The Grand Piano is a highbrow Friends—a collective history of the early years of Language poetry. It must have been in 1979: I picture it happening at Books & Co. on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, ...
Poets from across the island of Ireland have gathered in west Belfast for an Irish language poetry slam competition. The event was initially set up nine years ago in response to the "big need" for a ...
That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...
In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...
Portrait of Marianne Moore by George Platt Lynes from the exhibit, “Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets” at the National Portrait Gallery, courtesy of the museum Historian and poet David Ward ...
Well-known New England-based poet Robert Frost was once quoted as saying, "Poetry is what gets lost in translation." But for the nearly 60 Berkshire County students participating in the world language ...
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. In Study of the Raft, Venezuelan-American writer Leonora Simonovis crafts lyric poems that feel personal and ...
The numbers behind "Language for a New Century" are impressive, if a little daunting: Collected here are poems from 59 countries and territories spanning Asia and the widest definition of the Asian ...
Words have a rhythm, much like a beating heart. They flow and dance, translating emotions into verses that persist long after they are uttered. Poetry has historically served as a vehicle for love, ...
Donald Welch, left, helps a student at Brucie Ball Educational Center create poetry. April is national poetry month and the O, Miami poetry festival wants to reach every resident of Dade County with a ...
Samah Sabawi is the honored guest in this, the fourth installment in my Political Poetry series at Counterpunch. Previously, I interviewed Sowetan Lesego Rampolokeng, whose hard-hitting poetry, ...
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