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- Story of a Dalit poet in India (Express India)
Kanwal Bharti was a son of a Dalit cobbler but now his poetry is being prescribed during Post-Graduate studies.
- Stolen Bard Folio Is Retrieved After Brought to D.C. Library (Washington Post)
LONDON -- A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued $30 million has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington and asked to have it authenticated.
- Donald Joseph Benning - Herald And Journal
Donald Joseph Benning (Donny, Don, DJ, Dad, Gump) died Thursday, June 12, 2008, at the age of 71, while taking his morning walk at his home in Corsicana, Texas. The Mass of the Resurrection will take place at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Winsted ...
- Kingsolver to speak at festival (Salina Journal)
Barbara Kingsolver, whose ability to deliver penetrating insights with a poet's grace has made her an internationally acclaimed writer, will be one of the featured speakers at The Land Institute's 30th annual Prairie Festival.
- Playwright's own story adds a personal touch to the myth of Orpheus ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Staging one of Ruhl's lyrical works is like that, too, Alison Narver has discovered. It demands time and patience to render something so spare. "Eurydice," which begins previews Friday at ACT Theatre, is the second of Ruhl's plays that Narver has ...
- Plato's Greek Taverna , Ponsonby Rd - New Zealand Herald
Greek cuisine gets a bad rap. AA Gill reckons it's "unremittingly ghastly. Greek food is best eaten drunk, but even that they don't make easy". Which may be unfair: when you've spent a couple of milennia working out democracy, philosophy, drama ...
- Roots of Civilization: Robert Pogue Harrison's 'Gardens' - New York Sun
Roots of Civilization: Robert Pogue Harrison's 'Gardens'New York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoWhen he quotes Homer or Rilke or Wallace Stevens (he is steeped in poetry from antiquity to the present), his references are always both pertinent and quite ...
- 93-year-old debut novelist gives home to friends from care homes - Guardian Unlimited
A raunchy novel with a dauntless heroine has transformed the lives of a 93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing homes. Pushed by her daughter-in-law, who found the manuscript and couldn't put it down, Lorna Page has ...
- Contemporary Korean Prints: Sang Ku Kim - Everything Alabama
Work from Sanghu Kim. Location Alabaster Alexander City Alpharetta Anniston Atlanta Bessemer Birmingham Brownsboro Calera Center Point Chelsea Collegeville Crestline Cullman Decatur Ensley Enterprise Fairfield Fairhope Florence Forest Park Fultondale ...
- Deadline for EQIP signup is July 14 (The Challis Messenger)
The sign-up period for the Environmental Quality Incen-tives Program (EQIP) ends July 14, 2008. EQIP is a voluntary conservation program that provides financial and technical assistance to landowners willing to implement practices to improve natural resources on eligible agricultural land.
- Book Festival: Pleasure proves a virtuous choice - Scotsman
Book Festival: Pleasure proves a virtuous choiceScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoYet no sooner has Kay, er, loosened up her audience then she knocks them sideways with the most moving, deeply-felt but unsentimental, poetry about the ...
- BREAKING NEWS: CITY AUTHOR IN THE RUNNING FOR DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE - South Wales Evening Post
BREAKING NEWS: CITY AUTHOR IN THE RUNNING FOR DYLAN THOMAS PRIZESouth Wales Evening Post, UK - 1 hour agoZoe Brigley, from Caerphilly, is the only other Welsh candidate with her poetry book The Secret. The biennial prize is sponsored by the University of Wales. ...
- Weirdness abounds in offbeat Crows - Houston Chronicle
Houston ChronicleWeirdness abounds in offbeat CrowsHouston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour agoHere, he's treating a pet topic (as defined by the The Poetry Project Newsletter): "low-rent rural America festering in the backwater pollution from the ...
- Popcorn & Candy: Conspiracy Theories (DCist)
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Parallax View This week in Popcorn & Candy, what's old is new again. We've got Cold War satire that's just as appropriate now, a TV series that was at its best in the '90s reborn on the big screen, and ancient Rome through the lens of the mid-20th ...
- Tim Jennings, new director of Children's Theatre (Seattle Times)
Seattle theater news: Seattle Children's Theatre names a new managing director, New City Theater announces its 2008 fall season, and Roosevelt High School's theater tech crew places fourth at an international contest.
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