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- His Irish Eyes Are Shining on America Now (New York Times)
The playwright Ronan Noone has moved to American subjects after the series of Irish ensemble plays that kicked off his career.
- Moonviewing at Japanese Garden - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
The Oregonian - OregonLive.comMoonviewing at Japanese GardenThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 15 hours agoThe garden will offer a tea ceremony, poetry, sake, food, traditional music and the best vantage point in town to witness the lunar luminosity. ...
- Nationally known author to serve as Roy Acuff chair at Austin Peay - Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
Nationally known author to serve as Roy Acuff chair at Austin PeayClarksville Leaf Chronicle, TN - 5 hours agoIn addition to novels, Erdrich has written volumes of poetry, children's books and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel, “Love Medicine,” won the ...
- What makes a mass murderer? - Independent Online
Of the two men indicted by the Hague war crimes tribunal as masterminds of the planned massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslim adults and children, Ratko Mladic fits all our preconceptions. General Mladic was a man drawn to the sound of gunfire from ...
- Jalandhar, September 28 - Tribune
There were many a red faces among the BJP at the thin attendance at the Sankalp Rally organised by its youth wing in the run-up to the parliamentary poll. The state-level event, ostensibly held to counter the visit of Rahul Gandhi to Punjab, proved ...
- Porn claims outrage German Kafka scholars - guardian.co.uk
Porn claims outrage German Kafka scholarsguardian.co.uk, UK - 14 hours agoYet they have chosen not to show this undoubtedly very dark stuff," he told the Guardian. "I don't remotely claim it's a discovery of mine, ...
- To love or not to love? - Star-ecentral.com
MOST people get their fill of William Shakespeare’s sonnets in secondary school, but not Christopher Ling. “Some poems, despite the flowery language, are timeless. They stay relevant forever,” he says. Ling, together with the T4YP ((Theatre for ...
- Putting Antigone's World in Context - Wall Street Journal
Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, is making his opera directing debut in London with "Burial at Thebes," which is the Antigone story retold by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney -- who himself won the Nobel prize in 1995. The ...
- In Person: 30 Poets, Edited by Neil Astley, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce (Independent)
Bloodaxe Books was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne 30 years ago by Neil Astley. Since then, it has published nearly 1,000 poetry books, quantities probably matched only by Michael Schmidt's Manchester-based Carcanet Press. Bloodaxe has reined in a more left-ward, experimental and internationalist stable, as distinct from Carcanet's conservative bent. Both publishers have recently become more ...
- Committing Guy Clark to the air - Austin Chronicle
He hasn't lived in Texas for decades, but Guy Clark is still considered the dean of Texas songwriters. A Mount Rushmore of Texas troubadours would slot his granite face, as well as the sharp features of his best friend, Townes Van Zandt. The reason ...
- Watch out Edinburgh, here comes the Camden Fringe - Hampstead and Highgate Express
Watch out Edinburgh, here comes the Camden FringeHampstead and Highgate Express, UK - 2 hours agoAnd they range from theatre and cabaret to comedy, dance and poetry. There's even a children's musical about sheep - Ewe Beautiful You. ...
- Michael Moore's pals make documentary films - MLive.com
AP Photo Panelists, from left, Jason Pollock, Gini Reticker, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal are shown with filmmaker Michael Moore, right, Sunday, Aug. 3, at the Traverse City Film Festival. These filmmakers once worked with Moore on pictures such as ...
- Tacoma gets performing arts potpourri - Tacoma News Tribune
If you had to sum up the 2008-2009 performing arts season in Tacoma, opening later this month, the word would be “different.” Of course, every organization’s lineup is unique, but most of them are pushing boundaries in audience, performers or ...
- Books: "Hurry Down Sunshine" (The New Yorker)
On July 5, 1996, my daughter was struck mad,” Greenberg writes at the start of a remarkable memoir. Sally, fifteen years old, after weeks of reading poetry and scribbling with mounting fervor, whirls through Greenwich Village possessed by a belief that people are born with genius but gradually lose it . . .
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish is dead at 67 (International Herald Tribune)
Mr. Darwish's prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting.
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