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- Mourning Mahmoud Darwish, 'the son of all the Palestinians' - Haaretz.com
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas, came to see his mother before the operation. "He told me it was a dangerous procedure and I told him he shouldn't have it," she told Haaretz yesterday in her home in ...
- I'll take (a) Manhattan (The Standard-Times)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
- A treat for language lovers - Louisville Courier-Journal
A treat for language loversLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 56 minutes agoAnalogy, metaphor, and simile are the linguistic tools by which mere prose swoops and swells into poetry; with them, from the prosaic comes art. ...
- Youth group experiences life-changing memories during mission trip - North Channel Sun
Shirley Green talks to teens who are a part of Octane Youth Ministry at First Presbyterian Church of Kingwood. The mission group traveled to Jacksonville, Fla., to understand homelessness and help those in need. Along the way, they met Green and were ...
- Author Explores Ramsey Case In Fictional Tale (The Morning News)
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.
- Innkeeper's daughter pioneered city's tourist season (The Desert Sun)
“She started what was to become the whole vast, vogue of desert vacationing. All the great resorts — Tucson, and Phoenix and Death Valley — the fancy hotels and the Southwest dude ranches, and the thousands of trailers who have discovered the uncanny lure of the desert, it all began with Mother Coffman. The whole thing was built on one woman's spiritual love of the desert.”
- Black History: The Second Klan - Bits of News
Black History: The Second KlanBits of News - 18 minutes agoIts imagery was based on Dixon’s romanticized concept of old Scotland, as portrayed in the novels and poetry of Sir Walter Scott. The film’s influence and ...
- The Tango King - Star-ecentral.com
Joe Hasham’s Ismail The Last Days will be staged at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) in Jalan Strachan today till Aug 31. To those who knew Tun Dr Ismail intimately, he was affectionately called “The Tango King”. To others, he ...
- Alasdair Gray - guardian.co.uk
Alasdair Grayguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoHe has also published short stories, poetry (always written, he claims, after the loss of a loved one), essays and polemic (including a book on Scottish ...
- Death of a cultural symbol - Ha'aretz
Death of a cultural symbolHa'aretz, Israel - Aug 13, 2008It is doubtful that Mahmoud Darwish, who died last weekend at 67 following heart surgery at an American hospital, knew he would be so honored in his death. ...
- VERONICA'S VIEW: The Light in Darkness - Eurweb.com
VERONICA'S VIEW: The Light in DarknessEurweb.com, CA - Aug 7, 2008Through the lens of her camera she has captured the light that illuminates a wealth of extraordinary artists, vocalists, poets and musicians who exist ...
- Roger Palmer lets the Dogs out (Creative Loafing Tampa)
Childlike artworks underscore the horrors of war... By Megan Voeller When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. --J.S. Mill When philosopher John Stuart Mill evoked those brutal images in 1862, he was actually writing in favor of war, but only in cases that "protect ...
- BBC website signals greater interactivity - guardian.co.uk
BBC website signals greater interactivityguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoThis move reflects a wider trend online to tailor web visits to each user according to their preferences, helping them to navigate the large amount of ...
- Beatnix closing doors today with final 'bash' (Waco Tribune-Herald)
By Mike Copeland
- Bedside reader for inconsolable widowers - DAWN Group
In the fifties to which septuagenarians retreat at the faintest smell of good, our cozy city of Rawalpindi had only one lady who was known to be a practising poet. She was Rabia Fakhri, a slight person, fragile and in decrepit health, you would see ...
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