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- For Chris Hedges on the Fourth of July - OpEdNews.com
I came across an article by well respected, supposedly left-leaning journalist, Mr. Chris Hedges, on common dreams.org , a "progressive" news site which I sometimes visit though I hate that label, and I felt compelled to respond to his hysterical ...
- Derek Walcott attacks Sir VS Naipaul in verse - Daily News and Analysis
LONDON: For years Nobel prize-winning poet Derek Walcott has traded insults with Sir VS Naipaul. Now, he has upped the ante by slamming his old sparring partner in a poem that mocked the Indian-origin author as a "mongoose". The St Lucian writer ...
- Translations of two Turkish writers’ books launched - Daily Times
Translations of two Turkish writers’ books launchedDaily Times, Pakistan - 13 minutes agoTalking about the translation of Hikmet’s poetry, Shaikh said he tried to translate few of his poems into Urdu but soon realised that he had been ...
- Iranian institute calls world literati for peace poetry festival - Tehran Times
Iranian institute calls world literati for peace poetry festivalTehran Times, Iran - 2 hours agoTEHRAN -- The Rira Abi Institute is planning for the Second International Festival of Peace Poetry, which will be held in Tehran on May 15, 2009. ...
- Sarah Slean takes a sober approach to new album - [here]
Sarah Slean takes a sober approach to new album[here], Canada - 2 hours agoBut Slean is used to exploring other artistic avenues; she has long kept up a blog on her website, published a book of poetry in 2004, and frequently ...
- Dirt , Prager, Kreisler, Judd, Mythellaneous Announced for NYC's East ... - Playbill
Scotland-bound U.S. productions that will play the Edinbugh Festival Fringe in August will first stop at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan July 8-27 for the fifth annual East to Edinburgh Festival. 59E59's Elysabeth Kleinhans (artistic director) and Peter ...
- Rudi Maxwell - Northern Rivers Echo
Rudi MaxwellNorthern Rivers Echo, Australia - 1 hour agoTo bare your emotions and stories in a poem is to take a real risk. I went to the Live Poets at the Rous Hotel last week, headlined by Echo reviewer ...
- Celebs, politicians, best-selling authors at National Book Festival, Sept. 27 (Canoe Travel)
WASHINGTON - Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival.
- Richard Helgerson (Guardian Unlimited)
The American academic Richard Helgerson, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 67, was one of the leading scholars of Renaissance literature and culture of the last 40 years. His reputation rests on six books, all lucidly and elegantly written.
- Man enough for the Bard - Toronto Star
Waterloo RecordMan enough for the BardToronto Star, Canada - 11 hours agoThis man has spent three decades of his life contemplating, inhabiting and performing Shakespeare's sonnets, but until now he has always done so behind the ...Erudite yet under-rehearsed Globe and Mail‘A unique theatrical experience’ The Beacon Heraldall 7 news articles
- 16 Jun, 2008, 0144 hrs IST,Raghu Krishnan, ET Bureau - Economic Times
16 Jun, 2008, 0144 hrs IST,Raghu Krishnan, ET BureauEconomic Times, India - 5 hours agoShe is remembered in the ballads of Bundelkhand, in the poetry of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan and the cinema of Sohrab Modi. The last had posters of her, ...
- Thanks for the memories, Mr. Maynard (Seekonk Star)
Wonderful. Warm. Compassionate. These are just three of the words that friends, family, and co-workers use to describe Russell Maynard.
- The lure of the street - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe lure of the streetguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago"There must be eyes on the street," declared Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), and a generation of photographers was on ...
- 'Hancock' not quite super - Observer-Dispatch
John Hancock uses side streets as launching pads to soar through Los Angeles, tosses criminals aside as if they were tin cans and sips whiskey from a jug while villains futilely shoot bullets at him. He has great powers, but Hancock’s had it with ...
- Profanity in the Liberal Blogosphere: Urinating on Presidents? - News Busters
For years, NewsBusters has reported the unfortunate incidence of vulgarity and virulence in the liberal blogosphere, as well as how some prominent politicians and left-leaning media members have expressed concern regarding how such behavior ...
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