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- Meet Felisberto Hernández, the Father of Magic Realism - Village Voice
Meet Felisberto Hernández, the Father of Magic RealismVillage Voice, NY - 1 hour agoA girl reciting poetry is "poised between the infinite and a sneeze." A fellow pianist "let the sounds float off like dust beaten out of furniture. ...
- What’s New At Machon HaTorah - Five Towns Jewish Times Online
What’s New At Machon HaTorahFive Towns Jewish Times Online, NY - Sep 4, 2008He will also continue to oversee the planning of wedding festivities for indigent brides. The “Ask the Rabbi†seminars will be expanded. ...
- Acting as he likes it - Tonight
Acting as he likes itTonight, South Africa - 1 hour agoBy Diane de Beer From a young age, Thami Mbongo lost his heart to poetry. "I fell in love," is how he explains this first brush with performance poetry. ...
- Books: "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba" (The New Yorker)
Facundo Bacardi, who founded the eponymous rum company in 1862, came to Cuba from Spain as a teen-ager. By the turn of the century, as Gjelten lucidly recounts, the distilling operation that Facundo had begun in a shed was among the brands most closely identified with Cuba, and the . . .
- Ringmaster Rattle dazzles the doubters - Guardian Unlimited
'Only love interests me and I am only in contact with things I love,' said painter Marc Chagall, words that could have been spoken by Olivier Messiaen, whose ecstatic Turangalila symphony vividly evokes the rapture of Chagall's familiar lovers ...
- Centennial girl: ‘Anne of Green Gables' turns 100 (The Charlotte Observer)
Anne Shirley, the main character in L. M. Montgomery's acclaimed novel "Anne of Green Gables," is introduced to readers as a sad figure, an orphan without a person in the world who loves her. Despite her lonely introduction, Anne has captured the hearts of generations of young women. This year, the book turned 100. Putnam released a special edition, and Anne lovers flocked to Prince Edward ...
- Yeats poetry in motion for unstoppable Murtagh - Guardian Unlimited
Johnny Murtagh pushes Yeats on the way to victory in the Goodwood Cup yesterday. Photograph: Scott Heavey/Action Images "He's a true warrior," Johnny Murtagh said yesterday, after Yeats had won the Goodwood Cup for the second time in three years, and ...
- Let's Step Outside - Slate
For some time now, a poet's life has been a lose-lose proposition of little fame and long struggle for a teaching post and a good pair of shoes. But last week poets across the nation rejoiced and then hurried to the fax machine. News had come that ...
- Ichiro a problem? Put him in charge - TheNewsTribune.com
Ichiro a problem? Put him in chargeTheNewsTribune.com, WA - 6 hours agoLove him or hate him, words flow out of his mouth that sound like either evocative or, well, nonsensical poetry. There’sa lot of baseball knowledge inside ...
- One Man | Steven Berkoff - Australian Stage Online
One Man | Steven BerkoffAustralian Stage Online, Australia - 9 hours ago... enhancing the poetry of the texts. In The Tell-Tale Heart, Steven Berkoff takes Edgar Allan Poe’s classic gothic story about madness, fear and loathing ...
- A decade of Dutt magic - Business Line
Business LineA decade of Dutt magicBusiness Line, India - 4 hours agoGuru Dutt’s romance with the film’s heroine, Waheeda Rehman, who plays the role of Gulabo, the streetwalker with a penchant for poetry, has been well known. ...
- Slam poets not averse to quirky verse (Illawarra Mercury)
Poetry is in such a healthy state that it's given birth to new movements, according to a University of Wollongong lecturer.
- Poetry to Aroha's ears - Auckland stuff.co.nz
Poetry to Aroha's earsAuckland stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 2 hours agoHaving to read her poetry at the launch made her feel "like a possum caught in the headlights", she says. "Putting it into the public arena is a big step. ...
- Naima El Bezaz (Radio Netherlands)
"Taboos are there to be broken," says Moroccan-born author Naima El Bezaz. Her experience of severe depression became the basis for her latest novel as well as her Radio Books story "Taboo".
- Cancer survivor to lecture, discuss book at Shawnee university - Daily Oklahoman
Everything you would need to know about dealing with cancer. Sam Bradford: I knew he was special when ... U.S. Grant High School locked down today MySpace bragging brings $320,000 tax... Keating says Cheney was responsible for news... Toddler found ...
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