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- Literary figures pay tributes to Urdu poet Ahmed Faraz (The Peninsula)
Doha • Local Urdu literary figures have expressed their profound grief over the death of legendary poet and literary figure, Ahmed Faraz, who passed away in Islamabad on Monday.
- What's in the air - Suburban Lifestyles
What's in the airSuburban Lifestyles, MI - 3 hours agoWhen I was about 12, someone gave me a poetry anthology, and I felt like my world opened in unexpected ways. I hid the book in my room and read it late at ...
- Alaskan fisher-poet Dave Densmore to appear at Working Waterfront Festival on Sept. 27-28 (The Standard-Times)
NEW BEDFORD — The 2008 Working Waterfront Festival will feature fisherman and poet Dave Densmore of Kodiak, Alaska. The free festival takes place in New Bedford, America's largest commercial fishing port, on Saturday and Sunday, September 27-28.
- Time Out at 40 - Guardian Unlimited
Flared high-waisted trousers, white or navy 13/6... Arts Laboratory, Shouts and Murmurs, Osborne and Tynan...' These words represent some of the cultural signs of the times strewn on a kitchen table in a cramped top-floor flat in Hampstead, north ...
- Survivor: Lisi is a loser - iAfrica.com
iAfrica.comSurvivor: Lisi is a loseriAfrica.com, South Africa - 24 minutes agoPoetic justice, and not the silly treemail kind of poetry either. After enjoying some Fijian hospitality, it was back to backstabbing. ...
- The many peaks of mountains in literature - Guardian Blogs
There is something about the natural landscape that inspires writing quite like that of any other genre. Perhaps it is because when people are removed from the equation, the writer is left with a subject matter that is less fleeting than the short ...
- Ha Jin wants to visit China - FOX News
HONG KONG — On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books. The 52-year-old National Book Award winner told The ...
- Compelling Cleveland Orchestra program features pianist Emanuel Ax - Cleveland Plain Dealer
What: Franz Welser-Most conducts works by Mozart, Strauss, Szymanowski and Dvorak, with pianist Emanuel Ax. When: 3 p.m. Sunday. Where: Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, 90 N. Professor St., Oberlin. Tickets: $10-$26. Call 440-775-8169. Pianist Emanuel ...
- Books in brief: History rehash and duo of bird guides - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Books in brief: History rehash and duo of bird guidesPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 4 hours agoThe slave trade and plantation life whiz by, as do his wrap-ups of literature, poetry, theater and other cultural areas. For example, Stephen Foster's music ...
- Back to school, in poetry: 'Life, friends, is boring.' - Los Angeles Times
Back to school, in poetry: 'Life, friends, is boring.'Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours agoJohn Berryman's poem "Dream Song #14," which begins, "Life, friends, is boring," has a stubborn ennui that makes it perfect for this locker-stuffing list. ...
- Happenstance Theater to Present 'Manifesto!' at New York Clown ... - Broadway World
Happenstance Theater to Present 'Manifesto!' at New York Clown ...Broadway World, NY - 17 hours ago... the moment when the performers and audience meet, to lift their encounter beyond the daily and pedestrian into the realms of dreams, poetry, and art. ...
- What's happening in Southern Indiana - Louisville Courier-Journal
What's happening in Southern IndianaLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 55 minutes agoMary Anderson Center "Transformation" by Karine Wilson (paintings) and "Off the Page; On The Wall" by George Ella Lyon (poetry/writings). ...
- El Paso doctor adds essays to poetry in 2nd collection (El Paso Times)
Dr. Alfonso Chvez bares his soul again in "Amor de todos los tiempos/Love Of All Time," his newest self-published bilingual collection of prescriptions for living life to its fullest.
- American books, Arabic readers: Translation project aims to bridge the gap (Contra Costa Times)
How would you like to help build literary bridges between the Arab-speaking world and our own?Getting works by American authors translated into Arabic and plopped into the hands of Arabic-speaking readers is a good way to start, because apparently, there are darned few great works of literature by
- Time Out at 40 (Guardian Unlimited)
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