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- Darwish to Have a State Funeral - The Celebrity Cafe.com
Mahmoud Darwish, the national poet of Palestine, is to have a state funeral, the first since the death of Yasser Arafat. The poetry of Mahmoud Darwish encapsulated the Palestinian cause and will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank ...
- Johnny Flynn has troubadour style - New York Daily News
The latest buzz star out of England isn't a sassy teen girl with a hit MySpace page or a neo-R&B singer who pines to be the next Amy Winehouse . It's a ye-olde-British-style folkie who uses a middle English term for his album title, writes of knaves ...
- The write stuff - Schenectady Gazette
The write stuffSchenectady Gazette, NY - 9 minutes ago“In high school, I would write poetry for the boys to give their girlfriends and for girls to give their boyfriends,” she said with a laugh. ...
- Concert brings attention to child abuse - Quad-Cities Times
The second annual Child Abuse Awareness Concert was held on Saturday at the River Music Experience’s Redstone Room. Poetry, new songs, story sharing and statistics echoed the theme: “There is more to life than this; it is love and I will find it ...
- I've been meaning to ask... where can I celebrate black history? - Metro
MetroI've been meaning to ask... where can I celebrate black history?Metro, UK - 3 hours agoOther highlights include the Word! poetry event at The Y (Oct 7, 8pm, Ă‚ÂŁ3, Ă‚ÂŁ2 concs), with readings from Patience Agbabi; a new World War I theatre piece, ...
- Religious retreats offer personal enlightenment (CNN.com)
NEW LEBANON, New York (AP) -- At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Poet inspired by 'nature and the soul' - Salem News
DANVERS — Local author Jason Kirkey will give a live reading of his work tomorrow at the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers. Kirkey, 23, is a poet and author who has self-published three volumes of poetry and is working on a book. He graduated ...
- A Mind Apart - OUPblog
A Mind ApartOUPblog, New York - 5 hours agoThe idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined has been with us since antiquity. In A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction, ...
- My Zinc Bed; Who Do You Think You Are? - Times Online
My Zinc Bed; Who Do You Think You Are?Times Online, UK - 14 minutes agoQuinn knew Paul’s poetry (which had never made him famous) and teased him about not drinking. Their encounter was edgy – the roles of interviewer and ...
- TripAdvisor Tells Tale of 10 Cities Where the Pen is Mightier Than ... - Earthtimes (press release)
TripAdvisor Tells Tale of 10 Cities Where the Pen is Mightier Than ...Earthtimes (press release), UK - 1 hour agoSee the site of their famed first poetry reading, along with others of their circle like Philip Whalen , at the Six Gallery, or visit the popular City ...
- My Secret Life: Peter Serafinowicz, Actor and comedian, age 36 (Independent)
The home I grew up in... Not many people know that Liverpool has a big sign on a hill, much like the one in Hollywood. Our house was behind one of the big "O"s.
- Poetry in motion - Connect Savannah.com
Poetry in motionConnect Savannah.com, GA - 1 hour agoThey said he had asked them for money and offered them a poem he had written in exchange. They said he told them he had a peddler’s license to sell poems. ...
- Mad Men, "The New Girl": Freddie the zipper (The Star-Ledger)
Spoilers for "Mad Men" season two, episode five, "The New Girl," coming up just as soon as I plan a route to the airport...
- Review Round-up: Mitchell’s Trace A Hit For NT? - WhatsOnStage.com
WhatsOnStage.comReview Round-up: Mitchell’s Trace A Hit For NT?WhatsOnStage.com, UK - 6 hours agoThe ingenious ‘business’ at the front is often distracting, bewildering fragments of the text are spoken into microphones, and interpolations of poetry by ...
- Spotlight: Baraboo native publishes novel - Baraboo News Republic
Spotlight: Baraboo native publishes novelBaraboo News Republic, WI - 3 hours agoHe has won numerous awards in writing two books of fiction and four books of poetry. Meissner said writing the novel took seven years of intermittent work. ...
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