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- Fitting farewell to Palestinian poet (BBC News)
Tearful mourners reflect on the Palestinian identity at the funeral in Ramallah of celebrated poet Mahmoud Darwish.
- Giller Prize long list unveiled - CBC News
New novels from Austin Clarke, David Adams Richards and Rawi Hage are in the running for one of Canada's top literary awards, organizers of the $50,000 Giller Prize revealed Monday. Past Giller winners Clarke and Richards made the cut for their ...
- Jesuit heritage featured - Worcester Telegram
Jesuit heritage featuredWorcester Telegram, MA - 7 hours agoAlso, a multi-media presentation exploring 500 years of Jesuit poetry, prose, and other “humanism†will be held at 7:30 pm Thursday in the Seelos Theater. ...
- Sewing expo this weekend in Novi - MLive.com
Knitters, quilters and sewers will be in needle-and-thread heaven this weekend at the 15th annual American Sewing Expo at Rock Financial Showplace in Novi.
- In 'Microcosm,' author Carl Zimmer marvels at the complexity of E ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Pantheon, 243 pp., $25.95. One day in late August, 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatau blew up in the sea near Java, some 27 miles from land. Nine months later, a naturalist could find only a solitary spider. Before a decade passed, however, a ...
- Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' (Sentinel & Enterprise)
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked.
- Karadzic to be jailed in the Netherlands - The Chronicle Herald
This undated photo released by Belgrade's Healthy Life magazine Tuesday shows former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic with glasses, long white hair and a beard. The magazine's editor in chief, Goran Kojic, said he was shocked when he saw the ...
- Culture update - Daily Telegraph
Things are going from bad to worse,/ Our stages flooded with dodgy verse./ It's really getting up my nose,/ Please let's return to decent prose. Preposterous tosh: Fram is a rhymed epic about a Scandanavian polar explorer I'm sorry to sound a ...
- School has colorful history - Billings Gazette
Getting an education was a difficult, sometimes dangerous, proposition for children of the first white settlers along Blue Creek. Before there was a school south of the Yellowstone River, children had to ride horses across the river to get to Newman ...
- Review: Ways of Life by Andrew Motion - Daily Telegraph
Andrew Motion has been a great success as Poet Laureate. He faced a difficult brief in following on from an indisputably great poet, Ted Hughes, whose poetry was reinvigorated by the demands of public myth-making that the job imposed. And at a time ...
- A Van Cliburn anniversary: From musician to folk hero - Star-ecentral.com
If cultural gods tell us more about us than about themselves, Van Cliburn holds a particularly warped and smoky mirror up to the classical-music world he intermittently dominated over the last half-century - one that shows much about the strange ...
- Entering the Kat's Den - Jewish Exponent
Kat Dennings is in the mix in "Nick & Norah's Playlist," also starring (below, left) Michael Cera and Ari Gaynor. Photos courtesy of Sony Pictures Ignore "Nick and Norah" at your own risk; the thin teen and the voluptuous vixen are involved in life's ...
- Emperor Hadrian's legions of admirers - Telegraph.co.uk
Emperor Hadrian's legions of admirersTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoHe read massively, studied philosophy, and wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek. His autobiography is sadly lost, although fragments of it survive in the ...
- Strong, independent woman devoted her life to her family - FayObserver.com
Strong, independent woman devoted her life to her familyFayObserver.com, NC - 1 hour agoMrs. Davis loved to read newspapers, Carolina Country magazine, historical romances by Patricia Matthews and the poetry of Helen Steiner Rice. ...
- 10 things you ought to know about David Silverberg (+ Contest!) - blogTO
blogTO10 things you ought to know about David Silverberg (+ Contest!)blogTO, Canada - 2 hours agoThe Toronto Poetry Slam has been a regular monthly happening since November 2005: "It used to be a roving slam. We're at the Drake full-time for now. ...
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