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- Childhood is an endless wellspring - Providence Journal
Providence JournalChildhood is an endless wellspringProvidence Journal, RI - 2 hours agoAll poets face the blank computer screen with exactly the same thought: If the next poem could be about anything, what shall it be about? ...
- Davidson Calendar: April 4-13 - Nashville Tennessean
AARP Tax-Aide: The nation's largest free, volunteer-run tax counseling and assistance service will be offering help in tax preparation at 86 sites in in 42 Tennessee counties. Membership in AARP or being a retiree is not required, although the ...
- The Artists - BurlingtonFreePress.com
The ArtistsBurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - 6 minutes agoDo you have a quirky fact about you or your poetry that no one would usually know? So many quirks, so little time. To edit before word processors, ...
- The trail of political Islam - Open Democracy
Gilles Kepel, one of the world’s foremost experts on the modern Middle East, has written “Jihad: the Trail of Political Islam”, the first comprehensive attempt to follow the history and spread of Islamist political movements. In a talk given at ...
- Poster poems: the birth of being - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukPoster poems: the birth of beingguardian.co.uk, UK - 16 minutes agoCullen's infant is born into a world as dark as anything in MacNeice's poem, and its birth does, in fact, end with a death. Birth is traditionally a symbol ...
- Wipe clean my life's 'stain of injustice' (Pretoria News)
His ten-year sentence is finally complete. Now Mzwakhe Mbuli, revered as the "people's poet" during the dying years of apartheid, is seeking a presidential pardon.
- The premises of promise - The Australian
The premises of promiseThe Australian, Australia - 3 hours agoCandidates -- who are expected to have "developed skills as a writer in any form", be it in screenwriting, poetry, copywriting, journalism or any other ...
- The Poetry of April Ossmann (Good Times)
Editor’s note: This week’s Poetry Corner features April Ossmann, the author of “Anxious Music” (Four Way Books, 2007) who has published her poems widely in journals. She is executive director of Alice James Books and teaches at The Writer’s Center in White River Jct., Vt.
- Authors grieve over David Foster Wallace's apparent suicide - Contra Costa Times
NEW YORK—The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel ...
- Beats and bad rhymes at Bloody Awful Poetry - Evening Standard
Poetry recitals rarely make for wild nights out. I've only been to two in my life, both by mistake. There was a lot of poetry-speak - words like "alas" and "thrice" - and impenetrable jokes about iambs and trochees. I swore I'd never go to another ...
- Noted Palestinian poet Darwish dead at 67 (UPI)
HOUSTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was best known for his works about life in Palestinian territories, has died in Houston at the age of 67, officials say.
- Loudon Wainwright 3rd is in 'Recovery' (New York Daily News)
Loudon Wainwright 3rd talks to himself on his new album. Not his current self, mind you, but a much younger edition - the man/boy of his early 20s who wrote songs of such clarity, wit and poetry, you'd think he was much older way back when.
- Demonic Muse (New York Times)
Victor Pelevin projects a bitter philosophy of modern times through the voice of a shape-shifting nymphet-narrator.
- A Palestinian poet's final words (The Charlotte Observer)
When he passed away last month, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwishstill had plenty to say. The 67-year-old writer known as the Palestinian "poet of conscience" was working on a collection of poems that captured the thoughts and ideals he was wrestling with in his twilight years. Darwish was an icon revered by Palestinians of all ages, backgrounds and political philosophies. His life mirrored the ...
- Supreme Leader urges poets to focus on justice, spirituality (Islamic Republic News Agency)
Iran - Supreme Leader - Poets Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei here on Monday called on poets to focus on message of justice and spirituality of the Islamic Revolution and express its genuine essence in the form of poetry.
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