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This Christmas poem by St. John of the Cross will enlighten the dark night of your soul
aleteia.org - Philip Kosloski | Dec 14, 2018
The mystic saint reminds us all of the deep spiritual truths of Christmas. St. John of the Cross has been nicknamed “the most mystical of all poets, …
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Top 10
Two Canadian collections make New York Times’ top 10 poetry picks
citynews.ca - News Staff
NEW YORK — Two Canadian poets have made the New York Times Book Review’s list of the best poetry collections of 2018.Richard Sanger of Toronto was …
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Christmas
Here's What You Should Know About Gryla From "Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina"
Romper - Mishal Ali Zafar
Fans have a lot to unpack from the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: A Midwinter’s Tale episode, which brought some of the weirdest and coolest witchy …
8 Poems to Get You Through Finals
bookriot.com - Abigail Clarkin
It’s finals season for all of you college students, and I know things can get pretty gnarly. I remember getting due dates mixed up and sleeping so …
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Education (UK)
Why poetry is always perfect for primary
tes.com - By Jo Brighouse
There was silence in the classroom, save the occasional snort of laughter as they changed for PE. Harrison had decided we needed a poem instead of …
Hong Kong
Dissident Chinese Poet, Liu Xiaobo Supporter Dies in Hong Kong
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Dissident Chinese poet Meng Lang, a founder member of the writers’ group Independent Chinese PEN, has died in Hong Kong after a battle against …
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Alfred Noyes
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Alfred Noyes was born in England and attended Oxford, where he left before completing his degree. He published his first book of poems, The Loom of …
Hungary
Park named after Adam Mickiewicz inaugurated in Budapest
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A park named after 19th-century Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz was inaugurated on Friday in Budapest’s 3rd district in the presence of Budapest Mayor …
Devon
POET 1.02 | Shared decision making for high risk surgery
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POET - The Perioperative Enhancement Team How can cardiopulmonary exercise testing lead to shared decision making? Hear how aortic aneurysms are dealt …
The Guardian
Grenfell Tower
The importance of poetry and reading between the lines
The Guardian - Letters
Mary Gameson wants to see poetry on our front pages, while Joan Lewis looks into Sats results and reading ability Poets are writing about the “tumultuous events of our day” – Ruth Padel cites Ben Okri’s
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Hither Come Hither
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About this Poem “The title of the poem alludes to Amiens's song (‘Under the greenwood tree…’) in Shakespeare's As You Like It and to William Blake's …
Tree Frogs
Poetry Daily
poems.com - Mark Jarman
My Father Returns as a Luna Moth My father returns as a luna moth, a green hand under the porch light. He comes back as a tree frog on the kitchen …
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Long-form Journalism
Poem: A man and a woman touched
The New York Times - By BLAS FALCONER
Like the run-on title of Blas Falconer’s spare yet luminous poem, the couple driving through the Puerto Rican countryside are suspended in time. Who they are and where they’ll end up is a mystery; we see
“To Be in Love” by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Amanda Holmes reads Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem, “To Be in Love.” Have a suggestion for a poem? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select …
University of California
“Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry” Released
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CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is pleased to announce the publication of “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for …
Planetary Poetry Activity
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Overview STEM concepts are ripe with opportunity for English language arts (ELA) integration. This lesson provides guidance and examples for using …
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The Arts
He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work.
The New York Times - By DAVID BIESPIEL
COLLECTED POEMS By Robert Bly 505 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $39.95. There might be little left to say about Robert Bly, the poet, critic, translator and nonagenarian whose astonishing “Collected Poems”
Headphones
Gifts for the Poet in Your Life
bookriot.com - Christina Orlando
So you’re thinking about gifting this season, but you’ve got a problem—there’s someone in your life who is a reader, a writer, but more than that: a …
Mashable
Love Stories
Please enjoy these Rupi Kaur-inspired poems about bubble tea and lactose intolerance - Culture - Mashable SEA
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There was a time when hot-blooded teens and white collars slogging 10 hours daily with no time for companionship shared a common pursuit. They loved …
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Poems About Loss That Shatter Meaning and Borders
The New York Times - By TESS TAYLOR
BE WITH By Forrest Gander Illustrated. 92 pp. New Directions. Paper, $16.95. This year, the term “political poetry” rightly reverberates with new excitement. In the midst of national turmoil, poets feel
Words of wisdom, poetry from a god. #TherapyThursday #spokenwords via the Rapchat app (prod. by Rapchat)
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Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist
The New York Times - By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF BERTOLT BRECHT Translated and edited by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine 1,286 pp. Liveright Publishing. $49.95. Bertolt Brecht spent the summer of 1953 in his holiday home by a lake
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Book Reviews
Poetry Meets the Moment(s)
The New York Times
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen This week’s issue of the Book Review trains its eye on the world of poetry — which is not as genteel as the caricature of it might suggest. In her
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Notes From the Book Review Archives
The New York Times
This week’s issue, which is dedicated to poetry and politics, includes a review by Craig Morgan Teicher of two books by Adrienne Rich. In 1973, Margaret Atwood reviewed Rich’s collection “Diving Into Wreck”
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The Arts
In Recent Poetry Collections, Weapons Made of Words
The New York Times - By STEPHANIE BURT
IF THEY COME FOR US Poems By Fatimah Asghar 106 pp. One World. Paper, $16. Asghar lost her parents young; with family roots in Pakistan and in divided Kashmir, she grew up in the United States, a queer
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The best Canadian poetry of 2018
cbc.ca - CBC Books
2018 was a great year for books. Here are CBC Books's top 12 Canadian works of poetry that came out this year. The Blue Clerk is a poetry collection …
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Malaysia
This girl wrote a poem to complain about Nando's Malaysia's service, gets a poetic reply - Culture - Mashable SEA
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Poems have always had the power to empower individuals to express their feelings and thoughts. This lass from Malaysia took poetry to the next level …
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Offbeat News
Analyzing the Cleverly Contradictory Wordplay in Emily Dickinson’s Poem ‘Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant’
laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
After a disarming false start, the wonderfully informative video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter digs deeply into the Emily …
Nightmare Before Christmas
Alabama writer co-wrote Disney's 'Nightmare Before Christmas'
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When director Tim Burton was a young animator working for Disney in the early 1980s, he wrote a poem called "The Nightmare Before Christmas." It …
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Science
A Math Function Describes How Whole Societies Remember—and Forget
scientificamerican.com - Gary Stix
In a paper that deftly bridges the divide between the humanities and the sciences—C. P. Snow’s much-vaunted two cultures—researchers from the MIT …