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- 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 ...
- A working mother’s first job is to be our scapegoat - Times Online
A working mother’s first job is to be our scapegoatTimes Online, UK - 33 minutes agoIt’sa bummer, of course, that anyone has to work, we could all do with lying in meadows all day long, composing poetry and being fed grapes, but since work ...
- Culture 101 - Egypt Today
A number of mysterious incidents have turned the Egyptian cultural scene into something resembling scenes from a bizarre, almost surreal movie. Take what happened to sculptor Adam Henein. After reporting the disappearance of seven of his most ...
- Where's Weldon? - Los Angeles Times
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge ...
- Emory Professor Natasha Trethewey Named Georgia Woman of the Year (The Weekly)
ATLANTA, GA (July 28, 2008) - Georgia Woman of the Year Committee, Inc. announced today that Natasha Trethewey, Professor of English and Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair at Emory University has been confirmed as 2008 Georgia Woman of the Year! Nellie Dunaway Duke, Committee Chair, said that Trethewey was chosen as the 13th honoree by the Committee on their first ballot at their annual ...
- 'Frozen River' smuggles in small victories - Minneapolis Star Tribune
An impressive first feature by writer/director Courtney Hunt, "Frozen River" boasts considerable suspense-movie tension and a compelling emotional journey for its foreground characters. Set in wintry upstate New York, the film finds a tone of no ...
- Spain at the Forefront - Gay City News
Spain at the ForefrontGay City News - 11 hours ago"It's true that Spain was considered for ages as a kind of spiritual reserve of Catholicism but it's also true that religion is not an issue in our daily ...
- Lunch with the FT: Felix Dennis - Financial Times
I saw some poets in the audience last night, which hasn’t happened before,†says Felix Dennis, 61, multimillionaire magazine publisher and latter-day poet, as he joins me in Sartoria, a smart restaurant on Savile Row. We are discussing Dennis’s ...
- Ryan reading to kick off literary season (Moldova.org)
Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate consultant in poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, has agreed to open the library's 2008-2009 literary season with a reading.The library said the event is to take place Oct. 16 in the Mumford Room of the James Madison Building in Washington. Sponsored by the library's Poetry and Literature Center in the Office of Scholarly Programs, the reading is free and open ...
- Lifting Liberia - PennState Altoona
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley , a Liberian native and assistant professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was one of six invited panelists to the Liberian government's "Diaspora Engagement Stakeholders' Consultative Forum," in Monrovia, Liberia, in August ...
- Bartenders & Baristas: Jenifer Stern at Mama Java's - Phoenix New Times
Phoenix New TimesBartenders & Baristas: Jenifer Stern at Mama Java'sPhoenix New Times, AZ - 1 hour agoCB: Mama Java’s is known for great live music and poetry. Any chance we’ll see you on stage here? JS: No! But I do sculpture. I’m planning on having some ...
- Righteous Kill, 15 (Independent)
In the police procedural thriller Righteous Kill, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro play what must be the two oldest homicide cops on the beat in New York City.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish to be laid to rest in Ramallah - Haaretz.com
Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish, whose words were seen as encapsulating the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday - an honor only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes ...
- Five outstanding awards (The Young Witness)
FIVE students from Young Public School have been recognized for their outstanding entries into the ‘Australia My Country’ writing, poetry and art competition conducted annually by the Returned and Services League of Australia.
- Religion As Poetry - Atlantic Online
Religion As PoetryAtlantic Online - 22 minutes agoBy Patrick Appel James Carse, who directed the Religious Studies Program at NYU for 30 years, has a new book out called The Religious Case Against Belief. ...
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