RoxannaMontréal, QC History Through Our Eyes: Dec. 14, 1979, poetry on the buses montrealgazette.com - Edie Austin, Montreal Gazette Louis Dudek "is one of 20 poets — French and English — whose poems will be sandwiched between the bra ads and sumptuous supermarket come-ons on the …
RoxannaPoetry Alabama native, acclaimed poet killed in NC traffic incident al.com - Tribune Media Services Attalla native Gerald William Barrax, an acclaimed poet and retired emeritus professor of creative writing at North Carolina State University, died …
RoxannaKashmir Valley Mevlana Rumi's poetry therapy for psychiatric patients in Kashmir dailysabah.com - ANADOLU AGENCY When 55-year-old Fatima showed signs of depression after her only son disappeared while in the custody of security forces in India-administered Jammu …
RoxannaPoetry Ontario Creates Poet Laureate Position in Honour of Gord Downie exclaim.ca The province of Ontario has officially introduced a new poet laureate role named after Gord Downie, the late singer of the Tragically Hip. A bill …
RoxannaFred Rogers Norman Fischer (poet, zen priest) – the only way out of the catastrophe we’re in bigthink.com - Jason Gots The other day on social media a friend asked what the heck is up with this Mr. Rogers revival. Why does everyone suddenly love this guy so much? …
RoxannaPoetry Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning publishersweekly.com In this blistering essay collection, poet Hong (Engine Empire) interrogates America’s racial categories to explore the “under-reported” …
RoxannaSocial Work Colorado teacher assigns students 'sexual poetry' without consent - Jerusalem Post jpost.com - By JERUSALEM POST STAFF A school in Colorado Springs is under scrutiny after a parent reported an assignment in which students were required to recite sexually explicit …
RoxannaPoetry 11 Powerful Poems by Langston Hughes You Should Know oprahmag.com - DeAnna Janes Short and sweet, “Dreams” is a two-stanza poem with just eight lines that beautifully emphasize the importance of dreaming. Whether you prefer to …
RoxannaBooks New & Noteworthy Poetry From Sharon Olds, Paul Muldoon and More The New York TimesPAGAN VIRTUES: Poems, by Stephen Dunn. (Norton, $26.95.) Dunn’s sly, companionable collection, his 19th, is filled with an embrace of the everyday that reifies the epigraph from Emerson: “An actually fly
RoxannaEntertainment Three new poetry collections grapple with injustice, grief — and the nature of truth The Washington Post - Elizabeth Lund“Arias” by Sharon Olds (Knopf) soars with a subtle, sublime music as she confronts various forms of violence in society and in her own past. The collection includes poems about Trayvon Martin and Etan
RoxannaLeonard Cohen Leonard Cohen’s Last Words Summon The Spirit Of The Poet forward.com - Raphael Magarik Like an urn is full of ash, a posthumous album can often be a light, insubstantial remembrance. The survivors who release it into the wind of public …
RoxannaCulture 17 Poems by Emily Dickinson jstor.org - By: The Editors Massachusetts-born poet Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. Although Dickinson only published about ten of her nearly 1,800 poems during …
RoxannaCanadian Literature The best Canadian poetry of 2019 CBC News - CBC Books - stacked logo For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe by Gary Barwin For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe is a poetry collection by Gary Barwin. NDN …
RoxannaNative Americans Joy Harjo’s “Eagle Poem” Translated into Arabic, by Ibtisam Barakat worldliteraturetoday.org I am thrilled to offer the following translation of “Eagle Poem” from English to Arabic in honor of poet Joy Harjo who, this year, was named the …
RoxannaNashville, TN Poet Christine Hall Helps Nashvillians Project Their Voices nashvillescene.com In May, I decided to perform a poem. I am not a poet by any means, but I write, and I wanted to honor my ability to make and share art by reciting …
RoxannaLiterature Poetic Lenses: Our Fifteenth Annual Look at Debut Poetry pw.org - Dana Isokawa For our fifteenth annual look at debut poetry, we chose ten poets whose first books struck us with their formal imagination, distinctive language, …
RoxannaLGBTQ+ QUEERY: Kathi Wolfe washingtonblade.com - Joey DiGuglielmo Kathi Wolfe’s path to poetry was circuitous. She’d written some poetry in childhood but a poetry workshop in grad school deflated her. “The teacher, a …
RoxannaWorld News Lifetime award for poet Rivka Miriam - Jerusalem Post jpost.com - By HELEN KAYE Poet and author Rivka Miriam has won the 2019 Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize for Life Achievement in Hebrew poetry, Culture and Sport Minister Miri …
RoxannaNews (South Africa) Piercing the veil of social constructions | City Press news24.com - Nickita Maesela Poetry in South Africa is alive and well. Within the genre a literary revolution has begun to take shape, and it is holding a giant middle finger up …
RoxannaPoetry The Poet Who Took a Vow of Silence As a Child thecut.com - Indya Brown Like Maya Angelou, Precious Okoyomon stopped talking when she was 8 years old for a year. Okoyomon is also a poet, and started writing poetry during …
RoxannaLibraries Nonprofit leader by day, artist by night: Meet Philly’s new poet laureate Trapeta B. Mayson whyy.org - Peter Crimmins The Free Library of Philadelphia announced poet Trapeta B. Mayson, a native of Liberia and longtime member of the local arts scene will be the city’s …
RoxannaNorth Philadelphia Trapeta B. Mayson named next poet laureate of Philadelphia inquirer.com - Brandon T. Harden Trapeta B. Mayson, a Liberia-born poet, teacher, and licensed social worker, will be Philadelphia’s next poet laureate, for 2020 and 2021, the Free …
RoxannaPoetry Copper Canyon poetry title wins National Book Award ptleader.com - Kirk Boxleitner kboxleitner@ptleader.com Port Townsend’s Copper Canyon Press has done the improbable — again — winning a National Book Award, the literary prize that recognizes the best …
RoxannaBooks Poem of the month: Bicep to Bicep by Mary J Oliver The Guardian - Mary J OliverHe never kissed me goodnight never held my hand never met me from school never boiled me an egg Tactics sorted we head for the altar bicep to bicep fists gently furled • From Jim Neat: The Case of a Young
RoxannaBooks Curled Thyme The Paris Review - H. D.In this previously unpublished essay, the legendary Imagist H.D. muses on the Greek bucolic poet Theocritus. Where the Greek voice speaks there are rocks. But these Sicilian rocks of Theocritus, particularly
RoxannaBooks The Poetry Foundation's 2019 Staff Picks by Harriet Staff poetryfoundation.org - Poetry Foundation As 2019 winds down, we take a look at a few of the standout books read by the Poetry Foundation's staff this year. Jericho Brown's brilliant book The …
RoxannaPoetry Frost Fair by Carol Ann Duffy review – icy perfection from a curator of cold The Guardian - Kate KellawayFrost Fair is a tiny book, about 4in x 4in, and might be alighted upon as a stocking filler, though, unlike most stocking fillers, it will surely survive Christmas Day. It is tempting to take Carol Ann
RoxannaBooks Poem of the week: The Flea by John Donne The Guardian - Carol RumensThis flea is a comical and complex figure. So is the speaker, a suitor well aware of the contrivance, exaggeration and contradiction of his ingenious but wobbly argument. From the moment he commands the
RoxannaCulture Why Emily Dickinson Wore White crfashionbook.com - By Elyssa Goodman “A solemn thing – it was – I said – A Woman – white – to be – And wear – if God should count me fit – Her blameless mystery –” –Emily Dickinson, No. …
