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- Book Festival: Pleasure proves a virtuous choice - Scotsman
Book Festival: Pleasure proves a virtuous choiceScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoYet no sooner has Kay, er, loosened up her audience then she knocks them sideways with the most moving, deeply-felt but unsentimental, poetry about the ...
- Tips for Obama: no poetry, promise to defeat evil (Financial Times)
At the civil forum on faith last week, Barack Obama was asked whether evil existed and, if so, whether we should “ignore it, contain it, negotiate with it or defeat it?â€Â
- Arab translators and Islam’s golden era - Saudi Gazette
Arab translators and Islam’s golden eraSaudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia - 23 minutes agoThese translations were to have a strong influence on Arabic poetry in the 9th and 10th centuries. The Umayyad Caliphs, no doubt, contributed towards ...
- Olympic Inspiration for Peace - Media For Freedom
Olympic Inspiration for PeaceMedia For Freedom, Nepal - 3 hours agoThere could be other great festivals and celebrations of human achievement in the areas of music, poetry, dancing and drama. We could celebrate those who ...
- Hitting a high note - The National
Hitting a high noteThe National, United Arab Emirates - 5 hours agoIn May next year Bobby McFerrin, the African-American jazz vocalist and conductor famed for his extraordinary vocal range, arrives in Abu Dhabi a week prior ...
- Book ban ends rare Arab-Israeli cultural exchange (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
For 15 years Israeli Saleh Abbasi has traded books between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors, fostering a rare cultural link.
- Track star Jason Walton killed by train - Manville News
Track star Jason Walton killed by trainManville News, NJ - 41 minutes agoJason was also part of the peer mentor program at the high school and enjoyed writing short stories and poetry. Surviving are his parents, Ernest and Linda ...
- Radcliffe Fellow Markovits talks about ‘mad, bad, dangerous’ poet - Harvard University Gazette
Radcliffe Fellow Markovits talks about ‘mad, bad, dangerous’ poetHarvard University Gazette, MA - 2 hours agoThose qualities, and the largeness of his personality, earned Bryon a life beyond death, including echoing portraits in poetry, film, and the novel. ...
- Magician David Blaine hangs upside-down for 60 hours - Grand Rapids Press
AP Photo Magician David Blaine hangs upside down above Central Park's Wollman Rink in New York during his latest endurance challenge. NEW YORK (AP) -- Magician-daredevil David Blaine has safely finished his latest stunt: hanging upside-down without a ...
- Baltimore book fest--be there ! - Examiner.com
Baltimore book fest--be there !Examiner.com - 6 hours agoPoets have their own workshop and readings, even a special poetry slam session for teens. Meet Maryland State Arts Council fiction winners. ...
- Enjoy a fusion of art, music (Poughkeepsie Journal)
Kinetic sculptures, dance, poetry, masks and paintings will join puppets that range in height from 10 inches to a towering 10 feet in a fusion of artistic elements that pay homage to the Hudson River estuary.
- EIPHD schedules flu clinics (The Challis Messenger)
Flu season is right around the corner and Eastern Idaho Public Health District (EIPHD) has scheduled flu shot clinics in Challis and Mackay. It is estimated that approximately 36,000 people die in the U.S. every year due ro complications from the flu.
- Group is spreading music - Coastal Courier
Group is spreading musicCoastal Courier, GA - 24 minutes agoWright said he figured his group could help those less fortunate learn the value of music and the power of poetry and the spoken word. ...
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- Open minds, free spirits - Tonight South Africa
J J Tswai, aka Puo Phaa, is a poet who hails from Pretoria. He is also the national secretary for labour and economic affairs for Azayo (Azanian Youth Organisation). He calls himself a poetic philosopher and lets us in on the Tshwane poetry scene ...
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