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- Mandela's 90th b'day celebrated (HT via Yahoo! India News)
Anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday was celebrated at Springdales, Dhaula Kuan, on Friday. The event, which concluded the school's Africa Week celebrations, began with a speech by Principal Jyoti Bose welcoming all the dignitaries, including Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma; South African High Commissioner to India ...
- SWM Seeks A Real Page Turner - Electric City
SWM Seeks A Real Page TurnerElectric City, PA - 1 hour agoAs well, those who look to Charles Bukowski's hungover Monday bar room poetry for inspiration might encounter trouble finding a pertinent message in William ...
- Music Review: Yusa - Haiku (Blogcritics.org)
Yusa's new CD "Hiaku"; yet another argument for ending the embargo against Cuba. Ever since Ry Cooder broke the rules and went to Cuba to record the first Buena Vista Social Club disc, here has been a resurgence of interest in that country's music. He ended up having to pay some sort of astronomical fine as a result of that first visit and was only able to return for his second go round because ...
- Hurt's front man comes out of dark - Daily Oklahoman
The first clues that Hurt front man J Loren is coming from a dark and moody place can be heard in his angry, angst-ridden vocals and the unpredictable storminess of his intricate minor-chord arrangements for guitar, strings, banjo and thunderous ...
- Batman Is Back — The TIME Review - TIME
Batman Is Back — The TIME ReviewTIME - 2 hours agoIt turns pulp into dark poetry. Just as that movie found metaphors of cancer, aids and death in the story of a man devolving into an insect, ...
- Prestigious Griffin Poetry Prizes to be handed out at dinner in ... - CanadaEast.com
Prestigious Griffin Poetry Prizes to be handed out at dinner in ...CanadaEast.com, Canada - Jun 4, 2008Four books are on the international shortlist: "Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems" from John Ashbery (HarperCollins Publishers/Ecco); Elaine Equi's ...
- August Kleinzahler's ugly gifts - Times Online
The monstrous “Semitrailers strain[ing] their axles” as they “take the long curve / Over warehouses and lofts” to pour their guts into Manhattan, clog “the city’s shimmering membrane” with “tons of dead lamb / Bone and flesh and offal ...
- Son's poetry melts Brendan Fraser's heart - Celebrity Baby Blog
Brendan Fraser may be a movie star, but to his sons Griffin , 5, Holden , 4, and Leland , 2, he is just the "guy who brings them Pirate's Booty when they're hungry." It doesn't matter if the 39-year-old actor shows his sons "a picture of me flying ...
- Looking at and beyond the transition years (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - I turned 40 recently. With the age came an occasional lower back pain, which intensifies each time I realize I have already entered a phase of great change.
- Zany show carries a serious message - Laconia Citizen
Zany show carries a serious messageLaconia Citizen, NH - 3 hours agoMankita's performance included a mix of songs, stories, poetry and music with regular audience participation. "The Day the Library Went Wild" told of the ...
- Poet’s pen points to fly fishing starting in Wales - WalesOnline
Poet’s pen points to fly fishing starting in WalesWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 57 minutes agoWe have poetry from the middle ages written by Dafydd ap Gwilym – the greatest of all Welsh poets – in which he addresses the salmon calling him “y ...
- Book reviews - Scotland on Sunday
Book reviewsScotland on Sunday, UK - 37 minutes ago... Robyn Marsack, quipped that they should get a poet to rename their office) to institute St Andrew Square as the first 'Poetry Garden'. ...
- A national award, a gifted local bard - Prince George Citizen
A national award, a gifted local bardPrince George Citizen, Canada - 2 hours ago(Submitted photo) Prince George poet Gillian Wigmore has won the eighth annual 2008 ReLit Award for her first collection of poetry, Soft Geography, ...Prince George poet wins prestigious national award Prince George Citizenall 3 news articles
- An interview with author Monica Ferrell - phillyBurbs.com
An interview with author Monica FerrellphillyBurbs.com, PA - 56 minutes agoI studied poetry in grad school and that’s kind of my main thing. I have a book of poetry coming out in the fall this year. So it was kind of a side project ...
- A celebration of freedom (Lancaster Online)
It was on June 19, 1865, that slaves in Galveston, Texas, received word of their freedom — two years after the Emancipation
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