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- Quake's Artistic Aftershocks: Chengdu Poetry (NPR)
Chengdu, China, is known as a city of writers — with an especially strong community of poets. Last week's earthquake already has made its mark. Poet He Xiaozhu says he wrote a poem about the quake both for those who died and as a way to release what's in his heart.
- Love is a battlefield - Time Out New York
Time Out New YorkLove is a battlefieldTime Out New York, NY - 58 minutes agoEnsiferum draws inspiration from Finland’s epic poetry and mythology, while Turisas dug deep to make 2007’s The Varangian Way, a wildly imaginative concept ...
- Tribute to a mate (Wingham Chronicle)
Killabakh bush poet Roderick Williams has returned from the Henry Lawson Festival at Gulgong with a prize for a very personal poem he wrote as a tribute to one of his mates.
- July 17 Lifestyle Calendar - Bangor Daily News
- "Folk Art from the Collections of the Maine State Museum," through Oct. 11, Maine State Museum, 83 State House Station; 287-2301. - "Todd Webb: Joy Without Measure," "Sean Beavers" and "Staff Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection ...
- Educator calls for innovative ideas in poetry - Gulf Times
Gulf TimesEducator calls for innovative ideas in poetryGulf Times, Qatar - 4 hours agoUK-BASED Pakistani poet and educator, Prof Safi Hassan has lamented formula poetry.Hassan has also called upon poets and writer to play their role in ...
- Paxman to interrogate the Victorians for BBC1 - Telegraph.co.uk
Paxman to interrogate the Victorians for BBC1Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 44 minutes agoThe series follows a successful one-off last year, in which Mr Paxman explored the war poetry of Wilfred Owen. It will follow other “landmark†BBC1 arts ...
- Between Nanjing and Chongqing - The Cutting Edge
The Cutting EdgeBetween Nanjing and ChongqingThe Cutting Edge, DC - 2 hours agoSome resisted the politicized vulgarization, but Guo Moro, for instance, who in the 1920s wrote poetry and adapted Marxist analysis to China, ...
- The hidden face of political Islamism - Times Online
Who says that Islamists can't learn a trick or two from the West when they have to? Take a glance at the glossy brochure of Islam Expo - billed as Europe's “biggest Islamic cultural festival†- which ended at Olympia yesterday. You could be ...
- The Seventh Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies: Toronto, Canda, Jul 31-Aug 3 (Payvand Iran News)
The Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies will bring to Toronto approximately 250 scholars from various parts of the world for the presentation f their current research on Iran. This is the largest international gathering of scholars who study, teach and write on Iran.
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life - Radar Online
Patti Smith: Dream of LifeRadar Online, NY - 1 hour agoThe film opens with a blurry shot of running horses (a reference to her debut album) and Smith dishing hard-knuckled wisdom in spoken-word poetry. ...
- Arrangements pending for 'Renaissance man,' philanthropist Anthony Kane Baker, who died in plane crash (Palm Beach Daily News)
Funeral arrangements are pending for Anthony Kane Baker, a longtime Palm Beach resident who was killed Wednesday when his lightweight airplane crashed into the Tennessee River.
- Sex columnist, advice mistress, playwright, novelist - Globe and Mail
Among a certain demographic (urban, male, heterosexual, 18-to-35 years), Claudia Dey isn't Claudia Dey, Playwright and, as of last month, Novelist. She's Bebe O'Shea, Sex Columnist. That's the nom de plume she adopted and the position she held for ...
- Top Poets Perform on Montana Poetry Day - Scoop
Celebrated New Zealand poets, Sam Hunt, CK Stead, Glenn Colquhoun and Poet Laureate Michelle Legott take to the stage to celebrate Montana Poetry Day, Friday 18 July. Established in 1998, Montana Poetry Day has since become one of the most ...
- Potions, casting spells in Ottoman times - Turkish Daily News
The bond between Kanuni Sultan Süleyman and Hürrem Sultan was so strong that people thought she had used love potions to ensure his attraction to her. She was not a “beauty,†but is supposed to have been very clever and intelligent and seems to ...
- Edwin Morgan: A very modest magus - Scotsman
Edwin Morgan: A very modest magusScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoOn the Poetry Archive website on which he can be heard reading his poems, he selects his favourite quote: Shelley's dictum that "poets are the mirrors of ...
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