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- BRAZIL: ‘I’m the Only Gang Member Alive and Free’ - Inter Press Service
Gangs have been particularly violent in São Luis. Credit:Mauricio Miguel SÃO LUIS, Brazil, Aug 2 (IPS) - Most of them were 15 or 16 years old when they created the gang "Falta de Deus" (Lack of God), a name chosen because "we were all against ...
- Unique kid biography brings Abraham Lincoln alive - Citizen
"LINCOLN SHOT," screams the headline! "Condition Considered Hopeless. Will Not Live Through the Night." So begins a gripping read for middle-graders ahead of the February bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a big event in publishing for grown ...
- SLO’s poet laureate is more than just words - San Luis Obispo Tribune
SLO’s poet laureate is more than just wordsSan Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - 16 hours ago“He’s been a longtime supporter of poets and poetry,†Sullivan said, adding that Cushing, a former Cuesta College instructor, has organized several poetry ...
- Edinburgh festival: Jidariyya - guardian.co.uk
The ListEdinburgh festival: Jidariyyaguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThis Palestinian production is adapted from an epic poem by Mahmoud Darwish, whose death last Saturday prompted candlelit vigils across Ramallah. ...Amir Nizar Zuabi - Jidariyya The ListA cry from the heart of Palestine in Jidariyya This is Londonall 3 news articles
- Celebrated Palestinian poet dies in US hospital - Lebanon Daily Star
JERUSALEM: Mahmoud Darwish, widely considered one of the greatest poets in Palestine and the wider Arab world, died Saturday in a US hospital following open-heart surgery. He was being treated at the Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas ...
- 'Read in' offers opportunity for poetry lovers - TriVallyCentral
What better, more appropriate locale for a poetry "read in" than the Noah Webster House, where last Friday evening amateur and professional writers, poesy lovers and curious onlookers settled in to listen to homegrown, West Hartford poetry at its ...
- Personal losses sent Sims into nature - Baton Rouge Advocate
Julia Sims has won renown as a nature photographer. She is best known for her images of the Manchac Swamp, near her home in Ponchatoula. Now Pelican Publishing has produced a new collection of photographs by Sims that showcases some of her work from ...
- Beatnik Biopic Howl Lands A Cast - Empire Online
Beatnik Biopic Howl Lands A CastEmpire Online, UK - 14 minutes ago... Ginsberg's groundbreaking poem Howl (hence the title of the film, see?). For those of you who avoid poetry like a particularly virulent form of plague, ...
- Cyril Goffe - The poet at 100 - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerCyril Goffe - The poet at 100Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 4 hours agoHis work has been published in the anthology Stepping Stones, compiled by the International Library of Poetry. He is the father of Jannice Tucker Goffe, ...
- International writer features: Globerman (Israel) and Falkner (New Zealand) (The Daily Iowan)
For three months during the fall, the International Writing Program hosts around 30 writers who, over the years, have come from more than 120 different countries. This year's writers will present readings two by two throughout the semester in Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., and in the Shambaugh House.
- Things to do: Saturday (Las Cruces Sun-News)
• The Black Range Artists' 2008 Fall Exhibit will have an artist reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Deming Arts Center, Gold and Pine streets.
- 'The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel' by Victor Pelevin - Los Angeles Times
'The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel' by Victor PelevinLos Angeles Times, CA - 29 minutes agoThe lines she quotes are fake-Auden, written by the American satirist Ian Frazier in a 2002 parody for the New Yorker called "The New Poetry. ...
- Patricia's Porch Talk The Many Tones Of Sepia (The Chattanoogan)
On Saturday, I moved several years' accumulation of junk, treasures, and memorabilia from an upstairs closet to one that was no different, except that it was downstairs.
- Book News: Full literary week in the 'Burgh - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Book News: Full literary week in the 'BurghPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 14 minutes agoMuldoon is also poetry editor of The New Yorker and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American ...
- For sale for $1 -- house with history - Norridge Harwood Heights News
For sale for $1 -- house with historyNorridge Harwood Heights News, IL - 2 hours agoEarl H Reed, born in Geneva, Ill., had moved with his family to Norwood Park about the same time. His mother was a noted translator of Persian poetry. ...
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