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Poe for poetry

John Cusack is playing American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue's “The Raven”, which is soon going to fly in India. The title is drawn from one his best remembered poems. The thriller follows Edgar Allan [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week: 'The Fine Old English Gentleman' by Charle...

It would be a pity to let the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens pass by without including an example of his verse on Poem of the week. The novelist's poetic output was small: a few songs in The Pickwick Papers, poems for pla [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Poetry Workshop at Tyme Gallery

Award winning poets and professors Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Iain Haley Pollock, and New York City renowned anthropologist, professor and poet Renato Rosaldo will conduct a poetry workshop the afternoon of Sunday, May 20. This is for beginners a [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Chinese Poetry

As defined by Watson (1986), poetry is a creative understanding of knowledge uttered through meaning sound and musical language choices in order to evoke an emotional reaction. Since times immemorial, poetry has been credited for its appl [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Local Poets to Compete for Nationals

Steel City Slam has been in full swing since September, and on Friday, performance poets will gather for a grand slam event that could send them to a national competition. Steel City Slam Off, Pittsburgh’s biggest slam poetry event, [...]

Posted On : May, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Poetry in Songs

The captivating music of Marathi movie, Ajintha , to be released on May 11, was launched at the Le Méridien on Friday. The film relates the true love story between Major Robert Gill and a tribal Banjara girl named, Paro. Ajintha &r [...]

Posted On : May, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

The Power

Forget all of that end-of-the-pier palm-reading stuff. Picture a seaside town in your head. Start from its salt-wrack-rotten smells and raise the lid of the world to change the light, then go as far as you want: the ornament of a pro [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Check Out 30 Poets In 30 Days Before National Poetry Month I...

Do you love to read or write poetry? Then you should follow the @30poets30days Twitter stream and head on over to Greg Pincus‘s blog, Gotta Book, for his 30 Poets in 30 Days page where he features a different poet every day during t [...]

Posted On : Apr, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Children's Corner: Poetry books

April is Poetry Month, and there's an abundance of new poetry books for children. Here's a closer look: Since the post of Children's Poet Laureate was created several years ago, three people have held the position, which [...]

Posted On : Apr, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Pakistani poet Zehra Nigah enthrals at Jashn-e-Bahar

On a balmy April evening, Pakistani poet Zehra Nigah enthralled everyone with her hard-hitting shayari at the 13th annual mushaira Jashn-e-Bahar on Friday. In a voice as sweet as a granny telling stories to sleepy grandchildren, Niga [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Taking poetry to India`s young readers - with Kamala Das

Delhi: Prose has for long edged poetry to the margins of contemporary Indian literature. It is only natural that the new reader is not familiar with the late Kamala Das or her bold feminist oeuvre of poetry and short story that gave her c [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Pakistani poets hold mushairah lovers spellbound

“Urdu is one of the dominant languages in Pakistan and has become a bridge between cultures and countries. In fact, Urdu is one of the most popular languages after Arabic in the Middle East, and Urdu’s role in shaping the subc [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Poetry in motion

New York's gritty subway has got its sense of poetry back, with the return of a popular program to bring verses to commuters. The Metropolitan Transport Authority, which runs the underground system, announced it was restoring its Poet [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Pressing for Good Poetry

When we asked Joe Pan, publisher and editor of the Williamsburg-based Brooklyn Arts Press, to assemble numbers related to his art monograph and poetry chapbook operation, he discovered that all of his books had images of nature on them. & [...]