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- Coffins on our shoulders - The National
Coffins on our shouldersThe National, United Arab Emirates - 9 minutes agoIt was emblematic of what came to be known as “resistance poetry”. This poem and others brought him great fame in the Arab world; he joined the Israeli ...
- Local Makes It Big On Christian Country Scene - Tampa Tribune
Local Makes It Big On Christian Country SceneTampa Tribune, FL - 15 minutes agoBut he did write poetry and stories. As a songwriter, who enjoys all types of music - from Led Zeppelin to opera - Brandt referred to himself as a ...
- Public art on display - Detroit Free Press
Kathy Schlechtz strolled down Pierce Street in downtown Birmingham, looking at a swirling circle of shiny, reflective metal by Dennis Oppenheim titled "Journey Home." "I appreciate anything that brings you out of a reverie and makes you truly live in ...
- Facing the Black-Winged Angel - Nashville Scene
Facing the Black-Winged AngelNashville Scene, USA - 5 minutes agoDeath is a fact too cruel to bear unless we leave behind some kind of beauty or order: a child, a poem, a thriving city. In summoning them so often, ...
- Kids' stuff (Guelph Mercury)
Glow in the Dark Dance for ages 12-17, 7 to 10 p.m.; $5; community centre, New Hamburg; 519-662-2731. Sallows Science Spectacular Experiment with cameras, games, storytelling, 1 to 3 p.m.; $2, for ages 6-12; Sallows Gallery, 52 Montreal St., Goderich; 519-524-9261.
- Collaborative efforts curbed youth violence in Kalamazoo this summer - Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- After a violent summer for teenagers last year on the streets of Kalamazoo, local leaders say a collection of efforts has made a difference this year. As Labor Day signals the unofficial end of summer and students prepare to go back to ...
- WEbook Closes $5.0 Million Round Led by Vertex and Greylock Partners - MSN MoneyCentral
BETHESDA, Md. , Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- WEbook.com, the online platform where writers and readers craft the next great books and tap the next breakthrough talent, today announced the company has closed more than $5 million in funding. The round was ...
- Wit, Alumnae Theatre Company’s 2008/09 season opener - TheBulletin.ca
Wit, Alumnae Theatre Company’s 2008/09 season openerTheBulletin.ca, Canada - 3 hours agoWhen a scholar whose life’s work has been attempting to instill an appreciation for the poetry of John Donne in her university students discovers that she ...
- Death of Solzhenitsyn : A dazzling flame extinguished - New Nation
Not for a split of a second time freezes, not for a micro millimeter the Earth wobbles off its trajectory at the deaths of thousands of people everyday. But, at times news of death of a single luminary sends people the world over into fits of ...
- Art: Wordplay at Weisman; 'Freedom' -- the fiber of our nation at Textile Center (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Presidential State of the Union messages provide unexpected poetry at the Weisman Art Museum.
- SELANGOR INCULCATES READING HABIT THROUGH BOOK FEST (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
SHAH ALAM, July 30 (Bernama) -- Realising that good reading habit is an innate feature of a knowledge society, the 2008 Selangor Book Fair was launched on last Saturday to promote reading habit in the society.
- Naomi Klein Helping Me UnLearn What I Learned in Business School - OpEdNews.com
I’m less than a third of the way through Naomi Klein’s brilliant book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, but it’s already giving me a new perspective on my years of graduate work in business school. Klein talks about the ...
- Said Lecture Features Music, Recollections - CU Columbia Spectator
CU Columbia SpectatorSaid Lecture Features Music, RecollectionsCU Columbia Spectator, NY - 1 hour agoAfter Azmeh, Syrian poet Adonis came onstage with CK Williams, an American poet and professor of creative writing at Princeton University. ...
- Central students gets personal in 'Portrait' (The Doings Weekly)
To read poems is one thing. To bring them to life on stage is something else entirely.
- Mark Doty named 2008 Weil Fellow (Montgomery Advertiser)
American poet Mark Doty's lengthy list of accomplishments is about to get even longer.
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