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Arshdeep Singh, a poet and cricketer, earned his India call-up and has become a leading wicket-taker. His father, Darshan ...
A stone’s throw from Alcatraz sits Angel Island. For thirty years, this spot in San Francisco Bay held thousands of Asian ...
Before the sun comes up each day, Harold Mohn has already written two or three poems at his residence at Juniper Village in South Lebanon. After all, that’s what a poet does, and Mohn has been ...
Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...
Amarillo poetry lovers, please join this acclaimed poet TONIGHT — Wed., May 7th — for a reading and discussion at the Amarillo Public Library's Southwest Branch (6801 W. 45th St.). Doors at 7p; ...
The poems, dating as far back as the Tang Dynasty ... who grew up along the Yangtze River listening to village elders speak of the porpoises as weather-predicting spirits.
Lesley James, whose poem Afon Lash Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness is also featured in the book, said a river can be an indicator of the social, economic and environmental health of a village.
Yu Xiuhua, born in 1976 in a rural village in Hubei Province, began writing poetry in her twenties. She rose to national prominence in 2014 when her poem I Crossed Half of China to Sleep with You ...
Kerry Dorey is a multi-hyphenate: he’s an actor and a voice artist; he leads sound baths at Village Yoga; and—between you and me—he’s a member of Pemberton’s growing Secret Poetry ...
Aragam, a tribal village located 70 km from Srinagar in Bandipora district, has become Kashmir’s first “book and poetry village”, where over 70 households have dedicated spaces for books. This project ...
After she graduated in 1917, she published her first book of poems and moved to Greenwich Village, streaking like a comet through Manhattan’s creative scene. It can be hard for a 21st-century ...
In writer and poet Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay’s 2010 poem “Misfit,” the speaker of the poem notes that other people often ostracize him for his differences. But he doesn’t care ...