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- The Zorba of Hawler PART 1 - Kurdish Globe
The Zorba of Hawler PART 1Kurdish Globe, Iraq - 1 hour agoIn this seemingly locked world of ours, in which life passes through the gates of laws and regulations and programs, poetry seems to me, to be the only ...
- Achebe's achievement still holds together after 50 years (Contra Costa Times)
AT AGE 77, author Chinua Achebe is living in grace and in exile, housed in a cottage built just for him on the campus of Bard College in upstate New York, lonely for his native Nigeria and the people for whom his stories have been written.
- Can, should, poetry be celebrated? - Berkshire Eagle
Can, should, poetry be celebrated?Berkshire Eagle, MA - 1 hour agoPhillips observes, "poetry is seen as something essential to the mental life of society that has become alien to the mental life of society; to bring poetry ...Celebrate National Poetry Month Danvers Heraldall 3 news articles
- Home on the Range: Laurie Wagner Buyer’s “Spring’s Edge” - New West
Home on the Range: Laurie Wagner Buyer’s “Spring’s Edge”New West, MT - 1 hour agoBuyer was already a successful regional poet (she’s since gone on to win the 2007 Spur Award for Best Poetry), and in February of that year, ...
- Dylan Thomas inspires young writers - News Wales
Dylan Thomas inspires young writersNews Wales, UK - 4 hours agoThis week an event showcasing the poetry of a group of talented young writers gave the first glimpse of what could be the early works of the next ...
- George Bonin, beloved Times columnist, passes away (Pawtucket Times)
PAWTUCKET -- For 23 years, Times readers laughed with him, sighed with him, reminisced with him and sometimes cried with him. George Bonin, the newspaper’s beloved contributing columnist, passed away on March 17 at the age of 92.
- Book festival reaching for a 'new crowd' - Philadelphia Inquirer
Book festival reaching for a 'new crowd'Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 32 minutes agoKahan stressed that the Philadelphia Book Festival was still mainly about books. Even the "personalities" have a book to sell. "For example," Kahan said, ...
- Poet celebrates National Poetry Month with reading - Lexington Minuteman
Poet celebrates National Poetry Month with readingLexington Minuteman, USA - 6 hours agoThomas, who teaches a poetry class at Concord Academy called “The Hidden Luminous: Writing and Reading Poetry,” received the 2006 Norma Farber First Book ...
- Obituary: Ruth Rosenblatt / She had careers as novelist, poet ... - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Ruth Rosenblatt, whose skill with words gave her careers as a novelist, poet and magazine editor, has died at 74. Ill with Parkinson's disease for 10 years, she died Tuesday at Forbes Hospice in Oakland. She was perhaps best known for her novel ...
- In ‘Young@Heart' it's the singers, not the songs, that are ‘oldies' - IdahoStatesman.com
IdahoStatesman.comIn ‘Young@Heart' it's the singers, not the songs, that are ‘oldies'IdahoStatesman.com, ID - 10 hours agoBut these people treat it like its Cole Porter, like it's poetry. I don't know anybody from my generation who could do the same thing with, say, ...
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to induct Madonna and Cohen
Reuters - Cohen, a gravel-voiced Canadian whose songs tell of love and sex, faith and betrayal, is among the most literary of songwriters. He published four books of poetry and two novels before trying music, partly to escape life as a starving artist.
- Iran honors Italian Hafez expert Giovanni D’Erme - Tehran Times
Iran honors Italian Hafez expert Giovanni D’ErmeTehran Times, Iran - 26 minutes ago... Italian Institute for Oriental Studies in Naples, D’Erme has spent most of life working on Persian literature and particularly on the poetry of Hafez. ...
- Ditch the med and head to the wild west this summer - Easier (press release)
Easier (press release)Ditch the med and head to the wild west this summerEasier (press release), UK - 10 minutes agoThe event features a reenacted shootout, a log-cutting contest, and an old-fashioned parade to commemorate the famous outlaw, who robbed the Bank of ...
- Boos Greet Verdi in Hot Pants, Soldiers on Crutches, in Vienna - Bloomberg
Boos Greet Verdi in Hot Pants, Soldiers on Crutches, in ViennaBloomberg - 3 hours agoPreziosilla, the gypsy camp follower, lightened things up when she arrived licking her pistol, followed by a dozen babes in cowboy hats and boots, vests, ...
- Charm offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World (Far Eastern Economic Review)
Before the decision on its first bid to host the Olympics in 1993, China realized, perhaps for the first time, that its international image was a disadvantage. Memories of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 were still fresh. The Dalai Lama was winning the hearts and minds campaign hands down.
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