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- Book Review (Santa Monica Mirror)
Those who have followed the poetry scene in Southern California know about FrancEyE (aka Frances Dean Smith). She has been reading and publishing her poetry since the 1960s and until recently, lived in Ocean Park.
- "Iran-Persia: The Gate of the Orient" in Spain (Payvand Iran News)
The Iranian festival entitled "Iran-Persia, the Gate of the Orient" is underway in the Spanish city Vitoria. The event is held by the Vitoria municipality and cosponsored by Iran's cultural attaché office in Spain, The University of the Basque Country and other Spanish organizations.
- How Islam Came to Germany - Spiegel Online
Spiegel OnlineHow Islam Came to GermanySpiegel Online, Germany - 24 minutes agowho ruled over this part of Europe for nearly 800 years until the final stage of the reconquista -- the Christian reconquest of Spain and Portugal -- in the ...
- Calendar: Drum-bugle competition takes the field at Whitmer - Toledo Blade
Calendar: Drum-bugle competition takes the field at WhitmerToledo Blade, OH - 11 hours agoCharles H. Wright Museum of African American History: 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit; 313-494-5800; Chase Gallery: AT&T Gallery: Textural Rhythms ...
- The Poet Who Invented Himself - Forward
The Poet Who Invented HimselfForward, NY - 18 minutes agoBy Joshua Cohen By Nili Scharf Gold Even to those who have no Hebrew, the name “Yehuda Amichai” might sound like a line of poetry, and poetry, at its best, ...
- Joe Strauss Live - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A moment while I don my board shorts to take my turn riding the tsunami . . . ah . . . speculation on Mo's efforts to add a bullpen arm points toward Fuentes and Marte (one report had CO scouts already in Memphis). What's the expected asking price ...
- Stratford's 2009 Phèdre Is a Co-Pro With A.C.T.; McKenna Will Star - Playbill
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced Aug. 21 that Jean Racine's play Phèdre will be one of its productions for the 2009-10 season in a first-time co-production with Canada's world-renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival. In recent days ...
- A rare slice of NZ railway history now online - Scoop
A contributor to the last issue of the New Zealand Railways Magazine in 1940 wrote that those who had not experienced a railway train had been “cheated” and “failed to share in one of the grandest experiences of life”. All issues of the ...
- Museums, galleries rich right now with eye candy - Durham Herald Sun
Museums, galleries rich right now with eye candyDurham Herald Sun, NC - 2 hours ago1, 2009: "Feminine and Masculine in Ovid's Poetry and Early Modern Art." -- Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art. Through Nov. 30: "Julie Mehretu: City ...
- Harpist's long career is no joke - MIllbrook Voice Ledger
Harpist's long career is no jokeMIllbrook Voice Ledger, NY - 48 minutes agoIn this album, Coates sets poetry to harp music, combining the music and words to make something new. Although the album is no longer available to buy, ...
- 'He came to Edmonton a private person and left famous' - Globe and Mail
'He came to Edmonton a private person and left famous'Globe and Mail, Canada - 45 minutes agoThe inspiration for it was a passing citation to one he made in his 1961 poetry book The Spice-Box of Earth. As for his Yardbird Suite gig, ...
- Atwood nets prestigious Spanish literary prize (CBC)
Spain has named writer Margaret Atwood winner of one of the country's most distinguished arts prizes, sometimes likened to the European country's version of the Nobel Prize.
- New Eastside poetry venue - indy.com
New Eastside poetry venueindy.com, IN - 5 hours agoby John Hawn Local poet and instructor Lylanne Musselman has announced a new monthly poetry event called Writers Speak Volumes! This open forum reading will ...
- Joe Biden: Hair we can believe in - WorldNetDaily
Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention was great. As I write, he hasn't given it yet, but these are my favorite parts: "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the ...
- Urban Music Week starts Friday (North York Mirror)
The best in Canadian and international urban music will be showcased during the 12th annual Urban Music Week Aug. 29 to Sept. 6. Formerly called Toronto Urban Music Festival, Canada's largest urban music festival brings out more than 10,000 people to various venues around the city each year.
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