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- Hundreds gather at funeral for Palestinian poet Darwish - AFP
AFPHundreds gather at funeral for Palestinian poet DarwishAFP - 23 hours agoHe penned over two dozen books of poetry and prose in a career spanning nearly a half-century that captured the Palestinian experience of war, exile, ...
- Witnesses to the hurt of history - Indianapolis Star
Witnesses to the hurt of historyIndianapolis Star, United States - 3 hours agoPeople will say it's great to have that outlet; but his poetry was the fruit of so much pain." Busailah did not know Darwish well, having met him only two ...
- Poetry at the 2012 Olympic Games? There's no rhyme or reason why not - Times Online
Poetry at the 2012 Olympic Games? There's no rhyme or reason why notTimes Online, UK - 5 hours agoThe original games of Ancient Greece included an intellectual component of poetry and rhetoric, something the Ancient Romans understood in their ideal of ...
- Commentary: Johnny Gurkhas and British Tommies---Some Are More ... - American Chronicle
Commentary: Johnny Gurkhas and British Tommies---Some Are More ...American Chronicle, CA - 3 hours agoLulu.com: Im Schatten des Himalaya (book of poems in German), Through Nepalese Eyes (travelgue), Katmandu, Katmandu (poetry and prose anthology by Nepalese ...
- Gray Matters: You Can Go Home Again (part two) - Chronicle Times
Gray Matters: You Can Go Home Again (part two)Chronicle Times, IA - 1 hour agoHowever, my memories take the shape of poetry, not often found in newspapers these days. I have tried other forms of writing, but everything about my past ...
- A $1 Trillion Rescue Plan? - The Bulletin
A government rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would require taxpayers to pay "way'' more than the $25 billion estimated by the Congressional Budget Office, potentially as much as $1 trillion, Sen. Jim Bunning said. Treasury Secretary Henry ...
- Palestinian writer who gave stateless a voice - Zawya
Palestinian writer who gave stateless a voiceZawya, United Arab Emirates - Aug 11, 2008Poetry may have become a minority art form in much of the rest of the world, but in the Palestinian territories Darwish's poems were read, taught, ...
- Norma Winstone: Britain's Poetic Jazz Singer - NPR
Norma Winstone: Britain's Poetic Jazz SingerNPR - 2 hours agoWinstone reads a lot of poetry and gets inspired. Perhaps the most interesting confluence of music and text on the new disc is the song "Ciant" (which ...
- After the deluge, in capital, awe and annoyance - Barre Montpelier Times Argus
After the deluge, in capital, awe and annoyanceBarre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 8 hours agoNext door at Bear Pond Books the shelves of the Poetry section were bare and a fan was running to dry the area. A shelf near the front door sported a sign, ...
- Colorscape Chenango draws top musical, visual artists - Press & Sun-Bulletin
For the past 14 years, Colorscape Chenango has been the place where art and music have met at Norwich's village green on the weekend after Labor Day. And, thanks to sponsors, some of the best acts on the folk/acoustic scene are free for the listening ...
- Art shock troops mock Russian establishment - MSN UK News
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Carrying bags of stolen groceries, Oleg Vorotnikov takes out the batteries of his mobile phone before entering the secret headquarters of his underground art collective on the outskirts of Moscow. "This is to prevent the cops from ...
- Happy Birthday, Milton - World Magazine
Happy Birthday, MiltonWorld Magazine, NC - 2 hours agoRather than being employed for its own sake, [Milton’s] poetry is always in the service of ideas and moral commitments, and it is always demanding that its ...
- Carlin was as good as his words (Boston Globe)
It's 1972 in a bedroom somewhere in the endless flatness of suburbia. A phonograph needle drops on the last track of a much-played vinyl album, and a teenage boy cranes his ears once more, waiting for the voice to come through the crackle:
- Hitchhiking Across China - Wall Street Journal
It was an insane idea, almost guaranteed to fail. In the summer of 1981, Vikram Seth decided he would hitchhike across China, Tibet and Nepal, ending his journey in his native country, India. Hitchhike in China? Mr. Seth, then a visiting student at ...
- Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish in critical condition - Canada East
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A senior Palestinian official says the noted Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, is in critical condition. The official, who spoke anonymously because Darwish's health has not yet been made public, says the 67-year-old poet ...
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