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- Literary festival to promote cultural understanding - Khaleej Times
DUBAI - Over a hundred million people across the Arab world are unable to read and write, says the Arab League Educational Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALESCO). Not much has been done yet to resolve this situation. But lately, the UAE has ...
- Remembering Okot p’Bitek’s ‘comic singing’ - Daily Sun
Daily SunRemembering Okot p’Bitek’s ‘comic singing’Daily Sun, Nigeria - 1 hour agoP'Bitek was one of the most vigorous and original voices in East African 20th-century poetry. His satirical monologues dealt with the conflict between ...
- Erudite yet under-rehearsed (The Globe and Mail)
Shakespeare's Sonnets can inspire obsession and Simon Callow is as dedicated to them as any
- Rutgers-Camden holds summer writers’ conference - Philadelphia Inquirer
Rutgers-Camden holds summer writers’ conferencePhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 1 hour agoOn Monday, June 23, poet JT Barbarese, author of four collections of poetry and a translation of Euripides' "Children of Herakles," will read with Lisa ...
- By the book; Local wordsmith c.vance finds satisfaction creating his handmade books (The Bulletin)
He never intended to become a publisher.Bend native c. vance (born Christopher Vance Pangle) was already busy delivering pizzas three days a week, which put him at “almost part time,” he jokes.But with writing and submitting poetry and short stories and hosting the Bend Poetry Slam, c.vance’s plate was already plenty full.
- A child walks past one of the games set up at last year's RoseFest in ... - Southwest Journal
The East Harriet Farmstead Neighborhood Association’s (EHFNA) signature event, RoseFest, is set for tomorrow from noon to 8 p.m. at Lyndale Farmstead Park, 3900 Bryant Ave. S. This is the second year of RoseFest, which drew roughly 1,800 people ...
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power - AP report (GMA News)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president who took power in a high-altitude coup and later dragged a reluctant Islamic nation into the US-led war on terror, submitted his resignation Monday after a turbulent nine years in office.
- William Brown: Painter and printmaker - The Independent
The painter and printmaker William Brown triumphantly achieved Picasso's ambition of drawing like a child. "I steal ideas, usually from children, because they're smaller," he freely confessed. But his pictures are more serious than they look. Brown ...
- Boilerfest highlights cultural diversity and understanding - Exponent
Students visit a table at the Black Cultural Center's Boilerfest Thursday. Hosted by the Black Cultural Center, the Boilerfest showcased clubs, social groups, performing arts groups and the newly created intellectual group ' Black Thought Collective ...
- Crazy penguins, frozen fish (Newsday)
Antarctica film is a feather in Herzog's ice cap The new documentary from the eccentric German director Werner Herzog, "Encounters at the End of the World", is not your typical nature film.
- Christian sues gallery over 'blasphemous' erection (Guardian Unlimited)
Representatives for a gallery in Gateshead appeared in court yesterday charged with outraging public decency, after featuring a statue of Jesus with an erection.
- Book Review: Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti - Blogcritics.org
Book Review: Crowds and Power by Elias CanettiBlogcritics.org, OH - 26 minutes agoAlthough I have only read the English translation of the original German, the poetry and eloquence in the language still shines through the bleak, ...
- Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria ... - Times Online
So. You've written a memoir, but nobody has heard of you. In English, which is not your native tongue. And it's also a travelogue about your beloved homeland, Bulgaria. Where? Ah yes, the Wombles! Uncle Bulgaria...The Bulgarian umbrella murder ...
- Writer tells soldiers’ stories - Moose Jaw Times-Herald
Writer tells soldiers’ storiesMoose Jaw Times-Herald, Canada - 57 minutes agoAt 12:15 pm, a festival wind-up lunch will take place at the Cosmo Centre, with Anne Slade and Doris Bircham hosting a presentation, “Prairie Women: Poetry ...
- UK quashes ‘lyrical’ terror conviction - Financial Times
A former Heathrow airport worker who wrote poems about beheading non-Muslims as the self-styled “lyrical terrorist” had her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal on Tuesday. Samina Malik, 24, was the first woman to be convicted under ...
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