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- Imagining the east (The New Statesman)
Once dismissed as imperialist fantasies about the Muslim world, British orientalist paintings are once again becoming popular. Their exotic visions tell us much about the social and cultural history of Victorian Britain
- Blue Stars 1943 - NewsoftheNorth.Net
Blue Stars 1943NewsoftheNorth.Net, Wisconsin - 48 minutes agoMeanwhile, always working on my poetry. My true loves, though, are splitting wood to keep my family warm, hunting partridge in the golden glow of fall in ...
- The Fergus Falls Daily Journal (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)
Gerda’s history to be unveiled? The Otter Tail County Historical Society will host a writing contest on Thursday from 6-7 p.m. at the Kadatz Hotel designed to weave a history for “Gerda,†a painting from the historical society’s artifact collection.
- The way Britain wages war - Mail & Guardian Online
The way Britain wages warMail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 2 hours agoThey had been hit by Nato bombs, American or British, and nurses are trying to peel away their roasted skin with tweezers. On the night of June 10, ...
- Paintings echo Dickinson poems - Union-News & Sunday Republican
In the case of Alberto Mancini and Emily Dickinson, the answer can be seen in "I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose," an exhibition of 29 oil paintings on view Aug. 3 through 10 at the Eli Marsh Gallery at Amherst College. Each painting was inspired by a ...
- Coeur d'Alene Soldier Buried at Arlington National Cemetery - Spokane Spokesman-Review
A highly decorated U.S. Army Special Forces sergeant major from Coeur d’Alene, who died May 9, was buried this afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. Sgt. Maj. Bradly Conner, 41, was killed in an explosion while serving his fourth tour in ...
- Palestinian poet's body flown to Ramallah - MSN UK News
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The body of Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry gave voice to Palestinian national aspirations, arrived on Wednesday in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where mourners assembled for his funeral. A helicopter brought Darwish's ...
- Mother of the Revolution - Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin
Mother of the RevolutionOld Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin, MA - 18 hours agoWhen war came, Mercy turned her pen from writing nature poetry to anti-British pamphlets, the Internet of the day. She wrote The Adulateur, a poem about the ...
- North Smithfield's Schweitzer wins arts grant for poetry - Valley Breeze
North Smithfield's Schweitzer wins arts grant for poetryValley Breeze, RI - 19 minutes agoShe realized that she really loved words - and poets love words. In the mid-'90s she joined a poetry workshop and was surprised when the facilitator of the ...
- Lights, Camera, Action - Shelby Star
More than 150 unique films will be shown through Saturday during the ninth annual Real to Reel International Film Festival, presented by the Cleveland County Arts Council, at the Joy Performance Center, Railroad Avenue, Kings Mountain. Films are of ...
- Věra Chase: the frustrated astronaut who became a writer (Radio Prague)
VÄ›ra Chase has had six books published. They include poetry and prose - both short stories and a novel with the intriguing title, “Passion for Peachesâ€. VÄ›ra hails from a Prague literary family and says that she identifies closely with her home city, although she has travelled widely and lived for some time in London. Her grandfather was one of the many journalists thrown out of Czechoslovak ...
- Revellers enjoy the craic at 17th annual Halifax Irish Festival - Halifax Evening Courier
Revellers enjoy the craic at 17th annual Halifax Irish FestivalHalifax Evening Courier, UK - 1 hour agoOther festivities included an evening of poetry and song, an over-55s lunch, a gaelic football match and a ceilidh. A gala dinner dance at the Casa Hotel ...
- Performing arts calendar - Kansas City Star
Performing arts calendarKansas City Star, MO - 9 hours agoA CONCERT OF HOPE AND PEACE, AND A SERMON FROM THE MOUNTAIN: Choral and spoken word tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.; with African-American spirituals ...
- Robert Smith seeks a cure for what ails him (Phoenix New Times)
Young bands — New York's Rapture, most notably and successfully — cite Robert Smith's London outfit The Cure as a holy source, a development nobody apart from the Cure's planet of black-clad fans might have guessed. The Cure sold records, claiming and saving lives during the '80s, when R ...
- Q&A with Ice T, participant in the ISO's Langston Hughes Project - indy.com
Q&A with Ice T, participant in the ISO's Langston Hughes Projectindy.com, IN - 14 hours agoMy manager called me up, and said a symphony was getting ready to do this, and that they would like me to read the poetry. I said, "Yeah, that sounds dope. ...
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