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2 Mar 2022, 4:05 am
"It guides us from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist era in the 1930s, through Mao Zedong’s revolution in the 1950s and 1960s, and on to the 'reform era' of Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s and Xi Jinping’s current Leninist restoration, explaining how, as Ai Weiwei writes, 'the whirlpool that swallowed up my father upended my life too, leaving a mark on me that I carry to this day.'... [read post]
26 Feb 2022, 10:44 am
The German poet Heinrich Heine was to call the outpouring of emotion that accompanied Liszt and his performances “Lisztomania. [read post]
23 Feb 2022, 7:51 am
We've Moved! [read post]
22 Feb 2022, 3:15 pm
Great Persian poets like Ferdowsi, Saadi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam seeped into western culture. [read post]
17 Feb 2022, 4:18 pm
The post From Biglaw To Poet appeared first on Above the Law. [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 2:32 pm
I read that he had written a while ago in his page: “We have to burry and carry most of the (unsaid) sayings of our hearts into the grave” and he has then quoted a poem from the legendary poet of Afghanistan—Mawlana Jaludin Mohammad Balkhi “Rumi”—born in the Balkh Province of Afghanistan. [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 5:12 am
It might seem surprising and disrespectful to name a phenomenon that undermines free speech after the English poet John Milton, who in 1644 defied English censorship and published Areopagitica, his famous plea for press freedom. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 3:23 pm
In addition to presenting a wealth of Pompeii’s fresco art — including dynamic mythological scenes, landscapes, still lifes, astonishing trompe-l’oeil, portraits, and genre scenes — Pompeii in Color features a virtual reconstruction and fly-through of The House of the Tragic Poet (Pompeii, Regio VI, Insula 8.3-5), extrapolated from a wooden model preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples…” [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 12:08 pm
But just as every teenager who discovers that blank verse is a kind of poetry is tempted to just write down words and say, "Hey, I'm a poet! [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 2:31 am
As poet Robert Burns mused centuries ago, “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 6:30 am
Her actions suggest that she well understood what poet Audre Lorde would articulate nearly two decades later, that her silence would not protect her. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 4:59 pm
It is also, fortuitously, the birthday of the African American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist, Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967). [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 12:54 pm
Poet: Francis Scott Key Francis Scott Key was raised in a well-known family from Maryland. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 10:56 am
Véronique Fraser, University of SherbrookeIce BreakerPlenary Session"Multipartiality: An Essential Foundation for Equitable Fairness"Remonia Stoddart-Morrison & Natalie Sharpe, University of AlbertaConcurrent Sessions"Connecting with Students: 3 Cases for Review"Amy Fish, Ombudsperson, Concordia University"Online Proctoring: Integrity, Equity, and Fairness"David Draper, Undergraduate Ombuds Intern, University of AlbertaConcurrent Sessions"Ombuds,… [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
Since that time, the liberal Justices have needed the vote of the Chief Justice to garner a majority, ensuring that Justice Breyer would continue to lack the assignment power.Consequently, from federalism to administrative law to individual rights, Justice Breyer’s most memorable writing has been in concurrences and dissents.The Fox’s CurseAccording to an aphorism of the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, “a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 3:54 am
So Mann wrote in an afterword to a 1937 book about the Spanish Civil War, adding that the poet who forswears politics is a “spiritually lost man. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 1:03 am
Today, the name of the poet, Professor Jo Ji-hun of Korea University, is still well known in drinking circles. [read post]
17 Jan 2022, 11:23 am
The United States marks the birthday of marking the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the third Monday of January each year. [read post]
16 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
It has a scrivener’s talent for describing what is, and the poet’s gift for imagining what might be, but it balks at the transition, terrified of the chaos it imagines on the journey from here to there. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 8:54 am
"Often, I cannot bear the idea of sending out my 'soft animal' of a body, in the words of the poet Mary Oliver, to fight for feminist views that are edgy and controversial and to represent a discipline that prides itself on sharpness, clarity and precision. [read post]
