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- What's On This Week (The New Zealand Herald)
The celebration of Kiwi poetry, Montana Poetry Day, is back tomorrow. Aucklanders can enjoy Poetry Central at the Auckland Central Library from 4.30pm. Poet Laureate Michele Leggott (pictured) will MC and there'll be readings by poets Bob Orr, Chris Price and more.
- Profile: Hamid Karzai - guardian.co.uk
Profile: Hamid Karzaiguardian.co.uk, UK - 39 minutes ago'He's well-read, funny and can talk about everything from 19th-century politics to poetry to pots,' says one Westerner who has dealt closely with him. ...
- Big returns from not-for-profit - Guardian Blogs
Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal is the kind of novel that gives sales and marketing people night sweats. Translated from the French, it's a fragmentary novel: a patchwork of minute descriptions of hotel rooms, mixed with a chronologically confused half ...
- Ruth K. MacDonald - Portsmouth Herald News
Ruth K. MacDonaldPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 2 hours agoA true lover of music, poetry, old movies, color and design, she approached cooking as an art in her heyday. Most of all, we all miss her selfless, ...
- New Indian Bible Draws Fire over Hindu References - Christian Post
A new Indian version of the Bible recently, published by the Catholic Church, has run into controversy over its inclusion of verses from the Bhagavad Gita, a form of Hindu chant, and references to the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. An illustration in ...
- At Tanglewood, a modernist oasis - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeAt Tanglewood, a modernist oasisBoston Globe, United States - 8 hours agoOne relatively new and gorgeous vocal work was "In the Distances of Sleep," a 2006 setting of Wallace Stevens poetry, cogently led on Tuesday by Jeffrey ...
- Author, 93, blows book proceeds on massive house...and invites 'unhappy' care home friends to move in (Daily Mail: World News)
A 93-year-old woman has blown the proceeds of her first book on a large house so she could invite her friends - who are miserable in care homes - to move in with her.
- Kafka's guilty pleasures - Guardian Blogs
Quite dark ... Anthony Perkins as Josef K in Orson Welles's 1983 film of The Trial. Photograph: Kobal So the literary world, and perhaps some of the rest of it, is now astonished to learn that Franz Kafka, of all people, had a collection of ...
- Heath Ledger in 'Dark Knight': Bravo! - Los Angeles Times
Great actors, even those who have been blessed with longevity, often bear a tragic mark. It's not just the ups and downs of stardom that can make for a cruel career. Rough inner seas are typically the very reason someone seeks to be among what ...
- Berman ‘not a rational lad’ - Metro Boston
Berman ‘not a rational lad’Metro Boston, MA - 4 hours agoPoetry is castle art. Music is about sublime feelings and intuition. Poetry is freedom in language and thought. I love them both, but I am a child of the ...
- Struga poetry festival kicks off - MINA
Struga poetry festival kicks offMINA, Canada - 3 hours agoBy doing so, they make poetry to become even stronger. The more we learn about each other, the bigger understanding and love we have for one another. ...
- Attracting readers to Punjabi literature - Times of India
Attracting readers to Punjabi literatureTimes of India, India - 13 minutes agoRenowned writer and Sahitya Akademi award winner novelist Ram Sarup Ankhi on Saturday released Amardeep's book of poetry, Arthan da jungle . ...
- New book on South Asian history focuses on people’s past - Thaindian.com
New book on South Asian history focuses on people’s pastThaindian.com, Thailand - 18 hours agoThere is a significant emphasis on the history of medieval Punjab and ample usage of poetry, folk tales, folk songs and folklore in the book, ...
- Karadzic became one of world's most wanted men (Reuters via Yahoo! India News)
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested on Monday, saw himself as a defender of Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war but ended up a fugitive wanted on genocide charges.
- Friday | Poetry slam - Miami Herald
If you're a fan of HBO'S Def Poetry , here are two chances to hear South Florida's elite poetry slam performers before they head off to the 2008 National Slam in Wisconsin, considered the Olympics of the poetry slam world, taking place Aug. 3-9. The ...
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