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- New Biography Takes 'Heat' Off Dickinson Editor - NPR News
Read an excerpt . Brenda Wineapple is also the author of Hawthorne: A Life. Fresh Air from WHYY , September 3, 2008 · Conventional wisdom has it you can tell a lot about a person by the company he or she keeps. But, what if posterity makes a big ...
- A River Called Time looks at traditional values - Metro
MetroA River Called Time looks at traditional valuesMetro, UK - 1 hour agoComing to terms with the past helps young Mariano to face new threats that put their family home in jeopardy. Couto writes with a strong sense of poetry ...
- Feats on film: Get real for high drama (Independent)
It can be said with reasonable certainty that Philippe Petit is the only tightrope walker to have appeared on Desert Island Discs. In 2005, while recounting an extraordinary life spent with his head in the clouds, the French high-wire artist also became the first "islander" to cue up works by Morricone and Dvorak alongside obscure Jewish chants. His luxury: "An object found by my father that ...
- Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poet (International Herald Tribune)
The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77.
- Ideas, energy kick off Fringe Fest - Calgary Herald
Ideas, energy kick off Fringe FestCalgary Herald, Canada - 2 hours agoRolls is part of a micro-trend at this year's smaller, more old-school Calgary Fringe: performance poetry as theatre. For Sheri-D Wilson, director of the ...
- Indo-Asian News Service - NDTV.com
Indo-Asian News ServiceNDTV.com, India - 2 hours ago... assembled for Fifth and Wisdom also appear to be drawn from the various strands of her own life. Andriy, who takes an interest in philosophy and poetry, ...
- Melody needs poetry, sound needs phonetics - The Post
Melody needs poetry, sound needs phoneticsThe Post, Pakistan - 18 minutes agoIt isn’t as if the thought hasn’t crossed my mind while I was writing this column. Permit me the luxury of pity — pity for those who were born two and three ...
- Local man's TV show combines art, history (Norwalk Advocate)
For years, a select group of area residents have had David Dunlop all to themselves. An instructor at Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, this Wilton painter has been guiding students through the fine art of bringing landscapes to life on canvas for more than 10 years.
- Portsmouth peace group gives voice to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims - Foster's Daily Democrat
Portsmouth peace group gives voice to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victimsFoster's Daily Democrat, NH - 8 hours agoJim Splaine and poetry readings by former city poet laureate Marin Tirabassi and Vietnam veteran and poet Neil English. Event coordinator Macy Morse of ...
- Famed Palestinian poet critical after surgery (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mahmud Darwish, widely considered the greatest living Palestinian poet, is in critical condition in a US hospital following open-heart surgery, hospital officials said Saturday.
- Patti Smith, a life on film - Age
STEVEN SEBRING cheerfully admits that he didn't know much about Patti Smith when he was assigned to photograph her for Spin magazine in the mid-'90s. He remembered a hit single with Bruce Springsteen, Because the Night, and that was about it. He had ...
- August Arts Calendar: Chill during Summer’s hottest month with some ... - Malta Independent Daily
German artist Jorg Bottcher is presenting his new works this summer in Gozo, on the feast-day of Zebbug. The exhibition will be a mixture of media including new colourful, abstract works, as well as some of the best photos from his Easter ...
- 'Bad woo, this could die/ Ah-choo, this could die' - Guardian Blogs
If you're like 90% of the population, you'll feel that reading the lyrics to a song gives you - to quote a survey conducted by the National Year of Reading - "a full appreciation of the music". The survey goes on to say that it's harder to come by ...
- Arte Poetica: The Dream Poetry Team - San Francisco Chronicle
Arte Poetica: The Dream Poetry TeamSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoWith Francisco X. Alarcon, Jack Hirschman, Jose Montoya and Nina Serrano. Fernando A. Torres emcees. 7 pm $5. La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., ...
- Great poet’s grave stokes Civil War dispute - Las Vegas Sun
The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War. The dispute has arisen over ...
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