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- Lincoln Center Festival Presents Gate|Beckett Beginning July 16 (Playbill)
Dublin's Gate Theatre returns to the Lincoln Center Festival July 16 with Gate|Beckett, featuring Ralph Fiennes, Barry McGovern and Liam Neeson.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - Forbes
Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more ...
- 'The Border Kingdom' by D. Nurkse - Los Angeles Times
'The Border Kingdom' by D. NurkseLos Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours agoIN HIS ninth book of poetry, "The Border Kingdom" (Alfred A. Knopf: 98 pp., $26), D. Nurkse begins with a whisper: "Jericho," a short poem that promises, ...
- FREE EVENT: Slammin' poetry - IdahoStatesman.com
FREE EVENT: Slammin' poetryIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 3 hours agoThen at 8 pm Monday, go to Neurolux, 111 11th St., Boise, and peel out a fiver to see McGee perform and host the Poetry Slam Delux Individual Finals. ...
- Subscription Deals - The Province
Why: Tonight we're promised the summer's best meteor shower. The public is invited to join the Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley Astronomers and Royal Astronomical Society of Canada to observe this event. Go further by making a wish on a shooting star ...
- Why you can bet that a good read will be truly bad - Times Online
Why you can bet that a good read will be truly badTimes Online, UK - 3 hours agoEpic poetry can be racist, European novels sexist and sadistic. If it's politically correct, it's probably not great literature We were walking out of a ...
- Nigeria: Abuja Writers Forum Set to Organise Literary Contest (AllAfrica.com)
Abuja Writers Forum AWF), organisers of AWF Maiden Literacy Contests, have disclosed plans to showcase the event in Abuja come October, 2008.
- Senior program expanding services - Greenwich Time
When Louise Herz, 76, was faced with the prospect of seeing a doctor about knee surgery recently, she was overwhelmed. As a widow who lives alone, Herz contacted Lise Jameson, executive director of At Home in Greenwich, who hopped in her car to go ...
- Tamblyn, the poet, stars in Litquake opener - San Francisco Gate
Thursday, September 25, 2008 Amber Tamblyn totally gets why people are suspicious of her writing abilities. "There's this underlying belief that actors are really shallow," she says with obvious exasperation. "And I think that is catastrophically ...
- Religion Calendar: 08/23/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Religion Calendar: 08/23/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 23 minutes agoFriendship Program, 7 pm Tues., to help developmentally disabled adults understand Christian faith, Fellowship Church, 2555 Garfield Road, TC; ...
- REQUIRED READING - New York Post
Full of wonderful tidbits about Ginsberg, including a 1976 letter to Bob Dylan, the poet asked for money to pay off bank loans of Naropa, a Beat- and Buddhist-inspired school he helped establish in Colorado. And in his last letter, just days before ...
- Order award underhanded - The London Free Press
For the last decade there has been an annual push from abortion advocates to see Canada's foremost abortion activist and profiteer Dr. Henry Morgentaler, granted the Order of Canada. The owner of five for-profit abortuaries across the country ...
- Tamblyn's just as passionate about writing as acting (Erie Times-News)
Amber Tamblyn says that art imitates life in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2."
- CD review: Human Host - The Halloween Tree - California Aggie
A band could be easily rated by the talent of its members - at least enough to warrant an oversimplified number to kick-start an album review. But that criterion would be a simplification itself. I suppose bands could be rated by any number of things ...
- Protection: it's not open and shut - The Age
Protection: it's not open and shutThe Age, Australia - 1 hour agoOf publishers and imports, prizes, premiers and prime ministers — not to mention human rights and a bath full of poems. Jason Steger on what's going on in ...
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