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- Iran's Mr Nice -- satire on a tightrope - Macau Daily Times
Iran's Mr Nice -- satire on a tightropeMacau Daily Times, Macau - 2 hours agoThe publication also uses ancient Persian literature, poetry in particular, which Iranians feel more at ease with when it comes to satire, although much of ...
- Teachers’ union backs decision to drop poem from syllabus - Herald
A leading teachers' union in Scotland has backed a controversial bid to remove a Scottish poem featuring a blade-wielding killer from a school syllabus amid fears over teenage knife crime. The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) said the ...
- Portobello Nu-Jazz Festival - Metro
MetroPortobello Nu-Jazz FestivalMetro, UK - 7 hours agoAs if that's not enough, there'll also be poetry readings and art exhibits from a host of local talent. It doesn't even matter if it rains - the Westway ...
- Push AAJ Content - All About Jazz
Push AAJ ContentAll About Jazz, PA - 3 hours agoThey create a stream-of-consciousness atmosphere that brings to mind overly earnest coffee house protest poetry put to music. However, leaving it at that ...
- Eleanor O'Leary, 92; was biographer, book reviewer - Boston Globe
Eleanor (Ruggles) O'Leary showed signs of a literary and theatrical bent as far back as her student days at Vassar College in the 1930s, when she acted in school plays and wrote for campus publications. Some 20 years later, John Houseman, the late ...
- Honor Roll: Recognizing the accomplishments of Western New Yorkers - TMCnet
Honor Roll: Recognizing the accomplishments of Western New YorkersTMCnet - 1 hour agoFredonia State College English professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil has won the Pushcart Prize and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her poem "Love in the Orangery" won ...
- Learning and living good values... - Chicago Tribune
Learning and living good values...Chicago Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoHe said that our students were learning about much more than poetry in our class. He knew that we --a black man and a white woman---were altering their ...
- Snapshots (The Montana Standard)
Guard forces to deploy GREAT FALLS (AP) — About half of the Montana Air National Guard's 120th Security Forces Squadron will deploy to Kyrgyzstan in January.
- Anniversary: Henry - News Register
Ted and Elsie (Thrasher) Henry of McMinnville celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception at Youngberg Hill Winery. The celebration was hosted by their children. The Henrys were married Sept. 6, 1958, in Prineville, and have lived in ...
- Poet Kay Ryan named next laureate - Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will be the nation's 16th poet laureate. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry ...
- Human identity (BBC News)
A tribute to Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish
- Poetry reading is the new rock'n'roll - Independent
Poetry reading is the new rock'n'rollIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoI wrote my first poem at the age of six, but I never really thought I would turn out doing it as a full-time career." The poet, who has signed a major ...
- Poet to lead Writers' Retreat - Leelanau Enterprise
Poet to lead Writers' RetreatLeelanau Enterprise, MI - 7 hours agoShe asks writers to send in poetry samples and will choose participants if necessary. However, she emphasizes that the retreat is intended for all poets, ...
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the country submitted over 300 text poems of less than 160 characters. T-Mobile set out to find Britain’s "txt laureate" after research showed that 46 percent of people crave flirty text messages and 40 percent cherish mobile love messages by keeping them on their handset.
- Mahmoud Darwish: Palestinian poet - Times Online
The poet Mahmoud Darwish, hailed as the eloquent voice of the Palestinian people, was destined to lead the life of a peripatetic exile. He was born in 1942 in Birweh, near Acre, to a large, land-owning Sunni Muslim family. Taught to read by his ...
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