Word: poets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Abdulrazzak's experience of loss and return is shared by other prominent Iraqi artists abroad. "You're an exile when forced by the government to be ousted from your country," said Abdul Karim Kasid, a prominent Iraqi poet and dramatist also based in London. "Now we're not forced out by the government but by the situation...
...public attempt at suicide in the streets.' MAHMOUD DARWISH, preeminent Palestinian poet, describing the fighting between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Darwish was speaking in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, his first public engagement in the city of his birth in over 30 years...
Inside her there was the soul of a poet, diverted by the rush of politics, but never denied, not even in the White House citadel. She once told Sidey how often at day's end she took her paper work with her to the arbor in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden where fragrant ripening grapes hung heavy above her and she sat on creaky white wicker chairs. "There," she said, "I'm in a dear, old-fashioned summer home." And she often sat in twilight on the Truman Balcony to watch the Washington Monument fade from a delicate pink to gray...
...family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it," LaBeouf says. His first name, which rhymes with hi-ya, was the name of his maternal grandfather, a Catskills comic. His last name, pronounced La-Buff, is a name shared with his paternal grandmother, a Beatnik poet...
Marooned in the U.K.'s rain-sodden Midlands and best known for a local soccer team, Manchester has struggled to shake off its abiding image of "dark Satanic mills" first noted by the poet William Blake in his epic Jerusalem back in 1820. It's never quite been the place for picturesque holidays, much less arts festivals - until...