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- National Briefing | Books National Book Critics Circle Awards - New York Times
National Briefing | Books National Book Critics Circle AwardsNew York Times, United States - 14 minutes agoMary Jo Bang took the poetry prize for “Elegy†(Graywolf Press). Harriet Washington won the nonfiction prize for “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of ...
- Devotion to the Strange: Jonathan Williams and the Small Press - Bookslut
Devotion to the Strange: Jonathan Williams and the Small PressBookslut, IL - 13 minutes agoIn a letter to the editor of The New York Times Book Review, Williams once claimed that poetry readers could be counted “somewhere between the number of ...
- Pen and Sickle - New York Times
Pen and SickleNew York Times, United States - 2 hours agoHis poetry, partly confessional, partly metaphysical, held as its highest value the sanctity of the private self. Brodsky was anti-Soviet as a matter of ...
- I didn't get where I am without? Honor Blackman - Times Online
I didn't get where I am without? Honor BlackmanTimes Online, UK - 5 hours agotype exercises, she got me reciting poetry and reading extracts from plays. Shakespeare hadn’t been mentioned at school and the only film I’d seen was a ...
- You need passion to make a masterpiece: Muzaffar Ali
Hindustan Times - Bollywood writer-director Muzaffar Ali, whose period film Umrao Jaan still stirs the souls of viewers, says nowadays no Indian director has the sensibility to make a historical epic. "Poetry, painting, designing, writing all comes into a film, isn't ...
- Detached or mundane? (The Japan Times)
The fame that Yosa Buson (1716-1783) enjoyed as a painter and haiku poet in his own lifetime quickly eroded in the years following his death. And while his poetic reputation was restored as early as the 19th century, it was only in the years following World War II that his paintings once again... Read the full story.
- Young and expressionable: Youth Speak poetry slams give a voice to teens (Seattle Times)
A spotlight shines down onto a crumpled piece of notebook paper, as a faltering voice utters words that couple into phrases and run into...
- A MOUNTAIN VIEW: A school of trees - Southwest Virginia Today
A MOUNTAIN VIEW: A school of treesSouthwest Virginia Today, VA - 33 minutes agoThe old Carter Family songs, classic poetry, landscape paintings, Christmas cards, even sacred literature and scriptures often seem to include some “maple ...
- DVD Detective: Capturing the Irish mystique (Norwalk Advocate)
As Saint Patrick's Day approaches, fond memories resurface. And watching the recent Oscars, the idea of exploring some special Irish-themed titles, old and new, seemed even more fitting. You'll soon see why.
- Myriad upcoming cultural choices in New City, Nyack (The Journal News)
A buffet of cultural choices is being offered at Riverspace from May 8 through Mother's Day, May 11. Afaa Michael Weaver and Cat Doty are leading the free Poetry and Prose event at 7:30 May 8. Weaver is featured in the film "A String of Pearls," which is part of the Billops Archives in New York City. He's a retired professor of English at Simmons College in Boston.
- DVD Detective: Capturing the Irish mystique (Stamford Advocate)
As Saint Patrick's Day approaches, fond memories resurface. And watching the recent Oscars, the idea of exploring some special Irish-themed titles, old and new, seemed even more fitting. You'll soon see why.
- Pakistan: Prisoners' plight in foreign jails concerns governments (Adnkronos)
Pakistan: Prisoners' plight in foreign jails concerns governments (AKI) - (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - Pakistan's decision to release an Indian spy who spent 35 years on death row has highlighted the plight of foreigners languishing in South Asian prisons.Kashmir Singh, who was sentenced to death in 1973 for spying in Pakistan, was released on 3 March after he was pardoned by Pakistan's ...
- It may take a French poet to enjoy absinthe - AZ Central.com
It may take a French poet to enjoy absintheAZ Central.com, AZ - 1 hour agoRimbaud, a precocious, intense young man, influenced his French contemporaries in poetry, literature and academe, and continues to leave a romantic, ...
- Carrel scribblings raise the spirits of gloomy seniors
Daily Princetonian - ... the bowels of Firestone might interfere with her work. “It’s like a dungeon,†she said. “I’m writing about poetry ... 2007 Daily Princetonian Publishing Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Tagore's pride - The Daily Star
Tagore's prideThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 1 hour agoI wrote both prose and poetry in Bengali for half of my life, then why did I write Gitanjali in English...? He who has kept me busy in work during weal and ...
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