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- Book Review: The Last Of The Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Blogcritics.org)
A beautiful book that does the seemingly impossible of holding humans up to ridicule while exalting their potential simultaneously. Satire is a delicate matter, or at least it should be. Far too often satire seems to be confused with farce for some reason, which is sort of like confusing a chain saw with the delicate touch of a surgeon's scalpel. It's true that both will cut close to the bone, ...
- THE ARTS: Poetry in motion - Staten Island Advance
Poet Marguerite Maria Rivas will perform her "Laughter, Hope & a Sock in the Eye" at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on July 10 at 6:30 p.m. This installment of Summerfest, presented by the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten ...
- Read All About It - Newsday
The newspaper came late to Long Island.Ninety-nine years, seven months and two weeks after America's first newspaper, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, was published in Boston, Frothingham's Long-Island Herald was issued from a small ...
- Leading Authors and Experts Teach Thrills and Chills in Boise - The Open Press (press release)
Leading Authors and Experts Teach Thrills and Chills in BoiseThe Open Press (press release) - 4 minutes ago... June 7th will feature the conference's guest of honor, JA Jance, bestselling author of three mystery series, several thrillers, and a book of poetry. ...
- Romesh Gunesekera's top 10 island books - guardian.co.uk
Romesh Gunesekera's top 10 island booksguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoHis books of poetry and prose are extraordinarily free and witty: full of invention, autobiography and the real world of Montserrat, England and France. ...
- More on poetry and war - Lew Rockwell
More on poetry and warLew Rockwell, CA - 5 hours agoI learned how to like non-rhyming poetry from Owen's poetry. As I've said on LRC before, we live in an age in which the old devour the young. ...
- Tell Me This is Normal, by Julie O'Callaghan (Independent)
The demotic, funny, quiety devastating vignettes of Julie O'Callaghan seem to owe a debt to the brevity and precision of classical Chinese poetry. O'Callaghan is a Chicagoan of Irish descent who has lived in Ireland since her twenties. Selected from a 25-year publishing history, the poems of 'Tell Me This is Normal' are part verse, part dramatic monologue and wholly her own.
- Nikki Giovanni Speaks Poetry in NYC July 8-9; Broadway's Jenkins ... - Playbill.com
Playbill.comNikki Giovanni Speaks Poetry in NYC July 8-9; Broadway's Jenkins ...Playbill.com, NY - 4 hours ago... alternately delicate and exultant, and always highly melodic — in exploring those most universal of human experiences: friendship, lust, love and loss. ...
- 'Two Rivers' Blends Iraqi Music, American Jazz - Hartford Courant
The confluence of Iraq's two major rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, is known as the "cradle of civilization" and the birthplace of writing. Trumpeter-composer Amir ElSaffar has created the "Two Rivers" project, which blends traditional Iraqi ...
- Your weekly planner - Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
Your weekly plannerBucyrus Telegraph Forum, United States - 4 hours agoPoet Sarah Stahl (poetry reading) -- 12:40 pm, in the poetry tent on the corner of Cleveland Avenue and Gay Street on the campus of Columbus College of Art ...
- Immigrant women's stories are worth telling - El Paso Times
In 1957, a woman from the small village of Juwaikhat, Syria, set out for the first time away from the country of her birth. Namnoume Aboud Haddad had been as far as Damascus, never farther. Now, she was en route to America, that place she and my ...
- So much to do, so little summer - Cape Breton
Hear it? That distant rumble from across the Causeway? That menacing black cloud rolling toward us from over the horizon? It’s not the remnants of Hurricane Bertha. It’s all of the relatives and friends speeding down the Trans-Canada Highway for ...
- Speak your mind - Globe and Mail
"One in five Canadians will experience a mental illness in his or her lifetime. It is a pervasive presence in almost all of our lives. And yet we rarely speak of it," writes Globe and Mail editor-in-chief Edward Greenspon. "The mentally ill are not ...
- Margaret's Musings: And then there were three… - Hudson Star Observer
Margaret's Musings: And then there were three…Hudson Star Observer, WI - 1 hour agoThere were poetry readings and his declaration that the “plan was working.” As he slowly slipped out of what we think of as consciousness, we were all with ...
- Business Inc. - Calgary Herald
- Public Speaking Sales Training Course presented by the Canadian Leadership Institute. This evening course will increase your sales or your money back. We have trained over 700 Calgarians to become successful in their business. Join us on May 14 or ...
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