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Book Review: ‘Transfer’ from Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most spirited voices in American poetry. The author, editor, and translator of more than 30 volumes, she is best known for her poetry collections Fuel (1998) and You and Yours (2005), and her award-winning anthology of international poems for young people This Same Sky (1992). In her affirming introduction for that book, she writes, “Whenever someone suggests ‘how ...
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Sweet somethings
PEOPLE There are a zillion affectionate phrases we use for those closest to us: a child or a lover. No matter what language we speak or culture we come from, they can be broadly categorised into two: the sweet and the valuable
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Lorca would have cheered Obama's decision
You will never know how much I love you Because you sleep and have slept in me.
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Contour lines
In this week's podcast, we explore the relationship between landscape and literature in the UK. The British Library's Writing Britain exhibition opens today, and we take a tour round the books and artworks with curators Jamie Andrews and Tanya Kirk, moving from the moors of the Brontës to JG Ballard's suburbia. We chart the growth of the urban landscape as well, beautifully characterised in ...
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Large turnout at relationship-focused poetry night
The Association of Black Collegians hosted its first annual poetry event, Silver Elements of Relationships, at 7 p.m. on April 16 in the Southeast Missouri State University Center's Ballroom B.
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AUDIO: How Peter Ackroyd hid his sexuality
Writer and historian Peter Ackroyd has explained why he decided to conceal his homosexuality from his family.
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China celebrates Tagore, releases his works in Chinese
Beijing, May 17 -- Professor Bai Kai Yuan has translated 17000 lines of Rabindranth Tagore's poems, essays and novels in Chinese. It's probably a first but the translation was never about the number of words or lines: it was because of his love for Tagore and because "he is so jaunopriyo (popular) in China," Bai said in Bengali.On Thursday, another first was added to his impressive repertoire: a ...
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Key Details Of The Kleiner Perkins Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has been sued by Ellen Pao, one of its investment partners, for sexual harassment and gender discrimination that she has allegedly encountered during her seven years at the firm. Before we get further into this, we need to note that we are only going to present the available information on the case. The story is breaking. Right now, the ...
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Vanessa D. Fisher: The Flame of Beauty: Reflections on a Poet's Journey
Poetry has been my quiet and humble redeemer, and it has also taught me that there is nothing that art can't hold, no matter how dark.
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Local woman shares the gift of poetry
Lizette Stiehr is celebrating her birthday by giving a gift to others. On Friday, Sept. 23 — Stiehr’s birthday — Stiehr will be doing a reading from her first book, “2012 to oneness,” which contains 72 inspirational poems, at Jitters from 6 to 9 p.m.
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