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- Dead prisoners make merry at Salimgarh - Hindustan Times
Salimgarh Fort was built by Islam Shah Suri (also known as Salim Shah), son and successor of Sher Shah Suri in 1546. Located near Red Fort, Salimgarh Fort was constructed on an island of river Yamuna enclosed by rock-hard rubble masonry ramparts. But ...
- Area Haitians celebrate their island and its flag - Palm Beach Post
DELRAY BEACH — It's a day of pride for Haitians all over the world. And on Sunday, that pride was spread along the grounds of Old School Square, where onlookers could hear Caribbean music blaring from speakers even before peaking at the stage. They ...
- 'Fugitive Pieces': A book to be remembered for a lifetime - Owen Sound Sun Times
'Fugitive Pieces': A book to be remembered for a lifetimeOwen Sound Sun Times, Canada - 2 hours agoAuthor Anne Michaels is best known as a poet, writer of several award-winning collections of poetry. "Fugitive Pieces" is her first, and, as far as I know, ...
- Edwin Morgan wins £25,000 arts council award (The Herald)
Scotland's greatest living poet, Edwin Morgan, yesterday won one of the most prestigious prizes in Scottish literature. The nation's Makar, or national poet, won the £25,000 Scottish Arts Council (SAC) book of the year award for his latest collection of poetry, A Book of Lives.
- Crowd packs 10th annual Cinco De Mayo Celebration - Red Bluff Daily News
Aztec dancers from the Redwood City group Casa de la Cultura Quetzalcoatl perform a ceremonial dance for cleansing that also celebrates the entrance of a young girl into the afterlife at Saturday¹s Cinco De Mayo celebration staged by Latino Outreach ...
- Book Folks: Dyson to discuss book on King (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Michael Eric Dyson will be at the National Civil Rights Museum Monday at 6 p.m. to discuss his latest book, "April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King's Death and How It Changed America" (Basic Civitas-Perseus Books Group, $25). Dyson, the University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, is one of the most highly visible and prolific of America's black intellectuals. In 16 books -- including ...
- Prom king: French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard will take centre stage ... - The Independent
Aimard will open the Proms with a programme including a new work by the 99-year-old Elliott Carter © Guy Vivien Daniel Barenboim may resonate beyond the confines of the concert hall, Lang Lang may make more noise, but for sheer ubiquity, no musician ...
- California nature poet wins $100,000 U.S. poetry prize (CBC)
Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality, has won the United States' richest poetry prize, the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
- Posted -31 sec ago - Sudbury Star
Posted -31 sec agoSudbury Star, Canada - 40 minutes agoEmily's writing, poetry and prose, is inspired by the physical environment that surrounds her, especially the rocks of Northern Ontario. ...
- A rare slice of NZ railway history now online - Scoop
A contributor to the last issue of the New Zealand Railways Magazine in 1940 wrote that those who had not experienced a railway train had been “cheated†and “failed to share in one of the grandest experiences of lifeâ€. All issues of the ...
- Comprehending Stonehenge - Times Online
Comprehending StonehengeTimes Online, UK - 4 hours agoShe brings genuine originality to the cultural history of Stonehenge; nobody has until now considered it as literature, poetry and art, ...
- How We Met: Paul Simonon & Peter Ackroyd - Independent
How We Met: Paul Simonon & Peter AckroydIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoPeter Ackroyd, 57, is an author who has published 37 books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including London: The Biography. He lives in London It's rare ...
- Beijing airport terminal 3 operating smoothly - CCTV
CCTVBeijing airport terminal 3 operating smoothlyCCTV, China - 5 hours agoA soaring aerodynamic roof and dragon-like form celebrate the poetry of flight and welcome visitors to the Games. Some 60 percent of the international ...
- Tinderbox, Bush Theatre, London - Independent
Tinderbox, Bush Theatre, LondonIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoBeneath the fancy there is no love for the desperate and downtrodden, and for the way their stunted, banal language can erupt into accidental poetry. ...
- BOOK NOTES: Tribute to the late Jonathan Williams planned - Asheville Citizen-Times
BOOK NOTES: Tribute to the late Jonathan Williams plannedAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 2 hours agoWilliams published more than 50 books, including "The Loco Logodaedalus in Situ" and "Jubilant Thicket." He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry ...
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