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- National grief follows death of Mahmoud Darwish (Guardian Unlimited)
A state funeral will be held for the hugely popular poet Mahmoud Darwish following his death after heart surgery
- Glorious mud and music - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nzGlorious mud and musicStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 1 hour agoThere were 2000 performances at about 50 venues this year, including music, cabaret, theatre, poetry and children's activities. ...
- Chava Hudson: Web designer, artist, writer and Web publisher - Abington Mariner
When Beverly artist, writer and Web designer Chava Hudson couldn’t find a publisher for her novel, “Sarah’s Secret,” she decided to do the next logical thing: Start her own publishing company. The company, Zingologypress.com, has been up and ...
- The Best Convention in St. Paul:The Artists Quarter’s September ... - Jazz Police
Jazz PoliceThe Best Convention in St. Paul:The Artists Quarter’s September ...Jazz Police, MN - 9 minutes agoThe Weekday Line-Up (7 pm, $5 cover unless otherwise noted; MN residents with ID, free cover during the RNC!) Mondays, Green (7 pm)/Open Poetry with Live ...
- Haley Paramore: 'I'm not depressed' - NME.com
Haley Paramore: 'I'm not depressed'NME.com, UK - 12 hours ago... fill a hundred pages of lyrics, poetry, broken thoughts and still never be understood even the slightest. it’sa good thing. i just don’t get it yet. ...
- Conor Oberst Shows the Wild Colors of His Destiny - Interference.com
Conor Oberst Shows the Wild Colors of His DestinyInterference.com - 5 hours agoIn a refrain that would make Jack Kerouac proud, the rocker “Moab” reminds us: “There’s nothing that the road cannot heal/Washed under the black tar, ...
- Poet Cecil Giscombe Inspires Students with the Outdoors - UC Berkeley
UC BerkeleyPoet Cecil Giscombe Inspires Students with the OutdoorsUC Berkeley, CA - 1 hour agoThe course was focused on non-fiction prose various kinds, including the work of the flaneurs, or intellectuals who roamed urban boulevards in order to ...
- Souvenirs of Death - Egypt Today
Here, Bullet is poetic reporting with a heavy heart. Brian Turner, an American soldier and conscientious witness in the ongoing Iraq invasion, manages to salvage verse from the jaws of madness. Turner, who holds an MFA from the University of Oregon ...
- Where to get your music on - Courier-Post
Open since Aug. 2007, the new cafe on the block already has amassed quite a following, bringing in an average of 60 to 70 people to open mic every Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m. and, depending on the performer, more than 100 for its live weekend shows. A ...
- rather whacky chat - Boston Globe
rather whacky chatBoston Globe, United States - 20 minutes agoOne language that we know for sure he speaks is jive, after he claimed the first thing he read to his daughter, when she was 2, was the poetry of Lord ...
- Industry tactics on Public Health Bill questioned (Scoop.co.nz)
The food industry has been giving a misleading message about how the health sector wants to address obesity, a new report shows. The report, by health policy analyst John White, analysed the 204 submissions to the Health Select Committee on the Public Health Bill.
- The art world's Pepsi Generation - Salon
A still from "Beautiful Losers." I guess it's tough to be a young artist who started out with nothing and became famous and successful beyond your wildest dreams early in your career. Or at least that would be the uncharitable way of viewing ...
- Poetry's popularity soars online - Telegraph.co.uk
BBC NewsPoetry's popularity soars onlineTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoBy Stephen Adams Poetry, long thought of as an art form in terminal decline, is taking off on the internet according to new figures. ...Poetry needs to be read aloud, says Motion guardian.co.ukUS voices added to poetry archive BBC NewsUS Poets Roethke, Williams Go Online in Rare Audio Recordings Bloombergall 4 news articles
- Charlotte Kohler dies at 99; editor brought distinguished writers, poets to Virginia Quarterly Review (Los Angeles Times)
Charlotte Kohler, who helped shape the path of literature as the longtime editor of the small but influential Virginia Quarterly Review, died Sept. 15 of congestive heart failure at her home in Charlottesville, Va. She was 99 and died one day before her 100th birthday.
- Richard Cohen: 'A change is gonna come' - Long Beach Press-Telegram
S am Cooke, the great R&B singer, wrote those words in 1963 following a visit to a civil rights event in what was then Jim Crow North Carolina. Thursday evening, an era and more than a thousand miles away, Barack Obama echoed Cooke. "America, this is ...
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