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- Q&A: "Longing for the Past Yet Belonging to the Present" - Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 1 (IPS) - Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, thousands of intellectuals, activists and poets have left Iran, many fleeing to Europe and the United States. A new book brings together the work of 18 Iranian poets from this diaspora to ...
- Cubs: Spell-bound no longer - Chicago Sun-Times
And someone actually had the gall to ask: Should a Chicagoan start rooting for both teams? Sure, and the Republicans will perform a group hug with Obama in September. After so many generations of waiting, so much perpetual agony and torture, you don ...
- Poetry at the 2012 Olympic Games? There's no rhyme or reason why not - Times Online
Poetry at the 2012 Olympic Games? There's no rhyme or reason why notTimes Online, UK - 5 hours agoThe original games of Ancient Greece included an intellectual component of poetry and rhetoric, something the Ancient Romans understood in their ideal of ...
- St. Petersburg, where a morose spirituality brings forth poets (The Japan Times)
In Petersburg we will come together again As if we had buried the sun there. — Osip Mandelstam What city in the world can boast as many great poets and novelists as St. Petersburg? Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, the Bohemian Kharms, the satirist Zoshchenko, Brodsky (the poet who became an exile in the United States), to name a few . . . they created a mystique that ...
- On the march - Journal Inquirer
Andover’s Memorial Day parade and service will be held Monday, May 26. The parade starts at 8:45 a.m. at Andover Elementary School on School Road. It follows School Road to Hebron Road (Route 316), to Memorial Park (Route 66), and Center Cemetery ...
- Probably Westminster, London - guardian.co.uk
Probably Westminster, Londonguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoThe poetry, available in several single volume editions, is an excellent introduction to Jonson's work, while the Conversations with Drummond, a collection ...
- National Poetry Slam 2008 announces bouts draw and schedule (Isthmus)
The wait is over for hundreds of spoken word devotees wondering who they will face in the opening rounds of this year's National Poetry Slam in Madison. Organizers conducted a random draw this week to determine match-ups in the opening two rounds of the competition, which will be held in multiple venues across downtown over the first week of August. Teams hailing from the same city will face off ...
- Verdict: Lesbian not just from Lesbos - MSNBC
Greek-American Paul Thymou, resident of the Aegean island of Lesbos, holds a banner reading: "If you are not from Lesbos, you are not a Lesbian," outside of an Athens courthouse on on June 10. July 22: As Portuguese authorities close the case on the ...
- How will Barack Obama get to 270? - Salon
Critics scoff and call it an antiquated and unfair system (it is). Many Democrats -- notably, this year, Obama backers -- would like their party to stop thinking in terms of three yards and a cloud of purple-state dust and instead embrace the beauty ...
- Righteous Mom: Ani DiFranco - Express from The Washington Post
Express from The Washington PostRighteous Mom: Ani DiFrancoExpress from The Washington Post, DC - 28 minutes agoIt's such a profound thing, to get pregnant and birth a child and raise a child and just to bear witness to somebody's process of learning and becoming ...
- Book Review—Boys of Steel - Firefox News
Book Review—Boys of SteelFirefox News, AZ - 14 minutes agoBy Peter Gutiérrez Over the past fifteen years, Peter's work in horror and other genres, in the form of short fiction, poetry, criticism, and comics, ...
- Interview with Poet Katie Ford - SFStation.com
Interview with Poet Katie FordSFStation.com, CA - 1 hour agoI could will poems into being daily. But part of poetry is restraint, I think. Not going toward the easy thinking just to produce a book. ...
- Max Lowry imagines seven 'lost' classic albums from the Beatles to ... - Guardian Unlimited
Once an album has been released the mystery always fades and, sadly, usually ends up gathering dust along with the hype that surrounded it before it was released. Just look at what happened to some of the legendary 'lost' records when they were ...
- LitTO: May 27–June 4 - Torontoist
TorontoistLitTO: May 27–June 4Torontoist, Canada - 14 hours agoLocal indie poet (and Torontoist fave) Emily Schultz is up for the $10000 English language poetry prize for her collection Songs for the Dancing Chicken. ...
- Arts around the Mid-coast; May 15, 2008 (The Times Record)
Nordica Trio AUGUSTA — The Nordica Trio comes to the University of Maine at Augusta on Sunday for a 2 p.m. concert in Jewett Hall Auditorium. A pre-concert talk is scheduled at 1 p.m.
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