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13 Feb 2008, 4:08 pm
Without by Donald Hall, a collection of poems about taking care of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, after she gets terminal cancer, and how that is the best love of his life. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 9:32 am
  As the poet Galway Kinnell once explained, if you express your personal, unique, individual experience truly enough, you become the voice of a creature on the planet speaking. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 4:36 am
He writes on SFGate: Last fall, a radio station in New York decided not to air a reading of the extraordinary poem “Howl,” by San Francisco poet Alan Ginsberg, on the 50th anniversary of its publication. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 7:00 pm
Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 4:19 am
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky, was a Russian poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-92). [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 12:09 pm
  As the poet Lao Tzu wrote, whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately Sees the surface, The core and the surface Are essentially the same, Words make them seem different Only to express appearance. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 6:29 am
Poetic JusticeIn the beauty of the poppiesThe poet was born across the seaWith an anthem in his bosomThat transfigured law and theeAs he wrote to make life holyLet us read to set law freeThe truth is marching onOdetta, The Battle Hymn of the Republic , My Eyes Have Seen (1959)Or, in somewhat more prosaic terms . [read post]
3 Feb 2008, 10:33 pm
" As she explains below, the name's meant to recall both her grandmother and Louise Bennett-Coverley, the African-Jamaican poet/singer, political satirist, and social critic.Heartfelt welcome! [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 8:31 am
" Robert Frost, poet and accomplished Yankee. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 4:30 am
 However, for an interesting read (if you like 3 1/2 hour films about the life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution, you’ll enjoy this work) see this article by Mr. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 9:51 am
Written by John Wesley In our society, the study of language and literature is the domain of poets, novelists, and literary critics. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 3:40 pm
Botstein selected 5 works to present under this thematic concept: Alexander Mosolov's "Iron Foundry," a legendary except from a ballet written in 1928; Shostakovich's incidental music for a comic play called "The Bedbug," Gavriil Popov's music from the film Komsomol - Patron of Electrification, Arthur Lourie's funeral chant in memory of the poet Alexander Blok (setting verses by Anna Akhmatova), and finally the enormous symphony for… [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 3:40 pm
 If  the 14th-century Tuscan poet, Dante, were rewriting the Divine Comedy today, he would have populated a special circle in his Inferno with difficult people. [read post]
22 Jan 2008, 11:14 am
It is the English major's dilemma: Follow your muse and pursue an MFA or give in to your practical side and go for a law degree? [read post]
16 Jan 2008, 12:55 am
This is why this post is called "Stats for Poets," you would presume that poets (cough) do not know statistics, but had I titled this "Stats for Lawyers," some of you may have been offended by the implication. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 8:02 am
  Not only does surety always elude you, but in focusing on it with spotlight intensity, you miss the best part of the journey:  living the questions, as Rainer Marie Rilke writes in his Letters to A Young Poet (this is my very favorite passage): You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked… [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 12:18 am
"The daughter of a dilettante poet, she began to write poetry as a village schoolteacher after a passionate romance with a railway employee who committed suicide. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 10:02 pm
Anacaona was a warrior-poet whose court was famed for its cultural contributions; the "Golden Flower" surrounded herself with beauty and was renowned for her ballads, ballets, poetry, and plays. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 8:03 am
……………… by Roberta Beary - from The Unworn Necklace (Snapshots Press, 2007); Frogpond (Winter 2007), 1st Place, Haiku Society of America's 2006 Gerald Brady Senryu ContestDavids words: "In the hands of a lesser… [read post]