Dodging Snacks, Lucinda Williams Delivers Snark, Spark
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“Tears of Joy,” a new one played early in the set, sounded like a smoky blues tune but was actually a gushing love song. That was soon followed with “Real Love,” Love Poem a Replacements-style rocker whose musical gusto was matched with romantic verve.
After playing another sweet and upbeat new one Love Poem , “Circles [...]
Journalists Book Is A Final Love Letter To Slain Fiancee
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Michael Hastings has packed quite a bit into his 28 years. Drugs. Alcohol. Rehab. War. Love. Death.
Love Poem It’s the death part that Hastings, a correspondent for Newsweek, didn’t count on quite so early.
His fiancée, Andi Parhamovich, a feisty, opinionated and idealistic 28-year-old aid worker in Iraq, was killed Jan. 17, 2007, in a car [...]
Star Books Review
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Khondakar Ashraf Hossain is perhaps the finest voice on the literary horizon of Bangladesh, particularly in the field of poetic activity, at the present time. He has made his mark on the literary scene as a Bengali poet and has published several volumes of Bengali poems. On Behula’s Raft is his first collection of English [...]
Love Poem And Loss
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An award-winning poet and the acclaimed editor of a generation of Scottish writers, Robin Robertson finds inspiration in the ancient classics and has just translated Medea. Interview by Nicholas Wroe
Aberdonian man of letters Robin Robertson is, in a sense, the embodiment of that most enduring feature of Scottish literature, from Robert Louis Stevenson and James [...]
Gaelic masterpiece Visiting professor from Ireland to read
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Sean O Coileain, an expert on Irish language poetry from Ireland’s University College Cork, will give a public reading of “The Lament for Art O’Leary†on Friday. The lament, written in 1773, is still “a very moving, very personal lament,†O Coileain says.
Audio slideshow To watch an audio slideshow featuring a reading from “The Lament [...]
Irish scholar to recite lament love poetry
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With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, the reading of one of the world’s greatest love poems recited in an Irish brogue is the perfect kick-off to a weekend of Gaelic revelry.
Sean O Coileain, a foremost expert on Irish poetry, will conclude his guest lecture series at the University of Montana on Friday night [...]
What do you look for in a friend? What do you think makes a true friendship
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I’d just like to start a topic about what each of you look for in a friendship. And what qualities you think define true friendship. Don’t know if this topic has been posted before..so the mods have to help me out here. Friendship is one of the few things we can choose for ourselves. [...]
‘Dim Lights’ offers poetry nights
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Violets are red, roses are blue, at Dim Lights experience something new.
A young lady stood patiently waiting in the lobby of the Cal Poly Art Theatre, located on the corner of Second and Main streets in the Pomona Arts Colony, when a young man suddenly appeared, presenting her with a single long-stemmed red rose.
“I don’t [...]
Irish scholar to recite lament, love poetr
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With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, the reading of one of the world’s greatest love poems recited in an Irish brogue is the perfect kick-off to a weekend of Gaelic revelry.
Sean O Coileain, a foremost expert on Irish poetry, will conclude his guest lecture series at the University of Montana on Friday night [...]
Myanmar Poet Arrested for Critical Poem
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(01-24) 02:23 PST YANGON, Myanmar (AP) —
A Myanmar poet known for his odes to love was arrested after penning a Valentine’s Day poem that carried a hidden message criticizing the leader of the country’s military junta, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, colleagues said Thursday.
The poet, Saw Wai, was arrested Tuesday, a day after [...]
