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- Free Sammy: Captive shark inspires unlikely uprising (The Globe and Mail)
A grassroots campaign for the release of a whale shark on display at a Dubai hotel is a radical departure for the non-democratic UAE
- Daily TWiP - T.S. Eliot birth anniversary (The Nashua Telegraph)
Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview. ...
- "Ripley Under Ground" by Patricia Highsmith (Washington Post)
RIPLEY UNDER GROUND By Patricia Highsmith Norton. 285 pp. Paperback, $13.95 The Texas-born novelist Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) had a decidedly unhappy childhood. Among other things, her parents separated before she was born, her mother later told her she'd tried to induce an abortion by drink...
- Canada Council: No Log-Rolling In Poetry Prize (Arts Journal)
"The Canada Council, which administers the Governor General's Literary Awards, is standing by the decision of its jury to award this year's poetry prize to Jacob Scheier in the face of complaints by some critics that the decision is tainted by conflict of interest.
- Waving the black flag - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Waving the black flagSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 3 hours agoBY KIMBERLY CHUN PREVIEW First the bad news, straight from the wise-ass, too-literate, poetry-writing punk rocker who once muscled his way through Los ...
- A ghost-filled program that neither startles nor haunts - Globe and Mail
A ghost-filled program that neither startles nor hauntsGlobe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours agoKurtag's Officium Breve had none of the haunting poetry or lucidity of the Keller's own 1996 recording of the work on the ECM label. ...
- Physician, heal thyself - The National
Physician, heal thyselfThe National, United Arab Emirates - 7 hours agoHe adds snatches of his own poetry, too – a gesture that feels the very opposite of vanity. It is as if he is testing the power of language to capture this ...
- Tunisia: Amina Fakhet Closes Medina Festival in Style (AllAfrica.com)
A great number of fans and music lovers flocked at the Tunis Municipal Theatre to watch the Tunisian singer Amina Fakhet, whose show was scheduled on Sunday to close the 2008 edition of the Medina festival.
- Tony Haynes, The World’s Greatest Poet Brings SpiritChili To The World - 1888 Press Release (press release)
Tony Haynes, The World’s Greatest Poet Brings SpiritChili To The World1888 Press Release (press release), TX - 2 minutes agoIn less than one minute, Tony can literally pull a poem out of thin air. Give him the title of what you’d like to call your poem and he will create it for ...
- Finalists for the $100000 Siminovitch Theatre Prize announced - National Post
Finalists for the $100000 Siminovitch Theatre Prize announcedNational Post, Canada - Sep 24, 2008This jack-of-all-trades has published more than 20 books of poetry, prose, and essay. "The jury feels that each playwright on the short-list possesses a ...
- Venezuela book fair: big rise in sales shows thirst for reading - The Militant
The MilitantVenezuela book fair: big rise in sales shows thirst for readingThe Militant, NY - 2 hours agoAs well as browsing the books in the stands, the thousands of visitors had a choice of dozens of panel presentations, poetry readings, and musical ...
- 'The Exiles' worth the wait at DFT - Detroit Free Press
'The Exiles' worth the wait at DFTDetroit Free Press, United States - 20 minutes ago... time I saw "The Americans," Robert Frank's landmark series of black-and-white photos capturing the grit and poetry of everyday life in the mid-1950s. ...
- Family, friends, and well-wishers farewell Kyah Milne - 3 News NZ
3 News NZFamily, friends, and well-wishers farewell Kyah Milne3 News NZ, New Zealand - 5 hours agoKyah fell from us like malting fur, but in my thought's no one's stronger than her.†Kyah did not quite live to see her third birthday which would have been ...
- London Jazz Festival: if it ain't got that swing, is it really jazz? - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukLondon Jazz Festival: if it ain't got that swing, is it really jazz?Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 43 minutes agoBut it's not just conservative English poets who insist that jazz, to merit the name, must have a certain sound and ethos. The African-American philosopher ...
- The poets drop in to check out BPC digs - Downtown Express
The poets drop in to check out BPC digsDowntown Express - 1 hour agoLooking out over the Hudson River, Edward Field delivered a salute to Lady Liberty in the form of the Emma Lazarus poem “The New Colossus,†then he shifted ...
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