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- Amazon Art Institute Helps Recover Indigenous Roots - Inter Press Service
MANAUS, Brazil, Sep 24 (IPS) - Dhiani Pa'saro came to Manaus, the bustling city of 1.7 million people in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, eight years ago, after wandering from one village or town to another. At the time he planned to become ...
- Goose Lane enters a most extensive season: publisher - Daily Gleaner
Goose Lane enters a most extensive season: publisherDaily Gleaner, Canada - 2 minutes agoGeorge Elliott Clarke's I & I is both fiction and poetry. Using a series of poems, Clarke weaves a tale of tragedy, bloodshed, racism, sexism, ...
- Sussex County festival is ruled by the word - Newark Star-Ledger
Photos by Patti Sapone /The Star-Ledger Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Robert Hass reads during the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival at Waterloo Village. There were walks in the woods, gift shopping and food, hacky sack games and flirting, but the day ...
- Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies (San Francisco Chronicle)
Del Martin, a lesbian rights pioneer who took part in one of California's first same-sex weddings, died today in San Francisco after a long period of declining health. She was 87. Ms. Martin's political activism began more than five decades ago when in 1955...
- Old 97's bassist solo effort is not your typical church music (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
PRESTON JONES Before settling down in earnest to record his first solo album, I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m on My Way , Old 97’s bassist Murry Hammond found himself spending a lot of time in church. Yes, Hammond is on the spiritual side — one of his hobbies is playing "roots gospel" music weekly at a church near his Burbank, Calif., home — but frequenting the church had more to do ...
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Poetry in motion
- Roger Casement versus the British Empire - Times Online
Roger Casement versus the British EmpireTimes Online, UK - 4 hours agoEven more nobly, he had been knighted for his heroic services in exposing the savage exploitation of African and Amerindian workers in the rubber industry. ...
- Why You Should Read Mahmoud Darwish - Huffingtonpost.com
When renowned novelist Ahdaf Soueif said that the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was "the last poet who could fill a football stadium," it wasn't hyperbole. A Darwish reading in Beirut earlier this year drew more than 25,000 people. His funeral two ...
- Award-winner Sharon Olds to hold poetry reading - Etownian
EtownianAward-winner Sharon Olds to hold poetry readingEtownian, PA - 49 minutes agoThere can be so much more to words than just black and white printing, especially when expressed as poetry. A story or thought can be presented to a reader ...
- News (The West Australian)
The birds and the bards are the words this weekend in a unique event linking poets and some feathered friends near Wollongong in NSW. A “bird cam” will beam live pictures of the event billed as the world's first pigeon-powered poetry competition.
- Mundari ‘rising - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphMundari ‘risingCalcutta Telegraph, India - 9 hours agoBirsa Hans, former principal of SS Memorial College recited a poem titled Singar Ras. The scholars said that cultural rise of Mundas would contribute in the ...
- For me, something beyond the words remains - Globe and Mail
For me, something beyond the words remainsGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoI feel human and un-alone and that I'm in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and in poetry in a way that I don't with ...
- The story of Ko'olau: Love, commitment, sacrifice - Honolulu Advertiser
The true story of Kalua'iko'olau and his fight to die a free man has inspired books, poems and theatrical productions. It opened recently in perhaps the most well-known experimental theater in New York, the La MaMa theater.
- Performance: Patton Oswalt - Delaware Online
When a famously funny comedian comes to town for a gig, one whose fans have taken that comic's albums and listened to them beyond the mere point of memorization, there's only one request his giggling groupies have before he hops on stage: Bring ...
- The Woman in White - The New York Review of Books
The Woman in WhiteThe New York Review of Books - 38 minutes agoBenfey locates in the poetry of Dickinson's younger years an obsession with Lord Byron—Byron's famous poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" becomes "the Rosetta ...
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