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- Palestinians plan 'state' funeral for poet Darwish (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Palestinians were making plans on Monday for a funeral of pomp and ceremony for their "national" poet Mahmud Darwish, whose writings captured the spirit of the Palestinian struggle.
- Spanish archive sheds light on Franco's dark days - Guardian Unlimited
A wig used to disguise a communist leader, censored poems written by the current culture minister and a list of prisoners facing the firing squad are just a few of the treasures within 157,000 boxes of archives highlighting both the dark and ...
- Irvine Welsh interview - Sunday Herald
Irvine Welsh interviewSunday Herald, UK - 6 minutes agoThe real miserable f***ers are the people who write beautiful poetry. I'm sure there's no empirical basis for saying something like that other than my own ...
- J.J. Abrams to Produce NYT's Fifth Avenue Mystery - New York Observer
A teeny little feature in the Times' Home & Garden section about parents who turned their house into a maze of hidden puzzles, games and treasures for their four pre-teen kids will be a movie. J.J. Abrams (producer of Lost , Cloverfield , etc.) has ...
- The Character Of A Poem - Gorkhapatra
The Character Of A PoemGorkhapatra, Nepal - 3 hours agoFishermen, the indigenous people of the beautiful valley of Pokhara, have been living a miserable life for centuries. Several paintings, documentaries and ...
- Tens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet Darwish (Middle East Times)
Family and friends of late Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish mourn outside his family house in the Arab village of Jadaida in northern Israel on August 11. Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral for Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle.
- 10 top UK city breaks - Guardian Unlimited
The European Capital of Culture continues to boast a seemingly endless array of activities. Next week's Tall Ships' Races ( tallshipsliverpool.co.uk , July 18-21) should be an impressive spectacle with 70-odd international vessels. Quayside events ...
- He's Bard! Jacko sets Robert Burns to music - Otago Daily Times
BBC NewsHe's Bard! Jacko sets Robert Burns to musicOtago Daily Times, New Zealand - 33 minutes agoPoems by Burns were always popular but sold more around his birthday on January 25. Gest and Jackson will be disappointed to learn the market is already ...Burns fans mull over Jackson link BBC Newsall 6 news articles
- Annual poetry festival to be bigger than ever - Worcester News
Annual poetry festival to be bigger than everWorcester News, UK - 3 hours ago... choral performances and a barn dance. For full listings visit www.poetry-festival.com. To request a brochure and book tickets call 0845 4581743.
- 'Diminished Capacity' (Newsday)
Rating: The most memorable image in "Diminished Capacity" is of a quaint manual typewriter - perched on a wood dock - whose keys occasionally smack the page by themselves. Actually, they're attached to dangling hooks, and it's the fish below who are creating poetry.
- 24/7 BB Rolling News Updates - The Sun
Funny site nets celeb lookalikes Obama's brother is in Bracknell Model's night with 'hot' Ron Bless her, Cotton rocks 24/7 BB Rolling News Updates GET all the latest action from the Big Brother house as it happens with The Sun's 24/7 rolling news ...
- Students lift voices for others to hear - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Students lift voices for others to hearThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 40 minutes ago... poetry and other work. Jeffrey-West says 90 students worked on the project, which teaches expressive writing by tapping students' interest in music. ...
- Send your books to sell, to this bookstore - Listen & Be Heard
Send your books to sell, to this bookstoreListen & Be Heard, CA - 5 hours agoThe Lost Bookshelf is a bookstore where authors can sell their poetry, fiction, plays, memoir, and non-fictionon consignment. The bookstore takes 30% of ...
- 'A tiny bit of adventure' - guardian.co.uk
'A tiny bit of adventure'guardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoI've settled into the restaurant car with Ellen, Tim and half a dozen other passengers to enjoy the poetry of the journey. The poetry is not helped by the ...
- Finding challenge in verse - Brimbank Leader
Brimbank LeaderFinding challenge in verseBrimbank Leader, Australia - 15 hours agoShe will often find herself sitting in front of her laptop in her quiet Eltham study with a perfectly formed idea for the shape of a poem, but little idea ...
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