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- Conference to commemorate Sohrab Sepehri - MehrNews.com
Conference to commemorate Sohrab SepehriMehrNews.com, Iran - 30 minutes agoHe studied at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Tehran, where he was attracted to the modern art movement, both in his painting and his poetry. ...
- Arts fest ups ante with its offerings - TheNewsTribune.com
Arts fest ups ante with its offeringsTheNewsTribune.com, WA - 3 hours agoThe Poemporium sees continuous live poetry throughout the two days, mostly inside the UWT’s Keystone Building, with some outdoor performances. ...
- Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the road - The Independent
The womanising, the four bottles of wine a day and the five-year retreat in a Buddhist monastery are all behind him. This week, Leonard Cohen embarks on his first British tour for 15 years. And the former poet laureate of despair might even be ...
- From Russia with gold - NBC Olympics
Watch all four of Nastia Liukin's routines from the women's all-around final. Nastia Liukin , a Russian-born American gymnast of exquisite grace and beauty, on Friday won the women's individual all-around competition, a triumph that served as an ...
- Serving up hot coffee with a sense of humor on the side - Los Angeles Times
Serving up hot coffee with a sense of humor on the sideLos Angeles Times, CA - Jun 22, 2008Scattergood grew up in Iowa, has degrees in theology, poetry and cooking, and, when she isn't writing about food, is trying to get her two young daughters ...
- Horoscopes by Holiday by Holiday Mathis - Creators Syndicate
Horoscopes by Holiday by Holiday MathisCreators Syndicate, CA - 11 hours agoNeptune provokes intoxicating self-forgetfulness (the rogue lulled the gods to sleep with glamour, wine, poetry and ecstatic bliss). ...
- Noted black poets to be featured at Greensburg readings (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
The readings, planned in conjunction with the annual Cave Canem Foundation writing retreat at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, are scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in Village Hall at UPG and 6:30 p.m. June 26 at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 221 N. Main St., Greensburg.
- Six-word memoirs say a lot - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Six-word memoirs say a lotWilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA - 39 minutes agoPaul Thornton’s reads almost like poetry. “Alabama boy said Hallelujah, wrote memoirs.†Writers like brevity; readers more so. Makes you think harder, ...
- Ready to wear: The art of Natick's Virginia Fitzgerald - Milford Daily News
Sporting a paste-on tattoo of the Hindu goddess Shiva, Virginia Fitzgerald fashions a dress from hundreds of dog tags in her downtown Natick studio that resembles a child's playhouse. She moves barefoot past dresses she's made from glass and ...
- Branded (New York Times)
Today?s savvier consumers are said to be more impervious to advertising. Rob Walker says: nope.
- Norman Lear, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman - International Herald Tribune
Norman Lear, Maya Angelou, Morgan FreemanInternational Herald Tribune, France - 33 minutes agoThe surgery "lasted approximately four and a half hours including recovery and he is in good spirits and was visiting with family members this morning," ...
- The TimeOut mint planner - Livemint.com
‘Cold Showers’, set in small-town France, is the story of three teenagers: a beautiful girl, Vanessa, and two boys, Mickael and Clément, one rich and the other poor. The film shows how Mickael, though he has everything he needs to make a go of ...
- Jensen: Salman Rushdie promotes ‘Enchantress of Florence’ (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India’s Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away.
- Repub. Nat'l Convention 2008: The first two days - Windy City Times
Repub. Nat'l Convention 2008: The first two daysWindy City Times, IL - 1 hour agoThe 2008 Republican Party platform begins with a quote from Bates' poetry, about heroes who “more than self, their country loved.â€
- Why Joe Queenan is wrong about new classical music - Guardian Blogs
Lord. To read Joe Queenan on new classical music , you might as well think that we really ought to give up the whole shooting match as a waste of time; that what composers have been up to for the last 100 years or so amounts to nothing more an act of ...
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