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- Tiny fiction strikes with poetic energy (The News & Observer)
Short-short stories, micro fiction, flash fiction -- these and other terms are used these days to refer to short stories less than six pages long and often much shorter. Many people seem to think it's a new contemporary genre. But short fiction has been around since the time of Aesop.
- Polygamist sect’s children sing, write poems to thank Baptists - Baptist Standard
LULING (ABP)—Children seized from a polygamist sect’s compound and temporarily entrusted to a Texas Baptist child-care agency bid farewell to their former caretakers May 31 with poetry, song and strong emotion. In anticipation of a court ruling ...
- Drama taps online search - Louisville Courier-Journal
Drama taps online searchLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 1 hour agoAnalog communication devices served as creative fodder when they were newly invented, such as plays centered on a telephone or poetry written to resemble ...
- Local author’s work may help to answer age-old question (Wilson County News)
La Vernia resident Loyce McCarter asks a question of her readers that many have asked for more than 2,000 years. Her book, Is He the Messiah? A Reporter’s Notes, offers readers the chance to view Jesus through the eyes of ordinary people of His time.
- Five Vie For Fair Queen Title - Fulton County News
Five Vie For Fair Queen TitleFulton County News, PA - 1 hour agoIn addition to volunteering her time at the Fulton County Library, Pittman is a member of her school’s poetry, history and English clubs. ...
- Control: The fate of Joy Division's Ian Curtis - World Socialist Web Site
World Socialist Web SiteControl: The fate of Joy Division's Ian CurtisWorld Socialist Web Site, MI - 16 minutes agoHe also has developed a talent for poetry, which he shares with his friends. In real life, Curtis was awarded a scholarship to attend the King’s School, ...
- Celebrated Palestinian Poet Dies in Texas - Washington Post
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of national mourning to honor ...
- Indian community leader to attend Urdu conference (The Peninsula)
doha • A prominent Indian community leader and businessman, Hassan A Chougule, is to represent Qatar in the World Urdu Conference to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday.
- Iran's expatriate poets speak out, in English and Farsi - Lebanon Daily Star
NEW YORK: Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, thousands of intellectuals, activists and poets have left Iran, many fleeing to Europe and the United States. A new book brings together the work of 18 Iranian poets from this diaspora to share their ...
- by Horacio Castellanos Moya The serious tone masks a tongue in ... - TheCelebrityCafe.com
by Horacio Castellanos Moya The serious tone masks a tongue in ...TheCelebrityCafe.com, NY - 5 hours agoIt is the first gem of the poetry of the oppressed to be collected in the journalist’s notebook. This sentence dominates his unstable mind as he slogs ...
- 'Third Thursday' heats up Ardmore (The Daily Ardmoreite)
Various businesses in downtown Ardmore will present a number of activities during “Third Thursday” this week from 5 to 7 p.m.
- Our Daily Bleg: What Economics Quotations Rival “The Free Lunch”? - New York Times Blogs
Our Daily Bleg: What Economics Quotations Rival “The Free Lunch”?New York Times Blogs, NY - 6 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Noted Palestinian poet Darwish dead at 67 (Moldova.org)
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.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Darwish's death Saturday was a blow to the occupied Palestinian territories and would be followed by a three-day mourning period, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.Words cannot describe the depth ...
- Christina Patterson: A joyous display to help heal broken lives - Independent
Christina Patterson: A joyous display to help heal broken livesIndependent, UK - 12 minutes agoTwo years ago, he won the Poetry Society's Rise Poetry Slam. Now, he's doing youth work and studying performing arts. "It was hard at first," he said, ...
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Feministing
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaFeministing, NY - 58 minutes agoCan you explain what your process was for getting this collection of poetry together? Did you write poems to fit the theme of the title, or did the poems ...
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