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Poetry Slams: Performance Plus Art

Performance artists of all types enjoy the awe and the kudos coming their way from the general public. In return, any concert or performance turns livelier with audience participation. During the recent decades, more and more musicians-- [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week - Weeping Woman by Grace Nichols

The surrealist photographer Dora Maar was the subject of many paintings by her lover, Pablo Picasso. Tate Modern's Weeping Woman is one of an eponymous series of jagged, vibrant, howlingly anguished portraits. It was during a residency a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Romantic poetry is not only in praise for ones lover

Dr Unus Hasany, former chairman of the Urdu department at the University of Karachi (KU), smiled when he pointed out that it is a misconception that romanticism in poetry is generally related to the love of the opposite sex. “If that [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

PoemsRomancing the Poet

A volume of poems to contend with, this: “Phoenix and other Poems” by Edwin M. Cordevilla. Published nine years ago -- in the year 2000 at the threshold of the New Millennium -- its arrival a herald of the coming good, a wondrou [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Poets to share human journeys

Stories of human journeys – including the international slave trade – will be explored as part of events for Black History Month. Poets Dorothea Smartt and Berthin Kambale will be reading from their work at ArtLink, Princes Aven [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Oxford University puts unseen First World War poet's manuscr...

They include 17 poems that Blunden, a friend of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen, wrote during his three years of service. Also available to see online will be extracts from his trench diary and his 'Minute Book', whi [...]

Posted On : Sep, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Pneumonia claims Mansour Rahbani at 83

Renowned Lebanese composer Mansour Rahbani died Tuesday following a bout of pneumonia, leaving a legacy of innovation in the music and theater of Lebanon and the wider Arab world. He was 83. For much of his career, Rahbani was known for hi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Oakland Township man puts Dempseytown in book of poetry

A rural highway, a junkyard and a race track are poetic muses for 49-year-old William Bucholz of Dempseytown, Oakland Township, author of a newly published volume of sonnets and poems. "I sit on my porch along Route 417 and I get to [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

A Strong Woman

A Strong Woman is ine who feels deeply and love fiercely. Her tears flow just as abudantly as her laughter. A Strong woman is both soft and powerful. She is both practical and spiritual. A Strong Woman in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2008 | Comments : 1

Man Speaking to a Woman By Sherwood Anderson

You have come to me from a tall awkward city. You have come to me from the sister cities of the north. On your way here to me you have run in and out of a thousand cities that lie like unhatched eggs on the prairies. You are a distraught [...]