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- Get Thee to a Pool, Girlfriend (New York Times)
?Twelve Ophelias,? a free summer show outdoors at the McCarren Park Pool, is too fragmentary to be much more than a curiosity.
- Celebrated Palestinian poet dies in US hospital (The Daily Star Lebannon)
Mahmoud Darwish, widely considered one of the greatest poets in Palestine and the wider Arab world, died Saturday in a US hospital following open-heart surgery. He was being treated at the Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. According to a friend in Jerusalem who preferred to remain anonymous.
- Where are the gun rights groups now? - OpEdNews.com
Imagine this. John White, a black man from Long Island, NY gets a jail term for defending his home when a white mob arrives to harm his son, yet Joe Horn, a white Texan, shoots two people dead on his neighbor’s lawn who weren’t even bothering him ...
- Our Matriarchical Society - Global Politician
Our Matriarchical SocietyGlobal Politician, NY - 1 hour agoPoetry, literature, music. Basically anything that you need to work to build. Nobody gave Microsoft or Boeing or Ford to men. Males simply created all these ...
- [Publisher’s Note] Innocents Abroad (Jackson Free Press)
It was with a bit a trepidation that I approached last week’s bus trip to Little Rock arranged by former City Councilman Ben Allen, now president of Downtown Jackson Partners.
- U2 List: Top Ten One-Line Lyrics - ATU2
[Ed. note: This is the first in a “U2 List” series currently being revisited by the @U2 staff. The first series, which focused primarily on Top Tens, ran from August through October of 2002.] You give it all but I want more –“With or Without ...
- Local author releases third children's book (New Jersey Herald)
NETCONG -- Since she was 2 years old, Stanhope author Diana Tuorto has had a passion for horses. "Every year, since I was 2, I asked my parents for a horse," she said.
- Indonesian band to give concerts in Tehran - Tehran Times
The Indonesian band is comprised of six Indonesian and American virtuosos. The band’s composer and vocalist, Kumayl Mustafa Daood, will accompany the band during the concerts in Iran. They will perform pieces in Persian, Arabic, English and Turkish ...
- Kingsolver to speak at festival (Salina Journal)
Barbara Kingsolver, whose ability to deliver penetrating insights with a poet's grace has made her an internationally acclaimed writer, will be one of the featured speakers at The Land Institute's 30th annual Prairie Festival.
- Column: Back to Beirut (The Daily Review)
My heart started thumping when my parents told us we were going to Lebanon. They were beaming with excitement — my dad hasn't gone back to his homeland in nearly 20 years and it has been 14 years since my mom and I went there.
- Liberals unapologetic about linking environment, social programs - Globe and Mail
not surprised from Canada writes: Why thank you Michael, I guess thats all you could muster considering you have to come up with answers from outside the playbook. I guess its safe to say that the ridiculous 1200 a yr that the conservatives give out ...
- Foreign Policy Survey Ranking The World`s Intellectuals Finds The ... - Israel e News
Foreign Policy Survey Ranking The World`s Intellectuals Finds The ...Israel e News, Israel - 1 hour agoSoroush, a former university professor in Tehran and specialist in chemistry, Sufi poetry, and history, is widely considered one of the world’s premier ...
- Hanging out and hangers on at the Factory - Times Online
Hanging out and hangers on at the FactoryTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoOf course, the Factory was more than a social scene: it was an artist’s atelier, film studio, experimental theatre and poetry workshop. ...
- Rucker defends her right to be a poet - Metro
MetroRucker defends her right to be a poetMetro, UK - 11 hours agoRussell Simmons of hip-hop label Def Jam launched his stateside Def Poetry Jam and highlighted the links between contemporary prose and rap. ...
- A N Wilson: Don't let's be beastly to the Germans. They gave us Goethe ... - The Independent
As the Max Mosley case reminds us, the British persist with the curious idea that "German" equals "Nazi". Our prejudices, based only on recent history, are philistine and contemptible I want to write, not about le vice anglais , which is a harmless ...
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