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3 Nov 2015, 9:19 am
The University Bookman reports on an October 20, 2015 event which the Federal Bar Council set up at Poets House in which four U. [read post]
29 Apr 2007, 12:01 am
Thomas, was named the state's Poet Laureate for 2008. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 7:22 am by Christine Hurt
"  A real-life couple, one a novelist and the other (you guessed it) a poet, narrate their day together. [read post]
8 Sep 2015, 11:31 pm by aet1
The privileged poet who submitted under an ethnic pen name was misguidedly trying to prove that wrong and was sadly blind to his own privilege as a white male poet, but if Alexie had retroactively ousted his poem based on the misleading pen name it would seem to suggest that the value of poems is all about who wrote them. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 3:40 pm
This article is about lawyers who are poets.Virginia had a notable one in Armistead C. [read post]
8 Aug 2009, 10:56 pm
"Some of the prison poets had re-imagined (as TechDirt would say), lines from James Brown (King Heroin ) and Robert Frost (Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening ). [read post]
2 May 2009, 3:59 pm
She is   Carol Ann Duffy, a poet, playwrite, and children’s author, originally from Glasgow, Scotland. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 3:24 pm
Jordan has arrested a poet for blasphemy based on the accusations of a leading religious figure, the Grand Mufti Nuh Qdah, who says that Islam Samham's recent poems are "a type of atheism and blasphemy," because they link material from... [read post]
4 Oct 2023, 2:22 am
"From "NYC man, 32, fatally stabbed by unhinged suspect was do-gooder activist and poet" (NY Post)("'He’s really… like the epicenter of an entire community that he created, that he brought together'... the roommate said. 'He was the guy that bent over backward time and time again to be there with his friends'").See also, "Disturbing video shows moment beloved activist, poet is randomly stabbed to death in front of… [read post]
9 Jan 2013, 12:00 pm
I'm not a poet, but I pay attention to images, and I find the picture of tackling an intersection absurd in a particularly amusing way. [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 11:44 am
"At Whitman, A Protest Over Poet's Lifestyle": The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, "A group of seven congregants from Topeka, Kan., set up outside Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda yesterday to protest the sexual orientation of the poet for whom the school was named. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 4:27 am by Dominic Yobbi
[JURIST] A court in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday overturned a death sentence for an "apostate" poet who renounced the Muslim faith, giving him eight years in prison instead. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 6:00 am
"A Poet, with Prison Behind Him, Becomes an Attorney": Nicholas Dawidoff has this post online at The New Yorker. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 3:09 pm by Suzanne Ito
Today the ACLU and PEN American Center asked the State Department to speed the issuance of a visa to Ghassan Zaqtan, a widely-published and internationally respected poet and writer who had intended to begin a two-week book tour for his new collection, Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, yesterday. [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 4:28 pm
Howard Zinn, a board member of the National Whistleblowers Center and the famed historian and author of A People's History of the United States, spoke tonight at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 6:00 am by The Dear Rich Staff
I took my inspiration from a poet who had a lovely poem about joy that I wanted to feature on the homepage and explain how that poem, and its last line in particular, inspired the whole project. [read post]