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- Hundreds gather at funeral for Palestinian poet Darwish (Middle East Times)
Family and friends of late Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish mourn outside his family house in the Arab village of Jadaida in northern Israel on August 11. Hundreds of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral for Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle.
- Adam Golaski publishes book of short stories - Holbrook Sun
Adam Golaski publishes book of short storiesHolbrook Sun, MA - 48 minutes ago... fiction and horror stories magazine called “New Genre,†and along with Matthew Klane, he started Flim Forum Press, which publishes books of poetry. ...
- Editorial: Share your passion - Ventura County Star
Editorial: Share your passionVentura County Star, CA - 34 minutes agoFlowers, dolls, quilts, cactus, jams, rocks, fish, poetry, photographs, chickens . You name it, the fair probably has it. This is a chance for county ...
- Show and tell gets weird - Toronto Star
Show and tell gets weirdToronto Star, Canada - 15 hours agoIt was about how she felt like her innocence was slipping away, all very self-aware, almost like she was writing the narration to a Wonder Years episode. ...
- Faith Christian senior 'left impression' at East Coast university (Appeal-Democrat)
His mother taught him how to read, as early as grade school he wanted to be a writer, and Faith Christian High School student Vincent Hiscock now has shown Harvard University his language skills.
- THE DREAM AFFIRMED (New York Post)
Thus, 45 years to the day after after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s immortal "I Have a Dream" address, did Obama, an African-American, formally accept the Democratic Party's nomination to seek the presidency of the United States. It was a huge...
- Barfly: Getting a lesson from a mysterious absintheur - Marin Independent Journal
"Tuesday afternoon, I'm just beginning to see, now I'm on my way," went the 1967 hit by the psychedelic rock band, the Moody Blues. I recalled that song after making a Tuesday afternoon appointment to meet with a modern absintheur and be initiated ...
- John Maloney's "After Work" (Seattle Times)
I hope it's not just a guy thing, a delight in the trappings of work. I love this poem by John Maloney, of Massachusetts, which gives us...
- Miami mission's 'nice lady' introduces culture to the homeless - Miami Herald
In the fifth pew from the back of the Coral Gables Congregational Church, Luanne Allgood sits with four homeless men on one side of her, two on the other, and listens to flutist Eugenia Zukerman's interpretation of Mozart's Violin Sonata in F Major ...
- Philadelphia holds a ‘weekend of peace,’ march tonight - Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia holds a ‘weekend of peace,’ march tonightPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 3 hours agoJazz concerts, basketball tournaments and spoken word poetry will be featured at the various locations, as well as food, games and music. ...
- Man v. Flesh (Jackson Free Press)
Andre Dubus III’s “Garden of the Last Days†(W. W. Norton, 2008, $24.95) is a brick of a book. At 500-plus pages, it’s America on parade: g-strings and neon, alcohol and testosterone, easy cash, patriotism and dumb sentiment. Once launched, though, a brick sinks quickly.
- Blog-Responder Sue and the Hit Song "Windy" - New London Day
At this time, we will now cut off the blog idea submissions for Round One of Ask the Old Rock Dude — wherein you, the much appreciated blog-responder, write in and suggest musical topics you’d like me to blog about. It’s a bit of a twist on the ...
- Big weekend of cowboy culture (Maple Creek Times)
By Kaylie Blair The 19th annual Maple Creek Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Western Art and Cowboy Gear Show kicks off at 10 a.m. Sept. 19 and is set to run until 3 p.m. Sept. 21.
- Where are the gun rights groups now? - OpEdNews
Where are the gun rights groups now?OpEdNews, PA - 4 hours agoJoe Horn has offered no apology and has no remorse, yet he goes free? John White offered an apology before he was sentenced by Judge Barbara Kahn. ...
- A look at a life of riding the rails (Chicago Sun-Times)
Luther the Jet hasn't hopped a freight train in almost a decade.
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