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Poetry in the Park in Willimantic set for return
Poetry in the Park will begin this season in Willimantic with a reading by Martín Espada. The reading will take place on Thursday, June 26, at 6:30 p.m. Espada has published more than 20 books as a ...
New Jersey Globe1d
New Baraka digital ad follows his poetry roots
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is spending $100,000 on a new digital ad that asks, “Are there any American poets in here? “American ...
Brown University5d
With $2 million Mellon grant, Brown scholars will unearth a treasure trove of African poetry
With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...
20 Famous Poems Everyone Needs to Read at Least Once
Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...
The five best poems written by musicians
Poems and songwriting go hand in hand, so it's no wonder musicians are able to pen a great piece of literature. Here we count ...
The Economist5d
Rhyme, once in its prime, is in decline
F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...
Kannada poet, playwright and critic H.S. Venkatesha Murthy passes away
He chaired the 85th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana held at Kalaburagi in 2020. Apart from advocating Kannada as ...
From psychiatric ward to Nobel prize: How a Jewish outcast became a great Russian poet
On the 85th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky's birth, we revisit the exiled Nobel laureate who never stopped writing in Russian ...
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a poignant childhood memoir, a tribute to Subhas Chandra Bose first published ...