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- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - Dallas Morning News
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67Dallas Morning News, TX - Aug 9, 2008By DIAA HADID / AP Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting ...
- Scenes of looting, pillaging near Georgian city of Gori - Khaleej Times
DZARDZANIS, Georgia - Scores of houses were ablaze Wednesday outside the Georgian city of Gori as local fighters and Russian soldiers looted homes in Georgian villages, an AFP reporter witnessed. The body of a man, apparently a civilian, his mouth ...
- 'Rome 1960' — a book worth reading - Deseret News
'Rome 1960' — a book worth readingDeseret News, UT - 4 hours agoBut that doesn't stop poets and philosophers from trying to elevate the myths that the Olympics significantly effect cultural and societal change. ...
- How Ghadar Forged Patriotism Among Diasporic Desis - Indolink
The stories that books on South Asian immigration tell us are nearly all the same: the theme is of unmitigated, runaway success. Success, yes, but the price paid by some of the Indian immigrants of the early 1910s was with their lives: deportation ...
- John Henry, Myth Made Flesh (Nashville Scene)
There's not much reliable and detailed evidence, but in Steel Drivin' Man (Oxford University Press, 214 pp., $14.95) Scott Reynolds Nelson makes a good case that the mythical John Henry was a short (5'1") black man from New Jersey. A boy, really: He was only 19 when he was convicted, on qu...
- On This Day in History: August 1 A Giant of American Literature - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
On This Day in History: August 1 A Giant of American LiteratureBrooklyn Daily Eagle, NY - Aug 1, 2008Some poetry, a satire, and a handful of short stories were all that were left in him. His popularity dwindled until he had to publish his last works at his ...
- Star search - SU The Daily Orange (subscription)
Star searchSU The Daily Orange (subscription), NY - 4 hours agoWith acts ranging from free-form poetry to interpretive mime dancing, this year's 'Cuse Got Talent embodied the artistic diversity Syracuse University has ...
- 2nd Annual Lake of the Sky Music, Arts, & Eco Festival: Aug.9 - YubaNet
2nd Annual Lake of the Sky Music, Arts, & Eco Festival: Aug.9YubaNet, CA - 44 minutes agoPaesano Productions brings you 3 stages of Live Music, DJ's, comedy, open mic, workshops, poetry, and more, each representing the exceptional musical ...
- Nina’s beauty - Martha's Vineyard Magazine
Martha's Vineyard MagazineNina’s beautyMartha's Vineyard Magazine, MA - 7 hours agoArt and poetry and flowers were always in her life. Even as a very young woman, when she lived for a time in New Jersey, she had a garden. ...
- Party arty: South End Art Hop a boisterous affair - Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Party arty: South End Art Hop a boisterous affairBarre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 10 hours agoKarjnak's creepy digital photographs feature faces from tintypes that she has scanned and manipulated into spare black-and-white images of hermaphroditic ...
- Poetry in the Naughties - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Poetry in the NaughtiesPR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - 1 hour agoThe site includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and scripts, and can potentially include any publishable work. Bookhabit readers can sample a book, ...
- Poet Hayden Carruth, 87; acclaim came late in life - Arizona Republic
Los Angeles TimesPoet Hayden Carruth, 87; acclaim came late in lifeArizona Republic, AZ - 12 hours agoHis Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 received the 1992 National Book Critics Circle award for poetry, and he won the National Book Award for the ...Hayden Carruth: 1921-2008 Paste Magazineall 5 news articles
- New onstage (San Francisco Chronicle)
OPENINGS MORE STORIES BY TOBIAS WOLFF Word for Word, the company that brings short stories to life verbatim onstage, returns to the author of one of its most acclaimed programs. The new evening includes Wolff's "Firelight," "Down to Bone" and "Sanity."...
- Directing history: Alison Carey guides commissioning of new American plays at OSF (The Oregonian)
Your Uncle is having an identity crisis. Uncle Sam, that is. At least that's the view of Alison Carey, the director of an ambitious Oregon Shakespeare Festival project that over the next decade will commision 37 plays about the history of the United States.
- Musician brings mission to Audi - Broomfield Enterprise
Musician brings mission to AudiBroomfield Enterprise, CO - 2 hours agoHis shows include interpretive dance, poetry and a wide variety of music. The Broomfield concert also will feature his mentor, Cameron Powers, who after the ...
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