
Inside North KoreaCounterPunch, CA - 12 minutes agoI remember one young woman, 23, who was studying architecture but also loved studying poetry and literature. She was so lovely, humble and gracious. ...
- A novel campus - EducationGuardian.co.uk
A novel campusEducationGuardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoDue to the size of the student body, smaller tutorial classes were something of a luxury, but there was something about being taught modern poetry by a ...
- Hidden histories - Boston Globe
Hidden historiesBoston Globe, United States - 52 minutes agoToday we still turn to Homer's epics not only as sources of ancient wisdom and wrenchingly powerful poetry, but also as genuinely popular entertainments. ...
- Lunch & laurels - Amherst Bulletin
Lunch & laurelsAmherst Bulletin, MA - 41 minutes agoThe 55-page festschrift, titled "Lay This Laurel," from a version of the poem Dickinson sent to Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1877 in remembrance of her ...
- Scholar claims to find medieval Jewish capital - MSNBC
Sept. 2: After the poisoning death of an ex-KGB agent and the Russia-Georgia war, the New York Times' Alan Cowell, author of "The Terminal Spy," says signs points to a troubling era in Russia-West relations. The Khazars' ruling dynasty and nobility ...
- The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief - British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription)
The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and BeliefBritish Journal of Psychiatry (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoFrom here, one journeys through religious belief to ‘the physicality of listening to music, poetry, and religious incantation, and the shivers down the ...
- Jackie Kay: In defence of the Scottish bard, Robert Burns (Guardian Unlimited)
Jackie Kay: Jeremy Paxman was wrong to insult Robert Burns. Which other poet is celebrated, on his birthday, from Nigeria to Newtonmore?
- Richard Cohen: 'A change is gonna come' - Long Beach Press-Telegram
S am Cooke, the great R&B singer, wrote those words in 1963 following a visit to a civil rights event in what was then Jim Crow North Carolina. Thursday evening, an era and more than a thousand miles away, Barack Obama echoed Cooke. "America, this is ...
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