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- Italy: Infernal row flares over Florence council's plans to pardon ... - Guardian Unlimited
A wine-growing aristocrat who is a direct descendant of the poet Dante Alighieri said yesterday he would boycott a ceremony at which he was to have received the city of Florence's highest honour on behalf of his ancestor. Dante, the father of the ...
- Chalk one up for national poetry week - Auckland stuff.co.nz
Chalk one up for national poetry weekAuckland stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 1 hour ago... we are a literate community with high library use and book sales and there is good demand for creative writing courses. Many people write poetry just ...
- Big Red is gold - Sunshine Coast Daily
Big Red is goldSunshine Coast Daily, Australia - 1 hour agoRobert Louis Stevenson’s comment that “wine is bottled poetry” could easily be applied to this little treasure. Coolum Park Cellars resident wine expert ...
- Free Friday Flicks: Lost in translation - Duxbury Clipper
Free Friday Flicks: Lost in translationDuxbury Clipper, MA - 4 hours agoOne of my poetry teachers once said—in a formulation supposedly first used by the Israeli poet Chaim Nachman Bialik—that reading poetry in translation is ...
- An Interview with First Time Novelist Jayne Pupek - Blogcritics.org
An Interview with First Time Novelist Jayne PupekBlogcritics.org, OH - 25 minutes agoPupek is something of an anomaly in today’s publishing world; although she had published a book of poetry, Tomato Girl is her first novel and both getting ...
- Art takes a stance in Birmingham (West Bloomfield Eccentric)
Two giant metallic sculptures spring from the ground at the corner of Pierce and Merrill, instantly grabbing Michelle Bosanc's attention. "This is the first time I saw them," she said. "I think they're cool... they add something." Altogether, 10 sculptures are being installed around downtown Birmingham as part of the 2008 CityScapes Public Arts Program. John Sauve, one of the most recognized ...
- Julia Darling's top 10 books about northern England - guardian.co.uk
Julia Darling's top 10 books about northern Englandguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoThis poetry is full of new ideas and is always a joy to pull down from the shelf. Some of it is vehement and angry, but there are tender poems too that make ...Seamus Heaney guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- O Come Let Us Adore Him (Nashville Scene)
For over a decade, Silver Jews founder/frontman David Berman produced critically acclaimed albums and poetry that garnered a substantial fan base—even though they only weeks ago embarked on their first-ever national tour. That makes the brief tour of Israel documented in Michael Tully's ...
- Bali bikini ban threatens tourism - News.com.au
FIRST it was the Bali bombers, now it is law-makers in faraway Jakarta that threaten to drive Aussies from the resort island. Bikini-clad tourists may have to cover up if a law is passed across Indonesia. The Bill is designed to define pornography ...
- VOX POPULI: Get your vote on - McGill Tribune (subscription)
VOX POPULI: Get your vote onMcGill Tribune (subscription), Canada - 9 minutes agoIf you're still not convinced, go read Martin Niemoller's poetry and think about speaking up for others. Politics isn't just about playing the game or ...
- City Of 'Mad Men' Lives On (The Tampa Tribune)
Becoming a dissolute ad executive from another era takes persistence and attention to detail. It is not merely a matter of scoring an early '60s Kingsbridge suit by John Taylor Ltd. of Tarrytown ($110 at Cheap Jack's in midtown Manhattan) and a skinny Harry Rothman tie ($45). You can't just vacuum up Lucky Strikes. No, if you want to be a piece of serious collateral damage in the phenomenon that ...
- Kali O Kolom: Bhadro 1415-August 2008 Kobita Shonkha - (Poetry Issue) - The Daily Star
The Daily StarKali O Kolom: Bhadro 1415-August 2008 Kobita Shonkha - (Poetry Issue)The Daily Star, Bangladesh - 1 hour agoThere are prose poems, too. Being Bengalis, clouds inevitably show up in their poems too, though as simply 'megh’, not as 'meghmala’, the latter a word that ...
- 'Eurydice' a perfect balance of playfulness, poignancy - Richmond Times Dispatch
'Eurydice' a perfect balance of playfulness, poignancyRichmond Times Dispatch, VA - 8 hours agoRuhl thinks in poetry and writes in feelings. She produces hugely affecting images, like the rain-filled elevator to the underworld and the string-walled ...
- Joyce Carol Oates' 'My Sister, My Love': mesmerizing, long (Austin American-Statesman)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' novels feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. "My Sister, My Love," her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Football, an independent India were his passions - Hindustan Times
Harkishan Singh Bassi changed his surname to ‘Surjeet’ while trying his hand writing poetry in his youth. Surjeet lived the simple life. He was his own secretary, attending phone calls and keeping a mental note of the visitors he expected over ...
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