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- Regionally cherished novelist Bahaa Taher is all a - Egypt Today
When Bahaa Taher releases a new novel, intellectuals in Egypt and across the Arab world sit up and pay attention. It is an event, something to mark, because Taher, despite his reputation as one of the country’s most important novelists, ranking up ...
- Great poet's grave stokes Civil War dispute - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Members of the Historic Memory Association give a press conference in Madrid, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. Relatives of the people killed during the Civil War took their case to crusading investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzon, who had recently begun a ...
- Olympics: Di Maria winner earns gold for Argentina - guardian.co.uk
Olympics: Di Maria winner earns gold for Argentinaguardian.co.uk, UK - 7 hours agoThis match was a replay of the marvellous final of 1996, in which Nigeria became the first African country to win a major senior international football ...
- Conference to commemorate Sohrab Sepehri - MehrNews.com
Conference to commemorate Sohrab SepehriMehrNews.com, Iran - 30 minutes agoHe studied at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Tehran, where he was attracted to the modern art movement, both in his painting and his poetry. ...
- New projects are the Pussycats' meow - USA Today
NEW YORK  The Pussycat Dolls may want to rule the world, but relax, ladies: They have no interest in stealing your men. The group that rocketed to fame in 2005 by posing the musical question "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" is ...
- The eye of the storm - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldThe eye of the stormSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 15 minutes agoPoetry first had her heart. Smith's parents were not intellectuals, let alone bohemians - her father worked in a factory - and with four sickly children, ...
- Poem of the week: Fine Knacks for Ladies - guardian.co.uk
Poem of the week: Fine Knacks for Ladiesguardian.co.uk, UK - 25 minutes agoI was reminded of its existence by an essay by Clive Wilmer, published in the latest issue of that excellent poetry journal, PN Review, "Thom Gunn, ...
- Christina Patterson: There is a lot to be said for marrying young - Independent
Christina Patterson: There is a lot to be said for marrying youngIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoShe has a poetry-writing, former freedom-fighting lover in South Africa and a Swiss boyfriend, with an unfortunate accent, who visits her in New York. ...
- Inspirational music for anarchists - Prague Post
Prague PostInspirational music for anarchistsPrague Post, Czech Republic - 53 minutes agoCurrently, his group is touring their Sun Ra Project, which celebrates the music and (lesser known) poetry of Sun Ra, though not playing Sun Ra covers. ...
- How Fergie and the Duchess in the hit movie are directly related ... - Daily Mail
In a heart-rending scene in the hit movie, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, gives away her love child by a future Prime Minister . . . and incredibly, today we can reveal how that abandoned child is directly related to the Duchess of York and her ...
- Archives (The Daily Tar Heel)
Most of the buzz I heard surrounding "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" dealt with the prospect of seeing Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz make out under the passionate red light of a dark room. That scene itself isn't worth all the fuss but the movie as a whole certainly is.
- Oakland Township man puts Dempseytown in book of poetry - Oil City Derrick
Oakland Township man puts Dempseytown in book of poetryOil City Derrick, PA - 32 minutes ago"A junkyard beside me, the birds singing, parts of conversations I hear from nearby neighbors, the (Tri-City) racetrack - I put it all together in my poetry ...
- Recently recommended books for tweens - guardian.co.uk
Recently recommended books for tweensguardian.co.uk, UK - 28 minutes agoLike poetry, short stories tend to fall out of fashion with older children and they are often rather dully produced. But this collection is a real cracker ...
- Wilcoxens carve winning pumpkin (Altus Times)
Leon and Nadine Bailey, left, pose with their purchase of the winning pumpkin in Mangum's pumpkin carving contest that was held Friday during Mangum's Art & Antique Stroll. The winning carver was Joan Wilcoxen and husband Eddie, right. Eddie also read some of his poetry during the event. The contest drew a large crowd and raised over $300 for the non-profit Friends of the Park.
- Area artists mix media to create ‘Image Word' exhibit (Gazette.Net)
"To go across, you have to crawl on your hands and knees," a poet chants to meditative flute and percussion. Four dancers painstakingly creep across the floor in front of eight consecutive panels of poetry and photography floating on spacious white paper.
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