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- Harry Ransom Center Hosts Diverse Public Programs During September - News from the University of Texas at Austin
Harry Ransom Center Hosts Diverse Public Programs During SeptemberNews from the University of Texas at Austin, TX - 1 hour agoThe Ransom Center kicks off the 2008-09 Poetry on the Plaza season with "The Mystique of the Draft." This event features works by poets whose drafts can be ...
- Hidden histories - Boston Globe
Hidden historiesBoston Globe, United States - 52 minutes agoToday we still turn to Homer's epics not only as sources of ancient wisdom and wrenchingly powerful poetry, but also as genuinely popular entertainments. ...
- Deda takes steps for performance season - Derby Evening Telegraph
Deda takes steps for performance seasonDerby Evening Telegraph, UK - 21 minutes ago... the popular Hurly Burly vaudeville events – featuring live music, satirical sketches and burlesque performers – and open-mic poetry nights. ...
- Poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - The Press Association
AFPPoet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67The Press Association - 22 minutes ago"He felt the pulse of Palestinians in beautiful poetry. He was a mirror of the Palestinian society," said Ali Qleibo, a Palestinian anthropologist and ...Palestinian poet Darwish dies BBC NewsPalestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 The Associated PressMahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, dies ReutersAl-Bawaba - International Herald Tribuneall 173 news articles
- Poet 'unpacks the boxes' at PSU gathering (New Hampshire Union Leader)
Tomorrow has been declared Donald Hall Day in New Hampshire.
- Pakistani poet Ahmad Faraz dies at 78 (UPI)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Renowned Pakistani poet Ahmad Faraz has died in Islamabad at age 78, family members say.
- Editors? Choice (New York Times)
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- Movie review: 'Strong' is bigger than its formula - Salt Lake Tribune
Rugby players in the scrum in the made-in-Utah drama "Forever Strong." There's no shame in following formula. Haiku and sonnets are formula poetry - and yet they still require craft and beauty. So it's no insult to call the made-in-Utah drama ...
- The Rockstar Who Would Save the World - The Santa Barbara Independent
The Rockstar Who Would Save the WorldThe Santa Barbara Independent, CA - 1 hour agoScheeter has worked extensively with her friend — and Jack’s wife — Kim Johnson, who developed the idea for All at Once with MusicMatters’s Martin. ...
- "Tres Vidas" honors Latin American women - Wheaton Wire
"Tres Vidas" honors Latin American womenWheaton Wire, MA - 36 minutes agoThe story of Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni involved strong feminist views, late night cafes, dancing, poetry and forbidden love. ...
- Ex-king Gyanendra writing autobiography - Nepalnews.com
Ex-king Gyanendra writing autobiographyNepalnews.com, Nepal - 1 hour agoThe last Shah king, who is very much inclined towards poetry, is penning down his autobiography, according to a Nepali vernacular weekly, and this as the ...
- Sacramento coffeehouse hosts In The Flow - California Aggie
This weekend, the True Love Coffeehouse in Sacramento will host the first In The Flow music festival, a weekend of modern and improvisational jazz, rock, blues and more. Performances will be held on two outdoor stages throughout the event. More than ...
- Snapshot of the Convention (Portland Tribune)
Tyler Griffin didn’t originally set out to make the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver part of his vacation, but when the chance came he took it. “It was a coincidence,†said the 19-year-old college student from Lake Oswego. “I was on vacation with my family in the ...
- Merwin, Kingston to appear at Maui reading (Honolulu Advertiser)
Poet W.S. Merwin, Maxine Hong Kingston and Paunani Burgess will give a presentation at 7 p.m. Aug. 8 at Iao Theater in Wailuku, Maui.
- There are similarities to Johnson, but Bolt a sprinter all his own ... - ESPN
There are similarities to Johnson, but Bolt a sprinter all his own ...ESPN - 5 hours ago"He's poetry in motion." He's silliness at rest. In a sport rife with preening prima donnas, Bolt has taken posturing to a new level before, ...
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