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- Doors Opening, Doors Slamming - Times of Central Asia (subscription)
Doors Opening, Doors SlammingTimes of Central Asia (subscription), Kyrgyzstan - 16 hours agoThe book consists of the former president’s dubious autobiography and his account of Turkmen history, punctuated by his poetry and thoughts on morality. ...
- Obituary: Mahmoud Darwish - Financial Times
The concept of a national poet with the power to shape a national movement and define a country’s collective spirit seems to belong to a different century. But for Palestinians, who have yet to see their dreams of an independent state realised, it ...
- The Right Chemistry - Sin Chew Jit Poh
Sin Chew Jit PohThe Right ChemistrySin Chew Jit Poh, Malaysia - 4 hours agoPoets, painters and singers have all tried to capture love’s indescribable essence in their art. But love is not all about sonnets and serenades. ...
- Heritage Day at Iziko Museums - ArtslinkNews
ArtslinkNewsHeritage Day at Iziko MuseumsArtslinkNews, South Africa - 15 hours agoFurther activities take place at the Iziko Slave Lodge and the Iziko South African Museum which include poetry, dance and music performances, ...
- Gadanayak remembered - The Statesman
Gadanayak rememberedThe Statesman, India - 12 hours agoSpeaking on the occasion, Governor Mr MC Bhandare said: “Poetry has the power to lead us from darkness to light, from falsehood to truth and from death to ...
- Philip Larkin - guardian.co.uk
Philip Larkinguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoLarkin's most famous poem, of course, is the grim doggerel of This Be the Verse ("They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad..."). There's more light and shade, ...
- Being the Nation's Poet Laureate is a Total Pain - Gawker
GawkerBeing the Nation's Poet Laureate is a Total PainGawker, NY - 51 minutes ago(Kay Ryan just became the newest laureate, tasked with "bringing poetry to the forefront of the American consciousness.") It's not as idyllic as it seems, ...
- A story of love and books in Bohemian New Orleans (Seattle Times)
Louise "Gypsy Lou" and Jon Edgar Webb were the force behind Loujon Press, which published works by Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs and introduced Charles Bukowski to the literary world.
- Extra!, July 26 - Rocky Mountain News
Having been a two-pack-a-day smoker ourselves, Extra! sympathizes with those struggling to quit. But here's some good news: the folks at Colorado QuitLine tell us they've provided more than 100,000 free nicotine patches, helping Coloradans to kick ...
- Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-Lee - WalesOnline
Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-LeeWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 5 hours agoI thought about poetry. I thought about rendering something pithy in Welsh. I even thought about translating profound insights into Latin, but as both these ...
- Rich rhythms of island life in Pynter Bender - Metro
MetroRich rhythms of island life in Pynter BenderMetro, UK - 8 hours agoEach sentence carries the weight of prose-poetry, suffused with rich, deep rhythms and other-worldly imagery that vividly conveys the tension between the ...
- Living La Vida Solo - TriVallyCentral
You've left behind the apartment shared with five roommates on Prospect Street decorated with empty bottles of Jameson, and graduated to a single one bedroom apartment in Fall Creek where the few empty bottles are put out every Wednesday night for ...
- Bodacious ‘bodocking’ good time set for this weekend (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Are you ready to throw a bodock ball? How about chunk a bodock post? Or perhaps enjoy all that good ole’ bodock food? You can have all this fun at Pontotoc’s premiere family reunion on the court square with the coming of the Bodock Festival.
- Kenya: Books Picked for Mutahi Wahome Award (AllAfrica.com)
Six books have been nominated for the Wahome Mutahi Literary Awards to be presented on Saturday as part of an upcoming book fair.
- Publishers: Get Your Books in Don Draper’s Hands - New York Times Blogs
Publishers: Get Your Books in Don Draper’s HandsNew York Times Blogs, NY - 2 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
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