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- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - San Francisco Chronicle
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish diesSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - Aug 11, 2008He joined the Israeli Communist Party after high school and began writing poems for leftist newspapers. Mr. Darwish left Israel in the early 1970s to study ...
- Hard man in a hard country (Khaleej Times)
Tomorrow, there will be no presidential hopefuls, no hordes of advisers and staff, no senior TV anchors, none of the razzmatazz of an American election campaign. The routine lack of routine that is life in Kabul will have been restored.
- Memoir finds well-traveled author in top form at 84 - Columbus Dispatch
If America had the literary culture it ought to have, every city would have a writer like Herbert Gold. Gold, 84, belongs irrevocably to San Francisco, where he has lived on Russian Hill for almost half a century, although he has also written ...
- Raised in cane (The Columbus Dispatch)
L OS ANGELES -- When Americans think of 1950s Cuba, they tend to picture Fidel Castro ranting in tattered fatigues about the revolution.
- Upton: Two heads are better than one - Chattanooga Times Free Press
Upton: Two heads are better than oneChattanooga Times Free Press, TN - 14 hours ago... us is writing a play, another has had an article published in one of the Chicken Soup series. Someone else is hoping to publish an anthology of poetry. ...
- Borders(R) Celebrates the Grand Opening of its New Concept Store at ... - MSN MoneyCentral
BATON ROUGE, La. , Aug. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Borders will celebrate the grand opening of its new concept store in Baton Rouge, La. , beginning today, Aug. 29 through Sunday, Aug. 31 . The 25,000-square-foot store in the Mall of Louisiana's new open air ...
- Contenders for this year's surprise TIFF hit - Globe and Mail
Here's an idea alien to most Hollywood drama: What if something bad and unfair happens to someone but there's no easily identified villain? In Kelly Reichardt's stripped down, 80-minute drama Wendy and Lucy , a young woman, Wendy (Michelle Williams ...
- Release your inner nerd into the heavens - Edmonton Sun
Release your inner nerd into the heavensEdmonton Sun, Canada - 4 hours agoThe CAS website also features cloud news, cloud photos, a cloud of the month, cloud poetry (oh dear), a cloud shop (featuring cloud tights, cloud trousers ...
- Interview: Gao Xingjian (Guardian Unlimited)
Gao Xingjian: 'It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth'
- Columbus-born boxer to be honored with marker - Commercial Dispatch
Once a month, Joe Lee Tuggle has been driving to Old Frierson’s Place, with his two sons, Frederick and Henry, to clean up trash and mow the grass. Joe Lee Tuggle’s mother, Laura Mae Tuggle, is buried in the old black cemetery. He had no idea he ...
- LCC Grants Deadline is Oct. 15 (Medfield Press)
The Medfield Arts Council would like to invite local artists and arts organizations to apply for LCC grants. The deadline for applications is October 15th, 2008. Funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, each year our local council awards about $4000 to local artists and organizations. Grant applications are available at Town Hall, as well as online at ...
- Jeff Douthwaite, former legislator and UW professor, dies at 79 - Seattle Times
Geoffrey K. Douthwaite was a voracious reader who loved maritime stories and the poetry of Robert Service. The former Democratic lawmaker could recite "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" — a narrative poem set in the Yukon Gold Rush that was a personal ...
- Pop poet turns wordy rock star - The List
The ListPop poet turns wordy rock starThe List, UK - 2 hours agoSimon Armitage is a very modern poet, as happy to ruminate over Arctic Monkeys’ lyrics as he is to translate 14th century romantic poetry. ...
- • Collins' Ballistics' manages to pierce the heart, if not always ... - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
• Collins' Ballistics' manages to pierce the heart, if not always ...The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 24 minutes agoBut I have been consistently disappointed that the poems are rarely more than clever. Like John Berryman, I believe that poetry should wound, ...
- Southeastern Minnesota digest - Post-Bulletin
Southeastern Minnesota digestPost-Bulletin, MN - 2 hours ago... State University English professor, has two poetry collections, including one about Lake Superior. Wine and cheese will be served; the event is free. ...
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