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India’s rich cornucopia of languages has always existed on the fringes, obscured by the vast shadow cast by dominant speech. As our fast-developing economy further blasts them to oblivion, we speak to ...
Slam Connection, founded by Williamsburg poet laureate LaCroy Nixon, saw success at both the Virginia Team Poetry Slam Championship and the national Southern Fried Poetry Slam.
Through television, Moyers connected Americans with poets at street level, an especially valuable gift since few of us get to know poets firsthand.
With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are crafting literary works that ...
Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally beyond.Poetry ...
Leni Acosta Knight is hosting a "Healing Through Art & Poetry" fundraiser to raise money for the Kapiolani Health Foundation.
Seamus Heaney matters, perhaps even more than he should, to many who are interested in poetry, in Ireland, or in both. For many critics the two blur. Of North, for example, Conor Cruise O’Brien said, ...
Bradford’s City of Culture celebrations take to the streets with Wandering Words — a poetry trail weaving through Saltaire and Shipley.
A hybrid, a drama, a fairy tale and a documentary – even Slovak director Miro Remo doesn’t know how to define Karlovy Vary Film Festival winner “Better Go Mad in the Wild.” And he doesn ...
Appreciating poetry doesn't have to take a lot of time. As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life.
Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.