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- Music (Euronews)
In an exclusive interview with EuroNews, Philip Glass talks about the challenge of setting music to Leonard Cohen’s poetry – a collection, 20 years in the making, of some 167 poems and 43 original illustrations by Cohen himself. Glass was recently in Madrid where he performed at the Autumn Festival.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 1918-2008 - San Francisco Gate
Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the reclusive icon of the Russian intelligentsia and chronicler of communist repression, died Sunday. He was 89. His son, Stephan Solzhenitsyn, told the Associated Press that his father died of heart failure in ...
- Exclusive with Richard Hayes Phillips, Author of "Witness to a ... - OpEdNews
Exclusive with Richard Hayes Phillips, Author of "Witness to a ...OpEdNews, PA - 1 hour agoWhile still in my teens I was performing my own compositions on acoustic guitar, with a gift for lyric poetry the origins of which are a mystery to me. ...
- Poster poems: the birth of being - Guardian Blogs
After death , birth: the call for poster poems on the subject of our final end elicited a wide and fascinating range of responses, but now it's time to look at life's one other certainty. For humans, to be is to have been born. And birth shares a ...
- Top stars to sing for Madiba (News 24 South Africa)
A number of Africa's top musicians will perform at a concert in Johannesburg in August, to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday.
- A lost weekend in the north (Guardian Unlimited)
The recent history of posthumous publishing has not been terribly happy.
- windsorstar.com - Windsor Star
windsorstar.comWindsor Star, Canada - 14 hours agoOn the one-year anniversary of Carlos Rivera's murder, his mother has published a book of her son's poetry and is trying to follow her son's advice on ...
- Community spirit shines at St. Stephen’s (The Daily Item)
LYNN - First they learn how to spell the word c-o-m-m-u-n-i-t-y. Then they become part of it. That’s the underlying premise behind the annual Kids in Community program, which came to a close Friday at St. Stephen’s Church, where it was held for the past four weeks.
- Picton native writes fictional account of working on freighter - Belleville Intelligencer
Picton native writes fictional account of working on freighterBelleville Intelligencer, Canada - 5 minutes agoThroughout those summers, Olson kept journals and wrote some poetry based on her shipping life. She would later try to write fiction inspired by it, ...
- The Jonas Brothers - Tampabay.com
The Jonas BrothersTampabay.com, FL - 39 minutes agoThe vibrant Lizz Straight, host of WMNF's Poetry is... has material both bold and beautiful. John Mayer may turn out to be a better artist than just the guy ...
- A story of love and books in Bohemian New Orleans (The Daily Reflector)
Every morning in this Southern town of big-box stores and Bible readers, the Beat Generation can still be found dissing the system in the form of a 91-year-old woman in a red beret and cowboy boots.
- Shabazz grads celebrate marching to their own drummer - Wisconsin State Journal
Instead of flinging mortar boards into the air, students playfully batted around a beach ball. "Pomp and Circumstance" was replaced by an all-staff rendition of Crosby Stills Nash and Young's "Teach Your Children." One student even replaced the ...
- Great dates in Cleveland that are easy on the wallet - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Plain Dealer file The Tremont ArtWalk is a great cheap date. Just because the economy is on the decline, your social life doesn't have to be. Especially when it comes to dating. Greater Cleveland offers so many cheap dates that don't seem "cheap ...
- Neighborhood center showcases fashions and poetry Wednesday (Tallahassee Democrat)
The Smith-Williams Service Center is bringing back an innovative way for participants of all ages to express their creativity.
- William Golding - guardian.co.uk
William Goldingguardian.co.uk, UK - 13 hours agoGolding began writing at seven and published his first volume of poetry before completing his BA. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 (to some ...
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