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- Melbourne set to hook the books (The Age)
UNESCO names Melbourne second City of Literature. Edinburgh was the first in 2004.
- Death of a cultural symbol - Ha'aretz
Death of a cultural symbolHa'aretz, Israel - Aug 13, 2008It is doubtful that Mahmoud Darwish, who died last weekend at 67 following heart surgery at an American hospital, knew he would be so honored in his death. ...
- Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide - Columbus Dispatch
NEW YORK -- Author, poet and critic Thomas M. Disch -- who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God -- died Friday in his Manhattan apartment. He was 68. His ...
- Dance star’s final sparkle - Reading Evening Post
The death of long-legged movie legend Cyd Charisse at the age of 86 brings to an end a whole era of dance. You only had to tell her: “Go into your dance” to be assured of instant cinematic magic. Trained as a classical dancer, she was a member of ...
- Famed MSU writers headline 'homecoming' - Lansing State Journal
When Jim Harrison returns to campus Thursday, he knows the vibe will be different than during his years at Michigan State University in the early 1960s. "Coeds will look over the top of my head because I'm now in the biological Dumpster. I'm an older ...
- Newsprint + pen poetry VISUAL ART ENTRY, CHILD’S POEM earn special praise (Tacoma News Tribune)
Poetry is everywhere.
- Diversions for July 13, 2008 - Evansville Courier & Press (subscription)
Diversions for July 13, 2008Evansville Courier & Press (subscription), IN - 5 hours agoPerformers include poetry performance groups, Southside from Louisville, Ky., Shakepeare's Monkey from Evansville and Brenda Coultas from New York. ...
- Bombers: Italy's finest (The Farmington Daily Times)
Italy would be proud. The Connecticut Bombers may hail from the East Coast, but with a tongue-tying roster, you'd never know. Take it from their coach, the quotable Joe Rietano, who is a Connie Mack World Series alum (class of '72).
- Review: The Impostor by Damon Galgut - guardian.co.uk
Review: The Impostor by Damon Galgutguardian.co.uk, UK - 56 minutes ago... for a black intern, a victim of 'Africanisation'. He tells himself that his attempt to write poetry is a positive move, a return to his 'true calling'. ...
- Houle’s second collection intellectual, exciting - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Houle’s second collection intellectual, excitingTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 2 hours agoI MUST ADMIT I am a Gaspereau Press-published poet, for my first subject today is Karen Houle’s second poetry collection, During ($19.95), ...
- Rachael Worby and Pasadena Pops had America singing - Pasadena Star-News
Rachael Worby and Pasadena Pops had America singingPasadena Star-News, CA - 4 hours agoThe poetry, from Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, was welcome and all too brief. The jazz was wonderful, pieces that deserve to be heard more often and ...
- Wednesday, August 13 (Princeton Town Topics)
1 p.m.: Senior Resource Center screening of The Bucket List ; Suzanne Patterson Building. Free. 6 to 9 p.m.: Western singer Jet Weston; Fedora Café, Lawrenceville. Free.
- More Than Cartoons in 'The Animation Show 4' - New York Sun
More Than Cartoons in 'The Animation Show 4'New York Sun, United States - 1 hour agoBy S. JAMES SNYDER | July 25, 2008 Given the rather profound poetry of a film such as "WALL-E" and the scathing satire of a television series such as "South ...
- The Tango King - Star-ecentral.com
Joe Hasham’s Ismail The Last Days will be staged at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) in Jalan Strachan today till Aug 31. To those who knew Tun Dr Ismail intimately, he was affectionately called “The Tango King”. To others, he ...
- Acclaimed native shares tragedies, struggles in work (Hattiesburg American)
Home for poet and Gulfport native Natasha Trethewey is complicated. "I love this place. Yet this place has made an outsider of me," she said. Trethewey's latest collection of poetry "Native Guard," published in 2006, confronts this conflicting sense of displacement and what she calls "nostos," the Greek word for homecoming. The book takes its name from the first regiments of Louisiana Native ...
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