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- New Yorkers Celebrate Palestinian Poet - WNYC
New Yorkers Celebrate Palestinian PoetWNYC, NY - 11 hours agoREPORTER: It might be that Darwish reminded Palestinians of the potential for emotional fullness despite constant conflict. Or maybe more simply, his poetry ...
- Truth-telling Solzhenitsyn remained great to the end - Philadelphia Inquirer
Times OnlineTruth-telling Solzhenitsyn remained great to the endPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 3 hours agoOne biographer, Joseph Pearce, (Solzhenitsyn: A Soul on Exile, 1999), asked him shortly before his 80th birthday how he'd like to be remembered. ...Video: Nobel prize winner Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 RussiaTodayall 2,146 news articles
- Mr. Longfellow is waiting in the parlor - Chicago Tribune
S ubtract two centuries and I could've been arrested for trespassing. There I was on a recent Saturday afternoon, wandering around somebody else's house. I hadn't been invited. I just barged right in. But my intentions were good: I am a great fan of ...
- Smashing Pumpkins - Conde Nast Portfolio
Smashing PumpkinsConde Nast Portfolio, NY - 2 hours agoVeteran chunkers called the sport "poetry in commotion." The ingenious contraptions included outsize crossbows, pneumatic cannons, three-story slingshots, ...
- Philip Glass: Confessions of a chameleon - The Independent
As a child, the composer Philip Glass worked at his father's radio- repair shop in Baltimore, which doubled as a small record store. It was there that he was exposed to a huge variety of music, from Schubert and Bartok to Hank Williams and Elvis. "I ...
- Meirelles making 'Love's Labour's Lost' (Digital Spy)
Brazilian helmer Fernando Meirelles tackles Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost for his next film.
- Tuesday, August 19: ‘Celebrate the Word’ poetry festival opening ... - Metromix
Tuesday, August 19: ‘Celebrate the Word’ poetry festival opening ...Metromix, IL - 2 hours agoTuesday's frenzied slam by Da' Poetry Lounge will kick off the fest with an avalanche of impassioned wordplay. (Through Aug. 26.) Why: Poetry on your ...
- The spirit of the Vale-Rio lives on - Phoenixville News
The spirit of the Vale-Rio lives onPhoenixville News, PA - 2 hours agoConnie Bretz is a former WYIS radio talk show host, has won 18 poetry awards and is Leyden High School's Wall of Fame member. She has won numerous awards in ...
- Double celebration for double retirement - Grantham Today
Double celebration for double retirementGrantham Today, UK - Jul 30, 2008Some students read poetry and others gave stunning musical performances, with hymns Angels and Joyful, Joyful bringing the assembly to an end. ...
- Gonband-e Kavus hosts Iran and Turkmenistan literary meeting - Tehran Times
Gonband-e Kavus hosts Iran and Turkmenistan literary meetingTehran Times, Iran - 1 hour agoAlthough geographical boundaries divide the countries from each other, songs, poetry and prose are like free birds that can fly from the poets’ mouths and ...
- Marketer has takenan interesting path - San Antonio Express
Marketer has takenan interesting pathSan Antonio Express, TX - 21 hours agoAmong the first recipients are students who touched Garcia with their poetry about what it means to be both Hispanic and American. ...
- Farnam couple hosts ‘Ride for Your Heart’ - Gothenburg Times
Farnam couple hosts ‘Ride for Your Heart’Gothenburg Times, ne - 6 hours agoTom and Shirley Vickers are hosting the event to raise money for the American Heart Association. Cowboy coffee, a poetry reading by Jack Ostergard of ...
- Mary Washington professor is named poet laureate (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Claudia Emerson, a professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, is Virginia's new poet laureate, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced today. Emerson, who grew up in Chatham in Pittsylvania County, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for "Late Wife," her third book of poetry. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a degree in English and earned a master's degree in ...
- Half-dozen young writers to vie for $120K Dylan Thomas Prize (CBC)
A half-dozen young writers hailing from three continents are in the running for the Dylan Thomas Prize, organizers announced in London on Tuesday.
- Symphony composers embark on voyage of discovery - Schenectady Gazette
Symphony composers embark on voyage of discoverySchenectady Gazette, NY - 6 hours agoTinoco researched appropriate poetry, historical documents written during the Portuguese years of discoveries and various sermons preached by Antonio Vieira ...
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