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- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - San Francisco Chronicle
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish diesSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - Aug 11, 2008He joined the Israeli Communist Party after high school and began writing poems for leftist newspapers. Mr. Darwish left Israel in the early 1970s to study ...
- World Refugee Day brings cultural events and a 'celebration of trades ... - Idaho Statesman
The celebration of World Refugee Day on Saturday at Boise Centre on The Grove will remind the community of the families who are now making their home in Idaho after leaving troubled spots around the world. Large numbers of refugees from Africa and ...
- Sustainable Life Calendar - TheTimes
TheTimesSustainable Life CalendarTheTimes, OR - 48 minutes agoBy Sustainable Life Organic farmer John Joyer rode into the Muddy Boot Festival in 2006 with his dog on a 1948 McCormick Farmall tractor. ...
- On 'Viva La Vida,' Coldplay's new sound leaves listeners adrift - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools Every time the heart-sleeved Brits in Coldplay release a new album of earnestly overwrought anthems, chief 'Play boy Chris Martin swears they've changed their sound. He thinks he's telling the truth. He's not. Detractors dig at Martin ...
- Shakespeare gets groovy in Kingsmen's comedy - Simi Valley Acorn
Shakespeare gets groovy in Kingsmen's comedySimi Valley Acorn, CA - 28 minutes agoThere's some clever business of Touchstone mocking Orlando's syrupy love poetry and "Ganymede" teaching Orlando how to pitch woo to a lady. ...
- POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES: Kay Ryan Poems that turn ... - San Francisco Chronicle
POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES: Kay Ryan Poems that turn ...San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 2 hours agoRyan's work has appeared in four editions of "The Best American Poetry" and in three Pushcart Prizes anthologies. She has also received a 2004 Guggenheim ...
- The Great Silence - Common Dreams
Google "second Gilded Age" and you will get ferried to 7,000 possible sites where you can learn more about what you already instinctively know. That we are living through a gilded age has become a journalistic commonplace. The unmistakable drift of ...
- FICTION IN A NUTSHELL - Simi Valley Acorn
FICTION IN A NUTSHELLSimi Valley Acorn, CA - 1 hour agoMeier said she writes for her own pleasure—short stories, plays and poetry. She also writes for her band, Flower. "I've always been interested in creative ...
- Mantegna, Andrea: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1495) - The Independent
Some poems are remembered by a single line. Paintings don't come to bits so easily, and there are no dictionaries of famous pictorial quotations. But the same thing can be true. With certain pictures, a single detail is their gift to the world. The ...
- Iran's Sohrab Sepehri at 80 - Persian Journal
October 7th 2008 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of one of Iran's most celebrated modern poets, Sohrab Sepehri. On that day, hundreds of people will make their way to the lonely, remote mosque of Mashhad Ardehal, (on the desert road between ...
- Gossip: Philip Lauriat, Kent Stephens, Rob Scullin and more - Portsmouth Herald News
Gossip: Philip Lauriat, Kent Stephens, Rob Scullin and morePortsmouth Herald News, NH - 1 hour agoMckeel McBride is about halfway through her eighth book of poetry. How close on the heels of her last? She laughs; can't quite recall. ...
- Peace group gives voice to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims - Fosters Daily Democrat
John Huff/Staff photographer Macy Morse and Andrea Green light candles in South Mill Pond in Portsmouth Wednesday evening during a Hiroshima Candlelight Vigil. PORTSMOUTH — The glow of candlelight illuminated nearly 30 advocates for peace at the ...
- Sebastian Reichmann to launch a book of poetry in Romania (Nine O'Clock)
The poet Sebastian Reichmann will return to Romania after over three decades to launch his first book of poetry written in Romanian in the last thirty years.
- JAW Interview: Matthew B. Zrebski - Oregonian
This year's JAW at Portland Center Stage starts next Tuesday, July 8. Check back for a series of interviews with JAW playwrights, starting today with Matt Zrebski. Matt's play The Cloud-Bangers kicks off JAW's Made in Oregon studio series on July 8 ...
- Instant VC Money, Instant Blogging, Instant Interruption - Huffington Post
Instant VC Money, Instant Blogging, Instant InterruptionHuffington Post, NY - 6 hours agoThere's been a business plan contest and a poetry contest, I think, both limited to 140 characters. Think of the trade-offs. Of course there's the problem ...
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