I met Adam at Oslo. A big bear of a person with the gentlest nature and a lovable personality, he remains one of my closest friends. Yet time and again I have tried to understand him, understand the mind that seems to work overtime.

The art of reproducing the images on canvas and words remains a perennial obsession. I have read his other poetry books and marvelled at this superlative mind. To me, it always seems that he has been able to grasp the aura and time, a steady stream of images that is unstoppable, sometimes virulent yet simple in afterthoughts.

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Great Urdu poet Padmashri Bashir Badr said here today that 'Galib was a poet of all times, of bygone era, the present era and of the future generations too. If any grandfather is finding pleasure in poems of Galib today, his grand children too are enjoying the same. It is the greatness of Galib that he was a poet of the future also and his popularity would keep increasing in coming generations.'

Bashir Badr was speaking at a programme - 'Ek Shaam Galib Ke Naam' organised by the MP Urdu Academy on Tuesday. According to Professor Nashir Naqvi of Patiala, Galib was not only a poet of Urdu but also of all Indian languages.

Urdu Academy Secretary Nusrat Mehandi termed Galib as 'Babaye Shayari' and said that his poems are inspiration to all students. Nasim Ansari read a poem on Galib and said that like Galib there are great poets in our time too but they would be remembered after their death.

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 On the second Tuesday of January this year, the earth trembled and the devastation that befell the nation of Haiti was slowly coming to light. On March 9, 2010, the second Tuesday of the month, the Caribbean Cultural Theatre's literary series, Poets & Passion: Writers on Writing, looks at using writing as a catharsis to not only grieve, but also heal with Haitian American poets Yolaine M. St.Fort and Josaphat-Robert Large.

Designed for lovers of the written word, Poets & Passion provides a forum for celebrated poets and novelist, emerging New York area writers, spoken work artists and the general public to share their creativity, experiences and insights.

This monthly after-work literary lime held at the Downtown Brooklyn Campus of St Francis College features writers who are not only celebrated, critically acclaimed artists in their own right but are also actively involved in teaching, mentoring and critiquing other writers. The 2010 Winter/Spring series 'Writers on Writing' is curated Brooklyn, NY based Trinidadian writer, Anton Nimblett.

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It is often said that the divide between poetry and mathematics lies in the disjunct between the rational and the romantic.

These two disparities came together during the launch of The Shape of Content,.

A book comprised of drama, short fiction, critical essays and poetry that are all, in some way, relevant to science and mathematics.

Published by A.K. Peters and edited by Chandler Davis, Marjorie Wikler Senechal and Jan Zwicky, the book serves as a vehicle to showcase work done in workshops held at the Banff Center, exclusively for those who are interested in writing creatively about science and math.

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Van Cleef & Arpels, sponsor of the International Art Dubai fair, will exhibit The Poetry of Time, an exposition of 100 years of watchmaking, from 17 - 20 March 2010. This event is an opportunity for the watchmaking and High Jewellery Maison to support the work of START. Under the patronage of her Highness Sheikha Lateefa bint Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, START’s mission is to empower children in the Menasa region – orphans, refugees or those touched by extreme poverty – to develop their imagination and build on their dreams through artistic activities.

During Art Dubai, Van Cleef & Arpels invites visitors to join them on a journey to the heart of The Poetry of Time, a voyage of discovery through daydreams, creation, flair and expertise. Along the way, they will discover emblematic models such as the PA 49 or Cadenas watches immerse themselves in the Poetic Complications which punctuate the passing of time with the rhythm of the seasons.

And allow themselves to be transported by Une Journée à Paris, the timepiece taken from the eponymous High Jewellery collection. Presented at the SIHH 2010, the new Midnight in Dubai complication recreates the sky on a madly romantic starry night in Dubai.

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Flamenco has found a source of inspiration in Spanish popular poetry and a large store of lyrics. Lorca, Machado, Alberti and Miguel Hernández, among others, "have witnessed" in many occasions how their verses have been turned into cantes por bulerías, soleares, alegrías and seguiriyas.

Because of this and much more, one of those poets that is drawn to flamenco, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, was awarded yesterday at the Circo Price (Madrid-Spain) the Galardón Flamenco Calle de Alcalá de Honor.

And the tribute by Vicente Soto Sordera and Carmen Linares, who for the occasion lent their voices to the rhymes of the poet from Jerez and those of other illustrious poets of Spanish literature. Despite the cold.

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David creates avenues for you to release talents and qualities that have lived in isolation from the world — never finding a proper outlet or focus  to building a sense of real belonging. Enter this conversation which is not a Pollyanna search for a hidden key to happiness, but a profound ability to make yourself large enough, brave enough and generous enough for the triumphs and profound difficulties needed to live even the most ordinary human life.

David Whyte is a captivating world-renowned speaker with a compelling blend of profound poetry, insightful commentary, and uncanny use of prose to ignite the senses. He is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development.

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Each month a different curator will craft together a group of readers to create a distinct literary experience. The featured curator for March 1st, 2010 is . . .Carol Connolly Anticipating St. Patrick's Day: A Quintet of Irish Poets Five local poets "get their Irish up" to kick off the City's annual month-long love affair with all things green at the Lowertown Reading Jam

In anticipation of St. Patrick's Day, five local Irish-American writers will be reading in a popular monthly event sponsored by The Saint Paul Almanac and curated this month by Saint Paul Poet Laureate, Carol Connolly. Presented Monday, March 1, 2010 at the Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar in Lowertown, Connolly brings together a quintet of acclaimed Irish Poets to read from new and selected works. Joining Carol for the reading will be Kevin Fitzpatrick, Ethna McKiernan, Tim Nolan, and Mary Kay Rummel.

Carol Connolly, Saint Paul's Poet Laureate since 2006, will emcee as well as read. Her book of poems, Payments Due, On Stage Off Stage (Midwest Villages and Voices), now in its fifth printing, was staged as a play in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and other locales. Her new book, All This and More is from Nodin Press. She is the fifth generation of her Irish family to live in Saint Paul.

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Special issue of quarterly Adbiyat on Josh is a part of Pakistan Academy of Letter’s project to publish critical and research papers on makers of Pakistani literature. PAL also intends to initiate the process to name a road in Islamabad after Josh Maleehabadi and nominate him for higher civil award.

These views were expressed by Fakhar Zaman, PAL chairman, in his presidential address to the launching ceremony of Farrukh Jamal Maleehabadi’s book titled ‘Josh - Mere Baba, Shakhs Aur Shair’, arranged jointly by PAL and Josh Adbi Foundation.

Prof Fateh Muhammad Malik and Iftikhar Arif were the chief guests while Dr Aalia Imam, Syd Mansoor Aaqil, Dr Ghazanfar Mehdi, Firdous Alam, Alhaj Muhammd Iqbal and Umar Riaz Abbasi expressed their views. Fakhar Zaman said that Josh was the first poet in Urdu to win title of Shair-e-Inqelab.

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The South Carolina Book Festival will be held Feb. 27-28 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in Columbia.  This poem is part of a three-week series of poem posts running in advance of the festival, a preview of some of the South Carolina poets reading at the festival this year.  The poems have been selected by local poet and USC professor Ed Madden.

The final selection from the new batch of chapbooks published by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and Stepping Stones Press this year is Ashley Mace Havird’s Dirt Eaters, one of the six winners in the 2008 chapbook contest.

As I noted earlier, this series has been such a great publishing venture for South Carolina.  Since the contest began in 2005, the series has introduced us to the work of South Carolina poets, work by established writers, such as Gil Allen and Libby Bernardin, as well as new voices like Anne Soni and Melissa Johnson.

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