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Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Poem

On Feb. 20, 1862, 150 years ago, young William Wallace Lincoln, third son of President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary, died. He was just 11 years old and the likely cause was typhoid fever. You have to wonder if the president in his gr [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Poet of the universe

Welcome back for the sixth year of Maths Masters. We're very grateful for the continued interest that our columns have received. Again this year, we hope to write about some beautiful and little-known mathematics, and to explain mo [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Poet and DSM Create Joint Venture for Cellulosic Ethanol

Poet LLC, the largest U.S. corn- based ethanol producer by installed capacity, established a joint venture with Royal DSM NV to produce cellulosic ethanol and license the technology to other plants in the U.S. and globally. The compani [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

A Poem May Get a Writer Jailed In China

Chinese writer and activist Zhu Yufu was charged with publishing a provocative poem this past week (the official charge was "inciting subversion of state power"). Zhu's poem is entitled "It's Time," and here it [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Outsider Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (34): Hannah We...

[In constructing an assemblage of “outsider” poetry there is a point finally at which the work of contemporaries has also to be considered. I have felt constrained here by a determination not to confuse “outsider” [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Poet of the fall

She is a writer, educator and a dreamer. Aditi Rao who won the last Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize says she started writing even before she knew that she wanted to write. “I don't have a real answer for why. It started out becau [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Peshawar varsity to honour two great poets of K-P

This was announced by Peshawar University Vice-Chancellor Dr Azmat Hayat Khan at a function held in connection with Faraz’s birth anniversary at the auditorium of Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayum Museum in the varsity on Tuesday. [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week: Philosophy by Amy Levy

Amy Levy was the first Jewish woman to attend Newnham College, Cambridge. Still more impressively, she published her first collection of poems, Xantippe and Other Verse, at the age of 20 (in 1881). She went on to produce three novels, two [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Poetry makes its mark in Hudson Valley, Catskills

Eighteen years ago, when William Seaton originated his "Poetry on the Loose" readings series, he billed it as the only poetry series between Manhattan and Woodstock. These days, each week brings a new slate of poetry readings [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

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 [...]