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- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston.
- Illuminate your spirit with enlightening books while vacationing - La Crosse Tribune
Summer often brings vacation days, trips to flee the routine and extra "me" time. It can be a season to rest the body. It also can be a time to renew the mind and refresh the spirit — through reading. But where to start? To help you, we asked ...
- Powerful urban stories - Chicago Tribune
Powerful urban storiesChicago Tribune, United States - 18 minutes agoIt tells the stories of two brothers who marry two sisters, and it contrasts African American life in the rural South and the urban North. ...
- Literature has a voice at Helicon West’s public readings (Herald Journal)
The audience listens to the performer during a recent Helicon West gathering. (Meegan M. Reid/Herald Journal) Im the first to acknowledge many don’t like poetry. I do.
- Easton calendar - Abington Mariner
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 Junior Duck Stamp Art Show exhibit opens. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Lawrence Newcomb Visitor Center, Borderland State Park, 259Ă‚Â Massapoag Ave., Easton. The exhibit is open to all, free of charge and no preregisitration is required. The ...
- Keira Knightley and mum work together on Edge of Love - Courier Mail
Keira Knightley and mum work together on Edge of LoveCourier Mail, Australia - 17 hours agoMacdonald sent him bottles of pink champagne while Knightley tried wooing him with poetry. "You have to woo John. It took us a long time. ...
- Scenes From Buenos Aires - Slate
After a week here, we will happily proclaim Buenos Aires one of the best cities in the world. It's rare to visit a place and not be disappointed by one thing or another. But so far, just about everything we'd been promised about Buenos Aires has ...
- Start your week off right, see what's brewing in the craft beer world ... - MLive.com
Catch our weekly conversation with The Captain on WIDR-FM's Nonchalant Cafe Hour every Friday at noon. KALMAZOO - With an angel singing in the background, the KalamaBrew crew talk about Saturday's visit from Charlie Papazian, author of the 'The ...
- Joan Osborne Feeling Poetic on New Album (antiMUSIC)
In writing songs for her new album 'Little Wild One' (out September 9th) Joan Osborne fell under the spell of two of New York's most beloved poets.
- The modern faces of Spain - Olive Press
Olive PressThe modern faces of SpainOlive Press, Spain - 1 hour agoPranger tells me his godfather had a love of poetry, but was dissuaded by his own ability to take this further. “The great frustrated passion of Brenan was ...
- In a Parachute-Effectiveness Trial, Who Gets the Placebo? - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsIn a Parachute-Effectiveness Trial, Who Gets the Placebo?New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Baptists try to bridge age gap - Cincinnati.com
There's an age gap in the black Baptist church that ministers say they're struggling to bridge. Mainline Protestant denominations like the National Baptist Convention USA, meeting in Cincinnati this week, are struggling to find new ways to put ...
- Balloons mark birthday of late Krista-Rae Pike - Madera Tribune
A birthday party for the late Krista-Rae Pike was held at the home of her fiance Thomas Hollier. Krista would have been 19 years old Friday. Hollier's aunt Gwen Purdue holds a painting of Krista while other family members --Anthony Torres, center ...
- On the road: Andrew Anthony goes for a test drive in the new Seat Ibiza 1.6 (Guardian Unlimited)
The Seat Ibiza is what's known as a "supermini", which is essentially a more exciting way - how could it not be? - of saying "small hatchback". In effect, that's also the aim of its new design: to find a more exciting way of saying "small hatchback". Alas, it's not possible to be too exciting with small hatchbacks, because then they would probably become expensive small hatchbacks, thereby ...
- Comedy overrules romance in off Broadway "Tempest" - Reuters
Comedy overrules romance in off Broadway "Tempest"Reuters - 4 hours agoThe downside of this imaginative comic interpretation is that the poetry-laced scenes involving Prospero and his captive sprite, Ariel (Angel Desai), ...
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