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19 May 2014, 2:25 am
We are glad to announce having two esteemed keynote speakers: Cory Doctorow, a London-based journalist and science fiction author, winner of the Prometheus and Campbell Awards, co-editor of Boing Boing and author of Little Brother and Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an Icelandic poet and member of the Icelandic parliament, internet activist, freedom of information and freedom of speech defender.The programme is of the multi-track variety, details of which you can find here. [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 1:40 pm
"Said the poet Nikki Giovanni, quoted in "Nikki Giovanni Has Made Peace With Her Hate" (NYT). [read post]
28 Jul 2023, 4:30 am
In May 2012, as part of a linguistic experiment by Macquarie Dictionary, the advertising agency behind the campaign, McCann, had invited a number of lexicographers, authors, and poets to coin a neologism to describe the behaviour. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 8:54 am
Mark Rose’s case studies include the flamboyant early modern writer Daniel Defoe; the self-consciously genteel poet Alexander Pope; the nineteenth-century abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe; the once-celebrated early twentieth-century dramatist Anne Nichols, author of Abie’s Irish Rose; and the provocative contemporary artist Jeff Koons. [read post]
29 Jul 2015, 12:38 pm
., the poet and political writer Mercy Otis Warren, and the politician Samuel Allyne Otis.This 1738 document is an indenture binding Hannah Attequin, a Native American woman from Mashpee, to Silvanus Bourn. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 6:22 am
"And from Larry Eisenberg (recently featured in a NYT article "Meet Some of Our Top Commenters," as the 95-year-old poet of the comments):Boy, Bernie has had some effect! [read post]
26 Jul 2013, 12:23 pm
Stephen Kohn, one of America’s most experienced and accomplished whistleblower attorneys, will participate in an authors' panel and book signing at Busboys and Poets for the newly updated third edition of The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself. [read post]
2 Jan 2015, 2:39 am
Heath Robinson, Keith Douglas (in this writer's opinion the greatest English poet of the Second World War) and the bandleader Glenn Miller.The Public Domain Review has a longer list here including not only those who died in 1944 and therefore become public domain in Europe, but some of those who died in 1964 (such as Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond) and therefore become public domain in those countries which still have 50 year pma copyright terms.The most interesting… [read post]
13 Mar 2021, 5:11 am
pic.twitter.com/3HjVXfTyoD— Angie Martoccio (@angiemartoccio) March 12, 2021 Sad word from a good source that Sally Grossman, wife of @BobDylan's manager Albert who appeared on the cover of "Bringing It All Back Home" and befriended Beat poets, has died at 81. [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 11:28 am
.' He added, 'We need more poets in politics.'"From "The Political Gospel of Raphael Warnock/With his opponent, Herschel Walker, weathering a series of scandals, can the Democratic senator from Georgia find a way to retain his seat? [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 8:14 pm
As the scurrilous poet ‘Peter Pindar,’ John Wolcot was the most provocative English political satirist in the late 18th century. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 5:08 am
We watched in real time as the computer whipped them up to order, cranking them out in the style of whichever poets we suggested. [read post]
8 Mar 2014, 2:05 pm
cant1Syllabification: cantPronunciation: /kant /NOUN1Hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature:the liberal case against all censorship is often cantMORE EXAMPLE SENTENCESFor cant, humbug and moral spinelessness, this took some beating.It annoyed Flaubert mightily that purveyors of political cant should be greeted with more ballyhoo than gifted poets.Most orthodox historians think that comments like these are mere hypocritical… [read post]
16 Mar 2023, 8:22 am
The rest of the crowd seems to be supporting her effort, adding to the pressure on the judge, as if he might decide that the best path through the evening was to throw the written speech aside and take on all comers.I can imagine a character in a movie doing something like that, really looking the questioning student in the eye and saying words that truly connected.The movie in my head looks something like this: Immediately, I think of the words of the poet: The man says, “Get out… [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 8:12 pm
As the scurrilous poet ‘Peter Pindar,’ John Wolcot was the most provocative English political satirist in the late 18th century. [read post]
12 Aug 2015, 2:14 pm
Ours is a truly unique and wonderful society that has never seen its equal, and I dare say never will.It is the Soldier, not the minister, who has given us freedom of religion.It is the Soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.It is the Soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to protest.It is the Soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.It is the… [read post]
2 Sep 2022, 10:12 am
It is allegiance to the traditions that have guided our greatest statesmen and inspired our most eloquent poets – the traditions of freedom, equality, democracy, tolerance, and the tradition of Higher Law, of experimentation, cooperation, and pluralism. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 7:36 am
Although best known as a poet, African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) developed a unique voice in his fiction. [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 8:30 am
Poser sets Mansfield's rulings in historical context while delving into Mansfield's circle, which included poets (Alexander Pope described him as "his country's pride"), artists, actors, clergymen, noblemen and women, and politicians. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 7:56 am
Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. [read post]
