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- Wisdom Like a Flower Bed: Sa'di's 'Gulistan' (The New York Sun)
Common sense is probably the last thing we want or expect from poets. Give us confessions, prophecies, manifestos, but spare us the advice — especially advice in verse. The poet should be a firebrand, not some mumbling old uncle. And yet, it wasn't always thus. In older cultures, not only in Greece and Rome but in India, Persia, and China, the poet was often seen less as a visionary than as a ...
- Well Versed - Morning Star Online
Well VersedMorning Star Online, UK - 3 hours agoTwo Ravens Press have published her poetry volume Zig Zag Woman in 2007. This was the poem that she selected to read for an International Day of Peace event ...
- Show type: Misc live shows - Chortle
Show type: Misc live showsChortle, UK - 6 minutes agoLatitude has always strived to be more than your normal beer-soaked, mud-splattered music festival, boasting a packed theatre, dance, poetry and literary ...
- Remember how Raul Roco lived - Manila Times
On August 5, my father, Raul Roco will be with our Lord for three years. It seems longer to me, his daughter, who misses him terribly. Time is supposed to ease the loss and heal the pain. Maybe not enough time has passed. Maybe his passing gets ...
- Poetry in motion - Calgary Sun
Since I don't see any hands in the air, I'll fill you in. Ashley Harkleroad is the 72nd-ranked player on the WTA tour. She has never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam singles event and has exactly zero career titles to her credit. She ...
- Children's poems chosen for book - Harrow Times
POEMS written by children from a Kenton nursery have been chosen to be published in a book this autumn. My First Poem 2008 – Little Voices From Middlesex will feature the work of children from nursery school BrightStart ChildCare and Education. My ...
- Shop Til you Drop - Jewish News Weekly
They all stress the value of shopping locally, and with good reason: Thanks to their loyal customers, these smaller bookstores are doing stellar business. The 600-plus author events, poetry readings and benefits for community causes at Book Passage ...
- Man crosses barrios to promote gang peace - San Diego Union Tribune
Man crosses barrios to promote gang peaceSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 2 hours agoHe protested the violence through poetry and tried to catch the attention of others through his artwork. At 16, he joined the End Barrio Warfare movement, ...
- Family mourns tragic Longridge mum - Longridge Today
Family mourns tragic Longridge mumLongridge Today, UK - 5 hours agoTHE sudden and tragic death of a 39-year-old mother of three from Longridge has shocked her family and friends. Susan Quinn, who had lived and worked in ...
- A drive to save Purdy house - Waterloo Record
A drive to save Purdy houseWaterloo Record, Canada - 2 hours agoIt is where he wrote much of his acclaimed poetry. The festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary with such writers as Alistair MacLeod, Jane Urquhart and ...Purdy's lakeside home needs to be saved Belleville Intelligencerall 2 news articles
- Barrymore is comedian in torment - This is London
Barrymore is comedian in tormentThis is London, UK - 23 hours agoHe nicely captures Milligan's indefatigable work ethic, racing through books, poetry and television appearances, as well as a 40-a-day letter-writing habit. ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 (Las Vegas Sun)
Sun, Aug 10, 2008 (12:06 a.m.) Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67.
- On being down in the mouth - Turkish Daily News
I had that nightmare again, you might know the one, where you're in school and you don't know the answers… Only this time it was my son's preschool classroom in Istanbul and the substitute teacher didn't know me. I couldn't understand her Turkish ...
- Ministry relaunches HFG Festival - AntiguaSun
Ministry relaunches HFG FestivalAntiguaSun, Antigua and Barbuda - 16 hours agoA poetry competition will also form part of the festival on the theme for the festival, which is “Think Beautification for the Country’s Health & Wealth. ...
- Drowned boy, 8, honoured for bravery - News.com.au
AN eight-year-old boy who drowned while trying to save his older sister, smiled and told her he loved her before slipping beneath the waves. Ibrahim Ouaida drowned two years ago at Sandridge Beach in Melbourne after his sister Sarah, 10, was caught ...
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