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- Prose watch: Obama acceptance speech (The Politico)
At times in Obama's acceptance speech on the final night of the DNC, poetry and prose diverged.
- Mahmoud Darwish leaves behind legacy of political, nonpartisan poetry - Lebanon Daily Star
GAZA CITY: In the death of poet Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine has lost a voice. It was a voice that carried into the hearts of Palestinians, and far across the world. His poems were translated into 22 languages, including Hebrew. Darwish, who died 40 ...
- Erica Jong: POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS (HuffingtonPost)
October is the cruelest month--at least for the Dow--only 30 stocks but more influential than than the price of tulips in 17h century Holland. Stocks...
- TREE House Children's Museum schedules programs for Aug. 9 and Aug. 16 - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
The TREE House Children's Museum will host a program on making Poetry Pebbles at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 The children will hear some poems and learn a bit about poetry. They will make poetry pebbles that they can then use to create their own poems ...
- The Man Who Shocked the World (Psychology Today)
Stanley Milgram and disturbing truths about human nature.
- For Campbell, running meant the world (Santa Fe New Mexican)
Photo: Don Campbell, 82, shows off his old USA track team jersey at his home in Santa Fe. Next month, Campbell will be inducted into the University of Colorado Hall of Fame.
- Lovers of literature in for a treat (The Burlington Free Press)
Burlington Book Festival features Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner | Audio Slideshow
- Georgian exiled poet finds asylum in Ithaca (The Ithaca Journal)
Irakli Kakabadze's eyes are closed when he slides his tan, wide-brimmed hat across his face and back onto a head full of black hair. He sways as he's standing, his arms waving with the rise and fall of the sound from the instruments behind him.
- John Lahr: The mystery plays of Sarah Ruhl and Peter Shaffer. (The New Yorker)
In 1997, as the playwright Sarah Ruhl was on her way to see the first work of hers to be produced, she was knocked unconscious in a car accident. Nonetheless, she managed to get to the show--two short plays that now, with the addition of a third, make up . . .
- In Flagrante Delicto - New York Times
New York TimesIn Flagrante DelictoNew York Times, United States - 24 minutes ago... almost everybody sounds, well, “poetic,†tootlingly so, although whenever Butler mucks around in mythology or the Dark Ages, it’s the poetry of Stan Lee ...
- Essex County Chronicles: Remembering Manchester's 'literary superstar ... - Salem News
While he is pretty much forgotten today, even in his own hometown of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Herbert A. Kenny was once one of the region's true literary superstars. During his lifetime, Kenny (1913-2002) was renowned in Greater Boston literary circles ...
- Cape authors publish topflight fiction, nonfiction and poetry (Cape Cod Times)
"Feast or Famine: Growing Up Bohemian in Provincetown," Julia Whorf Kelly (Julia Whorf Kelly, 772-283-8519, www.juliakellyart.
- Irvington Terrace Block Party is Saturday - Indianapolis Star
Irvington Terrace Block Party is SaturdayIndianapolis Star, United States - 18 hours agoJust a few of the planned events are: face painting- sidewalk chalk contest for the kids- drum circle-poetry reading-bingo and ring toss! ...
- Writing in residence - guardian.co.uk
Writing in residenceguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThey play an integral part in the way a modern writing life is geared (as a measure of this you need look no further than the number of poems about ...
- Stacks will feature Keillor - Pioneer Press
Stacks will feature KeillorPioneer Press, MN - 1 hour agoAndrei Codrescu, Oct. 30 — Romanian-born poet, novelist, screenwriter and National Public Radio commentator introduces his newest poetry collection, ...
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