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- Palestinians plan big funeral for poet Darwish - Washington Post
Resize RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday -- an honor only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes ...
- John Lichfield: Racy goings-on in la France profonde - Belfast Telegraph
The nearest town to our house in Normandy is a sad place which has never fully recovered from the summer of 1944. In June of that year, it was pointlessly bombed by the British. In August, it was partially burned by the SS. Sixty-four years later ...
- Syrian writers appear both live and on the page in Britain - Saudi Gazette
BY the medieval market town of Ledbury nestling in the Malvern Hills, Herefordshire, has established itself as Britain’s largest poetry festival. This year four Syrian poets will perform their work at the festival, to be held on July 4-13. During ...
- Reluctant 18-year-old poet sees work chosen for top prize - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Merit O'Hare, 18, a poet from McCandless. After years of denial, Merit O'Hare has finally come to terms with her inner poet. The 18-year-old from McCandless with a penchant for creative writing had never read or written poetry until this year. She ...
- Let's give the past a future - Globe and Mail
Let's give the past a futureGlobe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours agoSo does history have a Sugar Daddy with Cundill, in similar fashion to the way industrialist Scott Griffin has championed poetry? ...
- Meeting on Persian literature held in Istanbul - Tehran Times
Meeting on Persian literature held in IstanbulTehran Times, Iran - 15 hours ago... contemporary literature begins in 1921, but some say it begin with the time when a piece of poetry or prose was created with new and different view. ...
- POETRY BOOK MAY BE ON ITS WAY BACK HOME - Mearns Today
POETRY BOOK MAY BE ON ITS WAY BACK HOMEMearns Today, UK - 19 minutes agoThe writer was declared free of debt in 1908 and died at his daughter's home in the city in 1937, aged 84. Mr Moorhouse said he now hoped to return the ...
- Sifting through the past, savoring the flavor - Greensboro News Record
Sifting through the past, savoring the flavorGreensboro News Record, NC - 3 hours agoBut pore through those installments about food - poetry and pictures, stories and speeches - and you'll sense the editing eyes of a husband and wife, ...
- After the deluge, poetry - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
After the deluge, poetryThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 2 hours agoPoets writing in response to Hurricane Katrina and the flood in New Orleans have risen to that terrible muse in virtually every way imaginable -- some with ...
- Standout performances best part of Theatre Q's Wilde production of ... - Daily Review Online
Standout performances best part of Theatre Q's Wilde production of ...Daily Review Online, CA - 34 minutes agoBut then, we would never have had this intellectually challenging play — made up of actual court transcripts, poetry, newspaper accounts, epigrams and many ...
- Who's bard? Burns fans shock over Jacko "show tunes" covers (BBC News)
Experts on Rabbie Burns react to reports that Michael Jackson has put the Scots Bard's work to music.
- Heritage role for St Andrews-based Scottish poetry festival (Fife Today)
StAnza: Scotland's poetry festival, and a major date in Fife's cultural calendar, has been selected to take part in Scotland's year-long celebration, Homecoming Scotland 2009. (19/06/2008 16:34:19)
- Fall arts preview: 'Chicago Songs' intended as poetry to ear (The Sacramento Bee)
This composer, a 38-year-old Fresno native, is the same age poet Carl Sandburg was when he wrote and published the "Chicago Poems," which Erickson used as the inspiration for his "Chicago Songs." Kurt Erickson, the composer of "Chicago Songs," says he was first intrigued by the idea of creating a song set using an eclectic mix of 20th century American texts.
- Fed up with retirement? Unretire! - Newsday
'The best-laid plans of mice and men often go astray," Robert Burns wrote. Two centuries hence, the great Scottish poet could easily have been referring to the plight of many men and women soon after embarking on retirement. Visions of wondrous hours ...
- Moen Talks Perhapst, Decemberists, Obama, Malkmus - Pitchforkmedia.com
Pitchforkmedia.comMoen Talks Perhapst, Decemberists, Obama, MalkmusPitchforkmedia.com, IL - 2 hours agoI think that the-- for lack of a better word-- poetry part, the lyrics and all that...you just don't know if it's any good. Or I don't. ...
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