Poet Mahmoud Darwish Has Died

People are always asking me to write more often, well here you go, I looked up some info on ‘art’.

Ugh. I just learned from Theriomorph in comments that Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has also passed on. Theriomorph is right. This has been a bad weekend for art. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday an honor only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes for Darwish poured in on Sunday, a day after the 67-year-old writer died from complica

Good read!

An ode to NYC

I’m a little late to the party on this one, I admit, especially since I’ve taught her short story collection The Interpreter of Maladies. … The hero, Gogol Ganguli, struggles with his name and all it represents: his family’s complex history and immigration, relationship to art, adjustment to life in A merica….

I tried several more searches on ‘art collection’ but after 10 minutes I got tired, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Art and Culture’. Still, I think it was an interesting exercise.