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- Pakistani poet Ahmad Faraz dies at 78 (Moldova.org)
Renowned Pakistani poet Ahmad Faraz has died in Islamabad at age 78, family members say. He had been in a critical condition at Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad since returning from the United States last month, the newspaper Pakistan Dawn said. Faraz had suffered kidney failure and had been put on dialysis while in Chicago. He died Monday.The newspaper said Faraz had a passion for ...
- National poetry prizes awarded - Jam! Showbiz
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced over the weekend at a festival and conference held ...
- The List - this weekend - Portsmouth News
The List - this weekendPortsmouth News, UK - 5 hours agoGreat poetry and music. London poets Anna Robinson and Stephen Watts, with music from Nick Evans, The Elderly Brothers and Sue Apicella. ...
- Why Osama is hooked on classics - Globe and Mail
Why Osama is hooked on classicsGlobe and Mail, Canada - 43 minutes agoMedieval Arabic and Hebrew love poetry was, in a way, the pop culture of its time, but it attached itself protectively to those scriptural sources, ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - Reuters UK
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of national mourning to honour ...
- Moodie's old home sheds its rough image - Nationalpost.com
Brianna Goldberg visits the Douro Dummer, Ont. home of 19th-century author Susanna Moodie. Brianna Goldberg, National Post DOURO DUMMER, ONT. - He yanked back the rotting wood that covered the mouth of the old stone well, and let go of a head-sized ...
- Students Write and Illustrate Books; Yale Composers Set Them to Music - WebWire
New Haven, Conn. — Books written by students at Lincoln-Bassett and Daniels schools through the Yale School of Music Class of ’57 Music Education Project will be read aloud in school assemblies on June 12 and 16. Members of the press are invited ...
- Watch Generation Kill , read the review - Slate
Prized Fray regular wmccomninel watched Generation Kill , read the review in "Culturebox", and started a great thread which led to his laying this thought on the line: My own life was negatively affected by serving in both wars in Iraq, that much is ...
- What movie has most changed your life? - Louisville Courier-Journal
What movie has most changed your life?Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - 52 minutes agoMy approach to my new movie-filled life will be the same as I now have toward poetry -- I am a fairly intelligent, thoughtful, intuitive, well-read person, ...
- The Lynnfield Pioneers: Free Popcorn - Minneapolis City Pages
The Lynnfield Pioneers: Free PopcornMinneapolis City Pages, MN - 2 hours agoAt times their flow leads to some inspired word games, but it can just as easily sound like egregious slam poetry. The furious space-jamming flower power of ...
- “In the Blast Zone” Examines Mount St. Helens’ Recovery - New West
“In the Blast Zone” Examines Mount St. Helens’ RecoveryNew West, MT - 20 minutes agoIf I look straight north out the window at the head of our bed, she is the first thing I see in the morning, dark in the dawn twilight, or floating pale ...
- Del Martin, 87, pioneering lesbian activist (San Jose Mercury News)
Del Martin, a strident and eloquent voice in the early gay and lesbian civil rights movement in America, died Wednesday in San Francisco not long after enjoying perhaps the hardest-won prize of her lifelong cause -- legal marriage to Phyllis Lyon, her longtime partner. Martin was 87.
- Hollywood discovers author Scranton native’s book on Tolstoy ... - Scranton Times-Tribune
Hollywood discovers author Scranton native’s book on Tolstoy ...Scranton Times-Tribune, USA - 12 minutes ago... novels to lyrical, nature-influenced poetry collections to hefty biographies on some of the most cherished authors in all of American letters. ...
- Young writers look into hearts - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Young writers look into heartsFort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 4 hours agoPlus, the exercises take place in a more casual, open environment where students can chose their own form of expression – whether it is poetry, narrative or ...
- David Kaplan Celebrates Year of the Fish - MovieMaker Magazine
MovieMaker MagazineDavid Kaplan Celebrates Year of the FishMovieMaker Magazine, NY - 22 hours agoAnd if you look around at films (and books and plays and poetry), you begin to see fairytale and mythic structure everywhere: The Devil Wears Prada, ...
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