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- Pioneering lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 in San Francisco - Canada East
SAN FRANCISCO - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for ...
- A life in writing: Tobias Wolff (Guardian Unlimited)
Tobias Wolff: 'I hate cruelty. I hate a bully ... There's something in my president, that hectoring way, that reminds me of my stepfather'
- Rock'n'roll survival the Marianne Faithfull way - Birmingham Post
Rock'n'roll survival the Marianne Faithfull wayBirmingham Post, UK - 1 hour agoShe even helped out Carla Bruni (on the recommendation of their mutual old flame Mick Jagger) with the text on her poetry-based album No Promises, ...
- BOOKS (Biased Observations On Kids’ Books) - The Topsail Advertiser
BOOKS (Biased Observations On Kids’ Books)The Topsail Advertiser, NC - 11 hours agoThis would make a wonderful book to live on grandpa's bookshelf. Jack Prelutsky has wormed his way into my heart as a leader in delightful poetry books for ...
- Poem of the week: The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew - Guardian Blogs
"Shy as a leveret" ... Mew's life and work was also evasive, fragile and slender. Photograph: Lynda Richardson/Corbis Charlotte Mew's work had already attracted the interest of Ezra Pound when, in 1912, Alida Monro spotted the poem, "The Farmer's ...
- Palestinians Mourn Death of 'National Poet' Mahmoud Darwish - Voice of America
Palestinians are mourning the death Saturday of renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was considered a cultural icon. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. The muezzin chanted a mournful dirge as Palestinians observed three ...
- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare - MSN UK News
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare. Meirelles this ...
- Frameline celebrates 32 years with daring lineup (The San Francisco Examiner)
A gay Egyptian attempts to live outside of the closet, women behind bars go gothic and a teen boldly comes to terms with love and gender identity in Argentina.
- The alluring alchemy of Dario Robleto (Seattle Times)
You've never seen the Frye Art Museum look like this before. With two exhibitions that take over the entire museum (for the first time sweeping...
- Collins: Kids on the Fringe - Daily Camera
Collins: Kids on the FringeDaily Camera, CO - 2 hours ago... are a teen fashion show, a superhero booth (where kids can dress up as their favorite superhero and play in front of a green screen), poetry workshops, ...
- Jess: Pregnancy isn't sexy - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Jess: Pregnancy isn't sexyPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 6 hours agoThe presidency of the first African American will ripple throughout arts, sports and more, said Spike, whose films include "Malcolm X" and "Do the Right ...
- The Language of Hurricanes - OffBeat Magazine
OffBeat MagazineThe Language of HurricanesOffBeat Magazine, LA - 44 minutes agoIn Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Chronicle of a Death Foretold, he writes of the townspeople “trying to give order to the chain of many chance events that [have] ...
- CD reviews - San Diego CityBEAT
San Diego CityBEATCD reviewsSan Diego CityBEAT, CA - 2 hours agoNasir Jones’ debut album deserves its reputation as nearly flawless street poetry, but his subsequent work will always be compared to it. ...
- Baseball’s Jet Lag Drag - New York Times Blogs
Baseball’s Jet Lag DragNew York Times Blogs, NY - 29 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Dr. Abdul-Wahab El-Messiri: leading intellectual light of Islam and ... - Yemen Observer
Dr. Abdul-Wahab el-Messiri, the ‘Arab human thinker’ as he called himself, writer of Jews, Judaism and Zionism Encyclopedia, coordinator of the Kafia movement in Egypt that opposes the regime’s violations of democracy, died of a heart attack at ...
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