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9 Jun 2011, 2:09 pm
Then again, when Longfellow commemorated the famous ride of ’75 the year was 1861, and instrumentally at least, the poet’s patriotic appeal served a very powerful and entirely legitimate purpose indeed. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 5:13 am
How about these: * poet Maya Angelou’s Hallmark greeting card contract (formation in exclusive license deal) * a lawyer’s boasts on “Dateline NBC” (offers) * whether corporate internet privacy policies are contracts (mutual assent) * effects of construction surprises in demolition of building damaged on 9/11 (duress/pre-existing duty rule) * Kevin Costner’s pending fight about sculptures for his Dunbar ranch (conditions) *Donald Trump’s… [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 1:42 pm
The newest victims are doctors and nurses, put on trial for helping wounded protesters – and a poet who is on trial for a protest reading! [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 1:14 pm
It pleases me when poets earn their keep. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 8:42 am
Poet, translator and editor Tony Barnstone is professor of English at Whittier College. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 6:55 am
On this day Chinese around the world commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan ??. [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 5:19 am
Poets, philosophers, and writers can create at a late age: Emmanuel Kant published his greatest works between 60 and 80. 11. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 4:07 pm
I read a poem called "Try to Remember Some Details" by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 7:09 am
In 2004, just before the 15th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, Chinese journalist, poet and essayist Shi Tao was arrested and charged with “illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities” after he sent an email to an overseas pro-democracy website. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 7:00 pm
One of the many challenges of Milton as a poet is that this austere puritan offers a vision of Eden that "has the fleshly abundance of a Venetian painting:" Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous… [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 11:00 am
Congrats to budding poet Maya Young Wong, a fifth grader hailing from Altadena, California! [read post]
31 May 2011, 10:15 pm
Barad-dur, also known as the Dark Tower and Sauron's citadel, is, by contrast, described as "that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic. [read post]
28 May 2011, 7:41 am
This was how the Anglo-Saxon poets composed and passed on their collective sagas, how the French troubadours collectively generated courtly culture, how European folk artists and peasant families told and refined fairytales, and how the anonymous men and women of ancient and Classical China created the repertoire of narrative songs and folk operas that survive to this day. [read post]
28 May 2011, 3:52 am
Famed poet Walt Whitman spent eight years working as a clerk in the Attorney General’ [read post]
27 May 2011, 5:34 am
., murder investigation that's focused on a a Mexican-born businessman and poet. [read post]
25 May 2011, 10:20 pm
A well-known artist, poet, and children’s book author is suing the management company of her condo complex for Salem personal injury. [read post]
24 May 2011, 10:54 am
What happened to the tranquility of the beautiful, delicately scaled maze of canals and plazas where the poets, artists and travelers inter-mingled in the uniqueness of this old city? [read post]
23 May 2011, 9:16 am
Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky reads "To Television" from his "Selected Poems. [read post]
20 May 2011, 6:28 pm
Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's writing has focused on American life. [read post]
20 May 2011, 12:29 pm
Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky reads three poems from his most recent collection, "Selected Poems. [read post]
