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- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Houston. He was 67.
- Star power to be strong at annual book festival - Winston-Salem Chronicle
Star power to be strong at annual book festivalWinston-Salem Chronicle, NC - 28 minutes agoGiovanni, a Virginia Tech professor, has penned more than two dozen books, including illustrated children’s books, essay collections and volumes of poetry. ...
- Gift of words: Festival of the Written Arts - Coast Reporter
Gift of words: Festival of the Written ArtsCoast Reporter, Canada - 35 minutes agoShe described how the birth of this memoir had been difficult for a writer who was more comfortable with poetry. Her son’s response had been, “Good book, ...
- Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, 'The Coral Sea' (PASK) (Spin)
When she's singing, pioneering mystic punk Patti Smith can be extraordinarily mortal. But in recitation, she approaches the godly, delivering her poetry's surreal grace with sheer force. Here, she's captured twice in concert feverishly reading her phantasmagoric memorial to friend and artist Robert Mapplethorpe with the accompaniment of fellow savant Kevin Shields, the reclusive My Bloody ...
- Texas executes man who killed adoptive parents (USA Today)
Texas has executed Carlton Turner for killing his adoptive parents in their suburban Dallas home 10 years ago. The U.S. Supreme Court denied two appeals late this afternoon. In September the court gave him a reprieve after the justices decided...
- Want to see your name in our “Monkeybrains” section? - Houston Community Newspapers
The Bulletin is seeking creative submissions from anyone 15 and under for a new Youth Content feature. Are you a budding artist? Writer? Photographer? Send your work to Nicky Lipartito at nlipartito@thebulletin.us -or- The Bulletin 1500 Walnut St ...
- Poetry contest winners are fine specimens of insincerity - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Poetry contest winners are fine specimens of insincerityRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 2 hours agoThe first-place winner, drumroll please, is Leah Warth, 10, of Brighton, who wrote her poem as part of a project in Adele Linton and Ina Sham's fourth-grade ...
- Midwest City teen died saving friend's life - Tulsa World
Midwest City teen died saving friend's lifeTulsa World, OK - 18 minutes agoGerald Lee said his sister wrote poetry and music and was an aspiring rapper and radio broadcaster. Her stage name was Proverb, he said. ...
- Community Events - Nova News Now
Community EventsNova News Now, Canada - 1 hour agoBlomidon Image & Word, an exhibit featuring paintings, photos, poetry and prose to celebrate Cape Blomidon. Admission: $2; children under 12 and members, ...
- Lesbos residents say lesbians insult island's identity - Chicago Sun-Times
ATHENS, Greece — Three islanders from Lesbos told a court Tuesday that gay women insult the island’s identity by calling themselves lesbians. The plaintiffs — two women and a man — want to ban a Greek gay rights group from using the word ...
- Palin doesn’t disappoint the GOP faithful - Nashville City Paper
Palin doesn’t disappoint the GOP faithfulNashville City Paper, TN - 3 hours agoMark Norris added that Palin “was poetry in motion.” “And what people heard was the wisdom of the ‘everywoman’,” Norris said. Tomorrow, on the convention’s ...
- Stories for Children Magazine Debuts Its New Website - PR.com (press release)
Stories for Children Magazine Debuts Its New WebsitePR.com (press release), NY - 1 hour agoStories for Children Magazine was voted one of the best Ezines in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Cover Design in the 2007 Preditors & Editors’ Readers ...
- Remembering Aimé Césaire - Global Voices Online.org
World Regions › Americas › Central Asia & Caucasus › East Asia › Eastern & Central Europe › Middle East & North Africa › Oceania › South Asia › Sub-Saharan Africa › Western Europe Topics › Agriculture › Arts & Culture ...
- Playwright has passion for her craft - Ocala
Playwright has passion for her craftOcala, FL - 54 minutes agoAs a teacher, she wrote to model assignments for her students and filled the summer months writing prose, short plays and poetry. Retirement and her life at ...
- Iwentoutand never saw my son again - GazetteLive
Iwentoutand never saw my son againGazetteLive, UK - 5 minutes agoSpeaking in a DVD interview at the launch of her book, Poetry of Tears, Lynn Ford told of the devastating moment her son Christopher, 18, confirmed his big ...
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