Month: February 2004

Anne Tyler responds to the NY Times’ emailed questions.

Wellesley students staged simultaneous readings of all of Shakespeare’s works, including his poetry, in a 24-hour period.

If you’re good at haiku (I’m not), you could enter the Guardian’s Valentine’s Day haiku contest: Verse Your Valentine.

Kareem Fahim reviews Tariq Ali’s Bush in Babylon for the VLS.

In a sense, Bush in Babylon hosts the exiles’ debate: leftist poets versus Pentagon collaborators, a struggle for authorship of an unwritten Iraqi future. One side waits for Nasser, and the other for Jefferson. Perhaps Iraq should be left to a younger generation with a shorter memory.

Read the full review here.

The Florida Review is having trouble staying afloat, due to recent budget cuts.

It is still unclear whether The Florida Review will receive money next year, but this time Leiby said they will be prepared if they do not receive the money. Leiby has already begun work on grant applications and has plans to increase the subscription base as well. Without UCF’s regular contribution, subscriptions were responsible for paying the entire cost of the fall and spring issues, Leiby said. Donations will help to pay for future issues.

They are having a fee-paying contest to help raise funds.

Six-hundred Moroccan Jews from Morocco and around the world came together this week in the town of Rich to celebrate a hilloula (pilgrimage) at the tomb of Rabbi Itzhak Abessehra. Details here.