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17 Jan 2024, 5:00 am
"Sealed inside your own angry mortal human vacuum, to be just as fatuous as Margaret Mead and James Baldwin about the crisis of our time — particularly race — all you have to do is talk and not listen, always avoid expressing your feelings openly, refer constantly to other times and other cultures with historical and/or pseudo — historical truths, interrupt whenever possible, call yourself a prophet or a poet, insist that you are being emotionally sincere and/or… [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 6:00 am
Since Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 22, 2022, the war has inflicted a high level of casualties on both sides, featured periodic nuclear weapon threats by Russia, and resulted in atrocities that include war crimes and other violations of international law by Russia’s armed forces. [read post]
7 Jan 2024, 2:21 pm
Lastly and most importantly, it was an obedience to advice given to us by our national poet and philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal, a distinguished lawyer in his own right, when famously he said to Muslim youth: “Learn again the lesson of Truth, Justice, and Bravery! [read post]
25 Dec 2023, 4:26 am
Wang's essay on the Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück.I loved the X-Acto/exactitude theme — the whittling away, the meatman and his trained knife, and the potential to end up with nothing.ADDED: I wondered if — in 20 years of blogging — I had ever before used the word "exactitude. [read post]
24 Dec 2023, 4:00 am
It reminds me of my late Professor Miller Williams at Loyola University of the South, in New Orleans, who, in addition to teaching me how to find my own voice as a poet, imparted many life lessons that have served me to this day. [read post]
10 Dec 2023, 3:05 pm
Dominika Pietkun, The European Commission Filing Gaps in the FDI Screening Regulation in the Face of the War in Ukraine Aleksander Gubrynowicz, At the Crossroads of International Criminal Law, the Montreal Convention, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights: Some Remarks on the Interpretation of International Law by the Hague District Court in the MH-17 Judgments and Their Potential Legacies General Articles Małgosia Fitzmaurice, Human Right to Clean Environment and the Rights of… [read post]
10 Dec 2023, 2:06 pm
"Echoing Dorothy Parker's bon mot that "The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism," bestselling African American author and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud, claimed that Steven Spielberg's film Amistad infringed her novel about a real-life mutiny aboard a slave ship off the coast of Cuba in 1839. [read post]
10 Dec 2023, 2:06 pm
"Echoing Dorothy Parker's bon mot that "The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism," bestselling African American author and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud, claimed that Steven Spielberg's film Amistad infringed her novel about a real-life mutiny aboard a slave ship off the coast of Cuba in 1839. [read post]
5 Dec 2023, 11:53 pm
Those of you familiar with the moving scene in Dead Poets Society will recall Robin Williams lecturing his students in front of old photos of long dead students. [read post]
5 Dec 2023, 4:37 am
Dwelling on them, the Scots poet W.N. [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 1:47 pm
2/1 starts off this unpub (in a spite-fence nuisance case) like this:The poet Robert Frost observed that although good fences may make good neighbors, before building one might “ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. [read post]
28 Nov 2023, 6:08 am
The poet Lord Byron famously wrote The Curse of Minerva in part due to his distaste for what Elgin had done.[13] The House of Commons launched an investigation into the legality of transporting the Marbles, and Elgin published a defense of his actions in 1810.[14] The crown purchased the collection of statues in 1816, which were placed in the British Museum.[15] From this time, the Parthenon Marbles have continued to be a source of controversy and illustrate international museum legal… [read post]
27 Nov 2023, 1:49 pm
As the poet said, the lone and level sands stretch far away.The opinion also has some other memorable language:The simple explanation is neglect: someone dropped the ball. [read post]
27 Nov 2023, 7:26 am
”[3] If these conditions were not met, the house would revert to the heirs of Terry and Drennan.[4] AMFA and the City of Little Rock took title to the property after Drennan’s death in 1977.[5] Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, ARK,60-LIRO,6-2Background and the Lawsuit The Terry House was built in 1840 by Albert Pike, a prominent lawyer, politician, and poet.[6] In 1889, Captain John Fletcher, a former mayor of Little Rock, purchased the home from the… [read post]
27 Nov 2023, 6:04 am
Few know that he was a fine poet; although I don't share his rhyming schemes, and write exclusively in free verse myself. [read post]
21 Nov 2023, 2:27 pm
Kolodny is a retired psychoanalyst and poet. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 7:51 pm
We’re better when we’re poets, when we’re learners and listeners, when we’re builders and not breakers. [read post]
29 Oct 2023, 11:44 am
The first is by former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins—”Cemetery Ride,” from his collection Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (2013): Cemetery Ride My new copper-colored bicycle is looking pretty fine under a blue sky as I pedal along a sandy path in the Palm Cemetery here in Florida, wheeling past the headstones of the Lyons, the Campbells, the Vesers, and the Davenports, Arthur and Ethel, who outlived him by eleven years. [read post]
28 Oct 2023, 8:19 am
From the Guardian: So, how would you describe your marriage? [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 8:11 am
Yes, the poet. [read post]
