Maria Shriver on meeting heartbreak with poetry
In her new book, "I Am Maria," the child of the Kennedy family, broadcast journalist, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and – after the end of her marriage – a woman in search of herself offers an ...
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
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Poetry, Always A Work In Progress, Says Wole Soyinka At 2025 ProvidusBank Poetry Café
It was a wonder to see the sage, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka man the stage at the 6th ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café, held on March 21 at Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos. The ...
The Nation5d
In Fred Moten’s Music, Theory Is Put Into Practice
In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.
Manchester Journal5d
Poet and actor David Mills to bring 3 diverse programs to MCL in April
In partnership with Vermont Humanities Council, the Library will host Mills for three dates the first week of April to kick ...
The NEWS6d
Slavery? Not yet dead, but still very much with us – Soyinka
Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has said slavery is not yet dead but rife on the African continent. Soyinka made this ...
World Poetry Day: On Instagram and TikTok, poetry finds a new lease of life
From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we ...
The San Bernardino Sun11d
Creative writing anthology on Black mental health is an avenue to destigmatize and heal
Those who have wrestled with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment have been subjected to skepticism, criticism, bullying and ...
Reader's Digest18d
22 Short Poems That’ll Help You Read More Poetry This Year
At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...
The Nation20d
The B-Sides of the “Golden Record,” Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?”
Onward, Katrina vanden Heuvel Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of communication and politics. Donald Trump ...
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The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and, for lack of a better term, job-oriented), has his eyes on his mission to found a new city for his people ...
I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them
The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...