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- Mooresville man called ‘hero’ for volunteer work (Reporter-Times)
MOORESVILLE  Earlier this year, the Indianapolis Business Journal recognized Mooresville resident Don Perry, 75, as a finalist for its 2008 Healthcare Heroes award. Perry was among the top three volunteers in the state and was honored at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis during a March breakfast.
- Palestinian ‘Poet of Conscience’ Dies at 67 - St Petersburg Times, Russia
Palestinian ‘Poet of Conscience’ Dies at 67St Petersburg Times, Russia, Russia - Aug 12, 2008Darwish first gained prominence in the 1960s with the publication of his first poetry collection, “Bird without Wings.†It included the poem “Identity Card†...
- Time to Pick: Banjo Fest or Folkie Fun? (Washington Post)
Tomorrow is all about musical heritage, as two long-standing celebrations, the Takoma Park Folk Festival and the Speedy Tolliver Fiddle and Banjo Fest, return.
- A Festival Reinvents Itself - East Bay Express
A Festival Reinvents ItselfEast Bay Express, CA - 2 hours agoIt's a preview of that evening's Soul Poetry performance at the Freight, a popular event organized by Dan and Dale Zola featuring spoken recitation backed ...
- Now And Then: 'Che Underground' Scenesters - Wired News
Now And Then: 'Che Underground' ScenestersWired News - 29 minutes agoI contributed drawings for flyers, wrote poetry and tagged along with the boys. I was quiet but stylish. My clothes were fabulous and I wore them well, ...
- The top five films of Summer 2008 - Bowling Green News
The top five films of Summer 2008Bowling Green News, OH - 9 hours agoWith a dynamite final performance from the late Heath Ledger as Batman's ultimate nemesis, the Joker, "The Dark Knight" will be the topic of box office talk ...
- Story, photos: ’Mad Men’ and ‘30 Rock’ win top Emmys - Green Bay Press-Gazette
LOS ANGELES  The sleek ’60s drama “Mad Men†made Emmy history Sunday as the first basic-cable show to win a top series award, while the sitcom “30 Rock†and its stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin also emerged as big winners. “We’re all ...
- Palestinians plan 'state' funeral for poet Darwish - Middle East Times
Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish (left) is greeted by Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah in 2005. Palestinians are making plans for a funeral of pomp and ceremony for their "national" poet Mahmud Darwish, seen here in 2007, whose writings ...
- Hail to smartypants champ - The Sun Daily
Hail to smartypants champThe Sun Daily, Malaysia - 12 hours agoThe Times of London gave British poet Fanny Walker a whole page last week in which she made an impassioned plea that performance poetry be included in the ...
- Penn State Altoona professor to hold book reading and signing - Penn State Altoona
Penn State Altoona professor to hold book reading and signingPenn State Altoona, United States - 4 hours agoSherrill earned an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction in 2002. ...
- Legendary Urdu poet Ahmed Faraz dies - Associated Press of Pakistan
Legendary Urdu poet Ahmed Faraz diesAssociated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - Aug 25, 2008ISLAMABAD, Aug 25 (APP): The legendary Urdu poet, Ahmed Faraz passed away here on Monday. He was suffering from kidney disease and recently returned home ...Pakistani poet Ahmad Faraz dies at 78 United Press InternationalFarewell to Faraz The News - InternationalAhmed Faraz is no more Khabrein.infoLivePakistan.com - PakTribune.comall 22 news articles
- Author Wallace remembered as the 'best of our generation' - Courier-Journal
The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest ...
- Where to Go >> (Seattle Weekly)
Stephanie Ellis-Smith was studying retroviruses as a researcher at the University of Washington when she came across a notice asking for a volunteer coordinator to head the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project, the first-ever attempt to document an African-American artist's entire...
- FAVA Film Classes - VUE Weekly
VUE WeeklyFAVA Film ClassesVUE Weekly, Canada - 3 hours ago... help people who’ve never made a film in their life. Kathy Fisher has been a research lawyer since 1988, but dabbles in poetry and spoken word as well. ...
- Community In Brief: 10/08/2008 (Grand Traverse Herald)
INTERLOCHEN -- Poet and playwright Cornelius Eady will give a reading on Thursday at the Writing House. Eady is the author of six books of poetry and the recipient of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
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