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- Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame - Times Online
Towards Another Summer by Janet FrameTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoShe explores the meaning of “home†through memories, poetry, snatches of song. There are glimpses of her childhood - a father who worked on the railways, ...
- D. Nurkse’s Poetry, the Product of Metaphysical Battles - Nymag.com
The ravaged settings in which many of D. Nurkse’s new poems take place — including New York on 9/11 — seem perfectly matched to the grizzled, Herman Melville–esque visage in his author photo. Clearly, Nurkse’s been through a battle or two ...
- Schneider novel set during coming RNC (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
You cannot help but love the opening line of Bart Schneider's new novel, "The Man in the Blizzard"; the last word is so unexpected.
- Fall books events in Vancouver - Georgia Straight
Fall books events in VancouverGeorgia Straight, Canada - 8 hours agoAt 7 pm tonight (September 25), in Room 406 of Emily Carr’s south building, Margaret Christakos reads from her latest collection of poetry, What Stirs, ...
- Carson gives youngsters chance to shine - Milton Canadian Champion
Carson gives youngsters chance to shineMilton Canadian Champion, Canada - 20 minutes agoUnder Carson Productions he creates, develops and produces family theatre, everything from touring plays to poetry readings. Projects include his Books ...
- Event gives musicians, artists forum to respond to naysayers - Record
After nearly 30 years in the nation's musical bloodstream, hip-hop still has detractors who question its artistic merit. One goal of tonight's The Art of Hip-Hop is to answer the naysayers. "This event was designed to show that there is an artistic ...
- The Anger, the Longing, the Hope (Middle East Online)
Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry enabled him to do what no one had succeeded in doing by other means: to unite all the parts of the fractured and fragmented Palestinian people - in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, in Israel, in the refugee camps and throughout the Diaspora, says Uri Avnery .
- Novel Presentation of Freedom Struggle and Partition - Mainstream
Novel Presentation of Freedom Struggle and PartitionMainstream, India - 39 minutes agoHere and there in the book pieces of poetry and couplets written by various Urdu and other poets have been also included and these, apart from making the ...
- Madison poets finish third in second national bout - Wisconsin State Journal
After coming in third at the second bout Thursday evening at the 2008 National Poetry Slam, members of the the Madison Slam Team won't be going on to the semifinals Friday night for individual pieces. They find out Friday afternoon if they'll be ...
- Book Festival: Pleasure proves a virtuous choice - Scotsman
Book Festival: Pleasure proves a virtuous choiceScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoYet no sooner has Kay, er, loosened up her audience then she knocks them sideways with the most moving, deeply-felt but unsentimental, poetry about the ...
- Watch Generation Kill , read the review - Slate
Prized Fray regular wmccomninel watched Generation Kill , read the review in "Culturebox", and started a great thread which led to his laying this thought on the line: My own life was negatively affected by serving in both wars in Iraq, that much is ...
- August 07 in History - Viet Nam News
August 07 in HistoryViet Nam News, Vietnam - 58 minutes agoHe won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 for his collection of poetry, Gitanjali, drawing on traditional Hindu themes. The Thanh Nien (Young People) ...
- Calls for end to Saudi child marriages - Tehran Times
It was his wedding to a 10-year-old cousin. Muhammad al-Rashidi's marriage was eventually put on hold, his father said, after pressure from the governor of the northern province of Hail, who considered the elementary school student too young to marry ...
- Writer's journey begins at the Attic Workshop (Portland Tribune)
Walk into Powell’s City of Books, look at the endless books and ask yourself, “Isn’t the city big enough? Does the world need another writer?†After all, who will read all those books? “I think the great books in the library read themselves,†answers David ...
- Essam Youssef’s novel gives a new perspective on the neglect... - Egypt Today
Born in Aswan, Abdel Dhaher has both Nubian and Saeedi roots. Although he left Aswan as a child and came to settle in Cairo, Abdel Dhaher never really left Egypt’s most magical city. “My painting style is social realism. I paint the reality of ...
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