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17 Jun 2020, 4:50 am
I wanted to take the "Master Class" from David Sedaris, but I couldn't bring myself to pay $99 for a subscription to the app until I saw that they also had a class from Billy Collins, a poet I've liked ever since I randomly picked a book off a high shelf at Paul's Books and read one poem.Both Sedaris and Collins, I see now, begin their writing by noticing some little thing that is present in their own life. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 1:01 am
His own career as a poet reached its culmination in God’s Trombones, Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, published in 1927. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 1:05 pm
" But the tour materials contain a copyrighted photograph of the famous Welsh poet that the Welsh government allegedly hasn't licensed. [read post]
An extremely light diversion: 4 completely different songs titled — variously spelled — "La Dee Dah"
9 Jun 2020, 12:38 pm
Wikipedia says: "John Philip "Jake" Thackray (27 February 1938 – 24 December 2002) was an English singer-songwriter, poet and journalist. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 1:44 am
They recorded their rendition of "Statesboro Blues" before either Taj Mahal or the Allman Brothers; a few years later they also founded the Fugs along with poet Tuli Kupferberg. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 12:00 am
The scene from Dead Poets Society dramatizes carpe diem as a phrase full of potential for youth and young adults. [read post]
31 May 2020, 11:05 pm
Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-based poet and novelist, observed that the “great question” hovering over society is “what are people for? [read post]
24 May 2020, 6:20 am
” When it was published, “Wolves” read as a retort to the 1990 book “Iron John: A Book About Men,” written by another poet and Jungian enthusiast, Robert Bly, who instructed men to harness their “Zeus energy. [read post]
21 May 2020, 6:44 am
An elderly memsahib’s body lies crushed at the bottom of a moonlit ski slope in Kashmir in the twilight of the Raj. [read post]
20 May 2020, 8:17 am
Kamau Bell on Making Sense of AmericaA Poet Gives a 360 Degree View of the Criminal Justice SystemAt Liberty Live from SXSW! [read post]
14 May 2020, 11:32 am
The quote, which was posted without attribution, is from the famous poet Maya Angelou and is the title of one of her most famous works. [read post]
14 May 2020, 2:00 am
Of course, we need to have a strategy to take us through the next year and a half, but we also need a vision of where we hope to be heading ‘The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Men Often Go Awry’ That axiom by Scottish poet Robert Burns has never rung truer. [read post]
12 May 2020, 4:00 am
Following up on my previous post, GMAC, Accreditors Seek To Postpone Business School Rankings During COVID-19: Poets&Quants, Businessweek Agrees To Suspend Its MBA Ranking This Year: Bloomberg Businessweek, which annually publishes one of the five most influential rankings of MBA programs, today (May 7) announced that it would suspend its... [read post]
8 May 2020, 5:32 am
“Rabindranath Tagore FRAS [Fellowship of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland] (born Robindronath Thakur) [also known by his pen name Bhanu Singha Thakur (Bhonita), and also known by his sobriquets Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi] was a polymath, poet, musician, artist and ayurveda-researcher from the Indian subcontinent. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 11:46 am
The ancient Roman poet Virgil wrote the line, “Beware Greeks bearing gifts,” which refers to the Greeks’ defeat of Troy using the first “Trojan Horse. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 8:50 am
Poet. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 8:11 am
In ['Radical Wordsworth: the Poet Who Changed the World,' Sir Jonathan Bate] cautions against popular assumptions about the poets. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 2:00 am
Poets&Quants, HBS To Offer Deferment For Incoming MBAs: In a move that will cause reverberations across the graduate business education universe, Harvard Business School has announced that it will offer deferment to incoming MBAs should they decide against attending fall classes that may be taught partially or entirely online because... [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 9:02 pm
FLASHBACK FRIDAY In a 2019 essay for The Regulatory Review, poet, public-interest attorney, and environmental activist Elizabeth J. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 5:00 pm
The library has long carried the names of great poets and philosophers chiseled in stone across the front, proudly declaring that it was a home of great ideas, ideas that made our civilization, Western civilization, distinctive. [read post]
