Heard by a Bird in Phoenica

Sparrow 2 months ago Region: New York

"Beauty is in the eye of the brie-holder." - Cy Twombly   A Letter Dear Mr. Gossip-Editor: Last night I was visiting my daughter in her room when we noticed a bug crawling on her bed. The insect flapped its wing... more

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Heard By a Bird in Phoenicia

Sparrow 4 months ago Region: New York

 "Teachers retire, and become students." - Amos Oz     Did you see the cloud shaped like a cashbox over Big Indian last Friday?     A Letter   Dear Local Explorer:   A recen... more

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Heard By a Bird in Phoenicia, New York

Sparrow 5 months ago Region: New York

"Instead of following sports, I follow religion.  Every day, I read the paper to see who's winning: the Christians or the Muslims." - Samuel P. Huntington Did you see the cloud shaped like a Mahjong coin over Pi... more

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Heard By a Bird from Phoenicia, New York

Sparrow 6 months ago Region: New York

"Politics is the present tense of history." - Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Did you see the cloud resembling Peter Pan's hat over Big Indian last Wednesday?  A Letter Dear Sparrow: Good news!  Consume... more

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Gujjar writers adopts resolution for inclusion of Gojri into Indian Constitution

Vijay Kumar 7 months ago Region: India

     Gojri Writers Poets , Intellectuals and observers today adopted a seven point resolutions for the development of Gojri language and Culture including its  inclusion into eight schedule of Constit... more

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Russian Poet Tiutchev Honored

Saria Ahmed 10 months ago Region: Bangladesh

The Russian Center of Science and Culture introduces a two-week long book exhibition by Feodor Tiutchev to mark his 205th birth anniversary. The Russian Poet was born in 1803 and died 1873. The exhibit will run from the ... more

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Pakistan's poet Ahmad Faraz is dead

Zar Alam Khan a year ago Region: Pakistan

Pakistan's eminent Urdu poet Ahmad Faraz has died in Islamabad. He was 77. Faraz was treated in the US for renal failure, heart ailments, and was brought to Shifa Hospital in Islamabad last week where he died on Mond... more

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Heard By A Bird, April

Sparrow a year ago Region: New York

"I am the opposite of Sigmund Freud; I ask, 'What don't women want?'" - Dr. Otto Rank A Letter Dear gossip-spreader: Do you know the expression "as the crow flies"?  It means the most direct route possible... more

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Remembering Aimé Césaire

Global Voices a year ago Region: Martinique

- by Jennifer Brea … when my turn comes into the air I will raise up a cry so violent that I will spatter the sky utterly and by my shredded branches and by the insolent jet of my solemn wounded bo... more

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Heard By a Bird, March 2008

Sparrow a year ago Region: United States

"Rock music is the same 4 gimmicks over and over." - Roky Erickson Three Pots for the Drips Laney Ronders recalls: "When I was a child, our roof always leaked.  But my mother didn't mind.  She always sai... more

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