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- The Bible takes an Eastern influence (Esperance Express)
THE words of the Bhagavadgita, the songs of a Hindu mystic and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi have all found a place in a controversial Bible published in India.
- Poetry comes alive at the Bean Cycle | By Alexandra Bartz Loveland Reporter-Herald (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Poets month after month willingly strut their shaky hands, slipped-up syllables and stumbled-over sentences in front of strangers; slam poetry can be far from pretty, perfect or profound. Yet, it’s this imperfection that gives the Fort Collins Poetry Slam a sense of rawness and what gives Northern Colorado an added element of culture. “Fort Collins is a college town where poetry is something ...
- Classic Film Review: 'The Human Condition' (The Epoch Times)
“The Human Condition" (Ningen no Joken), explores the moral and ethical dilemmas of life within authoritarian systems.
- School rallies around dismissed Watts teacher deemed too 'Afro-centric.' (Los Angeles Times)
- András Mezei, Poet of the Horrors - Forward
András Mezei, a major poet of the Holocaust, died in his native Budapest on May 30. He was 78. As a child, Mezei survived the three-month Soviet siege of Nazi-occupied Budapest in the city’s Jewish ghetto. As a teen, he emigrated to Israel but ...
- Du Bois Library exhibit features University of Massachusetts Press ... - Union-News & Sunday Republican
In 45 years, the University of Massachusetts Press has published more than 950 titles and sold more than 2 million volumes, with many translated into other languages. To give people a glimpse of that history and publishing depth, the university's W.E ...
- Area digest -- Published Aug. 1, 2008 - Stockton Record
Area digest -- Published Aug. 1, 2008Stockton Record, CA - 3 hours agoAbstract artist David Jon Foster will share original poetry, creative writing and freeform short stories from his new book, "The Writing of David Jon Foster ...
- Dianne publishes her labour of love - Fermanagh Herald (subscription)
Dianne publishes her labour of loveFermanagh Herald (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoI am a member of the Brookeborough Historical Society, and will have fiction and poetry pieces included in the next Fermanagh Authors Association ...
- 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?' - OhmyNews
My last recollection of my father was the look on his face after I placed him in a nursing home in Miami, Fla. As he was wracked by Parkinson's disease and heart trouble, I was saddened by how far removed he was from the authoritarian and emotionally ...
- Young writers hone their skills - Worcester Telegram
Young writers hone their skillsWorcester Telegram, MA - 30 minutes ago“We sometimes start out reading poetry and we do different writing exercises,” said Ms. Killoran, who has run the program for the last six summers. ...
- Stolen $30M Shakespeare book found; man arrested (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued $30 million has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington and asked to have it authenticated.
- Back to the garden - Poetry Festival returns for 2008 - Simsbury Post
Back to the garden - Poetry Festival returns for 2008Simsbury Post, CT - 17 minutes agoThese various forms of language converge next week as the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival returns to Hill-Stead Museum with former United States Poet Laureate ...
- Brima Conteh’s Statement at the Helsinki Commission - Patriotic Vanguard
Patriotic VanguardBrima Conteh’s Statement at the Helsinki CommissionPatriotic Vanguard, Sierra Leone - Aug 12, 2008I also take this oppurtunity to warmly thank our African-American members and sympathisers in the United States who facilitated and encouraged our ...
- Joyce Carol Oates unravels murder mystery from interesting perspective in new novel (Ventura County Star)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable.
- More Than Cartoons in 'The Animation Show 4' (The New York Sun)
Given the rather profound poetry of a film such as "WALL-E" and the scathing satire of a television series such as "South Park," one could easily argue that we are living in a golden age of animation. Further evidence comes from "The Animation Show," a collection of animated shorts that returns to the big screen for the fourth time in six years, making its premiere today at IFC Center. Now ...
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