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11 hours ago ago from Literature&Literacy
To one of my saints, my dear friend, Emily Baum, with the deepest appreciation. In This Essay On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (C.D.N. Costa, trans.) Late Bloomers by Malcolm Gladwell, The Annals of Culture, The New Yorker On Dying Young by Matthew Koslowski, Literature&Literacy William Stafford, Poet , Wikipedia Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (Stephen ...
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5 hours ago ago from Writers & Writerisms
I don't think any of us knew what we were in for. Not Prakriti Foundation. Not the US Consul in Chennai. Not us the featured poets, certainly not me. But perhaps the audience had inkling. After all most of the seventy-eight poets, including the twenty-eight who could not take part in the slam competition (organised by the Chennai US Consul and the Prakriti Foundation) but got the chance to say their pieces at the end. What's more, it seems ...
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7 hours ago ago from Al Filreis
Can't tell if the following paragraph was made by the publishers (in which case "brilliant" is a throw-away word) or is quoted from a reader or reviewer (in which case the term makes my day): The poetry of Wallace Stevens has inspired generations of poets of every school. Here, for the first time, is assembled an astonishing variety of poems, by a full range of poets, inspired by Stevens' life and work. In its own way, each poem exhibits ...
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17 hours ago ago from Silliman's Blog
The Poetry Foundation invited nine writers, myself included, to address the question of “How has poetry changed in the last ten years?” Travis Nichols edited the feature, trying to get nine authors who might address different aspects of the overall scene. The other writers include Matthew Zapruder , Annie Finch , Rigoberto González , Marjorie Perloff , Brent Cunningham , Camille Dungy , Francisco Aragón , & Eileen Myles . The feature has been ...
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20 hours ago ago from Friends of Tibet
Ila Books, Book Port and Friends of Tibet jointly organise a Poetry Reading by well-known South African poet Shabbir Banoobhai on December 26, 2009. Shabbir Banoobhai will release the Malayalam translation of the book "My Tibet" by HH the Dalai Lama on the occasion. "Ente Tibet" ("My Tibet" by HH the Dalai Lama) is translated into Malayalam by Yeldo, Suresh K, Anu Warrier and Bijuraj. The poetry reading and book release will be held at Kurian ...
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