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- The Politics of Perception - Middle East Online
The Politics of PerceptionMiddle East Online, UK - 4 hours agoRemi Kanazi is a Palestinian-American writer, poet, editor, and actor living in New York City. He is editor of the recently released collection of poetry, ...
- Slumdog Millionaire at Odeon, Leicester Square (Times Online)
Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches story about an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Bombay is a closing-night gala that makes the heart pound. Jamal is just one correct answer away from winning – or losing – a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
- Writing when the sky opens (The Daily Iowan)
Hemingway wrote that violent death is one of the simplest things to write about, and author/poet Forrest Gander agrees. Instead of taking that easier path, Gander challenged himself to write at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum -the complexities of love and relationships, and his début novel As a Friend was born.
- Is e-literature just one big anti-climax? - guardian.co.uk
Is e-literature just one big anti-climax?guardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoGenerative poetry simply adds a technological twist to Tzara's hat trick, the surrealists' automatic writing or Burroughs' cut-ups. ...
- Award-winning columnist to visit Saipan next month - Saipan Tribune
Award-winning columnist to visit Saipan next monthSaipan Tribune, Micronesia - 10 hours agoMitchell uses storytelling, performing poetry, and her theatrical expertise to empower, humor, entertain, inform, inspire, and motivate her audience. ...
- Oedipus, NT Olivier, London In the Red and Brown Water, Young Vic, London The White Devil, Menier Chocolate Factory, ... (Independent)
Ralph Fiennes' Oedipus is on top of the world. In director Jonathan Kent's new modern-dress vision of Sophocles' tragedy, Fiennes strides from the gilded portal of his Theban palace. The ground beneath his feet is domed like the curvature of the earth. Shorn-headed, this is a leader exuding aristo-thuggish potency, like a glaring polar bear.
- Terry Tempest Williams: Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Isthmus)
Terry Tempest Williams has established herself in that vanguard of North American environmental essayists and socio-cultural critics alongside such esteemed predecessors as Edward Abbey and Aldo Leopold. In an email interview in anticipation of her appearance in Madison, she addresses the genesis of her new book, its central mosaic metaphor, Barack Obama's potential as a transformative figure, ...
- Mascots: Do you want poetry, pizzazz or political correctness? - News Register
Birds, mammals, fish — they’re all fair game when it comes to adopting a mascot. Even cheese has been turned into an Oregon high school’s nickname. There are lots of other sources for mascots, too, as a quick run through the Oregon Athletic ...
- Africa: The Net's Eating Its Kids (AllAfrica.com)
THE SURPRISING THING IN the announcement that the Internet is probably bad for your brain is that it took so long to come: but the word is out; the information revolution is eating its children.
- Hopscotch: The horror of ‘Horla’ - VUE Weekly
Hopscotch: The horror of ‘Horla’VUE Weekly, Canada - 7 hours agoMaupassant’s prose is by nature not overtly poetic, yet there’s much poetry in his looping of images which shift in meaning upon return, as is the case with ...
- Poetry: Back on the Warhorse - Brooklyn Rail
Poetry: Back on the WarhorseBrooklyn Rail, NY - 7 hours ago“Love in the Time of War†uses the sonnet, a form associated with some of the oldest love poems in the English language, to create an expansive, ...
- Kalamazoo slam poets vie for chance at national contest this weekend ... - Ann Arbor News Blog
Courtesy of Todd Bannon Oliver Lewis is an ex-boxer and former member of the Army. He will be one of several local slam poets competing for to represent Kalamazoo at Individual World Poetry Slam Dec. 10-13 in Charlotte, N.C. KALAMAZOO -- As many as ...
- Olymic celebration of arts in the capital - This is London
This is LondonOlymic celebration of arts in the capitalThis is London, UK - 2 hours agoThere will be poetry in Docklands, bell-ringing in Bexleyheath and free ballet classes for adults with the English National Ballet. ...
- Andrew Motion visits the 109-year-old survivor of the first world war trenches (Guardian Unlimited)
Andrew Motion visits the 109-year-old survivor of the first world war trenches
- Flushing and Budock Water post offices shut their doors - Falmouth Penryn Packet
Flushing and Budock Water post offices shut their doorsFalmouth Penryn Packet, UK - 14 hours agoLennie George, who has lived in Flushing all her life, spoke on behalf of the all the residents when she told Mrs Hannan: “We all know today is a very sad ...
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