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Carol Ann Duffy's new poem celebrating trees
BBC News - BBC World
Poet Carol Ann Duffy has a new poem, 'Forest', which celebrates trees. Following in the Poet Laureate's footsteps, people are being asked to write about what trees, forests and woodlands mean to them.
Creative Writing
Poems vs. Papers – Not as Different as You’d Think!
sfu.ca
As a Communication and English student, I’ve written many, many papers during my time at SFU. I’ve also written a lotof poetry, mostly about my …
Giller Prize
Giller Prize winner Andre Alexis takes readers on a dreamy trip | The Star
thestar.com - Robert Wiersema
Days by Moonlight, the new novel from Giller Prize winner Andre Alexis, is deceptively simple, and almost overpoweringly rich. Technically the fifth …
Poetry
Some Love Poems for Your Sweetie
The Poetry Foundation on soundcloud.com
Poetry
James K Baxter: venerated poet's letters about marital rape rock New Zealand
The Guardian - Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin
A new collection of letters from one of New Zealand’s most significant poets, James K Baxter, that includes a blunt admission of marital rape is causing shockwaves through the literary community. Baxter
Entertainment (UK)
Andrea Levy death: Small Island author who chronicled Windrush generation dies, aged 62
independent.co.uk - Clarisse Loughrey
Author Andrea Levy, whose work chronicled the black British experience in the years after Windrush, has died aged 62. Born in 1956 to Jamaican parents …
Poetry
Someone has hidden feminist poems all around London
stylist.co.uk - Emily Baker
Remember when Emma Watson travelled the world hiding books in the streets of New York, Paris and London? Never before have we been so attentive on …
Poetry
The Architecture of a Love Poem by Alexandria Peary
poetryfoundation.org
Love's balustrade, love's balcony a few iron words that can be seen anywhere still in grocery lists, in laundry hung between two objects, an e-mail, in …
Poetry
Valentine’s Day query: Is Edna St. Vincent Millay “America’s foremost love poet?” | Library of America
loa.org
Back Valentine’s Day query: Is Edna St. Vincent Millay “America’s foremost love poet?” News February 14, 2011 Valentine’s Day query: Is Edna St. Vincent …
Nova Scotia
Wealthy Nova Scotia thief filled home with pilfered artifacts, art
thechronicleherald.ca
HALIFAX — A man who filled his suburban lakeside home with historic artifacts and art stolen over decades of pilfering so stealthy that many of his …
Literature
Arundhati Roy to Headline the 2019 PEN World Voices Festival
The New York Times - By GABE COHN
During a month when some of the biggest headlines have been about a billionaire’s extramarital affair and a politician’s tweet that many took to be anti-Semitic, PEN America has announced a festival that
New York State
The Trouble with Poetry: A Poem of Explanation
edutopia.org
Poetry fills me with joy and I rise like a feather in the wind. Poetry fills me with sorrow and I sink like a chain flung from a bridge. But mostly …
Game of Thrones
Every Game of Thrones Fan Needs to See The Mountain Recite Valentine's Day Poems
POPSUGAR - Perri Konecky
Gregor Clegane is alive and well, y'all, and he's helping Game of Thrones fans celebrate Valentine's Day. If you thought Thor Björnsson was immune to romantic gestures due to his killer capabilities on
“Breathless” by Billy Collins
wordsfortheyear.com - By Christina's Words
Some like the mountains, some like the seashore, Jean-Paul Belmondo says to the camera in the opening scene. Some like to sleep face up, some like to …
Paperback pioneer Betty Ballantine dead at 99
The Washington Post - By Hillel Italie | AP
NEW YORK — Betty Ballantine, half of a groundbreaking husband-and-wife publishing team that helped invent the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for science fiction and other genres through
Nude sunbathing and beards: Walt Whitman's guide to being 'manly' as town celebrates poet's bicentenary
theboltonnews.co.uk
Disillusioned with mainstream religion, they sought inspiration by reading and discussing the lives and works of visionary writers like Ruskin, …
Obituaries
Overlooked No More: Dudley Randall, Whose Broadside Press Gave a Voice to Black Poets
The New York Times
Since 1851, many remarkable black men and women did not receive obituaries in The New York Times. This month, with Overlooked, we’re adding their stories to our archives. By Morgan Jerkins “Mother dear,
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's Lyrics, Poetry, and Prose Showcased at Chicago's American Writers Museum
mentalfloss.com - BY Emily Petsko
Like a Rolling Stone, Tangled Up in Blue, Blowin’ in the Wind, and The Times They Are a-Changin’ are among Bob Dylan’s best songs, but the 77-year-old …
Literature
SquareRoot of Love: Broken Heart
therumpus.net
There are many reasons to have a broken heart these days: children dying at the borders, prison slave labor, violence of every kind, mass shootings, …
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski’s old Fairmount bar is back on the market once more
phillyvoice.com - Adam Hermann
Famed American writer Charles Bukowski is revered by a lot of folks for the writing he did while he lived in Los Angeles, but in the mid-1940s he …
Film (UK)
Cyrano meets Harry Potter: Toby MacDonald and Pauline Etienne on Old Boys
bfi.org.uk - Josh Slater-Williams
Old Boys, backed by the BFI Film Fund with National Lottery money, is in cinemas from 22 February Loosely based on Edmond Rostand’s classic …
Prince Edward Island
P.E.I. welcomes first Mi’kmaq poet laureate
theguardian.pe.ca
Prince Edward Island’s new poet laureate is actress and best-selling author of “My Mi’kmaq Mother,” Julie Pellissier-Lush. A graduate of the …
Belfast
Poems by late poet Pádraic Fiacc gifted to Belfast schools
irishnews.com - Bimpe Archer
A NEW generation will be introduced to the poetry of the late Pádraic Fiacc after educational charity Verbal Arts donated copies of his selected …
San Francisco, CA
Birthday party of the century: City Lights to celebrate Ferlinghetti's 100 years | Datebook
sfchronicle.com - John McMurtrie
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s hand-painted sign, taped to the window of his office at City Lights, overlooking Columbus Avenue, reads, “OPEN DOOR.” That …
'SquareRoot of Love: Broken Heart' event remembers Parkland victims | Arts and Entertainment
yourobserver.com - by: Marty Fugate Contributor
John Sims is a conceptual artist, writer and filmmaker. He’s not afraid of dangerous topics. You wouldn’t think love would be one of them. But love …
Archives
CBC Archives
cbc.ca
The Favourite Game was made into a movie by Quebec director Bernar Hébert in 2003. Cohen was living on the Greek island of Hydra when he wrote The …
Books
Heidi Toffler, Unsung Force Behind Futurist Books, Dies at 89
The New York Times - By KEITH SCHNEIDER
Heidi Toffler, a researcher and editor who for decades served an essential though anonymous collaborative role alongside her celebrated husband, Alvin Toffler, in producing global best-selling books about
Canadian News
Peter Meilleur obituary
The Guardian - Marius Kociejowski
My friend the poet Peter Meilleur, whose nom de plume was Childe Roland, has died aged 75. He was an experimental poet with an intensely lyrical voice, whose reputation rests on his visual and sound poetry.
Lifestyle
This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address
The Washington Post Magazine - By Rachel Kurzius
Every day, somewhere in Prince William County, two residents receive an unusual piece of mail: a greeting card containing the same handwritten poem. "A gift, a love gift / Utterly unasked for / By a sky
Gray Wolf
Graywolf Press
pw.org
Graywolf Press seeks an organized, detail-oriented person with publishing experience for the position of Editorial and Production Associate. Graywolf …