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- 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 ...
- Johann Hari: As life flies on, don't let poetry pass you by - Independent
Johann Hari: As life flies on, don't let poetry pass you byIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoWhen she died on her feet, I thought of Emily Dickinson: "Because I could not stop for death/ He kindly stopped for me." After the September 11 massacres, ...
- Wergeland hailed on 200th birthday (Aftenposten)
Henrik Wergeland, viewed by many as one of the most important founding fathers of the modern Norwegian state, may be long gone but he's certainly not forgotten.
- Outdoors events, 6/8 (Lincoln Journal Star)
Shooting event, Big Bore Gong (Black Powder), sunrise-?, Lincoln Izaak Walton League, half-mile south of 134th Street and Nebraska 2. Contact: Ray Rowen, 477-6449 or fdhdj@earthlink.co.
- DVD: HBO's 'John Adams' brings a patriot's story to life - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"John Adams," a seven-part HBO mini-series, arrives Tuesday on DVD, starring Paul Giamatti as the second U.S. president and Laura Linney as his wife, Abigail. The stirring program offers a history lesson with a heavy dose of realism. It pulls our ...
- Carl Sandburg Folk Music Festival Monday - BlueRidgeNow.com
Carl Sandburg Folk Music Festival MondayBlueRidgeNow.com, NC - 1 hour agoAt 10 am Jhon Akers will be playing classical guitar reciting Sandburg's poetry. At 11 am Jon Shain, a traveling professional musician, will grace the stage ...
- Upward Bound students plan public event showcasing work Tuesday - The Daily Astorian
Upward Bound students plan public event showcasing work TuesdayThe Daily Astorian, OR - Jun 30, 2008The 2008 Upward Bound Summer Academy will hold a "Morning of Rhythm & Rhyme with the Upward Bound Music and Poetry Project Group" from 10:30 to 11:30 am ...
- Can links be defamatory? - star.com.my
Caution is almost always the practice when editors are faced with a story that may have legal repercussions. Embedding a click-through to an Internet search results page may just skirt the law. FINALLY Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul ...
- At play in the fields of language - Globe and Mail
At play in the fields of languageGlobe and Mail, Canada - 3 hours agoHe manages this very balanced feat precisely because he wields the tools of his poetry so well. The language is rich, involving, and evocative. The poems ...
- U.Va. Students Study Creative Writing With Top Latin American and ... - University of Virginia
U.Va. Students Study Creative Writing With Top Latin American and ...University of Virginia, VA - 1 hour agoAfter a light supper of fruits and grass to content their bellies, they kissed, made love and read romantic poetry aloud. Sensual whispers of desires and ...
- ‘Bayan Ko’ (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
I HEARD IT AGAIN AFTER SO LONG, that almost forgotten song that had stirred us to helpless anger and finally turned our fear into valor against the wicked regime of Marcos and his fellow scoundrels.
- James McMurtry: A man of few words, he makes every one count - Lower Hudson Journal news
James McMurtry: A man of few words, he makes every one countLower Hudson Journal news, NY - 21 hours ago"He excites me in a way that very few artists do, both on an emotional level, because I love music, and on an intellectual level, because I love poetry and ...
- Key figure in promoting American Indian literature (Miami Herald)
In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of American Indian literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong -- and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses.
- Open mic on the Neck planned for June 5 - Wicked Local Gloucester
Open mic on the Neck planned for June 5Wicked Local Gloucester, MA - 16 hours agoAnyone who would like to come down and play music, read poetry or prose, dance, or do any other such performance is welcome between 5 and 9 pm Come on the ...
- The Rt Rev Hassan Dehqani-Tafti - Guardian Unlimited
The Rt Rev Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, who has died aged 87, was the Anglican Bishop in Iran from 1961 to 1990, survived an assassination attempt following the 1979 revolution and had to exercise the last 10 years of his episcopate in exile. Compassionate ...
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