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- Book ban ends rare Arab-Israeli cultural exchange (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
For 15 years Israeli Saleh Abbasi has traded books between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbours, fostering a rare cultural link.
- Fallen soldier inspires Kinglsey woman's award-winning poem (Le Mars Daily Sentinel)
A country without a soldier."
- Joyce Carol Oates explores JonBenet Ramsey-style case (The Standard-Times)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates
- Cyberspace Casts Light on the Lives of Death Row Inmates - Inter Press Service
LUSAKA, Jul 29 (IPS) - "Can governments solve urgent social or political problems by executing a few or even hundreds of their prisoners?" asks Benjamin Mawaya, sweltering on death row in Zambia’s Mukobeko high security prison in Kabwe, 150 ...
- Bing There, Done That: EA's CCO Talks... Everything - Gamasutra
Bing Gordon is at the helm of the most powerful third party game developer and publisher in the world, with hands firmly at 10 and 2. As the chief creative officer and an executive VP at Electronic Arts, the man has a lot on his plate, but his vision ...
- CONTACT WITH AILING GRANDDAD ENRICHES BOTH YOUNG AND OLD - Yahoo News
DEAR ABBY: The letter from "Paw-Paw and Maw-Maw in Alabama" (May 13), whose son has cut off contact with their 5-year-old grandson to "protect" the boy from Grandpa's eventual death, left me feeling intense sorrow for all concerned. In 1996, my ...
- New Season Of Poetry Westchester Announced - Westchester.com
New Season Of Poetry Westchester AnnouncedWestchester.com, NY - 57 minutes agoSpecial programs include a performance of the poetry and prose of Federico Garcia Lorca with guitar accompaniment, a talk by award winning poet Vijay ...
- New Book Delivers Poems 'From the Heart of a Down Chick' - Earthtimes
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. , Aug. 25 -- Born in Harlem, Sasha Bonay was only 9 years old when her mother, who had raised Sasha alone, passed away at age 27. Bonay was sent to live with an aunt in the South Bronx and there, she says, "I learned what it meant ...
- REVIEW: BUTTHOLE SURFERS, RESCUE ROOMS - This is Nottingham
This is NottinghamREVIEW: BUTTHOLE SURFERS, RESCUE ROOMSThis is Nottingham, UK - 44 minutes ago... the electronic vocals and beat poetry of frontman Gibby Haynes and the band's willingness to share the stage with a conveyer belt of School of Rockers. ...
- Mahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, dies (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (Adds mourning, edits) By Mohammed Assadi and Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, ...
- Performance artist Coco Gordon ‘reconfigures’ thought and sound waves (Estes Park Trail Gazette)
If artists and poets are the conscience of the culture, SuperSkyWoman (aka Coco Go or Coco Gordon of Lyons, Colo., and New York, NY) has her work cut out for her. In her sky-blue top with the Superman symbol emblazoned on it, she seems up to the task.
- South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
August Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings. Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler ...
- Unique kid biography brings Abraham Lincoln alive - Post-Bulletin
Unique kid biography brings Abraham Lincoln alivePost-Bulletin, MN - 46 minutes agoReaders also get a look at pages from young Abe's sums books and bits of poetry he composed: "Abraham Lincoln, his pad and pen. ...
- Continuing the literary tradition - TheJambar.com (subscription)
Continuing the literary traditionTheJambar.com (subscription), OH - 4 hours agoStudents and local poetry aficionados gathered at Cedars Cafe last night to welcome Cleveland poet Catherynne M. Valente. Valente opened the season for a ...
- Indy poet's meditations on Carol Burts' watercolor painting - Muncie Star Press
Indy poet's meditations on Carol Burts' watercolor paintingMuncie Star Press, IN - 7 hours agoHis poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in such journals as Third Coast, Gastronomica, Sycamore Review, Green Mountains Review, Drexel Online ...
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