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- Burn the past on National Braai Day (Mail and Guardian)
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Monday September 24 is Heritage Day, a public holiday in South Africa. But this year it may just become more famous as National Braai Day.
- A mass of passion, a hint of madness - WalesOnline
A mass of passion, a hint of madnessWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoWhether something is lost in translation, I’m not sure, but some of our working class hero’s attempts at poetry or philosophy lose their way. ...
- Former US poet laureate Louise Glueck receives $100,000 prize - MetroMix
NEW YORK (AP) _ Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday. Glueck, who served as ...
- CD Reviews - Egypt Today
I remember sitting on the set of Eminem’s film 8 Mile reading his rough notes for “Lose Yourself” and thinking that a more genuine street poet is unlikely to appear on the scene any time soon. What Dylan, Kerouac and Springsteen were to their ...
- The Last Island By Mimi White Deerbrook Editions 82 pp. $14 - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science MonitorThe Last Island By Mimi White Deerbrook Editions 82 pp. $14Christian Science Monitor, MA - 13 hours agoThe collection opens with an imaginative poem about a woman watching a house burn. The flames are a metaphor for love, which can create a purifying heat or ...
- Iraqis celebrate culture at Mesopotamian Festival (Mississauga News)
For many members of the Iraqi community taking part in the fifth annual Mesopotamian Festival, it was a lot like coming home. “We miss our family we had to leave behind,” says artist Ahmad Nasir. “When we come to this festival each year, it feels like we are home.” ÂÂ
- Gaia Online Gives Users a Chance to Flaunt Their Famous Side with ... - PR Web (press release)
Gaia Online Gives Users a Chance to Flaunt Their Famous Side with ...PR Web (press release), WA - 6 hours agoWith everything from art contests to discussion forums on poetry, politics, celebrities and more, to fully customizable profiles, digital characters and ...
- Jazzbandism: That Dada Strain - Tagesspiegel
Jazzbandism: That Dada StrainTagesspiegel, Germany - 58 minutes agoMeanwhile, in New York, Louis Untermeyer's anthology, The New Era in American Poetry, was dismissed by a critic as the equivalent of "any Jazz band" - the ...
- A life through words as Jidariyya gets its first performance - Metro
BBC NewsA life through words as Jidariyya gets its first performanceMetro, UK - 6 hours ago'Every Palestinian and every Arab who knows his poetry feels the loss,' says director Amir Nizar Zuabi of Palestinian National Theatre, speaking from Tel ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishPalestinian saga personified Arab NewsChristina Patterson: Where poetry still has power IndependentBBC News - The Media Lineall 625 news articles
- Lesbian Rights Activist Del Martin Dead (CBS News)
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died. She was 87.
- New children's book captures sisters' special bond (Gazette.Net)
Germantown resident Tamika Jackson works as a professional photographer when she's not at her day job at a biotech company. She caught her nieces Lainey and Lauren Brooks on camera one day in a loving embrace, and the idea for her new book "Sisters Are from Heaven" was born.
- OUT & ABOUT - Bothell Reporter
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- Hail, hail, rock'n'roll - Guardian Unlimited
Late afternoon at the Royal Academy, and I am standing in the stillness of the Sackler wing looking at the Vilhelm Hammershoi exhibition. Subtitled The Poetry of Silence, it shows some 60 paintings from across the Danish artist's career, and opens ...
- Chile's September 11 - Morning Star Online
Morning Star OnlineChile's September 11Morning Star Online, UK - 3 hours agoJOHN GREEN recommends an evening of poetry and music to remember a fateful day in the history of south America. In 1970, Salvador Allende became the first ...
- Lectures, launches, poets, plays - Cape Breton
Anyone who says there’s not much going on during the summer isn’t paying attention. Take this past week, for instance. Wednesday, I met poet Anita Lahey over coffee for an interview about the poetry reading at Sydney’s Allegro Grill scheduled ...
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