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- South Africa bids farewell to music legend Miriam Makeba (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Hundreds of people paid their last respects on Saturday to music legend and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba, whose death last weekend plunged South Africa into mourning.
- Book review - Herding Kites – A Celebration of Australian Writing - Adelaide Independent Weekly
Book review - Herding Kites – A Celebration of Australian WritingAdelaide Independent Weekly, Australia - 35 minutes agoShort stories and poetry are far from dead in Australia despite publishers’ reluctance to produce more than a handful of anthologies each year. ...
- Young takes on old in Costa Book Award shortlist (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Youth takes on experience in the shortlist for this year's Costa Book Awards, announced on Tuesday, with a debut writer pitted against a veteran author in her 90s in the best biography category.
- Busboys & Poets Celebrates Anniversary - Howard University The Hilltop (subscription)
Busboys & Poets Celebrates AnniversaryHoward University The Hilltop (subscription), DC - 12 hours agoThe familiar restaurant for DC residents on 14th and V Streets was packed all day as Busboys & Poets celebrated its three years of poetry, peace and ...
- Professor Derek Brewer: Scholar and Master of Emmanuel College - Times Online
A distinguished scholar in medieval studies, Professor Derek Brewer was the foremost expert of his day on Chaucer, a greatly respected Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and an influential academic publisher. His first appointment, in 1950, was ...
- Bulletin Board: Dec. 2 (The Norwich Bulletin)
Bulletin Board: Dec. 2.
- Corsican Culture, Poetry, and Music Warms New York (The Epoch Times)
I Muvrini, a band that promotes the traditional music and language of Corsican culture, played Carnegie Hall on Saturday Nov. 22.
- Renowned poet opens up to crowd (Middlebury Campus)
Say what you will about the word "networking," but sometimes it really is about who you know. In this case, it was Melissa Hammerle who proved to be a useful connection; this local resident put D.E. Axinn Professor of English & Creative Writing Jay Parini in contact with her a friend of hers, none other than Breyten Breytenbach, the world-famous poet, fiction writer, painter and activist.
- Revealed after 50 years – the lost love poetry of Ted Hughes - yorkshirepost
SOME of the earliest poems written by the poet Ted Hughes have come to light – 50 years after he copied them into the exercise books of a Yorkshire schoolgirl. The two love poems were written by the former Poet Laureate in a book kept by Enid ...
- UB’s musical past - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
UB’s musical pastUniversity at Buffalo The Spectrum, NY - 3 hours ago"We also have a case about a song contest done in the mid-1950s, where students, faculty, and even local peoples could submit two types of songs in an ...
- Boston's favorite sons: The Dropkick Murphys rep Beantown around ... - Maryville Daily Times
Boston's favorite sons: The Dropkick Murphys rep Beantown around ...Maryville Daily Times, TN - 6 hours ago... unprompted, through the sheer experience of a Dropkick Murphys show -- it was an eye-opening experience, Brennan told The Daily Times this week. ...
- 'Something in me wanted to rock and roll' - Jerusalem Post
When he's talking, Asaf Avidan's voice sounds positively normal. But get him on a stage or in a studio with his guitar in hand, and the Jerusalem-based singer/songwriter is transformed, as one observer commented, into "the lost love child of Dylan ...
- Mainstreet: Retired Los Gatos employees gather for special reunion - San Jose Mercury News
Mainstreet: Retired Los Gatos employees gather for special reunionSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 41 minutes agoAuthor of The Niagara River, Say Uncle and Flamingo Watching, she has been selected four times for The Best American Poetry. Got a tip for Main Street? ...
- The New World (filmcritic.com)
Is there a more frustrating living director than Terrence Malick? It’s hard to imagine another filmmaker more fantastically talented or more jaw-dropping awful, capable of conjuring scenes of breathtaking cinematic poetry and cringing adolescent pathos within mere seconds of each other.
- Former Carmelite nun to kick off Inviting Wisdom series - ReporterHerald.com
ReporterHerald.comFormer Carmelite nun to kick off Inviting Wisdom seriesReporterHerald.com, CO - 14 minutes agoDrawing on her years as a nun and experiences as a teacher at Naropa University’s Buddhist-Christian dialogue, Bielecki will incorporate poetry, music, ...
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