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- Child abuse to be topic in Secaucus Thursday (The Jersey Journal)
Best-selling author and child advocate Andrew Bridge headlines the 19th annual Child Abuse Prevention Conference next Thursday at the La Quinta Inn and Suites in Secaucus. Bridge will deliver the luncheon address.
- READ: Worthy of a Tagore (The New Straits Times)
SU AZIZ spoke to Kunal Basu, the prolific Indian author whose work has been compared to that of Asia’s first literary Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.
- O'Shaughnessy: Prisoners' last words haunt writer (New York Daily News)
James McSherry vaguely remembers his stepgrandfather pushing him on the swings in the playground 40 years ago. That was his image of the old man, Michael O'Rourke, who had come from County Cork to the Bronx after the Irish warred with the British and then with each other in the 1920s.
- Tantingco: The King and his Prince (Sun Star)
LAST week, an extraordinary encounter occurred between two great Kapampangan poets. It happened in Magalang and I wasn't there to witness it, but I saw the whole thing on video, and I'd like to share it with you.
- A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind - ScienceBlogs
A History of Iran: Empire of the MindScienceBlogs - 2 hours ago1 Michael Axworthy, whose brief seems to specifically be the prose & poetry productions of the Persian language notes with irony that while Persian (Farsi) ...
- Vilhelm Hammershøi: When Michael Palin saw the light - Daily Telegraph
For Michael Palin, the first sight of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's work came in a pioneering exhibition at the Hayward Gallery more than 20 years ago. Defiantly painting his subjects from behind: Hammershoi's The Poetry of Silence Dreams ...
- Week of June 29 - Los Angeles Times
Week of June 29Los Angeles Times, CA - 13 minutes agoContributors read selections from "Carving in Bone," an anthology of Orange County poetry, the Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, ...
- Len's Last Laugh - Sunday Herald
Len's Last LaughSunday Herald, UK - 43 minutes agoFive years later, inspired by Lorca, Camus, Sartre and Yeats, he published his first volume of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. After an abortive year at ...
- A look at the best books for fall - Corpus Christi Caller Times
A look at the best books for fallCorpus Christi Caller Times, TX - 8 hours agoA self-publicizing foodie dilettante specializing in the game of his native Michigan when he's not writing fiction or poetry, Harrison has fans in several ...
- Creating visuals is like jazz, VJ says - Vancouver Sun
Creating visuals is like jazz, VJ saysVancouver Sun, Canada - 12 hours agoUntil 2002, Pantages hadn't played his visual poetry for crowds larger than about 5000 people. That changed at the ACA World Sound Festival in Acapulco, ...
- Art shock troops mock Russian establishment - Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Carrying bags of stolen groceries, Oleg Vorotnikov takes out the batteries of his mobile phone before entering the secret headquarters of his underground art collective on the outskirts of Moscow. "This is to prevent the cops from ...
- Modern music with links to Algeria - Chester DailyLocal.com
Modern music with links to AlgeriaChester DailyLocal.com, USA - 6 hours ago"My music has always been more influenced by chaabi, an old style of North African pop, which I've always loved because of its poetry and rebelliousness. ...
- My husband's sighs are driving me up the wall! (Salon.com)
Every time he takes a sip of anything, he emits this deep, mournful exhalation. It is spooky and weird and I want him to stop.
- Handicraft items big draw at Liwa Festival (Khaleej Times)
ABU DHABI — Hand-woven and embroidered abayas, garments, handbags and decorative items highlighting the traditional crafts are on display for the first time at the fourth Liwa Festival.
- Clinton Confident About Kentucky as Obama Looks Forward in Face of ... - FOXNews
Clinton Confident About Kentucky as Obama Looks Forward in Face of ...FOXNews - 14 minutes ago... let’s assume Hillary is not the nominee — she’s still the most powerful woman in American politics.†“This is the poetry and prose coming together. ...
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