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- Slavery Apology Is A Political Gimmick - The Bulletin
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed a resolution apologizing to black Americans for slavery and the racial injustice of Jim Crow laws. As with most things Congress does, this action is completely meaningless, nothing more than political ...
- Bringing intensity to the Manoel Theatre - Malta Independent Online
Bringing intensity to the Manoel TheatreMalta Independent Online, Malta - 46 minutes agoShe also writes beautiful poetry in both Russian and French and apart from being, together with my father, the main critic of all my artistic endeavours, ...
- Auden not our contemporary - Times Online
Auden not our contemporaryTimes Online, UK - 11 minutes agoAt the same time these commissions provided him with a framework in which to discuss his religious and historical concerns as they emerged in his poetry, ...
- Roger Casement versus the British Empire - Times Online
Roger Casement versus the British EmpireTimes Online, UK - 4 hours agoEven more nobly, he had been knighted for his heroic services in exposing the savage exploitation of African and Amerindian workers in the rubber industry. ...
- Recipients announced for Chancellor's Community Partnership Awards - UC Berkeley
Recipients announced for Chancellor's Community Partnership AwardsUC Berkeley, CA - 24 minutes agoThe Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival: A national environmental arts project initiated by UC Berkeley English professor and former US poet laureate ...
- Goethe establishment slams lawyer's romance claims - Feature - Earthtimes
Berlin - Allegations of a secret love affair between a dowager duchess and Germany's greatest writer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, have been hotly rejected this week by German literary scholars. The claims were advanced in a 2003 book by literary sleuth ...
- Joyce Carol Oates explores JonBenet Ramsey-style case (The Standard-Times)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates
- Post-breakfast poetry - Daily News Egypt
Post-breakfast poetryDaily News Egypt, Egypt - 4 hours agoDarwish’s poetry is always a pleasure to hear, and the delivery was well-turned if uninspiring. Perhaps it was the rush of blood to the digesting stomach, ...
- Words of Meaning May Change Our Lives -- New Book Brings to Life the Power of Words and Poetry (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008 -- Reflection is a personal way of finding meaning in our lives covering a vast series of issues that include religion, work, dreams, and environment just to name a few.
- Jon Carroll - San Francisco Gate
There is always ferment in the world of poetry, probably because there is rarely money in the world of poetry (absent the eccentric bequest), so turmoil is the only recreation available. Here David Lehman, the general editor of the Best American ...
- Sharp Teeth, By Toby Barlow - The Independent
A novel in verse – about werewolves. Hmm. It's a great elevator pitch, but would anyone actually want to read it? Well, they ought to. The verse is free verse of the loosest kind, often recognisable as verse only by the typography, but the ...
- Lectures / Literary Events - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Langston Hughes Poetry Society Of Pittsburgh presents a special afternoon dedicated to the celebrated poet, novelist and playwright. It includes a screening of the 2002 TV documentary, "Hughes' Dream Harlem"; a Slave Narrative presentation; and ...
- Man Asian longlist strong on Filipino writers (Guardian Unlimited)
The longlist for the second Man Asian literary prize features a strong showing from Filipino writers
- Television movies for the week of July 27 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Television movies for the week of July 27Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 29 minutes agoJennifer Love Hewitt. A killer stalks North Carolina teens who disposed of an auto accident's live victim. (R) (2:00) TBS: Wed. 3 AM (CC) • Illegal Tender ...
- Titian paintings going on show on Athens museum (AP via Yahoo! News)
More than 20 paintings by Renaissance master Titian and his contemporaries go on display in Athens this week on the occasion of an official visit to Greece by Italy's president.
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