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- Palestinians say farewell to poet - Focus News
Palestinians say farewell to poetFocus News, Bulgaria - Aug 13, 2008Thousands of black-clad mourners lined the streets of Ramallah - many clutching portraits of the poet and Palestinian flags. A military convoy took the ...
- Valley of the Sun Juneteenth Celebration - Phoenix New Times
The slogan of the Valley of the Sun Juneteenth planning committee is “Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Future.” Ugh. Strangely, the same folks who cooked up that bland, Chamber of Commerce jingle are responsible for the kickin’ Valley of ...
- More fun and festivities at Bay Days (Bridgeton News)
COMMERCIAL TWP. -- This year's Delaware Bay Days, June 14 and 15, is expanded to include even more sites than before.
- Taj Mahal harvests blues from around the world (The Toledo Blade)
Back in the late '50s, when he was a teenager, Taj Mahal was torn between a career in music and a life on the farm. With his passion and intelligence, he would have been successful at either one, but his fans can be thankful that he chose the guitar over the plow. Throughout his career, the 65-year-old Mahal has gotten his share of tail feathers shaking with his effusive Afro-Caribbean ...
- The Impostor, by Damon Galgut (Independent)
A ramshackle farmhouse in the hinterland of South Africa, a mysterious silent neighbour and a town where corruption has become a way of life. These ingredients go into making Damon Galgut's follow-up to The Good Doctor. It's a spine-chilling read that doubles as a sharp and rather depressing critique of the "new" South Africa.
- Mother spoke of dreams for future (Forbes Advocate)
THE policewoman whose young children and mother were allegedly murdered in Cowra on Monday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- Broadway and TV actor Fred Weller comes to Boston for Shakespeare’s ... - MetroWest Daily News
Maybe “romance” is the key word for Fred Weller this summer. The New York-based actor, who’s now a regular on USA Network’s “In Plain Sight,” has made the trip up to Boston for lots of romantic reasons. First is the chance to perform ...
- North Tampa calendar - Tampabay.com
North Tampa calendarTampabay.com, FL - 5 hours agoTemple Terrace: The Teen Poetry contest is at 6:30 pm July 31 at the Temple Terrace Library, 202 Bullard Parkway. The theme is "Created Equal" and entries ...
- Girlz on the hood (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Artist Richard Prince has a thing about fast cars, nurses and other supposed male obsessions
- Dale Patterson: A Somerville poet with many hats - Somerville News
Dale Patterson: A Somerville poet with many hatsSomerville News, MA - 1 hour agoI lived in a house that William Dean Howells resided in, perhaps this inspired my writing. But I really like Somerville. DH: The poetry I have seen from you ...
- Park an inspirational site for art (The Herald-Mail)
Julie Cantrel said the birds, the squirrels and other forms of nature at Hagerstown’s City Park give her ideas for her art. “It’s like a daily source of inspiration,” she said.
- Curtain Up - nextbook
nextbookCurtain Upnextbook, NY - 3 hours agoDid it have any influence on poetry or literature? Actually it was the reverse. The Theater was influenced by the classics of Yiddish poetry and literature, ...
- Andrew Lycett's essential Dylan Thomas - guardian.co.uk
Andrew Lycett's essential Dylan Thomasguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoOccasioned by his father's blindness and imminent death, this is a craftsman's poem, all the more powerful for its tight villanelle form.Dylan Thomas guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- Like music? Check out ArtBeat (Somerville Journal)
Somerville’s arts community is ready to transform Davis Square into the two-day ArtBeat music-arts-dance-performance festival. Twenty-four local bands, playing hip-hop, pop and folk, will be taking stages at four locations in Davis Square on July 18 and 19.
- Living death - Eureka Street
Eureka StreetLiving deathEureka Street, Australia - 6 hours agoAnd, for all its detail, Sweet Sorrow has some of the qualities of poetry: imagination, phrases, stories and images, pictures of people and lives, ...
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