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21 Jan 2021, 4:36 am
Instead, it was a lovely American experience, highlighted by the radiant Amanda Gorman, our Poet Laureate. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 7:35 pm
Poet Amanda Gorman captured the fears, the hopes, the burdens, and blessings of our country. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 4:00 am
Sincerely,Carla HaydenLibrarian of Congress Inaugurations Past & Present: Blog Posts from Around the Library “Inaugurations: Stepping into History” – A Teacher Resource from the Library of Congress blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2021/01/inaugurations-stepping-into-history-a-teacher-resource-from-the-library-of-congress/ Selected Resources for Parents on Inaugurations, the Presidency, and Civic Engagement blogs.loc.gov/families/2021/01/resources-civics-inaugurations/ … [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 10:38 am
You may have heard the inauguration poet, Amanda Gorman (she’s 22!) [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 12:45 pm
[A second member of the small genre of poems pretending to be by the French poet François Villon.] [read post]
2 Jan 2021, 7:05 am
"The drawings, by the 16th-century Renaissance artist Federico Zuccari, are being exhibited online, for free, by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. 'Until now these beautiful drawings have only been seen by a few scholars and displayed to the public only twice, and only in part,' said Eike Schmidt, the Uffizi’s director. 'Now they are published in full, alongside a didactic-scientific comment, where from [Friday] they will be freely available.'" The Guardian… [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 10:00 am
[My annual exam in American Legal History also includes a biographical essay. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 11:02 am
” Kris Niedringhaus Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 2:30 am
” It’s not a crime novel, but A Child’s Christmas In Wales, by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, is the most remarkable Christmas story since A Christmas Carol. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 4:15 am
As I was digesting the news and browsing through the 29 newly published changes made to the previous version of the Chinese Patent Law, which was passed in 2008, a line from “The Song of the Pipa Player”, a popular poem written in 816 A.D. by Bai Juyi (one of the three most famous poets in China’s Tang Dynasty), came to mind: “Only after our repeated calls did she appear; her face half hidden behind the pipa she held. [read post]
13 Dec 2020, 3:58 am
This year the winner was American poet Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets, for writing “that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 4:42 am
The first known appearance of the word in English literature is by poet John Gower in his poem titled 'In Praise of Peace' dedicated to King Henry IV and composed in 1400; "Of the tenetz to winne or lese a chase, Mai no lif wite er that the bal be ronne". [read post]
6 Dec 2020, 9:00 am
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Poets & Quants, MBA Ranking Scandal Costs Temple At Least $17 Million: Temple University’s Fox School of Business says that the rankings scandal over its online MBA program has cost it a minimum of $17 million in “remediation costs. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 4:00 am
But, as the poet said, to err is human, to forgive divine. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 1:27 pm
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo to a third term, making Harjo the second laureate to receive this extension since terms for the position were established in 1943. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 2:30 am
” Listening to Jerry Jeff Walker today, I take pleasure in the work but, although he sings — a lot — about old men, his music may be primarily a young man’s music in the way that novelist Thomas Wolfe (You Can’t Go Home Again) or Welsh poet Dylan Thomas are better consumed when one is young. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 7:51 am
"How Louise Glück, the new Nobel laureate, was no admirer of Rich’s teaching practices at Columbia University when Glück was a student there. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 11:19 am
The court said in part:The sincerity of Plaintiffs’ religious objections to The Poet X is not disputed, nor is the fact that the book deeply offends Plaintiffs. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 11:30 am
. * * * “There is not an animal on earth, nor a bird that flies on its wings, but they are communities like you…” Qur’an 6:38 [With regard to ‘communities,’ there is an interesting metaphorical and allegorical poem in Persian (available in English trans.) about aspects of Sufism titled The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (1177) by the Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 10:32 am
The great Pittsburgh poet Jack Gilbert wrote that “only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh,” and he meant that “Pittsburgh,” or rather Pittsburghs – the actual neighborhoods that make up the city; the townships and counties that make up the region – is bigger and broader and fuller in the minds of Pittsburghers than it is on the ground, in the real spaces that define it. [read post]
