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Poets & Protesters

This title must be credited to someone participating in the great Seattle trade-negotiations protests of 1999. A discussion of those days is where I heard it and noted it for use as a title someday. The poetry part of it (with a bit of po [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

A poet Life in Captivity

Jennifer McGowan was invited to the Co-op on Tuesday to give a reading of her poetry book entitled "Life in Captivity."This is McGowan's first published book of poetry, although she has been writing and studying literature s [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Poetry in Motion

Outside of the Brooklyn Museum a small sign of a crash test dummy, attached to a pole near a crosswalk, attracted little attention from its intended audience: pedestrians crossing Eastern Parkway. The colorful sign, which has a QR code [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Ruth Stone dies at 96; American poet

Ruth Stone, a leading American poet whose career was halted, then inspired by tragedy as her sharp insights into love, death and nature brought her widespread acclaim in later years, has died. She was 96. Stone, who won the National Bo [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Outlaw poet publishes second book

Jeff Barbee of Burlington has seen his share of heartbreaks and uses poetry to provide readers with a glimpse into his anguish. Barbee, 52, spends his nights at the homeless shelter run by Allied Churches of Alamance County. It’s [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Poet Laureate Philip Levine

At age 83, Philip Levine has been appointed 2011–2012 poet laureate consultant in poetry by Librarian of Congress James Billington. He took up his duties October 17, opening the library’s annual literary season with a reading [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Nation observes 134th birth anniversary of Allama Iqbal

The nation observed the 134th birth anniversary of poet and philosopher Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal on Wednesday with traditional zeal and fervour. The government of Pakistan announced a public holiday on the day to celebrate Allama Iqbal&r [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Poet Shane Rhodes’s boozy approach to his craft

Not all writers are drinkers. But a lot were — and are. Take Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald. Or Raymond Carver and John Cheever. Take the last words of dipsomaniacal poet Dylan Thomas, which allegedly were: “I’ve had [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Ronald Reagan: Hero or Villain?

D-e-a-t-h. The mention of that five-letter word instills fear into many. Only a few mortals could dare death like the poet John Donne. When his beloved brother died, he wrote death these damning lines: Death do not be proud/ Thou [...]

Posted On : Jul, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

The Poet From Hydra ((Or, 'Feast of the Dogs') (547 BC - 490...

Myron, from Hydra It was the year his father died; he had all his poems in his head. There he was-no, he wasn't there, mentally, his sister, Axothea, he saw in the morning. He had recited his poems of course; some to himself, a [...]

Posted On : Jul, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

O P Bhatnagar - A Poet of Political Awakening

O P Bhatnagar is one of the most leading voices of Indian English poetry whose collections Thought Poems (1976), Feeling Fossils (1977), Angels of Retreat (undated), The Audible Landscape, Oneric Visions, Shadows in Floodlight (1984) and [...]

Posted On : Jul, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

The Poetry Society: are things going from bad to verse?

Henry Kissinger once said: "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." Could his quote also apply to the refined world of poetry? There certainly seems to be an epic argument going on at the 102- [...]

Posted On : Jun, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Suzanne Buffam says award's re...

Vancouver-raised poet Suzanne Buffam has been earning kudos for her work for over a decade, winning accolades such as the CBC Literary Award for Poetry and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Poetry. Still, even the most revered poets s [...]

Posted On : Jun, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Poetry in Pros: Breaking down the six-man rotation

The Chicago White Sox are about to embark on a pitching odyssey that no team has ever taken, a sustained engagement with a six-man starting rotation. Here’s how the rotation will break down over the course of the experiment, outline [...]