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- Gift of words: Festival of the Written Arts (Coast Reporter)
The last line that author Lorna Goodison read aloud from her book, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People, went something like this: “My mother dipped her finger in sugar and ran it around my mouth when I was born to give me the gift of words.”
- A story of love and books in Bohemian New Orleans (AP via Yahoo! News)
Every morning in this Southern town of big-box stores and Bible readers, the Beat Generation can still be found dissing the system in the form of a 91-year-old woman in a red beret and cowboy boots.
- PA plans big funeral for poet Darwish (Gulf Times)
RAMALLAH: Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank tomorrow — an honour only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
- Comunity Calendar (Pahrump Valley Times)
VFW donation dinner -- 5-7 p.m., VFW Post 10054, Homestead Road, $6. Open to the public. Prayer meeting -- 5:30 p.m., Victory Christian Center, Highway 160 and Winery Road.
- Eco Festival comes to North Lake Tahoe Aug. 9 - Tahoe.com
Tahoe.comEco Festival comes to North Lake Tahoe Aug. 9Tahoe.com, Nevada - 5 minutes agoPaesano Productions brings you three stages of Live Music, DJ’s, comedy, open mic, workshops, poetry and more, each representing the exceptional musical and ...
- I just don't get modern art, says Italy's culture minister (Guardian Unlimited)
Italy's culture minister has enraged members of the country's arts community with an attack on modern architecture and an admission that he is completely mystified by contemporary art.
- A Survivor Whose Armor Was a Little Black Dress - New York Times
A Survivor Whose Armor Was a Little Black DressNew York Times, United States - 4 hours ago“The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion.” “Dresses should both crawl and fly.” (Really? Crawl and fly?) At a certain point we begin to ...
- All That Life Contains, Contained (New York Times)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art?s show of Morandi?s still lifes and landscapes is something that anyone in love with painting and its very specific poetry will want to see.
- Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poet (International Herald Tribune)
The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77.
- Enjoy a weekend of drumming and poetry - Sun and Press
The Big Tent Cultural Center in Whitney Point will present the women's African drumming group Alode' (ah-low-Day) at 4 p.m. Saturday. The group is led by djembe instructor Elizabeth Orleski and includes Karen Signorino, Carol McGee, Judy Decker ...
- Reading to honor Claremont poet - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
The Friends of the Claremont Library will host a special poetry reading remembering local poet and teacher Dick Barnes. Participants will gather at the library at 2 p.m. today for readings of his poetry by family members and his friend, Robert Mezey ...
- THAT PERSONALITY TOUCH (Bradenton Herald)
Laurie Crawford has always been arty but two years ago, she decided to apply her talents to a new business.
- The Death Chamber - WalesOnline
The Death ChamberWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoThere isn’ta dull poem here. I find it hard to summarise such a collection to do it justice when I can’t just quote them all, but I’d recommend it to ...
- What 'Dark Knight' and 'Wall-E' have in common - Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel.comWhat 'Dark Knight' and 'Wall-E' have in commonSun-Sentinel.com, FL - 15 hours agoReviewers speak of the feature's "dark vision" (Christopher Orr, the New Republic) and the way it "turns pulp into dark poetry" (Richard Corliss, Time). ...
- Wired.com's WikiScanner Coverage Wins $10K Innovation in Journalism Award (Newswise)
Wired.com's WikiScanner coverage, which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries, is this year's $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University's School of Communication. The awards honor creative uses of new ...
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