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24 Apr 2018, 12:09 pm by Steve Lubet
But as former Kentucky poet laureate Richard Taylor put it, the death of UPK would be a “big step backward” for Kentucky as “a civilized place to live. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 5:00 pm
But what we don’t read enough of are essayists, historians, poets, philosophers. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 11:31 am by Jenny Gesley
In 1850, the poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine was the first to publish his ideas on family voting. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 8:39 am
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Crime Reads @CrimeReads offers this list of twenty-six poets who also wrote, or currently write, crime fiction. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 8:39 am by Christine Corcos
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Crime Reads @CrimeReads offers this list of twenty-six poets who also wrote, or currently write, crime fiction. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 3:03 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
: Writing, Loss, and Old Age  Serving the Very Sick, Very Frail, and Very Old: Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and Clinical Ethics Organizing Eldercare for Geographic Communities Merchants of Health: Shaping the Experience of Illness Among Older People The Varieties of Aging: Dementia "Losing My Self": A Poet's Ironies and a Daughter's Reflections on Dementia Cognitive Aging: What We Fear and What We Know The Varieties of Aging: Robust Old AgeA Tale for Our Times:… [read post]
7 Apr 2018, 6:09 am
The view of both Stevie [the British poet Stevie Smith, played by Jackson in "Stevie"] and Emily Dickinson seems to be that here were these two solitary, depressed, lonely women, but they lived in these fantastic worlds! [read post]
4 Apr 2018, 11:21 am by Emma Zack
King, a poem by Valencia Craig, the Innocence Project’s case management database administrator and a longtime poet. [read post]
29 Mar 2018, 4:31 pm
.' Thus, [the scholar Tom] Tashiro notes, 'the lowly onion was touched with divinity and thereby entered into the works of a few great poets.' When Rome seemed less of a threat, onions seemed less ripe for poetry. 'Only with the passing of time,' Tashiro concludes, 'in the nineteenth century, on the Continent, would the onion again receive the attention of great writers—of the Scandinavians and of the Russians—for whom it became a symbol of the self… [read post]
29 Mar 2018, 10:41 am
Yet poets, philosophers, and scientists are at their best when moving back and forth, to and fro, from the concrete to the general, from the general to the concrete (or from order to chaos or paradox…), from molds to casts, and thus new molds to new casts. [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 8:47 am
Wrote Christopher Morley, an American journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet who lived from 1890 to 1957.I encountered that as I was looking for quotes about journalism (for reasons described in an earlier post). [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 7:16 am by Ben
Cartoonist sues Infowars over Political Pepe PosterThe illustrator behind Pepe the Frog, one of the internet’s most popular meme characters, is suing Infowars for copyright infringement. [read post]
24 Mar 2018, 9:59 am
The poet, Edwin Markham did indeed look at the painting of a man and see an ox — well, a brother to an ox:Who made him dead to rapture and despair,A thing that grieves not and that never hopes.Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? [read post]
24 Mar 2018, 8:20 am
The poet is Edwin Markham, and the poem — not the one that made me look up Markham — is based on this Millet painting:The Man with the Hoe (1898)Bowed by the weight of centuries he leansUpon his hoe and gazes on the ground,The emptiness of ages in his face,And on his back the burden of the world.Who made him dead to rapture and despair,A thing that grieves not and that never hopes.Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 1:01 pm by Alan J. Borsuk
Louis Repertory Theater invited Orlandersmith, a well-known poet, playwright, and performer from New York City, to create a play focused on Ferguson. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 8:18 am
” Similarly, poet and activist Claudia Rankine considers the Trump Administration to be “about the primacy of whiteness,” and that as citizens, we must discuss and confront the concept of white privilege which undergirds our society. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 8:18 am by Christine Corcos
” Similarly, poet and activist Claudia Rankine considers the Trump Administration to be “about the primacy of whiteness,” and that as citizens, we must discuss and confront the concept of white privilege which undergirds our society. [read post]
19 Mar 2018, 8:00 am
 What is particularly annoying about this case is that it took a whole bunch of money for someone to write:An open door says, 'come in,' the poet Carl Sandburg once wrote. [read post]
18 Mar 2018, 11:57 am by Immigration Prof
Edgar Albert Guest was an American poet and an immigrant to the United States. [read post]