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- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - Times Daily
A Palestinian presidential aide says that renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has died. Darwish died at a hospital in Houston following complications from an open heart surgery, according to Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian ...
- Poetry evening with Carol Ann Duffy at church - Hutton Cranswick Today
Poetry evening with Carol Ann Duffy at churchHutton Cranswick Today, UK - 1 hour agoPOET Carol Ann Duffy will give a reading at Toll Gavel Church in Beverley on Wednesday July 9, at 7.30pm. The reading is part of a summer programme of ...
- For retired Rutgers professor, new role not lost in translation (The Star-Ledger)
When it comes to corporate gobbledygook, William Lutz shares your pain. As a consultant to promote the use of plain English in financial documents, the retired Rutgers professor managed to plow through 58 mutual fund prospectuses before crying "uncle."
- Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish Dies - Wall Street Journal
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more ...
- Going boldly where no Lebanese publisher has gone before - Daily Star - Lebanon
Daily Star - LebanonGoing boldly where no Lebanese publisher has gone beforeDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 18 minutes agoBy Laura Wilkinson BEIRUT: Poetry doesn't command much presence in publishing circles. The profile of English-language poetry in countries where English is ...
- Obituary: Angus Calder - Financial Times
I t was a damp basement in 1960s London, piled with closely written sheets of thin, crumbling wartime paper. Most people would have found it a forlorn place. Yet for the young Angus Calder, wandering round the room randomly picking out documents, it ...
- What's Happening - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
* Lost Nation's 22nd Annual Rustic Run, 6:30 a.m. registration, one-mile event starts at7:40 a.m. the four-mile event starts at 8 a.m. Details: 319-551-0582. * Dubuque Farmers Market, 7 a.m.-noon, in area around City Hall. Live music will be ...
- Publisher Martin Reiner on books, business and Brno (Radio Prague)
As well as being a poet and novelist, Martin Reiner is one of this country’s most successful publishers. He has been in the business since 1991, first at Brno’s Nakladatelstvà Petrov, which he took over after a year at the helm, and more recently at Nakladatelstvà Druhé město (Second City Publishers), which he set up in 2005. He publishes the Czech Republic’s best-selling contemporary writer, ...
- Arrangements pending for 'Renaissance man,' philanthropist Anthony Kane Baker, who died in plane crash (Palm Beach Daily News)
Funeral arrangements are pending for Anthony Kane Baker, a longtime Palm Beach resident who was killed Wednesday when his lightweight airplane crashed into the Tennessee River.
- Literary open mic brings out many readers, listeners - Deming Headlight
The third monthly open mic sponsored by Bel Canto Literary Circle was a big hit and enjoyed by audience and readers Saturday at St. Clair Winery located east on NM Highway 549. Barry Dunleavey was the master of ceremonies for the event. Readings came ...
- Tessie's People: Thankful survivor dives headfirst - Scotts Valley/San Lorenzo Valley Press-Banner
Tessie's People: Thankful survivor dives headfirstScotts Valley/San Lorenzo Valley Press-Banner, CA - 1 hour agoThey live on campus with their three youngest children: Katherine, a senior at Scotts Valley High, is an aspiring writer who writes poetry and short stories ...
- Rock the Mullahs - Slate
In the predictable universe of the illness memoir, doctors save by diagnosis and fail by misdiagnosis, alleviate symptoms or unintentionally increase them, order too many tests or refuse to test enough. Patients are the authors of these accounts, but ...
- LeBron James wants to see your best shot for contest - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Plain Dealer file photo LeBron James, doin' his thing. Is your best basketball move any match for LeBron James? The basketball superstar is looking for America's best trick shot in his Trick Shot Challenge Contest. Contestants must upload a video of ...
- Religion Calendar: 08/302008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Religion Calendar is published weekly by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Information may be mailed to Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; fax to 946-8632; e-mail gmurray@record-eagle.com . Items should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
- Sault post-grad student proves herself 'best of the best' (The Sault Star)
When Rachel Burns showed up for her first day of kindergarten, she was already reading. And by her 11th birthday, she had poetry published in a U.S. magazine. Needless to say, Burns ascended to the top of her class at an early age. Since then, the former [...]
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