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- Lyrical terrorist wins court appeal - Christian Today
A woman who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" and wrote a poem about beheading a hostage, won an appeal against a criminal conviction in London on Tuesday. Samina Malik, 23, had been convicted last year of possessing documents useful to ...
- About 250 authors slated for Decatur Book Festival - Macon Telegraph
Book lovers of all ages and tastes are sure to find something to please them at a book festival that will transform downtown Decatur into a street fair over Labor Day weekend. The third annual Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival ...
- THE BOMB (Santa Fe Reporter)
Looking at first like a macro-scale soap bubble, it leapt 7½ miles into the sky to take the form of a heaven-bound jellyfish. The explosion was brighter than the light of the sun. It was the birth of a new scale of death, and it was magnificent.
- Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the road - Independent
Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the roadIndependent, UK - 17 minutes agoHis mother, Masha, was a Russian Jew from Lithuania, from whom Cohen inherited his love of song and poetry. His sister, Esther, still lives in Montreal. ...
- Pulitzer poet Trethewey to appear at Southern Miss - Hattiesburg American
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey will hold a reading next month at the University of Southern Mississippi. Trethewey will read from her award-winning book, “Native Guard,” Sept. 3. She’ll be the first author participating in a ...
- Ahmad Faraz (1931-2008): Poetry Does Not Die - All Things Pakistan
Ahmad Faraz (1931-2008): Poetry Does Not DieAll Things Pakistan, Pakistan - 1 hour agoToday it is my sad duty to report that he struggle no more. Leganadry poet Ahmad Faraz died in Islamabad earlier today. His legend will live on in the ...
- Urbana man saw citizen diplomacy at work on recent travels (The Champaign News-Gazette)
URBANA – Chungliang Al Huang describes himself as Chinese-born and American through and through. Immersed in both cultures, he insists that we Americans, as well as the rest of the world, need not fear China. Rather, we need to understand and accept it in new ways. One of the best, he says, is citizen diplomacy.
- Upcoming entertainment events - Chippewa Herald
Upcoming entertainment eventsChippewa Herald, WI - 3 hours agoFeaturing Yvette Flaten, reading and talking about poetry. Info: (715) 726-9000. - Wednesday Night Concerts on the Hill, 7 pm, Wednesday, June 25, ...
- Grisham novel aims for best seller list - DeSoto Times Today
Grisham novel aims for best seller listDeSoto Times Today, MS - 55 minutes agoMark Grisham said the innate gift for writing in the Grisham family is apparently hereditary. “My great-grandmother actually wrote poetry,” he said. ...
- Hip-hop review: Marc Bamuthi Joseph's 'The Break/s' - San Francisco Gate
The Break/s: A Mixtape for Stage: Marc Bamuthi Joseph's performance. 8 tonight at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Novellus Theater. Tickets $20-$30. Call (415) 978-2787 or go to www.ybca.org . "The Break/s: A Mixtape for Stage," Marc Bamuthi ...
- Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst - RTE.ie
Conor Oberst - Conor OberstRTE.ie, Ireland - 33 minutes agoLike 2004's 'Lua', it takes beauty from a simple melodic sweep over an acoustic guitar as he breathes out pure poetry. One of his finest songs to date, ...
- Final Theory by Mark Alpert - Times Online
Final Theory by Mark AlpertTimes Online, UK - 28 minutes agoMark Alpert was a physics graduate who decided he would prefer to write poetry and ended up in journalism instead as an editor at Scientific American, ...
- Music note: Jistoray shoot from the hip - Twin Cities Planet
Music note: Jistoray shoot from the hipTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 8 hours agoThey set soulful poetry to a sensual, acoustic groove, with each player being top-notch. That night showed that even if you overdub guitars in the studio, ...
- Beyond the Bard at Oregon Shakespeare Festival - San Francisco Chronicle
Beyond the Bard at Oregon Shakespeare FestivalSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 19 minutes ago"It was the first time I realized direction involved metaphor and poetry. I could see that choices had been made and I felt so connected to that. ...
- Finding the sacred in the mundane (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
My grandparents were not big readers. Their English was slightly accented but fluent -- they both left Poland in their early teens and came to America in the 1920s.
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